Improvements in Apparatus for Raising Beer and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 15th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 16th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Raising Beer and the like.
1, JOHN WHITE CRICHTON of 30 Stockwell Street, Glasgow, Wine and Spirit
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for raising beer and the
like from the cellar to bar and has for its object to secure in a simple and efficient
manner the supply of the beer to bar in cases of emergency.
In carrying my invention into practice, I provide a clack valve which I attach
to the main air pipe of an ordinary beer raising engine, and I then connect an air
pump to said valve. By this means beer or other liquids can be raised without the
use of engine in cases of emergency.
By my improvements I may altogether dispense with the ordinary beer raising
engine and in that case connect the main air pipe with an air tank between the
clack valve and the barrel.
Dated 15th July 1895.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
Improvements in Apparatus for Raising Beer and the like.
I, JOHN WHITE CRICHTON of 30, Stockwell Street, Glasgow, Wine and Spirit
Merchant, 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 raising beer and the like
from the cellar to bar and has for its object to secure in a simple and efficient
manner for the supply of the beer to bar in cases of emergency.
In carrying out my invention, I provide a clack valve which I attach to the
main air pipe of an ordinary beer raising engine, and I then connect an air pump
to said valve. By this means beer or other liquids can be raised without the use
of engine in cases of emergency.
The accompanying drawing which I will now proceed to describe illustrates in
one of its simplest forms the method of carrying my invention into practice.
A indicates the air pump, B the pipe connection, C the clack or check valve,
D the compressed air reservoir or accumulator, E the reducing valve, and F the
pipe connection leading to the cask or barrel, which is marked G and is placed
with air reservoir in a low level compartment, a cellar for example, while the air
pump is placed in a room or compartiment immediately above as shown.
Although I have shown in the drawing one cask or barrel G only connected to
and supplied with air pressure from the reservoir or accumulator D, it is to be
understood that any reasonable number may be so connected, as I prefer to work
the said reservoir with a normal pressure of 200 lbs. and as each cask or barrel
requires a pressure of from 5 to 10 lbs. in order to raise the beer to the required
elevation may either have a considerable number of casks on draught or a
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page_text: sufficient storage of air pressure to obviate the workings of the pump except at
very long intervals.
In case of emergency I may have the cask or barrel G in immediate connection
with the air pump A, dispensing altogether with the air reservoir, but retaining
the clack or check valve C, in which case the air would be led from the air
pump A in the direction indicated by the arrow b, (shown in dotted lines) or by a
more direct course if necessary to the said cask or barrel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
The general arrangement and combination of the parts of apparatus for raising
beer and other liquids constructed, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 11th day of Anril 1896
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.