Combined Measures and Dripper for Spirit and other Taps.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 14th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Combined Measures and Dripper for Spirit and other Taps.
I JAMES MALPASS of 37 Blackburn Road Haslingden in the County of
Lancaster Master Plumber do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Suspended from the tap by the use of a clip (or other method of attachment) are
two metal legs (either round or flat) carrying a small cup suspended on swivel
centres, one centre having an extension terminating in a handle or thumb turn.
The cup is divided by a metal plate fixed in such a position as to give accurate
measurement of the quantity of liquid intended for sale, one end of the cup measuring
out a larger quantity than the other :-By turning the cup on the swivel centres,
the user is enabled to measure either the larger or smaller quantity as required.
Dated this 29th day of June 1892.
JAMES MALPASS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Combined Measures and Dripper for Spirit and other Taps.
I, JAMES MALPASS, of 37 Blackburn Road, Haslingden, in the County of
Lancaster, Master Plumber, 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 :-
This invention relates to a device for attachment to the taps of vessels containing
spirits and to other taps such for example as those which are used for spirituous
and other beverages in hotels. The object of the device is to enable either of two
different quantities of the liquid to be accurately measured as it runs from the tap,
and to prevent the waste of any of the liquid which may drip from the tap during
the intervals of use.
I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings, in
which
Figure 1 is a side elevation ;
Figure 2 a hack elevation:
Figure 3 a plan; and
Figures 4, 5, and 6, vertical sections shewing the device in different positions.
A is the bib or nozzle of the tap to which the device is attached. As the
representation of the tap is unnecessary a portion of it has been shewn in Figures 1
and 2 only.
The device itself is preferably cylindrical in form and is transversely divided by
the fluid tight partition B, into two unequal parts C C', each of which constitutes
a measure, and when filled, contains precisely a quantity of fluid recognised in its
sale. Thus one side may contain one eighth of a pint, and the other side contain
either one quarter or one sixteenth of a pint or such other quantities as may be
selected.
Around about one half of the rim of each of the measures C C₁, I prefer to form
a receptacle D D', closed at its ends, in such a position that whichever of the
measures C C may be uppermost, the receptacle will be at the back, as shewu by
Figure 1, or if more convenient in particular cases, at the front. The object of
this receptacle is to prevent the waste of any drip which may have drained into the
upper measure from the tap, when it is required to use the lower measure and
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Figure 3 a plan; and
As the
Figures 4, 5, and 6, vertical sections shewing the device in different positions.
A is the bib or nozzle of the tap to which the device is attached.
representation of the tap is unnecessary a portion of it has been shewn in Figures 1
and 2 only.
The device itself is preferably cylindrical in form and is transversely divided by
the fluid tight partition B, into two unequal parts C C', each of which constitutes
a measure, and when filled, contains precisely a quantity of fluid recognised in its
sale. Thus one side may contain one eighth of a pint, and the other side contain
either one quarter or one sixteenth of a pint or such other quantities as may be
selected.
Around about one half of the rim of each of the measures C C₁, I prefer to form
a receptacle D D', closed at its ends, in such a position that whichever of the
measures C C may be uppermost, the receptacle will be at the back, as shewn by
Figure 1, or if more convenient in particular cases, at the front. The object of
this receptacle is to prevent the waste of any drip which may have drained into the
upper measure from the tap, when it is required to use the lower measure and
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page_text: consequently to invert the device. For example, if the larger measure be upper-
most as in Figure 6, with drainings from the tap therein, and it be required to use the
smaller measure, the device is turned in the direction indicated by the arrow until
the small measure is uppermost. In the act of turning, the drip in the larger
measure will flow into its receptacle as shewn in Figure 4. The upper measure may
now be filled and delivered (as shown by Figures 4 and 5) by turning the device in
the direction indicated by the arrow, and it may be wholly re-inverted to the
position shewn by Figure 6, or the empty smaller measure may be restored to
the top.
The device is suspended by two straps or by suitable suspenders within which it
may be suitably secured and rotated. I prefer to form trunnions on opposite
diameters of the combined measures or of a strap encircling it, which trunnions are
mounted in holes or bearings in the lower ends of the curved straps E E. One of
the straps E may be secured to its trunnion by a set screw, and the other by a
screw and a nut with a milled edge F. This nut may be employed as a handle for
rotating the measures, in which case it is preferred to be sweated upon the screwed
trunnion. The straps are connected at their upper ends to the spring clip Gadapted
to fit upon the tap, and I prefer to connect them by rivets or set screws in such a
manner that the straps may be free to move about their means of connection as a
centre.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:-
A combined measure and dripper constructed substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 11th day of November A.D. 1892.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.