Apparatus for Measuring, Recording, and Checking Amount of (Beer or other Liquid Intermittently Delivered.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 17th: Dec., 1895
Apparatus for Measuring, Recording, and Checking Amount of (Beer
or other Liquid Intermittently Delivered.
I, LOUIS HALLER of 8, Langestrasse, Zeitz, in the Empire of 1:Germany,
Furniture Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and, in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and cascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically measuring
recording and checking liquids of all intermittently delivered kinds for instance
such as beer and having for its object to permit the ascertaining at all times of the
quantity of liquid which has flowed through, the apparatus during a determined
period of time and it is particularly valuable to beer-sellers, inn-keepers trades
men etc. because the owner is enabled to ascertain, at any time how much liquid has
passed through the apparatus.
The subject of this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in
which :-
Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of the invention applied to a beer delivering
apparatus part of the casing of the recording apparatus being removed.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the recording apparatus with the front cover plate
thereof removed and the casing shown in section.
Fig. 3 shows the apparatus in combination with several delivery taps.
The apparatus comprises a casing a from which projects a funnel-shaped
measuring vessel c that is normally closed at its lower end by a renovable flap-or
valve b. This valve is connected by means of an arrangement of levers'd effi
with a tooth h that engages with a ratchet or toothed wheel m in a driving
mechanism.
This driving mechanism for driving the recording apparatus may advantageously
consist of a clock spring (not shown) or spring barrel such as is well known, in
ordinary clock works and applied in such manner as to normally revolve the main
shaft A upon which latter the aforesaid ratchet m is rigidly fixed.
This main shaft A also has rigidly fixed thereon the toothed wheel B, which
(when the tooth is released from the ratchet m and the shaft 'A consequently
allowed to be revolved by the aforesaid clockwork or other suitable motor) thereby
revolves the intermediate toothed wheel C with which it gears which latter in turn
gears with the toothed wheel D.
This toothed wheel D is fixed to the same shaft as the paper winding roller or
drum 9 (or may be fixed to said roll q direct) and consequently whenever the train
of wheels ABCD are allowed to revolve thereby the roller q is simultaneously
revolved.
The moment at which the valve b is to open can be regulated by means of a
counterweight.g according to the quantity of liquid which is to be measured in the
measuring vessel.c.
When the discharge or delivery cook k is opened the liquid flows from the
receptacle such as a cask or barrel etc. into the measuring vessel c and when the
latter is filled with the proper quantity of liquid (regulated according to the counter-
weight g) the said liquid presses the valve 6 downwards whereupon the measuring
vessel c is emptied and the liquid flows through the discharging opening / into the
vessel to be filled.

page_text: Simultaneously with the downward movement of the valve b the tooth h is by
means of the lever mechanism d eff¹ disengaged from the ratchet wheel m of the
driving mechanism and the latter will work until the tooth again engages in the
toothed wheel m.
On the lever arm f¹ there is a marking pencil n and under the latter there is
provided in the casing a a table o furnished with paper-guides.
A paper band p from the roll E is caused to travel over the table o by the
aforesaid rotation of the drum q winding said paper p off E onto said drum g.
When the measuring vessel c is full the valve 6 moves downward in consequence
of which the tooth will release the toothed wheel m and therefore the driving
mechanism will commence to move the paper band p as aforesaid.
Meantime the pencil n will come to bear upon the paper band p and since the
latter is caused to travel by the rotation of the wheel the pencil n will (each time
the said measuring vessel c is filled and opens the valve 6) draw a line upon the
paper band and thereby indicate with great accuracy the amount of liquid that has
passed through the apparatus i.e. drawn off.
It will of course be understood that in place of the paper band a counting
apparatus may be employed so as to indicate automatically after the manner of
gas meters or water meters the number of times the vessel c has been filled.
In place of the apparatus herein before described a modified arrangement may
be employed in which a uumber of cocks act simultaneously on a disengaging
mechanism. An arrangement of this kind is illustrated in Fig. 3.
Arranged in the casing a' are standards 6' which carry the rollers for winding
and unwinding thereon the paper band.
On the rotary shaft c¹ there are mounted as many levers d' as there are cocks
intended to operate the registering apparatus.
Each lever (of each cock lever mechanism) is connected by means of a fine
chain or spring e with its corresponding lever d'.
Another arm n of the shaft c¹ is connected at pl with the pawl m¹.
The latter is kept by the spring constantly in engagement with the ratchet
teeth of the wheel o'. The wheel o' in its turn transmits or permits the motion to
the main shaft of the counting apparatus and thence also to the paper roll as
before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. An automatic checking and measuring apparatus for intermittently delivered
liquids consisting of the arrangement and combination of a valve 6 connected with
a lever mechanism deff a counterweight 9 adapted to adjust said valve in such
a manner that when the desired quantity of liquid bas run into a measuring vessel
such as c the valve will move downwards whereby the measuring vessel is emptied
at the same time the arrangement being such that the said lever mechanism acts
to move a tooth out from the wheel of a driving mechanism so as to release the
latter whereby a paper band is caused to travel under a marking. pencil n that is
pressed downwards by the lever mechanism and by this means records the number
of times the measuring vessel c has been filled and emptied all substantially as and
for the purposes herein before set forth.
2. In an apparatus for automatically checking and measuring liquids as claimed
in Claim 1 the arrangement and combination therewith of a counting mechanism
for checking purposes in substitution of the paper and pencil recording device
described substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
3. In the automatic apparatus for checking and measuring liquids of all kinds
as claimed in Claim 1 an apparatus for recording the amounts of liquid flowing
through several delivery cocks having in combination with the cock lever
mechanism a shaft e¹ on which are mounted a number of levers d¹ corresponding
in number with said cocks which shaft c' carries another arm n' connected to the

page_text: pawl m² of the counting mechanism whilst the several lever arms d¹ are each
connected by a chain e' with the lever mechanism of each cock all substantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
4. The improved arrangement construction and combination of apparatus for
automatically measuring recording and checking the amount of beer or other liquid
intermittently delivered substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 15th day of December 1894.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.