Year: 1899

page_text: I, FREDERICK HENRY CURTIS, of 36, Burgoyne Road, Stockwell, London, S.W.,
Foreman Cooper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to automatic fluid measures and is contrived to facilitate
the filling of bottles, jars and other vessels with any desired quantity of liquid.
With the apparatus now in use great waste is experienced by spilling, over-
flowing, and inexactness of measurement, and also loss of time caused by the
impossibility of conducting the operation of measuring the qantity of liquid
required to more than one vessel at a time.
În carrying my invention into effect I use any number of chambers, formed of
wood and lined with metal, arranged on any or all sides of a central feeding-
chamber.
A supply pipe is led from the vat, casks or other source of supply to the feeding
chamber. The end of the supply-pipe is fitted with an apparatus shutting off
automatically the supply at any desired point.
Pipes are led from the central feeding-chamber to the measuring chambers,
each of which pipes, is fitted with a stop-cock or other means of shutting off
the liquid, so that any series of chambers can be cut off when required.
From each measuring-chamber leading pipes are carried to the bottles, jars &c.
requiring to be filled. By means of a simple contrivance fitted on the frame of
the apparatus the outlet and inlet pipes of each measuring-chamber are shut
and opened respectively, or vice versa, by one operation, so that no liquid can
flow in whilst the chamber is emptying and vice versa.
The action of the apparatus is as follows-The liquid to be measured is allowed
to enter the central feed chamber by the supply pipe from the vats or casks &c.
and from thence to each series of measuring chambers required to be used. The
liquid gradually fills all the aforesaid measuring-chambers and when it rises in
the central feed-chamber to a predetermined point, which registers the quantity
in each measuring chamber the supply is automatically shut off by the apparatus
fixed to the end of the supply-pipe. The series of measuring chambers are then
shut off from the central feed-chamber and the measured quantity of liquid can
be delivered to the bottles, jars, or other vessels.
It will be obvious that with this apparatus there is an absence of waste, and at
the same time exactness of measurement, and by arranging the measuring cham-
bers in series round the central feed-chamber a great economy in time is attained
as the apparatus can be worked continuously, one series of chambers being
emptied whilst another series is filling.
Doted this 18th day of February 1800
FREDERICK HENRY CURTIS,
Inventor.

page_text: I, FREDERICK HENRY CURTIS, of 36, Burgoyne Road, Stockwell, London, S.W.,
Cooper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:.
This invention relates to automatic fluid measures and is contrived to facilitate
the filling of bottles, jars, casks or other vessels with any desired quantity of
liquid.
With apparatus now in use great waste is experienced by spilling, overflowing,
and inexactness of measurement, also loss of time caused by the impossibility of
conducting the operation of measuring the quantity of liquid required to more
than one vessel at a time. This invention is designed to overcome these defects.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have here-
unto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings whereon, Fig. 1 is a front
elevation of one form of my improved apparatus, Fig. 2 is an end elevation,
Fig. 3, a plan, Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, Fig. 5 a cross section of central
or feeding chamber on the line 5-5 Fig. 3, Fig. 6 a cross section of one of the
measuring chambers on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3.
Similar letters of reference wherever repeated indicate the same or similar
parts.
In carrying my invention into effect I use any number of chambers a prefer-
ably formed of oak, and lined with tinned-copper, arranged on any or all sides
of a central feeding-chamber b. These chambers are preferably mounted on a
stand provided with a shelf or shelves c¹ to hold the bottles, jars, casks or other
vessels required to be filled.
A supply pipe e is led from the vat, casks or other source of supply, prefer-
ably to the bottom of the feeding chamber b. The end of this pipe e is fitted.
with an automatic float-valve f.
From the central feed chamber b pipes y are led to the measuring chambers a,
each of these pipes g is fitted with a plug or cock gl preferably operated by
handles these plugs are used to cut off any series of chambers a which
may not be required for the time being.
From the bottom of the chambers a leading pipes preferably fitted with
flexible tubing h', and nozzles ², are carried to the bottles, jars, &c., requiring
to be filled.
The inlet pipes g, and leading-pipes in the chambers are fitted with plugs i
and respectively connected to a leverk fulcrumed at to a support on the
frame of the apparatus, in such a manner that while the chamber a is filling no
liquid can pass to the bottles, jars or other vessels, and vice versa.
In the drawings I have shewn the apparatus intended to measure and deliver
quantities of say one gallon each, but it will be understood that by regulating
the float f and the size of the chambers a any desired fixed quantity can be
obtained.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
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The liquid to be measured is allowed to enter the feed chamber by the pipe e,
and by opening one or all of the plugs the liquid is allowed to enter any number
of the measuring chambers a until the liquid has risen to the desired level, as
regulated by the float f which at that point automatically cuts off the supply.
The plug is then closed, and by partially rotating the lever k the inlet pipe g
to the chamber a is closed by means of plug i and by the same action the plug j

page_text: is opened and the measured quantity of liquid delivered to the bottles, jars,
casks or other vessels.
The feeding chamber 6 is fitted with a draining plug, or cock and draw-off
pipe or I may use a simple draw-off cock.
It will be obvious that with this apparatus there is an absence of waste of
liquid, and at the same time the insurance of the delivery of the exact quantity,
and by arranging the chambers a in series round the feeding chamber 6 a great
economy in time is attained as the apparatus can be worked continuously, one
series of chambers a emptying whilst another series is filling. I wish it to be
understood that I do not confine myself to the form and arrangement of apparatus
herein shewn and described as it will be obvious that I may adopt various modi-
fications without departing from the peculiar nature of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In apparatus for measuring and delivering liquids, the combination with
a feed chamber, of any number of measuring chambers, arranged in series, so
that the apparatus may be rendered continuous in action by one part filling,
while the other is delivering, substantially as herein shewn and described.
2. In apparatus for measuring and delivering liquids the combination with a
feed chamber, of means for automatically regulating the supply of predetermined
quantities to measuring chambers, means for regulating delivery of said quan-
tities to vessels; means for controlling the inlet and outlet of liquid to the
measuring chambers, means for controlling and regulating continuous operation
of the apparatus, substantially as described.
3. The combination and arrangement of the various parts comprising my said
invention substantially as described.
Dated this 7th day of October 1899
FREDERICK HENRY CURTIS,
Inventor.