Improvements in Apparatus for Delivering Measured Quantities of Liquids.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1899-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1809
PROVISIONAL DEVIATION,
Improvements in Apparatus for Delivering Measured Quantities of
Liquids.
I, HERBERT REEVES LAMPORT, of 340, Fulham Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Brewery Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for simultaneously delivering a number
of measured quantities and is especially applicable to filling jars or other vessels
with measured quantities of wine, spirits or beer.
The apparatus consists of a horizontal trough having in it a number of par-
titions reaching nearly but not quite to its top. The trough has an inlet and
overflow at the level of the top of the partitions. The bottom of each compart-
ment formed by the partitions is provided with a cock and a delivery tube which
is preferably flexible.
The cocks are arranged in a line with each other and the levers operating them
are so set that they are, when the cocks are either open or closed, at an angle of
about 45° degrees to this line. The levers are connected to a sliding rod by which
they are all operated simultaneously.
In using the apparatus a number of jars or other vessels are ranged beneath
the trough and the flexible tubes put into their mouths. Liquid is run into the
trough until it has been filled to the top of the partitions, the cocks are then
turned and the contents of each compartment runs into one of the vessels.
Dan and day of January 1899.
Improvements in Apparatus for Delivering Measured Quantities of
Liquids.
I, HERBERT REEVES LAMPORT, of 340, Fulham Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Brewery Manager, 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 apparatus for simultaneously delivering a number
of measured quantities and is especially applicable to filling jars or other vessels
with measured quantities of wine, spirits or beer.
The drawing is a side elevation partly in section of an apparatus constructed
according to this invention.
The apparatus consists of a horizontal trough a having in it a number of

page_text: partitions breaching nearly but not quite to its top. The trough has an inlet
or is filled from a vat and an overflow at the level of the top of the partition b.
The bottom of each compartment formed by the partitions is provided with a
cock d and a delivery tube which is preferably flexible.
The cocks are arranged in a line with each other and the levers e operating
them are so set that they are, when the cocks are either open or closed, at an
angle of about 45° to this line. The levers are connected to a sliding rod f by
which they are all operated simultaneously.
In using the apparatus a number of jars or other vessels are ranged beneath
the trough and the flexible tubes put into their mouths. Liquid is run into
the trough until it has been filled to the top of the partitions, the cocks are
then turned and the contents of each compartment runs into one of the vessels.
The jars stand on a grating g in a tray k so as to prevent waste.
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. The. combination of the trough, partitions and cocks, substantially as
described.
2. Apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid substantially as
described and shown in the drawings.