Improved Apparatus for Storing, Registering, and Delivering Liquors.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left. 20th Uct., 1890-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Storing, Registering, and Delivering
Liquors.
JOHN BRODIE, Purveyor, No. 52, Lothian Street, Edinburgh, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
For the use of spirit merchants and purveyors restauranters &c. at exhibitions
cattle shows and all outside entertainments. This machine or utensil is about
three feet long by eighteen inches high, divided into seven compartments or more
if required to contain the different liquors according to choice, fitted with taps
and glass indicators showing the quantity of liquor sold to the smallest quantity
one fourth of a gill, air-tight, and incapable of being tampered with by those in
charge, the above is constructed in one piece all enclosed under lock and key-and
ventilation under control which can be turned off when not in use. Can be made
of tin, copper, glass, or wood, or partly in these materials, to suit any size of
subdivisions according to the necessities of the case.
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1000
JOHN BRODIE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Storing, Registering, and Delivering
Liquors.
I, JOHN BRODIE, of 52, Lothian Street, Edinburgh, in the County of Midlothian,
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 :-
This is an invention whereby the quantity of liquor drawn off from the vessel in
which it is contained may be ascertained at any time, and it is useful as a reliable
check upon any one entrusted with the sale of liquors.
It consists of an outer case or box (with two hinged lids-an upper and a lower-
front, and tray) enclosing the inner cells, boxes or compartments, for containing
the liquid to be drawn off. The upper lid covers the top of the outer case or
box, and the upper half of its front." It is supplied with a lock and key, and
when shut and locked prevents all access to the top and openings of the inner
boxes, cells or compartments which contain the liquid; when the upper lid is
opened access is got to the inner boxes, cells or compartments for filling, emptying
or cleaning them; when it is shut no liquid of any kind can be put into the
inner cells, boxes or compartments, and none can be drawn off except through
the taps.
The lower lid is hinged and encloses the lower half of the front of the case
where the taps and trays are placed, all as shewn by the drawing in duplicate
herewith produced.
The following is a description of the various parts of the invention indicated by
numerals on the drawings produced, viz. :-No. I shews the folding lid of the upper
half of the outer case; No. 1" indicates the position of indiarubber bands placed
on the inside of the upper lid, so as to keep the cells or compartments air-tight;
No. 2 indicates two side boxes, with the ends off so as to display to view the pipes
for filling the inner boxes, cells or compartments by direct communications
from stock casks or other large vessels for containing the reserve supply of liquors,
and taps for these pipes. These side boxes are provided with locks which prevent
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page_text: access being obtained to the taps placed in them for filling the inner boxes, cells
or compartments; No. 3 indicates a brass air tube for the inner cells, boxes or
compartments when the upper lid is closed; No. 4 indicates the register or indicator
appropriated to each box, cell or compartment, marked or graduated, so as always
to indicate by measure the contents of the inner box, cell or compartment, and thus
denoting the quantities of liquid drawn off at any given time, by comparing the
quantities indicated at any given time with those indicated at some definite time
previously No. 5 indicates the fixed centre division of the outer case to which the
upper and under lids are locked; No. 6 indicates the taps placed in each inner
box, cell or compartment for drawing off the contents; No. 7 indicates a lined
tray or save-all placed below the taps, which tray folds up & locks at No. 5 ; and
No. 8 indicates the inner boxes, cells or compartiments, which are made to contain
a certain definite quantity of liquid.
;
There may be one or any number of inner boxes, cells or compartments, and
they may be made of wood, metal, glass or other substance which will contain
liquids. The register or indicator is a hollow tube within which the liquid rises
and falls with the contents of the compartment in which it is placed. It is graduated
proportionally to the contents of the cell, or compartiment, so as always to indicate
by measure the quantity of liquid in the cell or compartment.
It is made of glass,
but it may be made of any other transparent substance which can be graduated
for quantities, and it may be a flat or round slip standing in the liquid graduated
as above.
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 :-
(1) The adaptation or fitting of a visible tube, slip or bar, for shewing distinctly
the liquid contents of a vessel, while the vessel itself is locked or secured, so as to
prevent the contents being added to, and to prevent them from being drawn off
otherwise than through the tap; and
(2) For ascertaining, correctly, by means of the said visible tube, slip or bar
whether any of the contents of the vessel have been drawn off'; and if so, the exact
quantity so drawn off.
Dated this 18th day of October 1890.
JOHN
BRODIE,
52, Lothian Street, Edinburgh.

