IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING, REGISTERING AND INDICATING THE QUANTITY OF LIQUID DRAWN FROM CASKS OR OTHER CONTAINERS THROUGH TAPS OR OTHER SUCH OUTLETS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Augustus Adams, of Poal, in the Tele of Man for
an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING, REGISTERING
AND INDICATING THE QUANTITY OF LIQUID DRAWN FROM CASKS OR OTHER
CONTAINERS THROUGH TAPS OR OTHER SUCH OUTLETS
"
an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING, REGISTERING
AND INDICATING THE QUANTITY OF LIQUID DRAWN FROM CASKS OR OTHER
CONTAINERS THROUGH TAPS OR OTHER SUCH OUTLETS
"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Augustus Adams at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th March 1883.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS ADAMS, of Peel, in the Isle of Man "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR MEASURING, REGISTERING AND INDICATING THE QUANTITY OF
LIQUID DRAWN FROM CASKS OR OTHER CONTAINERS THROUGH TAPS OR OTHER
SUCH OUTLETS
"
This Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for measuring, registering.
and indicating the quantity of spirit, wine, beer, or other liquor or liquid drawn
from casks or other containers through taps or other such outlets having an inter-
mittent action or being under independent control, and has especial reference to
certain improvements upon the Invention for which Letters Patent N° 3603.
A.D. 1877, were granted to me.
My said Invention is described in the Specification of my said Letters Patent
as consisting in combining measuring, registering and dial-indicating mechanism
with tap outlets, for the purpose of enabling all users of taps to ascertain at a.
glance the quantity (in any desired measurement) which has been drawn through
the tap.
According to the modification of carrying my said Invention into practical effect
described in the Specification of my said Letters Patent the measuring, and the
registering and dial-indicating mechanism, are contained within independent
casings; but I have found that there are many disadvantages attendant upon the
practical application of mechanism thus combined to existing counters or apparatus
with which it would be used.
The objects of my present improvements are to avoid these disadvantages, to.
improve the general construction and arrangement of the apparatus, and to arrange

page_text: and combine the registering and dial-indicating mechanism within the same case
or an extension of the same case as contains the measuring mechanism, so that the
whole apparatus shall be self-contained, and capable of ready application to its
required purpose by simply connecting it to the parts.
The improved liquor tap meter, register and indicator, is represented on the
accompanying drawings in one modification of its construction in Figs, 1 to 6; of
which Fig 1 represents a front elevation; Fig 2 a side elevation; Fig 3 a front
interior view, shown partly in section; Fig 4 a side interior view partly in
section; Fig 5 a section through the liquid, meter and motor wheel; and Fig 6 a
plan of the outlet.
The improved apparatus, is, according to this modification, constructed with a
case 1, which completely encloses and protects all the working parts. The bottom
of this case, together with the outlet 2, and its back, and sides, are preferably all
made in one casting, with projecting lugs 3, by which the whole apparatus can be
secured where required. The case has a front plate 4, which is secured by screws 5,
and has a central glazed aperture 6, protecting the registering and indicating
apparatus. The case. has also a top dome-plate 7, which is secured by screws 8,
and carries the tap-handle 9, and is removable with the mechanism of the stopcock.
The interior of the case is divided into two compartments 10, 11, by a
partition 12; The rear compartment 10, is open to the inlet and outlet of the
liquid, and contains the liquid meter wheel which actuates the registering and
indicating apparatus. The tap inlet or stop-cock 13, is arranged within the top
of the chamber 10, and is carried by the dome plate 7, as hereinbefore mentioned,
and it has a screwed projection 14, which passes through the back of the case 1,
for connection with piping from a beer-engine or pump, or from a spirit or wine
vat, or other liquid container. The tap or stop-cock is secured in position by the
screwing of a nut 15, against the back of the case; and its plug 16, projects through
the dome plate 7, and is rivetted at 17, to the handle 9, Below the exit from the
tap, and within the compartment 10, is arranged the liquor meter wheel 18, which,
according to the present improvements, is made with side plates 19, with a
cylindrical centre 20, and with curved divisions 21; This wheel revolves together
with its spindle 22, which is centred in a bearing 23, in the back of the case, and
passes through the partition 12, to within the compartiment 11.
