Improvements in Tilters for Casks and other Receptacles.
Year: 1894

page_text: PROVISIONAL DEMOLICATION.
Improvements in Tilters for Casks and other Receptacles.
THOMAS LAYCOCK JENNINGS 18 Sunbeam Avenue Beeston Hill Leeds
Mechanic HERBERT HALL STABLER 34 Tempest Road Beeston Hill Leeds
Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is for automatically tilting casks barrels or any other receptacles
whether for beer or any other liquid.
For the above object we employ a cylindrical standard of cast iron or any
other material into which a spring is fixed or rests singly or otherwise.
The casks, barrels, or other recepticles are placed upon the automatic tilters
& as the beer or any other liquid is withdrawn or emptied the weight thereof
decreases and the spring compressed by the weight of cask and contents becomes
gradually relaxed and tilts or forces automatically the end of the cask or barrel
upwards thus keeping the liquid in a state of quiescence and ensures the liquid
being drawn from the cask or barrel free from any precipitated matter or
sediment.
Dated this 29th day of November 1894.
THOMAS LAYCOCK JENNINGS.
HERBERT H. STABLER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tilters for Casks and other Receptacles.
We, THOMAS LAYCOCK JENNINGS, formerly of 18, but now of 30 Sunbeam
Avenue, Beeston Hill, Leeds, in the County of York, Machinist. and HERBERT
HALL STABLER, formerly of 34 Tempest Road, but now of 83 Kirkgate, Leeds
aforesaid, Commercial Traveller, 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 :-
This invention is for automatically tilting casks, barrels, or any other receptacles,―
all of which are hereinafter included in the term cask,-whether for beer, ale, or
any other liquid or syrup,-all of which are hereinafter included in the term ale.
The object of this invention is to construct a simple, portable, and strongly
made tilter which will not easily get out of order, requires no fixing, and is
automatically controlled by the weight of the cask operated upon.
Tilters constructed according to this invention consist of one or more, say,
cylindrical standards, say of cast iron or other suitable material into which is
passed or placed a helical spring or springs-which encircle the vertical stem or
stems of a bearer upon which the rear end of the cask rests. The cask to be
operated upon is placed in such a position upon the tilter that the weight of the
cask controls the action of the tilter, and as the ale is withdrawn or emptied the
weight thereof decreases, and the spring or springs compressed by the weight of
the cask and its contents becomes gradually relaxed and thereby tilts or automatically

page_text: forces the rear end of the cask upwards. Thus keeping the ale in a state of
quiescence, and ensures the ale being drawn from the cask free from any precipitatel
matter or sediment.
In the drawings:
Fig. 1. is a perspective view showing the application of the invention to a cask.
Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views respectively of single and double tilters
constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of the tilter.
Like parts in all the views are marked with similar letters of reference.
A is the cask, B the tap, and C the gantry or stand upon which the cask is
placed; all of which may be of the usual and ordinary construction.
D is a standard of any suitable size, shape, and material, say for example of cast
or wrought irou, and provided at its upper end with a projecting ledge or flange &
or its equivalent for the purposes to be hereafter described. In practice we
prefer to make the standard of the tilter of cast iron, and of a fluted cylindrical
shape, but we would have it understood that we do not limit ourselves to this
particular shape or material as the same may be varied as circumstances require.
The standard D is provided with a suitable base-plate D1 of any suitable
shape and size. In the standard D is cast or otherwise formed a circular or other
shaped hole E of any convenient size, and made to extend the full length, or
nearly so, of the standard. In the said hole E is placed the vertical stem of a
bearer F, which is curved on its upper horizontal portion to receive the cask and
upon which the rear end a of the latter rests.
When the tilter is used for casks varying in size, say from eighteen (or under)
to thirty-six gallons then it is provided with a single standard D and with a
bearer in the T form as shown at Figs. 1 and 2. But for larger casks, such as
say fifty-four and one hundred gallons each, then it is preferred, though not
absolutely necessarily so,-to provide the tilter with two standards D, and the
bearer F is then made in the form of an inverted so that each of its two
vertical stems f may respectively enter one of the standards.
Around each stem ƒ is placed a tempered steel helical spring G which is passed
into the hole or recess E in the standard D and projects beyond its top as shown.
The spring G is interposed between the underside of the projection 1, of bearer F,
and the base-plate D¹, and it is employed for supporting and gradually raising
the bearer F for tilting purposes.
The bearer F is also armed with one or more catches H, that is to say, one
catch His provided for each stem and spring G, and it is arranged to engage
with the ledge or flange d whenever the spring G is fully compressed as shown at
Fig. 4.
The action of the tilter is as follows:-When it is required to place the tilter
under the rear end of a cask A, which say is full of ale and has been stan ling
some time, the spring is compressed and held by the catch Hengaging with the
ledge or flange d as shown at Fig. 4. After the tilter has been placed under the
rear end of the cask A in the position shown at Fig. 1, the ratch H is then
released and the spring G is their free to lift the bearer Fand the rear end of
the cask as the contents thereof are withdrawn thereby decreasing the weight on
the bearer F and gradually relaxing the compression of the spring G.
By controlling the action of the tilter by the weight of the cask, and by the
spring G being always in compression (when the tilter is in operation) the cisk is
gradually tilted as its contents are withdrawn thereby ensuring a clear sparkling
ale free from any sediment whatever.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A tilter for casks, barrels, and other receptacles substantially such as herein
described and illustrated controlled by the weight of the cask operated upon so that

page_text: its rear end is automatically and gradually raised as the contents of the cask are
withdrawn and the compression of the spring under the bearer is relaxed, as set
forth.
2. In a tilter for casks, barrels, and other receptacles substantially such as
herein described and illustrated, the combination of a bearer, such as F, mounted
in a standard, such as D, and automatically raised by a spring, such as G, as the
contents of the cask are withdrawn and the compression of the spring relaxed, as
set forth.
3. The combination of the various parts forming the tilter as whole arranged
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Twenty-ninth day of July 1895.
THOMAS LAYCOCK JENNINGS,
HERBERT HALL STABLER,
By W. Fairburn-Hart.
Agent.