Improvements in Vessels for Containing Beer or other Liquids.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vessels for Containing Beer or other Liquids.
A communication to me from MORITZ URBACH, of Kosel, Silesia, in the Empire of
Germany, Brewer.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Chartered Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, and accompanying drawings, that is to say:
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Experience has shown that the shipping of liquids in glass vessels leads to
much breakage in spite of all possible care in packing; steel barrels, mounted
with iron hoops are not fit for the shipping of beer, as such barrels cannot be
caulked or lined with pitch or the like on account of their thin walls, which would
may have
cause the scaling off of the pitch in all the places where the sheet metal
been bulged in by blows. The contact with the exposed metal would then impart
to the beer a disagreeable flavour. Furthermore, this metal shell does not protect
the contents against the injurious changes of external temperature.
In order to avoid these objections, the present invention provides for an elastic
material, non-conducting of heat, with which the steel vessels are surrounded
and then solidly bedded into strong wooden boxes fitted up with strengthening
irons. By these means no pitch is likely to be chipped off on the inside of the
vessel, and variations of heat and cold would require a considerable time to reach
and affect the contents.
In the accompanying drawings, which are in illustration of the invention:
Figure 1 is a vertical section of an improved vessel of the kind described.
Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same.
Figure 3, a vertical section through a smaller vessel made on the same principle,
and
Figure 4, a view of the same from above.
The method of construction and arrangement is as follows:-
A rectangular vessel a, in the shape of a parallelepiped of suitable dimensions
and proportions, is fitted and bedded into a wooden case b; the space between the
vessel a and the case 6 being filled up with material non-conducting of heat, which
furnishes at the same time an elastic bedding for the inner vessel. In order
to strengthen the case as much as possible, the exterior edges and corners are
secured and protected with angle-irons as shown on the drawings.
In order to make use of the contents of the vessel made and arranged as
described, (see Figures 3 and 4) the top of the metallic vessel a is provided with
an outlet in the shape of a funnel d which may corked in the usual way. This
outlet d is covered with a cap e which may be protected by a padlock or equivalent
locking device; f is a handle.
On the other hand, where the improved arrangement is to be used for larger
vessels or casks, (see Figures 1 and 2) the top of the inside case a remains open,
so as to be able to provide, above the recessed cover h, in the space i, for a cover k

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carrying the outlet fittings, as well as for a certain quantity of ice; also to allow
easy stowage of the casks, and to protect the cover k against damage.
mounting on the cover consists of the carbonic acid cock and the outlet cock m,
from which the pipe n passes down to the bottom of the cask. The outlet cock m
is arranged in such a manner that an elbow o including the discharge cock may
be screwed on for the purpose of tapping the beer, whereby long conduit pipes
and the troublesome cleaning of the same are avoided.
A handle may be fitted upon the side walls of the case in the space i; a small
opening may be provided in the cover h or in other convenient position, to light
up the interior of the cask and for the escape of the gases.
According to the construction illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 the flanged cover h
will be conveniently fitted to the frame of the inner case. The metallic vessel
may be caulked or pitched, being protected by the wood covering against exterior
blows, which cannot reach the elastic interior walls.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The arrangement of an iron-mounted wood-covering for vessels having thin
metal walls, and used for containing beer or other liquids, protecting the
caulked or pitched interior wall against blows and rendering it fit for the ship-
ment and transport of beer and the like, the entire device consisting of an inner
metallic vessel a having thin walls, and separated from the exterior wood
covering by a space filled with an elastic material non-conducting of heat, so
that the caulked wall of the interior vessel cannot be damaged by blows; the upper
end, in the case of larger vessels and casks, being inserted into the vessel or cask,
so that the fittings of the outlet will not project above the edge of the cask,
allowing an easy stowage of the vessels to be shipped, and the filling up with a
quantity of ice of the space thus formed.
All substantially as described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of Octobe 1800
EDWARDS AND CO.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.