Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Casks and other Vessels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Casks and other Vessels.
I CHARLES PONTIFEX of No. 331 Grays Inn Road London in the County of
Middlesex Brewer's Engineer and Coppersmith do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of apparatus for washing casks and other vessels
in which a certain quantity of liquid is first admitted and subsequently expelled
therefrom by the pressure of steami admitted to the chamber in which the measured
quantity of liquid is contained and injected thereby into the vessel to be cleansed.
My invention consists in arranging the water inlet pipe, the steam inlet pipe, the
air escape passage and the liquid discharge channel so that they may all be controlled
by the lever or spanner which regulates the steam admission cock.
For this purpose I provide the usual feed box for containing the quantity of liquid
to be discharged, more or less according to the size of the vessel to be cleansed. At
the upper part of this feed box I secure the steam admission cock of special
construction having a passage in its key capable of being set in position to make a
communication between the interior of the feed box and the outer atmosphere so as to
allow the air to escape while the feed box is being filled with Equid from below. The
key of this cock is also constructed to receive a connecting spindle passing through
the feed box and acting as a key upon the plug of another special cock fixed to the
underside of the feed box in such a manner that it will be operated simultaneously
with the steam admission cock; that is to say, the special cock fixed to the underside
of the feed box, is a two way cock arranged to open communication with the interior of
the feed box and admit the liquid while the steam admission cock is turned off and the
passage through its key is in position to allow for the escape of the air or steam which
may be contained by the feed box. Similarly just before the steam is turned on the
water supply is cut off and the water outlet channel is opened leading to a perforated
nozzle or to a series of perforated nozzles made suitably in accordance with the size of
the vessels to be cleansed.
By this arrangement the whole control of the apparatus is effected by moving the
spanner or lever handle of the steam supply cock into certain definite marked positions
first to cut off steam, to open the air outlet and the water inlet and secondly to shut off
the water inlet and the air outlet, and open the water outlet and finally the passage
for the admission of steam. In an intermediate position all of the passages in both
cocks are shut off.
The apparatus may be employed for washing smaller vessels than the casks usually
made such as stone jars, cans or drums and glass jars and bottles which may be
arranged to be operated upon singly or in series.
Dated this 16th day of October 1889
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Casks and other Vessels.
I CHARLES PONTIFEX of 331 Grays Inn Road, London in the County of Middlesex
Brewer's Engineer and Coppersmith 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 relates to that class of apparatus for wasbing casks and other vessels
in which a quantity of hot water is first admitted and subsequently expelled therefrom

page_text: by pressure of steam admitted to the chamber in which the measured quantity of
liquid is contained and injected thereby into the vessel to be cleansed.
"My invention consists in arranging the water inlet pipe, the steam inlet pipe, the
air escape passage and the liquid discharge channel so that they may all be controlled
by the lever or spanner which regulates the steam admission cock in the manner
shown by the accompanying drawings in all the Figures of which the same parts are
indicated by like reference letters.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete apparatus. Figure 6 is a plan and
Figure 7 an elevation of the feed box. Figures 2, 3, 4 and 5 are enlarged detail
views of parts of the cock fitted at the underside of the feed box and Figures 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are enlarged detail views of parts of the cock fitted at the upper
side of the feed box.
I provide the usual feed box A for containing the quantity of liquid to be dis-
charged, more or less according to the size of the vessel to be cleansed.
At the upper part of the feed box A I secure a steam admission cock B of special
construction having a passage C in its plug capable of being set in position to make a
communication between the interior of the feed box and the outer atmosphere by the
passage D, so as to allow the air to escape while the feed box is being filled with liquid
from below. The key of this cock is also constructed with a square opening E to
receive a connecting spindle passing through the feed box an acting as a key in a
square opening F formed in the plug of another special cock G fixed to the underside
of the feed box in such a manner that it will be operated simultaneously with the
steam admission cock; that is to say the cock G is a two way cock arranged to open
communication with the interior of the feed box A and admit the liquid by the supply
pipe H while the steam admission cock B is turned off and the passage through its
plug is in position to allow for the escape of the air or steam which may be contained
by the feed box. Similarly just before the steam is turned on the hot water supply is
cut off and the hot water outlet channel is opened leading to a perforated nozzle Jor
to a series of perforated nozzles made suitably in accordance with the size of the
Ivessels to be cleansed.
By this arrangement the whole control of the apparatus is effected by moving the
spanner or lever handle K of the steam supply cock into certain definite market
positions first to cut off, steam, to open the air outlet and the hot water inlet, and
secondly to shut off the hot water inlet and the air outlet and open the hot water
outlet and finally to open the passage for the admission of steam.
In an intermediate position all of the passages in both cocks are shut off.
The apparatus may be employed for washing smaller vessels than the casks usually
made such as stone jars, cans or drums and glass jars and bottles which may be
arranged to be operated upon singly or in series.
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 1
claim is
1. In an apparatus for washing casks and other vessels the combination of a feed
box with two two-way cocks controlled by one and the same spanner or lever handle
substantially as described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The improved construction of apparatus for washing casks and other vessels
whereby the movement of a single spanner or lever handle so disposes the plugs of
the steam admission and the water inlet cocks that the water may be admitted to the
feed box while the contained air is expelled, and the steam may be admitted to expel
the water by way of the outlet leading to the perforated nozzle or nozzles, after
cutting off the water supply, substantially as described and illustrated by the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of July 1890.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.