Improvement in connection with Compensating Wet Gas-Meters.
Year: 1896

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
We RICHARD THOMAS GLOVER and JOHN GEORGE GLOVER of the Firm Thomas
Glover & Co. Lal. 214 to 222 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, Gas Meter
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in connection with compensating wet
Gas-meters and consists in cranking the index spindle or fixing an eccentric or
equivalent device thereon and in securing a lever to the end of the compensating
apparatus to which the necessary movement is imparted by means of a connecting
rod.
Hitherto the compensating apparatus has been operated by means of a sharp
rising can upon which an arm projecting from the compensating apparatus has
rested and by which the water spoon has been alternately lifted and lowered
at every revolution but this method engenders a certain amount of friction which it
is desirable to prevent.
Therefore in carrying out our invention with this object in view we make the
crank of such length and connect it to a lever on the end of the spindle upon which
the compensating water spoon or other desired water lifting apparatus is fixed,
whereby at every revolution of the cranked spindle said compensator is lifted and
lowered to the required extent and for the purpose desired in an easy manner and
with less friction than hitherto has been the case.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Richard Thomas Glover and John George Glover.
Improvement in connection with Compensating Wet Gas-Meters.
We, RICHARD THOMAS GLOVER and JOHN GEORGE GLOVER of the Firm Thomas
Glover & Co. Id. 214 to 222 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, Gas Meter
Manufacturers 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 :-
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This invention relates to an improvement in connection with Compensating Wet
Gas-meters and consists in cranking the index spindle or fixing an eccentric or
equivalent device thereon and in securing a lever to the end of the compensating
apparatus to which the necessary movement is imparted by means of a connecting

page_text: Hitherto, the compensating apparatus has been operated by means of a sharp
rising cam upon which an arm projecting from the compensating apparatus has
rested and by which the water spoon has been alternately lifted and lowered at
every revolution but this method engenders a certain amount of friction which it is
desirable to prevent.
Therefore in carrying out our invention with this object in view, and as we show
in the annexed drawings Figures 1 and 2, we make the crank A on the index
spindle B and connect it by a lever C to an extension D of the compensating water
spoon E or other desired water lifting apparatus, whereby at every revolution of the
cranked spindle B said compensator E is lifted and lowered to the required extent
and for the purpose desired in an easy manner and with less friction than hitherto
has been the case.
The drawings show a face view of a Wet Gas-meter with the front removed and
with the spoon E in the two positions as operated by the crank A. The spoon is of
the usual construction, our invention relating only to the means for operating it from
a crank motion instead of by a cam, whereby the spoon E is compelled to follow and
continue its action.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
In a Wet Gas-meter Compensating Apparatus, the arrangement of appliances
shown on the annexed drawings consisting of cranked index spindle B, connecting
lever C, extension D from spoon E, all as described for the purpose set forth.
AL
1907
24th day
of June 1907.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Richard Thomas Glover and John George Glover.