Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Registering the Amount of Beer or other Liquids Drawn by Beer Engines or others of a like nature.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 1st Dec., 1899 -Accepted, 28th Apr., 1900.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Registering the
Amount of Beer or other Liquids Drawn by Beer Engines or
others of a like nature.
We, JAMES DANIEL HANNAHI, of 20, Victoria Street, Shrewsbury, in the County
of Salop, Brewer's Clerk, and JOHN WALTON, of St. Julian's, Chambers, Shrews-
bury aforesaid Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
See drawing annexed. A is a battery, B a dial. CD are two plates con-
nected to the two coils H H from the battery. E is the union pipe connected
to the pump. F is the lower portion of the pipe which is made smaller than
the upper portion or may be supplied with a collar on which the plug G is
allowed to rest. This plug may be composed of vulcanite or any other suitable
material and may be weighted or otherwise as required and is supplied with a
pin J in its upper portion.
In operation the flow of liquor being drawn through the pipe E from pipe F
raises the plug G. The pin J then comes in contact with the plate D which it
raises to touch plate C. When the contact is complete the pointer I on dial B
is deflected and actuates a train of wheels which work the registering mechanism,"
or a chain or band may be used instead of a train of wheels.
The specific gravity of the plug G being equal to that of the liquor, it sinks
as soon as the liquor ceases to flow, the consequence being that air or froth are
not registered by the machine:
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The pipes may be composed of gun-metal, brass, or any suitable material, and
may be supplied with screw-unions as required.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Registering the
Amount of Beer or other Liquids Drawn by Beer Engines or
others of a like nature.
We, JAMES DANIEL HANNAH, of 20, Victoria Street, Shrewsbury, in the County
of Salop, Inventor, and JoHN WALTON, of St. Julian's Chambers, Shrewsbury
aforesaid, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:
Our invention has for its object improvements in and relating to apparatus for
registering the amount of beer or other liquids drawn by beer engines or others

page_text: of a like nature and is designed to provide a means whereby the amount of beer
or other liquids drawn by such engines can be correctly registered on certain
dials without the froth or gas contained in the pipes of such engines affecting
the registering apparatus in any way.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily
carried into effect we have appended hereunto a drawing of the operative parts
of a beer engine (with our improvements attached) which illustrates the
application of such improvements to the registering apparatus of a beer engine
or other engine of a like nature.
In operation, when the handle bar A-B is drawn forward the piston J is
drawn upwards by the piston rod I drawing the beer upwards through the pipe K
and the cylinder L until it comes into contact with the moveable and weighted
plug which when not in action rests upon the collar or ledge 11. This plug
must be of about the same specific gravity as beer, preferably a little lighter,
the result being that it can only be raised by actual beer and not by froth or
gas. The plug must be made to fit loosely on the collar or ledge 11 and in this
way the froth or, gas will have a means of exit before the actual liquor raises
the plug, because the froth or gas will partially raise the plug, but only actual
liquor will raise it sufficiently to start the registering apparatus.
When the actual liquor comes into contact with the plug 1 the effect is that
the plug is raised to such a height that a pin 1" fixed at its upper extremity
comes into contact with the lower disc of the valve 2, having an upper disc 2',
which when not in action rests loosely on a collar or ledge 21.
The effect is that the valve and discs are raised and the upper disc 2¹ comes
into contact with the moveable plate 3 and pushes it into contact with the fixed
plate 31. (It will be explained afterwards how the pawl 34 resting on the
widened upper extremity of the moveable plate 3 is raised). The plates 3
and 31 are connected with the coils 4 and 4 respectively from the battery 5
and therefore immediately they touch, the circuit from such battery is complete,
and the moveable plate 7 (underneath and attached to the pointer 9 of the dial 6
from the upper to the lower portion of such pointer) is brought by electric
attraction in the direction of the arrow M into contact with the plate 8,
immoveably fixed at the back of the dial 6, thus deflecting the pointer 9 in the
direction of the lever 10 which is pivoted at its centre 11 and has its top end
resting just under the pointer 9, and its other end engaging a ratchet wheel 14
at the point 12. It must of course be understood that the plates 7 & 8 are in
electrical contact with the coils 4 & 41 respectively. The pointer 9, when the
plate 7 comes into contact with the plate 8, is bound to go in the direction of
the lever 10 as the lower ends of the plates 7 and 8 underneath the pointer 9
are almost touching and immediately the moveable plate comes into contact
with the fixed plate 8 at its upper portion the lower portion of such moveable
plate 7 necessarily moves the pointer 9 in the direction of the lever 10. When
therefore the pointer 9 is deflected it presses upon the top end of the lever 10,
thus easily raising its lower end 12 and setting free the ratchet wheel 14 at the
back of which wheel is a spring 13, which is wound up before being attached to
such wheel and sets the wheels 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 in motion.
The ratchet wheel 14 has a centre cogwheel 15 working the cog wheel 16.
The wheel 15 is in the drawing shown away from the wheel 25 but in reality
it has to be attached to the centre of the wheel 25 at the back by means of a
spindle, and therefore the lower end of the lever 10 which engages the ratchet
wheel 14 at the point 12 will also be at the back of wheel 25 and 'not as shown
in the drawing and the other wheels or dials 17, 18, 19 and 20 will all be pro-
portionately nearer wheel 25 than shown in the drawing. It must however be
explained that although the ratchet wheel 14 is attached to the cog wheel 25 by
means of a spindle, the spring 13 and wheel 14 do not work the wheel 25 in any
way. The wheels 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 29 and 30 must be fastened by
pins in a gear case which will envelope such wheels.

