Improvements in Apparatus used in conjunction with Beer-lifting Engines for Cooling the Malt Liquor Between the Barrel and the Pump or Tap.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 19th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus used in conjunction with Beer-lifting
Engines for Cooling the Malt Liquor Between the Barrel and the
Pump or Tap.
I WILLIAM CHARLES BUTLER of the Victoria Restaurant, King Street, Wigan,
Refreshment Contractor do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
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In performing my invention I employ an outer vessel or cistern by preference
lined with lead affixed beneath the counter or in any convenient position between the
beer pump and the barrel and in this vessel I arrange a series of coils of leaden, tin
or other suitable metal pipes and of any suitable shape-one extremity of the coil
being connected to a pipe leading from the barrel and the other to the pipe leading to
the engine. By now having ice lying in contact with the coil and the water of
condensation received in the bottom of the outer vessel also acting as a cooling medium
I am enabled to produce a cooling effect upon the malt liquor lying in or passing
through the coil and which upon emerging from the tap of the engine is thus found
to be in a cool and refreshing state.
I arrange that for each draw off pipe and barrel there shall be a separate coil but
several coils may be contained in the same cistern. I prefer that these coils shall be
capable of being disconnected during the winter and for this purpose I fit the coils
with suitable union joints.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1889
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus used in conjunction with Beer-lifting
Engines for Cooling the Malt Liquor Between the Barrel and the
Pump or Tap.
I WILLIAM CHARLES BUTLER of the Victoria Restaurant, King Street, Wigan
Refreshment Contractor do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the arrangement and construction of a refrigerating or
cooling apparatus to be placed in any convenient position between the beer pump and
the barrel and through which the malt liquor is drawn and thereby cooled as herein-
after described.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a front sectional view and Figs. 2.
and 3 side and front exterior views of my improved refrigerating or cooling apparatus.
Fig. 4 is a sectional plan of the same.
In performing my invention I employ an outer vessel or cistern a by preference
consisting of wood and lined with lead or tin. This vessel is fixed beneath the counter
or in any convenient position between the beer pump and the barrel and in this vessel
I arrange a series of coils cc of lead, tin or other suitable metal pipes which are shewn
of a double volute form but may be of any other suitable contour. One extremity d
of each pipe from the coil is connected to the pipe leading from the barrel and the
other e to the pipe leading to the engine. By now having ice lying say as indicated
in Fig. 1 in contact with the coils and the water of liquefaction collected in the bottom
of the vessel a also acting as a cooling medium I am enabled to produce the necessary
cooling effect upon the malt liquor passing through the coils and which upon emerging
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page_text: from the taps of the engine will be found to be in a cool and refreshing state. The
vessel a is provided with a loose cover and also with a fall down hinged door f to
facilitate the introduction of the ice blocks.
It will be observed that the ice does not come into direct contact with the liquor
and hence my improved apparatus is particularly applicable to the cooling of malt
liquors or for cooling filtered water, milk or other liquids.
Although shewn with only two coils it will be apparent that one coil or several
coils may be used in the same outer vessel and thus it can be adapted to any
number of beer engines seeing that it does not interfere with the existing pumping
apparatus.
In Fig. 5 I illustrate the cover g perforated with holes to enable me to insert the
necks of bottles containing aerated waters and thus the same are kept cool by the cold
atmosphere produced by the ice within the vessel a.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved combination and arrangement of apparatus for refrigerating or
cooling malt liquors or other liquids substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1890.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.