Within the compartment 11, the spindle 22, imparts motion to a suitable train
of registering and indicating mechanism by means of which the measurement of
the liquid, passing through the tap and actuating the motor wheel 18, is indicated
on front dials. The wheel 18, may be otherwise formed and partitioned off than
as indicated on the annexed drawings; and the indicating dials may be marked off
to any required measurements. In the modification illustrated, the dials 2+4, 25,
26, and 27, are marked off into gallons and multiples of gallons, and the dial 24, is
subdivided into pints. The train of gearing adapted to the compartment 11, is
adapted to suit the marking off of the dials. In the modification represented, the
spindle 22, which projects from within the chamber 10, has on it a pinion 28, which
actuates a wheel 29, on a spindle, having a pinion 30, which actuates a wheel. 31,
on a spindle having a pinion 32, which actuates a wheel 33, which actuates a
pinion 34, on a shaft having on it a smaller pinion 35, which actuates a wheel 36,
on a spindle 37, which projects through the units dial 24, and has on it at the face
thereof a pointer 38.
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A pinion 39, on the spindle 37, actuates a wheel 40, on a spindle 41,. which
projects through the dial 25, and has on it at the face thereof a pointer 42.
pinion 43, on the spindle 41 actuates a wheel 44, on a spindle 45, which projects
through the dial 26, and has on it at the face thereof a pointer 46. A pinion 47,
on the spindle 45, actuates a wheel 48, on a spindle 49, which projects through
the dial 27, and has on it at the face thereof a pointer 50.
The above registering gearing is supported by three plates 51, 52, and 53, which
are kept apart by pillars 54.
There are various details combined with this improved arrangement, which are

page_text: provided for the purpose of preventing any tampering with or fraudulent use of
the apparatus. The closing plates 4, 7, are so combined as that they cannot be
removed, or access obtained to the interior, without detection, the top plate 7, has a
depending lug at 55, which is retained by a sunken screw 56, inserted through the
front plate 4, and sealed above its head. The exit from the tap is protected by a
hinged cap 57, having a regulating spring 58, and set screw 59, by means of which
the cap is so set as to direct the issuing liquid properly into and against the
divisions of the motor wheel 18, without allowing of waste. The tap also carries
a weighted lever 60, which is centred at 61, and is actuate by a radial
projection 62, from the tap-plug 16, and is caused to engage with the divisions of
the wheel 18, and prevent it being turned except when the tap is turned on. The
exit from the compartment 10, is or may be also protected by a grating 63, which
prevents the insertion of any instrument up the spout 2, for reversing the
movement of the wheel 18, I do not however confine myself to these particular
methods of preventing tampering with the apparatus as the same objects may be
obtained in various other equivalent ways.
In other modifications more especially applicable to vats, or other similar uses in
which the quantity of the passing liquid is considerable and does not require to be
measured off into such minute quantities, the case 1, may be made as one com-
partiment to contain the meter and notor wheel or druin 18, and the registering
and indicating mechanism may be contained within a removable glazed case which
can be secured to the front of the case 1, and may at any time be detached
therefrom by the proprietor for any necessary purpose.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature and objects of
my said Invention and in what manner the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to
be novel and original and therefore claim as constituting the Invention secured to
me by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent; is:-
The combination in apparatus for measuring, registering and indicating the
quantity of liquid drawn from casks or other containers through taps or other such
outlets, of a divided casing or enclosure protecting all the working parts; with a tap
inlet and outlet and intermediate meter and motor mechanism actuated by the
flow or passage of the passing liquid, arranged within one part or compartment of
such casing; and with a suitable train of registering and dial-indicating mechanism
arranged within the other part or compartment of such casing; the whole forming
a self-contained tap meter, register and indicator, which cannot be tampered with,
and is capable of immediate application to its intended use, substantially as
hereinbefore described and as illustrated on the accompanying drawings.
In Witness whereof I the said George Augustus Adams, have hereunto set
my hand and Seal this 17th day of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand. eight hundred and eightv three.
Witness.
CHARLES AUBREY DAY.
Pa'ent Agent.
321. High Holborn.
London. W.C.
G A. ADAMS. (L.S.)