IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OIL OR OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jolin Fawcett, of Huddersfield, in the County
of York, Tin Plate Worker, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS
OR APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OIL OR OTHER LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 12th November 1869, and dated the 13th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Fawcett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patcuts, with his Petition, on the
13th May 1869.
I, JOHN FAWCETT, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Tin Plate
Worker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OIL OR OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in the employment of a supply cistern, which
(by preference) I furnish with an ordinary ball tap or self-acting. tap
for regulating the inlet thereto of the oil or other liquid, also a series
of enclosed measures or vessels of any required capacity so arranged,
cither underneath the cistern or by its side, in such manner that the

page_text: oil or liquid will gravitate or flow from the said cistern into the said
measures when at liberty to do so, A tap or cock suitably constructed is
applied to each measure with pipes to connect them respectively to the
cistern. The plug of the said tap has an opening on one side only and
hollow thence to the end, so that when the said opening is placed to
the inlet or pipe leading to the cistern the passage from thence to the
measure in connection therewith will be open, and the oil or other liquid
will flow thereinto until full (a small air pipe being attached to each
measure rising above the top level of the oil or liquid in the cistern),
and when the plug is turned so that the side opening is placed to
the outlet of the tap the inlet will be closed, and the oil or liquid will
flow from the measure until it is empty into any suitable receptacle
placed underneath,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters, Patcut,
filed by the said John Fawcett in the Great Seal Patent Office
ou the 13th November 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Joun
FAWCETT, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Tin Plate Worker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Fawcett, 1er special licence
that I, the said John Fawcett, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Fawcett, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS
FOR MEASURING OIL OR OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that 1, the said John Fawcett, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the

page_text: said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Fawcett, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement and accompanying Slicet of Drawings (that is to
say)-
This Invention consists in the employment of a supply cistern, which
(by preference) I furnish with an ordinary ball tap or self-acting tap
for regulating the inlet thereto of the oil or other liquid, also a series
of enclosed measures or vessels of any required capacity, so arranged,
either underneath the cistern or by its side, in such manner that the
oil or liquid will gravitate or flow from the said cistern into the said
measures when at liberty to do so. A tap or cock suitably constructed
is applied to cach measure with pipes to connect them respectively
with the cistern. The plug of the said tap has an opening on one side
only and hollow thence to the end, so that when the side opening is
placed to the inlet or pipe leading to the cistern the passage from thence
to the measure (in connection) will be open, and the oil or other liquid
will flow thereinto until full, a small air pipe being attached to each
measure rising above the top level of the oil or liquid in the cistern,
and when the plug is turned so that the side opening is placed to the
outlet of the tap the inlet will be closed, and the oil or liquid will
flow from the measure until it is empty into any suitable receptacle
placed underneath.
This Invention will be readily understood by reference to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, which are sectional clevations of apparatus
constructed in accordance therewith.
Figure 1 is a section taken through the dotted line A, B, in Figure 2;
and Figure 2 is a section taken through the dotted line C, D, in
Figure 1.
The upper part of the apparatus forms a cistern to hold or contain
the supply of oil or other liquid. E is a float, to which is attached a
valve in a box G fixed to the bottom of the cistern, to which is a
pipe II communicating with a cask or other larger store of the oil or
liquid at a higher level. A pipe I connects the cistern with the taps J

page_text: and K, which are attached to measures L, M, both being of equal capacity.
The plugs of these taps are each formed with only one side opening,
which opening passes through and out at the ends towards the measures
so that when the said side opening is turned to the pipe I the oil will
flow out of the cistern into the measure until it becomes filled, cach
measure being provided with a small tube L' and M', extending to
the top of the cistern for admission and escape of air for that purpose,
and when the said plug is turned with the opening towards the outlet
pipe N the passage from the cistern will be closed and the oil will
flow out of the measure into any vessel placed to receive it. The two
plugs of the taps J and K are geared together by the wheels P, Q,
and the said plugs are arranged so that when the opening of one is
turned towards the pipe I the other is turned towards the outlet N;
consequently whilst one measure is being discharged or drawn off
the other is being filled from the cistern.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and shewn by
Drawings how the same is to he or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to any of the details in the construction or arrangement, nor do I claim
the whole of the parts herein shewn and described; but what I do
claim as of my Invention is, the method of supplying liquids to measures
and discharging the same, substantially as herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, 1, the said John Fawcett, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of November One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the within-named John
Fawcett, in the presence of
W. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
JOHN FAWCETT. (L.S.)
Halifax & Bradford.