Improvements in or relating to Means for Indicating the Amount of Liquid Delivered from Taps or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1900-Accepted, 8th Sept., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Means for Indicating the Amount of
Liquid Delivered from Taps or the like.
I, WILLIAM BLEWITT, 8, Ashfield Terrace, Stockton-on-Tees, Inventor, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or relating to means for indicating
the amount of liquid delivered from taps or the like For purposes of illustration
I will descube my invention as applied to what are known as beer or spirit taps.
I provide a spindle carrying vanes or projections which rotate in a suitable
cavity or chamber provided upon the beer or spirit tap or other suitable position
The beer or spirit passing through the tap or other outlet will operate the vanes
or projections carried upon the spindle, thus causing the same to rotate, this
rotation being indicated through suitable mechanism or train of wheels upon a
dial through the medium of a hand or pointer. The device may be affixed or
used in any suitable position where the passage of the liquid will operate the
vanes or projections upon the spindle aforesaid.
Dated this 30th day of October 1899
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Means for Indicating the Amount of
Liquid Delivered from Taps or the like.
I, WILLIAM BLEWITI, 8, Ashfield Terrace, Stockton-on-Tees, Inventor, 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 follow-
ing statement..
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This invention relates to improvements in or relating to means for indicating
the amount of liquid delivered from taps or the like For purposes of illustration
I will describe my invention as applied to what are known as beer or spirit taps.
I provide a spindle carrying vanes on projections which rotate in a suitable
cavity or chamber provided upon the beer or spirit tap or other suitable position.
The beer or spit passing through the tap or other outlet will operate the vancs
or projections carried upon the spindle, thus causing the same to rotate, this
rotation being indicated through suitable mechanism or train of wheels upon a
dial through the medium of a hand or pointer The device may be affixed or
used in any suitable position where the passage of the liquid will operate the
vanes or projections upon the spindle aforesaid.

page_text: For purposes of illustration, I will now refer to the annexed drawings in
which:
Figure 1 18 a side elevation shewing my invention applied to a tap, such for
instance as a spirit tap.
Figure 2 plan view of same.
a is the body of the tap having the annular chamber bin which the vanes o
rotate, being carried upon the spindle d e 18 a toothed wheel also carried upon
this spindle which gears with a toothed wheelf to which the hand or pointer g
18 secured, being a dial having marks or divisions thereon 18 an ordinary
cock for regulating the supply of liquid. A screw thread may be employed for
attaching the whole in position The passage of the liquid in the direction of the
allow 1 will cause the vanes c to 1otate, and the hand or pointer will give an
indication on the dial of this 1otation shewing the amount of liquid passing
through.
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 18:
1. In means for indicating the amount of liquid delivered from taps and the
like the combined.construction and arrangement of the various parts substan-
tially as described and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth
2 In means for indicating the amount of liquid delivered from taps and the
like in combination, a tan or body, 1otating vanes carried in an annulai chamber
upon the spindle, a toothed wheel upon said spindle geared with a toothed wheel
carrying a hand or pointer, a dial having marks theieon attached to said tap or
body, a cock or plug for regulating the flow of the liquid, a screw thread for the
attachment of said tap or body in the required position, substantially as described
and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1900