US25505A - Liquids - Google Patents

Description

V. HALL.

Beer Cooler.

No. 25,505. Patented Sept. 20, 1859.

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VALENTINE HALL,

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APPARATUS FOR COOLING LIQUIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 25,505, dated September 20, 1859; Reissued November 22, 1859, N0. 854.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VALENTINE HALL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Refrig crating Device to be Applied to Liquors on Draft; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, said drawing being a side elevation of my invention, partly in section.

This invention consists in placing one or more receivers and a pump within a tank supplied with ice-water and connecting said receiver or receivers and pump by means of a siphon or siphons and also connecting the receiver or receivers by means of a siphon with the cask or barrel in the cellar below the tank,the whole being arranged substantially as hereinafter shown whereby the liquor may be drawn in a cool state and the refrigerating device readily cleansed when necessary, all the parts being rendered very accessible.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, B, represent two receivers which may be constructed of copper and tinned on their inner sides. These receivers may be of any proper size and they are connected and made to communicate with each other by a curved pipe or siphon C, said pipe or siphon connecting the upper part of A, with the lower part of B. The receiver B, is connected by a curved pipe or siphon D, with a pump E, which may be of the usual or any proper construction. The receivers as well as the pump are placed within a tank F, which is supplied with ice-water the latter extending above the receivers and pump, at least it would be preferable to have the receivers and pump fully submerged. The pump E, has the usual discharge pipe G, attached to it.

The receiver A, is connected with the barrel H, of liquor, which is placed in a cellar below the tank, by means of a siphon I, the latter extending over the edge of the tank, and communicating with the lower part of A, as plainly shown in the drawing.

From the above description it will be seen that by producing a vacuum in the receivers A, B, by means of the pump E, the receivers will immediately fill with liquor from the barrel H, and as it is drawn for use from the receivers A, B, by the pump the receivers will be correspondingly supplied from the barrel H. The liquor therefore will be cooled in the receivers before being used and will, so long as the tank is supplied with ice-water, be drawn in a cool state. The pump IE, it will be seen also in consequence of being submerged within the tank serves as a refrigerator and the siphons C, D, I, serve as refrigerators exposing the liquor to a greater cooling surface than if simple connecting pipes were employed and also permitting the receivers to be more readily detached from each other in case they require to be removed from the tank for repairs or other purposes. If, for instance, the siphon I, were not employed and a vertical pipe used instead communieating with the bottom of receiver A, said pipe would, in case the receivers required to be removed from the tank, have to be disconnected below the tank, and a hole made in the bottom of the tank to allow the pipe to pass through. This plan would not only occasion great embarrassment in removing the receivers from the tank but it would also render the tank liable to leak a contingency which is fully avoided by my arrangement.

The whole device, including the receivers, siphons and pump may be readily cleansed by disconnecting the barrel H, from the lower end of the siphon I, and placing the latter in a vessel of water or any suitable cleansing fluid and by means of the pump drawing the same up through the receivers and forcing it out therefrom until a thorough cleansing is effected.

I am aware that receivers have been placed in vessels containing ice in order to cool liquors on draft, but I am not aware that a receiver or receivers have been arranged with a pump within a tank containing ice or ice-water, and connected together and made to communicate with each other by siphons and also made to communicate by a siphon with the barrel or cask containing the liquor below or at the outer side of the tank. I do not claim therefore the employment or use of a receiver connect-ed with a pump, irrespective of the arrangement herein shown and described; nor do I claim any part or parts which might, when separately considered and apart from their 1. The employment or use of one or more receivers A, B, placed Within a tank F (and connected with the barrel or cask H, by means of a siphon I, and With a pump E, Within or at the outer side of the tank for the purpose set forth.

2. I further claim combining a pump E,

with one or more receivers A, B, connected together and made to communicate With 15 each other by siphons C, D, when said parts are submerged Within a tank F, and made to communicate with the cask or barrel H by means of a siphon I extending over the top of the tank, substantially as and for 20 the purpose set forth.

V. HALL.

Witnesses:

THOMAS KING, JOHN IRELAND.

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