page_text: Date of Application, 12th June. 1890
Complete Specification Left. 20th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Storing, Registering, and Delivering
Liquors.
I, JOHN BRODIE, Purveyor, No. 52, Lothian Street, Edinburgh, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
For the use of spirit merchants and purveyors restauranters &c. at exhibitions
cattle shows and all outside entertainments. This machine or utensil is about
three feet long by eighteen inches high, divided into seven compartments or more
if required to contain the different liquors according to choice, fitted with taps
and glass indicators showing the quantity of liquor sold to the smallest quantity
one fourth of a gill, air-tight, and incapable of being tampered with by those in
charge, the above is constructed in one piece all enclosed under lock and key-and
ventilation under control which can be turned off when not in use. Can be made
of tin, copper, glass, or wood, or partly in these materials, to suit any size of
subdivisions according to the necessities of the case.
Dated this 11th d...
T1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Storing, Registering, and Delivering
Liquors.
I, JOHN BRODIE, of 52, Lothian Street, Edinburgh, in the County of Midlothian,
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 :-
This is an invention whereby the quantity of liquor drawn off from the vessel in
which it is contained may be ascertained at any time, and it is useful as a reliable
check upon any one entrusted with the sale of liquors.
It consists of an outer case or box (with two hinged lids-an upper and a lower-
front, and tray) enclosing the inner cells, boxes or compartments, for containing
the liquid to be drawn off. The upper lid covers the top of the outer case or
box, and the upper half of its front. It is supplied with a lock and key, and
when shut and locked prevents all access to the top and openings of the inner
boxes, cells or compartments which contain the liquid; when the upper lid is
opened access is got to the inner boxes, cells or compartments for filling, emptying
or cleaning them; when it is shut no liquid of any kind can be put into the
inner cells, boxes or compartments, and none can be drawn off except through
the taps.
The lower lid is hinged and encloses the lower half of the front of the case
where the taps and trays are placed, all as shewn by the drawing in duplicate
herewith produced.
The following is a description of the various parts of the invention indicated by
numerals on the drawings produced, wiz. :-No. 1 shews the folding lid of the upper
half of the outer case; No. 1" indicates the position of indiarubber bands placed
on the inside of the upper lid, so as to keep the cells or compartments air-tight ;
No. 2 indicates two side boxes, with the ends off so as to display to view the pipes
for filling the inner boxes, cells or compartments by direct communications
from stock casks or other large vessels for containing the reserve supply of liquors,
and taps for these pipes. These side boxes are provided with locks which prevent
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page_text: access being obtained to the taps placed in them for filling the inner boxes, cells
or compartments; No. 3 indicates a brass air tube for the inner cells, boxes or
compartments when the upper lid is closed: No. 4 indicates the register or indicator
appropriated to each box, cell or compartment, marked or graduated, so as always
to indicate by measure the contents of the inner box, cell or compartment, and thus
denoting the quantities of liquid drawn off at any given time, by comparing the
quantities indicated at any given time with those indicated at some definite time
previously No. 5 indicates the fixed centre division of the outer case to which the
upper and under lids are locked No. 6 indicates the taps placed in each inner
box, cell or compartment for drawing off the contents; No. 7 indicates a lined
tray or save-all placed below the taps, which tray folds up & locks at No. 5; and
No. 8 indicates the inner boxes, cells or compartments, which are made to contain
a certain definite quantity of liquid.
There may be one or any number of inner boxes, cells or compartments, and
they may be made of wood, metal, glass or other substance which will contain
liquids. The register or indicator is a hollow tube within which the liquid rises
and falls with the contents of the compartment in which it is placed. It is graduated
proportionally to the contents of the cell, or compartment, so as always to indicate
by measure the quantity of liquid in the cell or compartment. It is made of glass,
but it may be made of any other transparent substance which can be graduated
for quantities, and it may be a flat or round slip standing in the liquid graduated
as above.
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
(1) The adaptation or fitting of a visible tube, slip or bar, for shewing distinctly
the liquid contents of a vessel, while the vessel itself is locked or secured, so as to
prevent the contents being added to, and to prevent them from being drawn off
otherwise than through the tap and
(2) For ascertaining, correctly, by means of the said visible tube, slip or bar
whether any of the contents of the vessel have been drawn off; and if so, the exact
quantity so drawn off.
Dated this 18th day of October 1890.
JOHN BRODIE,
52, Lothian Street, Edinburgh.