IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER, APPLICABLE TO CLEANSING CASKS OR OTHER VESSELS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Saltmarsh Pontifex, of Banbury, in the
County of Oxford, Brewer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER, APPLICABLE TO CLEANSING CASKS OR
OTHER VESSELS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Saltmarsh Pontifex
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th July 1862.
I, HENRY SALTMARSH PONTIFEX, of Banbury, in the County of Oxford,
Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER, APPLICABLE TO CLEANSING CASKS OR OTHER
VESSELS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for distri-
buting water, applicable for cleansing casks or other vessels, especially that
description of casks known as "unions" or "union cleansing casks," used in

page_text: breweries, or for other purposes, amongst which may be mentioned extin-
guishing fires in cellars or in the holds of ships.
In applying my Invention to cleansing "unions" or "union cleansing casks'
I am enabled to do away with the apparatus heretofore necessary to cause the
cask to revolve when being cleansed, whereby a saving of "25 per cent. is
effected in the cost of construction of such "unions," and the water used in
cleaning the cask is not th of the quantity required where the unions revolve.
For the purpose of carrying out my Invention, I take a tube of brass (by
preference), one end of which is attached by a screw or by simply tying to a
hose pipe supplied with water in any convenient manner; the other end is
formed with a screw on it for a part of its length, for the purpose of carrying
a spreader or valve hereafter described; below the screw on the pipe circular,
longitudinal, or other openings are formed for the purpose of allowing egress
to the water, and the end of the pipe is closed with a plug, which carries a
screw on its outer part; on to this screw is fixed an inverted cap made of
copper, brass, or other metal of larger size than the pipe; the end of the cap
comes up to or beyond the screw above referred to on the body of the pipe,
and covers over the holes left in the interior pipe; this cap is coned towards
the inner part at its extremity. On to the screw above referred to is placed the
spreader or valve; it is constructed to work on the screws, and has a flat
flanged piece fixed to the screw, which is coned to fit the cone on the cap, and
by screwing down close can be made to effectually shut the aperture. . This
screw is fixed on to a pipe of suitable length which is placed outside the water
pipe, and moves freely round it. When working, the apparatus the pipe is
dropped a proper depth into the cask or other place, and the screw being with-
drawn or unscrewed, the water is delivered within the cask or other place, as
required. The adjustment at will of the opening between the cones by means
of the screw regulates the height and shape of the jet or body of water
delivered.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letter's Patent, filed
by the said Henry Saltmarsh Pontifex in the Great Seal -Patent Office
on the 8th January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
SALTMARSH PONTIFEX, of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, Brewer, send
greeting:
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page_text: :
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters,
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and, grant unto me, the said.
Henry Saltmarsh Pontifex, Her special licence, that I, the said Henry
Saltmarsh Pontifex, my executors;; administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Henry: Saltmarsh Pontifex, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER, APPLICABLE TO
CLEANSING CASKS OR OTHER VESSELS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Saltmarsh Pontifex, 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 Saltmarsh Pontifex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for distributing
water, applicable for cleansing casks or other vessels, especially that description
of casks known as "unions" or "union cleansing casks" used in breweries, or
for other purposes, amongst which may be mentioned extinguishing fires in
cellars or in the holds of ships.
In applying my Invention to cleansing "unions" or "union cleansing casks,"
I am enabled to do away with the apparatus heretofore necessary to cause the
casks to revolve when being cleansed, whereby a saving of 25 per cent, is
effected in the cost of construction of such "unions," and the water used in
cleaning the casks is not one-tenth of the quantity required where the unions
revolve.
For the purpose of carrying out my Invention, I take a tube of brass. (by
preference); one end of which is attached by a screw, or by simply tying to a
hose pipe supplied with water in any convenient manner; the other end is

page_text: the extent desired for the passage of the water into the interior of the cask or
other vessel, or when used for extinguishing fires in cellars, the holds of ships,
or other places.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Saltmarsh Pontifex, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
H. S. PONTIFEX. (L.S.)