A New or Improved Apparatus for Tilting Casks, Barrels, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
CUMI LEID OF MITTALION.
A New or Improved Apparatus for Tilting Casks, Barrels, and
the like.
I WILLIAM JACKSON, of 63, John Street, Sunderland, Gentleman 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 a new or improved apparatus for tilting casks, barrels
and the like containing beer, wine or other liquid and has for its object to gradually
raise the rear end of the barrel or cask as the liquid contained therein is being
withdrawn from the tap-hole.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is an elevation of my improved apparatus;
Fig. 2 illustrates the application of the same to a barrel placed in a cellar while
Fig. 3 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale of the cylinder and plunger.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures.
My improved apparatus consists of a cylinder the lower plate / of which is
bolted to a base plate f intended to rest upon the ground in the cellar, the
apparatus being placed before the barrel which requires to be tilted.
This bed plate carries a frame a through the upper part of which passes the
plunger rod extending at its lower end into the cylinder d and carrying the
plunger formed of two plates 1, 3 enclosing between them the top part of a cap C
the outer periphery of which bears tightly against the inner wall of the cylinder d.
The plunger is provided with a vent pipe j having a cock k. The cylinder dis
attached to the frame a by the strap 9 and its lower end communicates with the .
rectangular pipe / furnished at the top with cock e and a funnel through which
water or any other liquid is poured into the said cylinder below the plunger. The
cylinder communicates through the pipe h with a discharge pipe i provided with a
cock m, and furnished with an india-rubber extension pipe to convey the
discharged liquid to any suitable gutter. The plunger rod carries tightly fixed
thereto a disc or plate q whereon are placed a number of weights such as p for the
purpose hereinafter referred to.
The upper part of the plunger has the shape of a
rectangular frame o through the upper part of which passes the screw-threaded
end of the hook n the length of which can be thus regulated. In Fig. 2 c is the
ceiling of a cellar to which the bars B are fixed in order to hook thereon the
pulleys t.
s is a rope passing over the two pulleys t and furnished at one end with a can-
hook the front lip of which
บ
placed under the projecting rim of the front of the
barrel w keyed by means of the wedges shown upon the beam 1, another can-hook v¹
through which the rope s passes, being fixed as shown under the rim of the rear end
of the barrel w.
To make use of the apparatus, the same is placed in front of the barrel w and
the cord or ropes having been passed over the pulleys t¹ while the hooks v and v
are fixed in position, the hook n of the apparatus is attached to the other or free
end of the rope as shown. Water is now placed in the cylinder d after the plunger
has been first removed and the latter is placed back into the cylinder d.
According to the weight p added on the disc q the plunger will descend more
or less into the cylinder and the cask or barrel will be obviously more or less
tilted.

page_text: 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 improved apparatus for tilting casks or barrels according as the liquid
placed therein is being withdrawn arranged, constructed and operating substantially i
as described and shown in the accompanying drawings and for the purpose
Bet forth.
Dated this 27th day of September 1893.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.