Improvements in Apparatus for Conveying and Delivering Measured Quantities of Liquids.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Conveying and Delivering Measured
Quantities of Liquids.
I, THOMAS CASSIENET PALMER, of 98, Commercial Road East, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
My invention relates to an improved construction of apparatus for conveying and
delivering measured quantities of liquids.
My improved apparatus comprises a number or series of tanks or cylinders of
wrought iron or other suitable material each made to contain a known quantity, say,
for example, 40 gallons so that the actual operation of filling the vessels will
give an exact measure in each. The entire series or nest is fitted with inlet,
outlet, and air pipes with the necessary cocks and valves in combination with
a pump which may be arranged for blowing the liquid out by air pressure,
for sucking the liquid through the pump in the usual way or for syphoning the
liquid over.
A suitable sight hole is provided to each tank or cylinder for ascertaining the
height of the liquid.
Each nest or series of tanks or cylinders is mounted on a wrought iron or wood
framing and is so arranged that it can be lifted bodily with all its pipe connections, valves,
pump, and other fittings and placed on any ordinary van or truck thereby avoiding
the necessity of a special carriage or it may be mounted on an independent carriage
having two or more wheels.
All the tanks are in communication with a main delivery pipe so that they can be
emptied together but provision is also made for any one tank or cylinder to be emptied
independently.
Dated the 23rd day of October 1888.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Quantities of Liquids.
I, THOMAS CASSIENET PALMER, of 98, Commercial Road East, in the county of
Middlesex, Engineer, 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:
My invention relates to an improved arrangement and construction of apparatus
for conveying and delivering measured quantities of liquids.
My improved apparatus comprises a number or series of tanks or cylinders of
wrought iron or other suitable material each made to contain a known quantity,
say, for example, 40 gallons so that the actual operation of filling the vessels
will give an exact measure.in each. The entire series or nest of cylinders is fitted
with inlet and outlet, and air pipes with the necessary cocks and valves in combination
with a pump which may be arranged for forcing or blowing the liquid out by air
pressure, or for syphoning the liquid over.
A suitable sight hole is provided to each tank or cylinder for ascertaining. the
height of the liquid.
or truck
Each nest or series of tanks or cylinders is advantageously mounted on a wrought
iron or wood framing and is so arranged that it can be lifted bodily with all its pipe
connections, valves, pump and other fittings and placed on any ordinary van
thereby avoiding the necessity of a special carriage or it may be mounted on an
independent carriage having two or more wheels.
All the tanks are in communication with a main delivery pipe so that they can be
emptied together but provision is also made for any one pair of tanks or cylinders to
be emptied independently.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a side elevation.
Figure 2 is a back elevation and figure 3 a plan of an apparatus constructed
according to my invention for conveying and delivering measured quantities of
liquids.
Figure 4 is a detached vertical section (on a large scale) of one of the tanks or
cylinders. Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
a, a, a, a, a represent the tanks or cylinders each adapted to contain say 40 gallons
of liquid. In the drawing I have shewn the series of tanks as consisting of ten,
which number I have found to give good results in practice but it will be obvious
that the number can be varied. shews the main pipe for supplying the liquid to
and discharging it from the tanks, branch pipes b₁ connecting the main pipe with
the tanks, the said branch pipes extending to the bottom of the tanks as clearly
shewn in figure 4; c and d are unions on the ends of the main pipe by which
it is connected to the store tank or other vessel from which the tanks a are to be
filled, or by which pipe the liquor is discharged from the tanks a;e represents a
hand air-pump from which passes the air pipe f having a branch pipe f for each
cylinder a.

page_text: 9, 9 represent the cocks on the air pipes f³, and h, represent the cocks on the
liquid pipe leading to the cylinders.
,, represent the sight glass in the cylinders a; i, i represent the framework
in which the tanks a are mounted, the whole being fixed to the carriage j, j
It will however be understood that the tanks and accessories can be mounted
on a framing so that the whole apparatus can be placed on an ordinary van
or truck.
By this arrangement to fill my improved apparatus with liquid, it will only be
necessary to connect the main pipe at either of its unions cor d to the charging
tank or pump by means of a hose pipe, the cocks in the pipes leading to
the tanks a being open; when the tanks are full the cocks are closed and
the apparatus will have been supplied with a known quantity of liquid, in this case
400 gallons.
In case the charging tank should be below the level of my improved apparatus (or
should there be no liquor pump) I can by means of my air-pump obtain a vacuum in
cach tank and charge the apparatus by suction.
and
The tank having been charged, the liquid therein can be conveyed to any required
destination and can be delivered from the ends c or d of the pipe 6 or either of them
as required by opening the cocks in the said pipe band the air cock
then working the pumpe whereby the liquid will be blown or forced out of the
tanks a, or it may be syphoned off by previously starting the air-pump, as will be
well understood.
By employing the arrangement of cocks and delivery pipes shewn and described,
it will be obvious that any one pair of tanks may be charged and emptied separately
or all together.
I sometimes provide my apparatus with an additional vessel in connection
with the pump into which vessel air can be compressed while the apparatus is
being moved from place to place, the pump e being for this purpose driven by
means of a chain crank or other means from one of the axles or wheels of the
carriage; or one of the tanks may be adapted as a compressed air store vessel
for this purpose.
By arranging all the pipes and cocks above the top of the tanks as described and
illustrated, there is no risk of leakage a defect which is common in apparatus of this
kind hitherto in use.
Having now particularly described and illustrated the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
(1). The combination and arrangement of parts forming an improved apparatus for
conveying and delivering measured quantities of liquids, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
(2). In apparatus for conveying and delivering measured quantities of liquids, the
use of a pump as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated the 21st day of December 1888.