IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND REGISTERING VOLUMES OF SPIRITS AND OTHER LIQUIDS APPLICABLE ALSO AS A WASTE PREVENTER
Year: 1884

page_text: I JAN ANTHONY MULLER of 4 Deans Court Doctors Commons in the city of
London Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND REGISTERING VOLUMES OF
SPIRITS AND OTHER LIQUIDS APPLICABLE ALSO AS A WASTE PREVENTER to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for measuring and
registering volumes of spirits and other liquids applicable also as a waste preventer,
the object being to measure out liquid in volumes received from time to time in a
receptacle within the apparatus and to cut off the supply and to register the
discharge.
The apparatus is constructed as follows:-
In a capped vessel made of brass or other suitable metal of cylindrical or other
convenient shape open at one end I place and fix a flexible internal volume vessel
made of vulcanized india rubber and of corresponding form the capacity of which
is equal to a desired unit, such as a half quartern quartern half pint or other unit
of measure. Upon a disc attached to the rubber vessel a rod is carried which passes
through an orifice in the cap of the external vessel. This rod is capable of a
backward and forward action to compress the flexible vessel and in driving this
rod into the cylinder the full or partial contents of the flexible vessel will be
discharged by one action through an outlet supplied for this purpose.
The capped end of the external vessel I close by bolting or fixing thereto a disc
containing two valves constructed for the in and outlet of the spirits or other liquids.
These valves are constructed as follows. In a circular recess I fix a rubber disc
firmly secured by a washer around its circumference. In the centre of said rubber
disc is an aperture of the desired area, whilst through the faced surface against
which the rubber disc is forced by the pressure on the spirits or other liquids,
I provide between the central aperture in the rubber disc and the fixing ring or
washer two or more smaller apertures their agregate area being equal to that of
the aperture in the rubber disc.

page_text: Spiral springs may be used to ensure the more effectual air and water tightness
of these valves, that is that they shall not come into operation until a certain
pressure is brought to bear upon them The one valve serves to admit the spirits
or other liquids into the measuring vessel and the other effects their discharge.
The rod of the rubber vessel works through guides and is provided with a rack
in gear with a pinion fixed to a spindle this spindle carries a hand at its one end
moving over a dial. Suitable springs fixed to this spindle and the rod ensure their
return to their normal position after being released after each stroke.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
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By either turning the pinion round or moving the rod in the proper direction the
flexible rubber vessel is compressed and emptied of part or the whole of its contents
and this movement by means of the rack and pinion is communicated to the hand
and can be followed over the dial-serving thus as a measurer-the said dial being
marked off and figured in money value for the different quantities of spirits or
other liquids that it is desired to draw off.
This pointer or hand returns after each stroke together with the rack and pinion
to its normal position.
A ratchet wheel working loose on the spindle of the hand or pointer and
provided with a pawl to prevent its running back-has the like movement com-
municated to it by the pinion and by means of suitable gearing, and since it does
not return to its former position after each stroke, the quantities drawn off from
the apparatus are registered permanently on dials either in the multiples of their
money value or of the measures of capacity.
In releasing either pinion or rack the springs in returning the same to their
normal position cause the flexible volume vessel to expand and the vacuum which
this creates provides for the sprits or other liquids to be drawn inwards and to refill
the measuring vessel.
In using this apparatus as a waste preventer, the several dials may be dispensed
with where so desired or they may be retained as for instance for use at public water
closets baths and so forth for delivering a volume of liquid at one action or more
the apparatus being actuated as ordinarily well understood by a "pull" or by
pressure.

page_text: I, JAN ANTHONY MULLER of 4 Dean's Court, Doctors' Commons, in the City of
London, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND REGISTERING VOLUMES OF
SPIRITS AND OTHER LIQUIDS, APPLICABLE ALSO AS A WASTE PREVENTER and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement reference being had to the accom-
panying drawings:-
.
In a capped vessel A made of brass or other suitable metal, of cylindrical or
other convenient shape open at one end, I place and fix a flexible internal volume
vessel B made of vulcanized india rubber and of corresponding form-the capacity
of which is equal to a desired unit, such as a half quartern, quartern, half pint or
other unit of measure. Upon a disc C attached to the rubber vessel, a rod D is
carried which passes through an orifice in the cap of the external vessel A.
rod D is capable of a backward and forward action to compress the flexible vessel B
and in driving this rod into the cylinder, the full or partial contents of the flexible
vessel can be discharged by one action through an outlet E supplied for this
purpose,
This
The capped end of the external vessel, I close by bolting or fixing thereto, a
disc F, containing two valves G, H constructed, for the in- and outlet of the spirits
or other liquids. These valves are constructed as follows. In a circular recess,
I fix a rubber disc G, H. firmly secured by a washer g' around its circumference.
In the centre of said rubber disc is an aperture of the desired area, whilst through
the faced surface against which the rubber disc is forced by the pressure on the
spirits or other liquids, I provide between the central aperture in the rubber disc
and the fixing ring or washer g³ two or more smaller apertures g¹ h¹-their aggregate
area being equal to that of the aperture in the rubber disc.
Spiral springs may be used to ensure the more effectual air- and water tightness
of these valves, that is that they shall not come into operation, until a certain
pressure is brought to bear upon them. The one valve G serves to admit the
spirits or other liquids into the measuring vessel and the other H effects their
discharge.
The rod of the rubber vessel works through guides and is provided with a
rack D¹ in gear with a pinion D' fixed to a spindle; this spindle carries a hand at
its one end moving over a dial. Suitable springs fixed to this spindle and the
rod ensure their return to their normal position after being released after each
stroke.
The action of the apparatus is as follows.
By either turning the pinion round or moving the rod in the proper direction,
the flexible rubber vessel is compressed and emptied of part or the whole of its
contents and this movement by means of the rack and pinion is communicated to
the hand and can be followed over the dial-serving thus a measurer, the said dial
being marked off and figured in money value for the different quantities of spirits
or other liquids that it is desired to draw off. This pointer or hand returus after
each stroke, together with the rack and pinion, to its normal position.
A ratchet wheel working loose on the spindle of the hand or pointer and
provided with a pawl to prevent its running back, has the like movement
communicated to it by the pinion and by means of suitable gearing and since
it does not return to its former position after each stroke, the quantities drawn off

page_text: from the apparatus are registered permanently on dials either in the multiples of
their money value or of the measures of capacity.
In releasing either pinion or rack, the springs in returning the same to their
normal position, cause the flexible volume vessel to expand, and the vacuum which
this creates, provides for the spirits or other liquids to be drawn inwards and to
refill the measuring vessel.
In using this apparatus as a Waste preventer, the several dials may be dispensed
with, where so desired or they may be retained for instance for use at public
waterclosets, baths and so forth, for delivering a volume of liquid at one action or
more, the apparatus being actuated as ordinarily well understood by a pull or by
pressure.
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:
An apparatus for measuring and registering volumes of spirits and other liquids,
consisting of a metal vessel containing a vulcanized india-rubber vessel compressed
and expanded by a rod in connection with a handle and registering dials, substan-
tially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of October 1884.