Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 16th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 17th June, 1887.
I, SAMUEL SIDNEY BROMHEAD of 97 Newgate Street, London, E.C. Patent Agent
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This apparatus consists of a short taper tube with a flange on its larger end, through
which tube is inserted a spindle, carrying at its upper end a boss or stop, above which
is an arm or crank. Near the lower end of the spindle is another boss or stop, to which
are attached by means of a horizontal pin or bolt so as to work freely thereon, two
blades of any required size either plain or perforated with holes as preferred.
Two small tie rod are also attached to these blades at a short distance from the
hinged ends and these rods are also hinged at their upper ends to the lower end of
the taper tube in such a way that when the spindle is depressed and the tube risos the
blades are lifted from a vertical towards a horizontal position, and similarly when
the blades are allowed to fall into a vertical position the spindle is thrust upwards and
the tube descends.
When the apparatus is at rest the blades assume a vertical position, but when it is
required to work the spindle descending carries with it the lower boss and compels
the blades to assume a more or less horizontal position. The upper flange allows the
apparatus to be used through an orifice or bunghole of a cask without falling through
and affords a support for it. In order to work the apparatus it is only necessary
to introduce it into a barrel or vessel containing the fluid to be mixed at the same
time pressing down the spindle which causes the blades to assume a nearly horizontal
position. The cranked handle is then turned and the contents of the cask becomes
thoroughly mixed.

page_text: When the mixer has been used it is only necessary to draw up the spindle when
the blades at once resume the vertical position and the apparatus can be withdrawn
from the cask without difficulty. My apparatus can be made of metal or any other
suitable material and of various sizes and designs.
It combines all the qualities required in an efficient mixer of liquids, and is
adapted for vessels of any kind or size.
For open vessels a plank or support is placed across the top and the mixer intro-
duced through a hole in the middle thereof. The mixer can be worked quickly or
slowly as required. It is claimed to be the most convenient handy and efficient
apparatus for the purpose ever introduced.
Dated this 21st day of August 1886

page_text: A communication to me from abroad by LOUIS STAUFFERT, of 30, Boulevard
St. Germain, Paris, in the Republic of France.
I, SAMUEL SIDNEY BRONHEAD, of 97, Newgate Street, in the City of London, 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, and accompanying drawing (that is to say):-
This invention relates to apparatus for mixing liquids in casks or other vessels,
and it has for its object a novel method of making such apparatus so that it can be
readily introduced through a small opening into the cask or other vessel, where the
mixing arms or devices are then expanded or opened out and set in operation.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of the invention, figures 1 representing
two forms of the apparatus of different lengths, closed to enable them to be introduced
into the cask or vessel, and figures 2 shewing the same opened out and ready for use
after having been so introduced. It consists of a spindle a provided at its upper end
with a handle & and connected at its lower end by a joint at h with two mixing arins ff,
of suitable size and shape. The spindle a is capable of moving endways through the
outer tube or cased but cannot turn round in the latter, whilst the tube or case d can
turn round in the outer tube or support but cannot move end ways through the
latter.
The lower end of the tube d which projects through the support b has fixed upon
it a ring c to the opposite sides of which are jointed as shewn at connecting rods 9, 9,
the outer ends of which are jointed to the mixing arms f, f, as shewn at m.
By pressing the spindle a down through the tube d, the arms are separated, as
shewn in figures 1, whilst by drawing the spindle a up they are brought together as
shewn in figures 2.
In order to use the apparatus, it is introduced-the arms f. f, being brought
together as shewn in figures 1,-into the cask or other vessel through the bunghole or
other opening. The support 6 which is made taper like a cork, or of other suitable
form, is then fixed in the bunghole or other opening, and the spindle a is pressed down
through the tube d so as to expand or open out the arms ff.
Upon the lower face of the boss of the handle kare fixed two pins i, i, which when the
spindle a is pressed down enter two corresponding holes at e in a flange at the upper
end of the tube d, and connect together the lattor and the spindle a, so that when the
handle is turned the spindle a and tube d both turn with it.
To withdraw the apparatus, the spindle a and handle k are drawn up to the original
position (figures 1), the mixing arms f, f, being brought together.

page_text: The working of the improved apparatus is quiet, and imperceptible outside the cask
or vessel. By its use time is saved, it is easily worked with little labour, and it can
be introduced through a very small opening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
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The combination of the spindle a and handle k, tubes or supports b, d, joint h
mixing arms f, f, connected by rods g, and joints l, m, with the ring e and tube d, all
arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose described
and shown in the drawing.