MENTS IN SELF-ACTING STANDS FOR BEER OR OTHER CASKS."
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Dubbin, of Albion Villa, College Park,
Lewisham, in the County of Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE
MENTS IN SELF-ACTING STANDS FOR BEER OR OTHER CASKS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Dubbin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th April 1872.
I, DAVID DUBBIN, of Albion Villa, College Park, Lewisham, in the
County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING STANDS FOR BEER OR OTHER Casks,” to be as
follows:-
In making stands for beer or other casks or barrels, I take a frame of
wood or other suitable material, the upper part of which is furnished
with a rod or bar, upon which rests and works the cask or barrel and the
plane upon which it is supported. This plane which is made of wood
or other suitable material is furnished with a catch into which work the
teeth of a pinion, which is fastened to a suitable part of the frame. At
the front and lower end of the frame, about six inches from the ground,

page_text: I employ another rod or bar to which I attach or pass round one end of
a ring made of india-rubber or its compounds, or an ordinary india-
rubber or metallic spring may be employed. The other end of the ring
or spring I pass round or attach to the end of the plane supporting the
cask or barrel, and when the liquid is drawn from the latter the ring or
spring acting upon the said plane lowers the end of the cask or barrel,
so that the liquid comes over that part in the cask or barrel from which
it is drawn.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Dubbin in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 17th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
DUBBIN, of Albion Villa, College Park, Lewisham, in the County of Kent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said David Dubbin, Her special licence
that I, the said David Dubbin, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said David Dubbin, 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 SELF-ACTING
STANDS FOR BEER OR OTHER CASKS," upon the condition, (amongst others),
that I, the said David Dubbin, 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 In-
vention, 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.
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