page_text: When the wheel 14 is turned by the spring 13, it sets in motion a centre cog
wheel 15 which cog wheel 15 engages the cog wheel 16. This wheel 16 is made
of such dimensions that for every half pint of beer drawn by the engine, it
revolves once.
It is further supplied with a pawl 24 which upon every revolu-
tion of the wheel 16 engages one after the other the pins (marked by dots) upon
the wheel 17. This wheel 17 has 16 of these pins at approximately the positions
shown by such dots and each of these pins represents half a pint of beer successively
upon such wheel which will be figured on the plain face of the wheel from 1 up
to 16 half pints. As soon as wheel 17 has made one complete revolution it show's
one gallon of beer, 16 half pints being equivalent to one gallon. It is supplied
with a pawl 23 which upon such full revolution engages one after the other of
the pins upon the wheel 18. This wheel 18 has 36 of these pins fixed in a
similar manner to those on wheel 17 and each of these pins represents one
gallon of beer successively upon such wheel, which will be figured upon the
plain face of the wheel at every sixth gallon up to 36 gallons of beer. Wheel 16
is supplied with a pawl 22 which upon each full revolution of wheel 18 engages
one of the pins upon the wheel 19 causing the wheel 19 to revolve in the direction
of the arrow N and so releasing a portion of a ribbon 21 which is coiled round a
drum 20 and moves it forward from such drum (which is attached to the centre
of the wheel 19) whenever a barrel is shown upon this wheel, that is, as soon as
wheel 18 has made a complete revolution, 36 gallons being equivalent. to one
barrel of beer. This ribbon drum 20 may be marked from 1 to 100 or 200 and so
numbered and geared as to show each barrel of beer as it is consumed.
In addition to the before mentioned effects; When the handle bar A B is
drawn forward the cog wheel 30 is turned by the driving bar 31 (attached to
the handle bar at C and pivoted at 31¹) in the direction shown by the arrow and
the wheel 29 to which it is geared revolves and turns the cog wheel 25 with its
centre cog wheel 26 in the direction shown by the arrow. This cog wheel 25 is
geared to the rack bar 32, (having a pawl 34 at its upper extremity resting
upon the widened upper extremity of the plate 3) and raises the bar and pawl
thus permitting the moveable plate 3 to come into contact with the fixed plate 331
which as before explained completes the circuit from the battery.
The cog wheel 25 has a ratchet wheel 26 at its centre and a dog 27 engaging
such ratchet wheel. This ratchet wheel as before explained is attached to a
spindle in connection with the centre cog wheel 15 which has the spring 13 at
its back, and when the wheel 25 is turned round in the direction shown by the
arrow the dog 27 does not work the ratchet wheel 26 and has no infleuence on
the cog wheel 15 or the spring 13; but as soon as the handle bar A B is
returned the wheel 25 works in the opposite direction, and the bar 32 falls in
its case 33 and separates by means of the pawl 34 the two plates 3 and 3 thus
breaking the electric current and preventing further registration, and the
wheel 25 being turned in an opposite direction to that shown by the arrow the
ratchet wheel 26 also goes in that direction and the dog 27 engages such ratchet
wheel having the effect of rewinding the spring 13 as in the winding of a key-
less watch. As before explained the spring 13 is originally attached to the
apparatus ready wound and the rack 32 must be made of such size and weight as
to rewind the spring 13 sufficiently to compensate for the running down of
such spring from the working of the wheels in connection therewith. When the
circuit from the battery is broken the pointer 9 would rock back and free the
lever 10 by means of a spur spring 81 of sufficient strength for separating the
plates 7 and 8 but not too strong to prevent union of the plates by electric
attraction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
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(1) The use of an electric battery and dial with pointer or the like attached,

page_text: to be the means of pressing upon a lever-engaging a ratchet wheel with spring or
the like attached and thereby releasing such ratchet wheel and setting in motion
a train of wheels so geared and constructed as to ascertain and show the amount of
beer or other liquid passing through an engine pump or the like.
(2) The use of a moveable and weighted plug and also a valve with upper
and lower discs to produce contact of two plates attached respectively to two
coils from the aforesaid battery and so to cause complete circuit from such
battery, the plug to be of such weight that it can only be raised by beer or other
liquids sufficiently to cause registration and not by the froth or gas from such
beer or other liquids.
(3) The use of a rack with pawl attached and wheels driven by a driving bar
by means of which the contact between the two plates before mentioned is
broken, thus preventing further registration of beer or other liquids drawn
by the beer engine or other engine of a like nature, and also by means of a dog
engaging the centre cog of the larger of such wheels having the effect of
rewinding the spring which as before mentioned sets in motion the train of
wheels so geared and constructed as to ascertain and show the amount of beer
or other liquids drawn by the beer engine or the like.
(4) The use of a spur spring fixed between the two plates before mentioned
of sufficient strength to separate such plates when the circuit from the battery
is broken, and so to cause the pointer before mentioned to rock back.
Dated this 22nd day of February - 1900.
JAMES DANIEL HANNAH.
JOHN WALTON..