US580437A

US580437A - Apparatus for drawing liquids

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Publication number: US580437A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-04-13
Anticipated expiration: 1914-04-13

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J. WAGNER. APPARATUS FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS.

N0.'580,437. Patented Apr. 13, 1897.

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JOHN WAGNER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS.

SPECIFTGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,437, dated April 13, 1897.

Application filed November 16, 1896. $erial No. 612,174. (No model) To 60% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,JOHN WVAGNERpf Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Drawing Liquids, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus adapted to be used more particularly for transferring the contents of beer-casks to the barrels, though the invention may be applied to the drawing of liquids generally.

Beer-casks have heretofore been usually tapped near their bottom, and consequently the chips and sediments were apt to be drawn along, thus necessitating their removal by filtering, besides clouding the beer. By my invention the beer is drawn from the top, so that the sediments are not disturbed and the liquid is transferred in a clear state.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a cask provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2, Fig. 1.

The letter A represents a cask or similar receptacle for containing a liquid in bulk. One of the heads a of the cask is perforated at or near the center and provided with the metal bushing 0. Through this bushing there projects into the cask a revoluble pipe I), having a bent inner end I), that extends in substantially a vertical direction and is somewhat shorter than the radius of the cask. The outwardly-extending arm of pipe I) carries a spigot 01 and is adapted to be coupled to a flexible hose e by a union 6, the hose leading to the barrel or other vessel to be filled. A cup f, surrounding pipe 7), contains a suitable packing material f and engages a tubular extension 0 of bushing 0, so that a tight joint is formed, which will, however, not prevent the pipe I) from being freely revolved. To the pipeb there is also attached a pointer g, placed in the same plane with arm I) and indicating the position of such arm upon a suitable dial g.

To draw the liquid, the pipe I) is so manipulated that the mouth of the arm I) is always maintained at a short distance below the level of the liquid in the cask-that is to say, that while the arm 12 should at first point substantially upward the pipe is gradually revolved with the lowering of the liquid, so that the relative position between the surfacelevel and the mouth of the arm I) is always maintained. The gradual turning of the pipe may be easily accomplished by the handle of the spigot d and is not impeded by the hose 6, owing to the flexible character of the latter.

It will be seen that by my invention the liquid can be picked up always slightly below the surface, so that it is transferred in the clearest possible condition and without disturbing the deposits settling on or near the bottom.

What I claim is- The combination of a barrel or cask having an opening formed through the center of its head, and a curved tube which is passed through the opening and adapted to be turned inside of the barrel, a graduated disk on said head, combined with a suitable packing through which' the tube passes, a suitable pointer on the pipe cooperating with the disk, a spigot placed in the outer end of the pipe, a coupling placed on the end of the pipe, and

a flexible tube applied to the coupling, substantially as shown.

JOHN WAGNER. Witnesses F. v. BRIESEN, WILLIE MILLER.