US564834A

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Publication number: US564834A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-07-28
Anticipated expiration: 1913-07-28

Description

' lever or like operating device with the piston: of the pump that the pump maybe placed in UNITED STATESY PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE R. NEUMANN AND. HERMANN H. NEUMANN, or -NEw YORK, N. Y.

ALE-PUM P..

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 564,834, dated July 28, 1896.

Application filed January 22,1896. Serial 1.o. 576,462. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE R. NEU- MANN and HERMANN H. NEUMANN, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and 'useful /Improvement in Ale-Pumps, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to an improvement in pumps, especially to an improvement in alepumps, or pumps of that character, the object of the invention being to so connect a any desired position or at any angle and the piston-rod be operated without binding in the cylinder of the pump no matter in what sit-ion the lever or equivalent operative device that may be employed may be located.

The invention consists lin the novel construction and combination of the se ,ral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompa..ying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of refereYr j indicate corresponding parts in all the lrcs.

Figure lis a vertical section thror l a portion of a bar, illustrating the invention as applied to an ale-pump and the pump in position behind the bar. Fig. 2 is avetical section through the ttings behind the bar, illustrating a series of pumps in side elevation; and Fig. 3 is aplan view of the series of pumps shown in Fig. 2.

In carrying out the invention the bar A is of any approved construr ld maybe of any desired height, and at the rear of the bar a tray B is represented as being suspended in a horizontal position. be... the aforesaid tray the improved pumps C are placed, being connected with any approved support. In the drawings the said pumps are shown as attached by straps to the vertical portion of the bar.

The pumps C are of the usual construction adapted for drawing ale and like liquids, and the piston-rod 10 extends a predetermined distance beyond the top of the pump. A yoke 11 is attached to the piston-rod, extending downward at each side of the pump, being adapted, no matter in what position the 1, and the lower extremities of the two straps or yokes are connected by pivot-pins 12a or their equivalents, so that the larger strap or oke 12 mav have swin'iufr movement u on v D t:

the smaller or inner one.

Adjacent to each pump a shaft 13 is preferablyjournaled in any suitable or approved manner, and one of said shafts 13 is connected with the upper portion of the outer yoke of each pump through the medium of a crankarm 11, integral with or attached to the shaft. Each shaft is also provided at a predetermined point in its length with an inclined socket or sleeve 15, adapted to receive a manipulating rod or lever 16. These rods or levers are secured at one of their ends in the sockets or sleeves 15, and extend outward at more or less of an acute angle to the shaft with which they are connected. The levers 16, when the pumps are not in operation, are adapted to lie parallel with one another, being in a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 2, and the outer end of each lever 16 is bent outward horizontally at an angle to the body, forming a central outwardly-extending section 17, and each of these sections is connected with a straight end section, to which a handle 17 is secured. Under this construction, as shown in Fig. 3, when all of the levers are in a horizontal position the handle of one lever will be substantially in alinement with the handle of an adjacent lever, yet each lever may be manipulated without interfering one with the other.

Ordinarily the pumps C are so placed as to be concealed behind the bar and may be arranged close to the bar, and the handles of the manipulating bars or levers 16 are at the inner side of the trays B or otherpartitions or inward extensions of the fixtures. Each pump is connected by a tube 19 with a source of liquid supply in the usual way, and an outlet-pipe 2O is also employed to discharge the liquid whenever desired.

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It is obvious that under the foregoing construction, no matter in what position the pumps may be or Where placed, the lifting power being applied to the outer yoke or strap l2 will compel the inner strap or yoke to operate the piston-rod l0 Without bringing the piston-rod 'in binding engagement with the pump-cylinder; and it is furthermore immaterial at what angle the manipulating device for the piston-rod may be placed to the same. Furthermore, under the construction of the pump illustrated, the pump may be placed conveniently in locations that would not admit of the operation of the ordinary form of ale-pump or pump of that character.

Having thus described our invention, We

lVitnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, A. A. HOPKINS.