AN IMPROVEMENT OF IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR RAISING BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Jones, of Birmingham, in the County o
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OF
IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR RAISING BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 13th November 1857, and dated the 16th May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th May 1857.
I, HENRY JONES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR:
IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR RAISING BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists of the method, herein-after explained, of constructing:
or arranging the arm or lever by which beer engines and such like machines
are worked, and connecting the same with the counter or surface to which
they are attached. The said arm or lever is connected by the joint on which
it turns to a plate or disc, which is attached by screwing or otherwise 'to
the counter or surface. The said plate has a hollow elevation or case,
extending nearly across it in the plane in which the arm or lever works.

page_text: When the long end of the arm or lever is depressed for the purpose of raising
liquid, the short end of the said arm or lever is raised into the case in the
plate, the said case permitting the said. short end of the arm to rise above the
level of the counter without the use of the slot ordinarily employed. By
this method of construction access of the dust to the interior of the works is
prevented.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JONES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto ine,
the said Henry Jones, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Jones,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR RAISING BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Jones, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly. describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,.
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately, after, the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Jones, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: My Invention consists of the method, herein-after particularly described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, of constructing or arranging the
arm or lever by which beer engines and such like machines are worked, and
connecting the same with the counter or surface to which they are attached.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents, in front elevation,
Figure 2, in transverse vertical section, and Figure 3, in end elevation, a beer
engine constructed according to my Invention. Figure 4 represents the same
in plan, one of the handles being represented in section in the said Figure 4.
A portion of the front of the case 9 is removed in Figure 1, in order to exhibit
the works in the interior. a, a, are the engines or pumps by which the beer
or other liquid is raised; b, b, are the arms or levers, by which the engines a, a,
are worked. The said arms or levers b, b, turn upon joints c, the said joints c
being formed on the discs or plates d, d, which said discs or plates are attached
by screwing or otherwise to the counter or surface e. The said plates d, d, are
furnished with hollow elevations or cases f, f, the form
will be understood by an examination of the Drawing. When an arm or lever
6 is depressed, the short end 6¹ (see Figure 2) of the arm or lever b is raised
into the case f in the plate d, the said case in the plate permitting the said
short end 6 of the arm 6 to rise above the level of the counter e without the
use of the exposed slot, which is generally made in the counter for permitting
the part 6¹ to rise through.
and position of which
By my method of construction access of dust to the interior of the case g,
containing the pumps a, a, is prevented. The action of the pumping part of
the engine resembles that of the ordinary beer engine, and I therefore do not
think it necessary to describe the same. The connection of the pumps a, a,
with the short ends 6¹ of the levers b, by means of the connecting rods h, will
be sufficiently understood by an inspection of the Drawing. Although I
prefer to connect the hollow elevations or cases with the joints c on which the
arms or levers 6 turn, yet the said hollow elevations or cases f may be made
separate or detached from the said joints c.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention; but I
claim as my Invention the improvement or improvements in engines for
raising beer and other liquids, herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, that is to say, connecting with the joint, on which
the arm or lever turns by which the engine is worked, a hollow elevation or

page_text: case, which hollow elevation or case covers the hole or slot in the counter or
surface to which the arm or lever is attached, and into which hollow elevation
or case the short end of the arm or lever rises, when the said arm or lever
is depressed for the purpose of raising the beer or other liquid.
In witness whereof, I,. the said Henry Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.
HENRY JONES. (L.S.)