US1137495A - Apparatus for dispensing beverages. - Google Patents

Description

A. LANDGREBE.

APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING BEVERAGES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4. 1914.

1,137,495, Patented Apr. 22, 1915.

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A. LANDGREBE,

APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING BEVERAGES.

APPLIQATION FILED FEB. 4, 1914. Patented Apr. 27, 191;

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ANTON LANDG-REBE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS FGR DISPENSING BEVERAGES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

Application filed February 4, 1914. Serial No. 816,488.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANTON LANDGREBE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, Van Nest, borough of the Bronx, in the county of the Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Dispensing Beverages, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to beer apparatus and has particular reference to means for cooling and dispensing beverages and especially beer.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide connections between a barrel or series of barrels of beer in a cellar and the faucets at the bar on a higher floor, such connections being of a peculiar construction adapting them especially for being readily cleansed and kept in a sanitary condition.

A further object of the invention is to provide a peculiar means for cooling the beer as it passes through the aforesaid connections, and though the connections comprise principally straight parallel sections of tubing as distinguished from cumbersome expensive and unsanitary coils, the beer in passing therethrough will be thoroughly cooled.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which T Figure 1 is a rear elevation of an apparatus made in accordance with this invention, parts being broken away to show the construction; Fig. 2. is a vertical transverse section on the line 2'2' of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a transverse horizontal section on the line 38 of Fig. 1; Fig. i is a fragmentary vertical section of a detail on the line l4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 55 of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a view of a modification corresponding to Fig. 2; Fig. 7 is a sectional view of a detail of Fig- 6; and Fig. 8 is a detail view of a part of the device shown in Fig. 2 and described below.

The several parts of the device may be made of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design of the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit of the invention connection 13 extending into the cask or barrel and having its upper end connected to a section of pipe let detachably connected by means of a coupling 15 of any suitable nature to a pipe 16 leading upwardly therefrom through the floor 17.

Each pipe 16 constitutes one member of a vertical series of parallel pipes 18 shown in Fig. 2 as nine in number. Said pipes 18 are all straight for the purpose of facilitating the cleansing thereof, and each two adjacent pipes are connected by a peculiar form of coupling head 19 shown best in Figs. 4: and 5. Each head comprises two bosses 2O internally threaded and into which the adjacent ends of the two pipes secured thereto are screwed, and the opposite end of the head 19 from the ends of the pipes is closed by a plug 21 removably screw threaded into it. For this purpose the main portion of the head is cylindrical. Upon removing the plugs 21 from the opposite upper and lower ends of the series of pipes, each of said pipes is open for free cleansing. The last pipe 18 of the series is connected at its upper end to a T 22 having a removable plug 21 in alinement with the axis of said pipe and having connected at its lateral end one of said faucets 11, said connection being made by a shouldered coupling 23 whereby the faucet may be readily removed for cleansing or renewal.

The series of pipes 16 and 18 are maintained in substantially the same plane and in stationary position by any suitable means including a bridge or arch 24 cotiperating with the upper ends of said pipes and embracing the same. The pipes are supported directly upon the bridge as, for instance, by means of collars 25 extending from the pipes and resting upon the arch. The arch is shown in Fig. 2 as being preferably secured rectly through the bottom of the ice tank 26 through a stuffing box 28 of any suitable construction, and said pipes continue di rectly downwardly. through another stuffing boxr29 at the top or upper end of an auxiliary ice tank 30 below the floor 17 or in the v basement of the building. The lower ends of the pipes extendthrough the bottom of the tank 30 through astuffing box 31, the 7 bottom of the tank 30 being supported above the basement floor upon a framework 32 of any suitable nature, giving room for; the barrels or casks below .or adjacent thereto.

The removable plugs 21; at the lower ends fof the pipes are easily reached by the operator between the casks and the bottom-of the tank 30 forthe purpose'of their removal and replacement." Thetank 80 is or maybeof. substantially the same construction as the tank 26 described above with respect to its cooling and sanitary properties, and is designed to be filledw-ithbroken'ice or ice and water V 7 through a door33 adjacentitstOpQ The tank 26is l kewise filled with ice. or ice and water of any suitable temperature through a removable panel or lid 34; at its top. 1 r

;.At35 I show any suitable form or contanks 26 and 30. For instance, the drain pipe 35 is connected to the upper tank at points 3.6,. 37 and 38, whereby said tank .may'bedrai ned of the cooling water at different elevations. Likewise connections are made'with the tank 30at .points 39, 4:0 and .l-for similar purposes. 'Thedrainpipe is also providedwith a plug 42 whereby a hose 'may be connected to the drain pipe, said hose having its other end connected to any one of the heads 19 for flushing out the cooling pipes 16 and 18, in an easy, rapid, and

sanitary manner.

. Instead of relying upon broken ice or ice water in separate tanks 26 and 30,1 may" employ a, single tan-k in or through which the pipesmay extend continuously, and in any of said tanks I may provide a system Copies of this: patent may be obtainefi for .five cents each, hyiadd of ammonia pipes for cooling purposes instead of using the ice. In Fig. 6 I show an arrangement whereby a series of pipes 18 are inclosed. in the tank 26?, the adjacent pipesl8 being connected by means of U- heads 'l9,the ends of which are connected to the respective pipes by means of shouldered' couplingsQO. The uppermost pipe 18 in 'thissystem is detachably connected to thefaucet 1 1 bymeans-of a coupling 22 and the lowermost: pipe 18f is connected .de-

ing away the lids 84:. The several pipes 18 may thennbe readily detached from the [headsby unscrewing the couplings 20, and

since thesepipes are all straight they are easily swabbed or cleansed and they maybe readilyassembled again for thepurpose of making a new c'o'nnection. ,This figure also shows-a coil of ammoniapipel3 ofany; suitable orwell known construction, whereby the air within th e'tank is cooledto any desired temperature for the purpose of cool- Y ing the beer passing through the system of pipes 18'. This tank :is maintained practicallyairtight, and forthe purpose of allow- .ingthe warm air to pass therefrom prelimivide a ventpipe l4;

nary to the act of refrigerationpI may pro- 7 claim as new and desire to secure by Let- .ters Patent l stru'ction of drain pipe having communica- 'tion at several points with the two cooling In apparatus of the characterlset forth, 5 the combination "of-a plurality of straight parallel pipes having smooth interior sure:

faces, and means connecting the'ends. ofthe1 pipes each to each so as to provideja con tinuous circulation and communication throughout allof the pipes, said connecting means including a hollow cylindrical coupling head having a pair of internally threaded bosses'receiving the adjacentpipe; ends and a flat circularplugremovably secured .'V in the. end of the head opposite the open i 1 ,;:G OgLEBEEL R, 7;

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