Improvements in Apparatus for Tilting Barrels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1889-
Complete Specification Left, 14th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890 ⠀⠀
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Tilting Barrels.
I, JAMES BOULTON FLETCHER, of No. 34, Woodville Road, Cathay, Cardiff, in the
County of Glamorgan, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for tilting barrels.
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In carrying it into effect I, use the well known chain and grip adapted to grip the
rear end of the barrel.
A spiral spring of suitable strength is suspended from a convenient point over-
head, in the lower end of which a lever provided for the purpose of my invention has
its fulcrum. The short arm of the lever is connected to the grip-chain above referred
to, and as the resilience of the spring is inferior to the weight of the full barrel, it
will, when the long arm is pulled down, be brought into tension and be thereby
adapted to tilt the barrel as its contents are drawn off.
A suitable detent is provided for holding the lever when it has been pulled down,
and this is preferably a link or book on the grip chain.
Dated this 15th day of May 1889.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Tilting Barrels.
I, JAMES BOULTON FLETCHER, of No. 34, Woodville Road, Cathay, Cardiff, in the
County of Glamorgan, Grocer, 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:
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for tilting barrels.
In carrying it into effect, I use the well known chain and grip adapted to grip the
rear end of the barrel.
A spiral spring of suitable strength is suspended from a convenient point over-
head, and in the lower end of the said spring a lever, provided for the purpose of my
invention, has its fulcrum. The short arm of the lever is connected to the grip-chain
above referred to, and as the resilience of the spring is inferior to the weight of
the full barrel, it will, when the long arm is pulled down, be brought into tension, and
be thereby adapted to tilt the barrel as its contents are drawn off.
A suitable detent is provided for holding the lever when it has been pulled down,
and this is preferably a link or hook on the grip-chain.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as part of this
specification,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the tilting apparatus connected to a full barrel.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the tilting apparatus and barrel when the latter is
empty.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the grip tilting apparatus.
A is the barrel and B, the spiral spring suspended from b, a convenient point
overhead. C is a chain pendant from the lower end of the spring, and D is a lever
baving its fulcrum d in the said chain, which latter is as far as my invention is con-
cerned, only a continuation of the lower end of the spring, and is of any convenient
length, or it may be adjustable in this respect.

page_text: E is the grip-chain pendant from the short arm of the lever; e, the grip; and
f, the hook in which the long arm of the lever is held when the apparatus is
connected to a full barrel for the purpose of putting the spring B in tension.
Having now 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 combination of spiral spring, lever having its fulcrum at the lower end of said
spring or in a point pendant therefrom, and grip and hook suspended from the short
arm of the lever, as set forth.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.