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H. GUTH. Ventilating Apparatus for Beer.

No. 242,924. I Patented June14, 1881.

WITNESSES INVE TOR I ATTORNEY N4 PETERS, Photo'Lflhogr-lpher. Washin ton, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY GUTH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VENTILATING APPARATUS FOR BEER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,924, dated June 14, 1881.

Application filed April 24, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY Guru, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Ventilating Apparatus for Beer; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the .same, reference being had to the annexed drawduce uniform fermentation in a series of casks under pressure in an economical and convenient manner, and to disconnect any cask of the series from the remainder without disturbing them or changing the pressuretherein.

The nature of thefinvention consists in certain novel combinations of parts, as will. be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A des ignates fermenting-casks arranged on a suitable cradle in two series, the one above the other.

The end casks of each series are provided with fermenting-bungs B, consisting, essentially, of the tube A, having a screw-thread at its lower end, a cap, 0, passed over the open upper end of said tube and provided with a rubber bearing, a, for the end of the said tube, inside perforated guide-flanges, b, and flange or shoulder c, to support the annular weights cl, that are passed over the said cap. The pressure in the casks raises the cap when it is sufficient to overcome the weights, and the excess having passed out through the perforations of the flanges, the cap again falls and closes the bun g automatically. This pressure is cut off from the cap. by a cock, at, in tube A, when necesssary.

The tube A is provided upon opposite sides,

below the cock cl, with nozzles e e 0, the two former being in line with each other, and the latter at right angles thereto, all the nozzles being preferably in the same horizontal plane.

The casks in each row between the end ones are provided with screw-plugs D,'having nozzles t t" t, in all respects similar in construction and relative position to those of the fermenting-bungs. These nozzles are each provided with cut-ofl' cocks l of suitable form. The bungs and screw-plugs of the lower row of easks'are brought to a level with those of the upper row thereof by means of the pipes G.

J indicates tubes of metal, or, if desired, of

any flexible material, connecting the nozzles i i and e c of the plugs and bungs, and coupled thereto in any suitable manner, the rear pair of bungs being connected by a pipe, J.

The cocks d I being first opened, that one at the end of the series of pipes farthest from the air-induct pipe J excepted, air is forced through said pipe J into the bungs, plugs, and pipes J, and passes into the casks of both series in an equal degree, and thepressure increases until it becomes sufficient to raise the caps 0, weighted to resist a certain deter mined pressure, when the excess passes off and the caps fall. Thiswill occur as often as the predetermined pressure is exceeded automatically.

the case may be, pertaining to said cask are out off, and a pipe of an air-pump coupled to nozzle e or 11. Its cock is then opened and pressure applied by the pump until the cask is emptied by displacement.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- V The combination, with fermenting-oasks A,

arranged in rows, and automatic fermenting- In testimony that I claim the above I have bungs B, in the end casks of the row, and prohereunto subscribed my name in the presence vided with the nozzles e e 6, having cut-off of two Witnesses.

cocks l, of the plugs D, having nozzles 'i z" i, HENRY GUTH. with out-off cocks l, and the pipes J, connect- Witnesses: ing the nozzles i i of the bungs and those 0 AUGUST GERHAGER,

e of the plugs, substantially as specified. LoUIs GEMEINER.

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