An Improved Apparatus for Delivering Measured Quantities of Liquid.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Delivering Measured Quantities of
Liquid.
FREDERICK WILLIAM WELLER, 20, Argyle Street, St. Pancras, in the County
of Middlesex, Scientific Instrument Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
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This invention has for its object an improved meter tap, for the regulating of
the supply of liquids from a bariel, cask, jar or other similar receptacle (and for
convenience I use the term jar in the following lines) by means of stop cocks etc.,
the action of which either singly, separately, or coupled, being so constructed
and fitted that they, when actuated, will supply by measure at will, the contents
of the jar as may be required.
While various forms of my invention may be applied for the said purpose,
I prefer the following method whereby the turning of one tap fills a certain
measure or receptacle and then empties the same, closing the inlet and also
opens 2 air pipes, so that both the filling and emptying may be complete.
In order to accomplish this I provide a vessel of a certain desired capacity
having 4 or more distinct openings to it; 2 near the top, for the escape and inlet
of an; and 2 near the bottom; one an inlet, the other for outlet of liquid The
inlet is attached and communicated with a tube having a tap at one end, the
other opens into the jar. Two coupled taps are so fitted, that when one of them
is turned a certain way it closes the inlet, and opens the an pipe leading into the
jar, and so charges the measure.
When the tap is turned in the opposite duection, it opens the outlet tap, and
inlet air hole, and closes the air tube leading into jar, and so quickly empties the
exact quantity required.
Dated this 10th day of February 1899.
An Improved Apparatus for Delivering Moasured Quantities of
Liquid.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM WELLER, of 20, Argyle Street, in the Parish of Saint
Paneras, in the County of Middlesex, Scientific Instrument Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement: -
This invention has for its object an improved apparatus for delivering quanti-
ties of liquid from a barrel, cask, jar or other similar receptacle (and for con-

page_text: venience I use the term jar in the following specification) by means of a double
slotted spindle (the lower slot being in a straight line with the handle of spindle,
the upper slot being crossway) being so constructed and fitted that when
actuated will supply by measure at will the contents of the jar as may be
required
While various forms of my invention may be applied for the said purpose I
prefer the following method whereby the turning of the spindle in a certain
position, say the handle crossway fills a certain measure or receptacle with
Tiquid, by turning again one fourth (either way right or left) empties the same,
closing the inlet and also opening an air passage so that the filling and empty-
ing may be complete.
I will now describe my invention as shown on the accompanying drawings.
In order to accomplish the above operations I provide the casing A which
casing when passed over the body, of apparatus B forms a vessel of a certain
desired capacity. The body B has 4 distinct passages or channels: 2 near the
top, one for the inlet (marked C) and the other for the outlet (marked D) of air,
and 2 near the bottom the one marked E an inlet and the other marked F an
outlet for the liquid.
Just below the inlet E for filling or charging the vessel with liquid is attached
a tube G which is in communication with a screw plug H which fits in the jar.
Fig. I is a side section of the apparatus with the spindle I so turned as to
allow of the vessel being charged and showing the air expelled through passage D
along the (small) tube K, and finally through the containing liquid in the jar;
in this case the measure can be worked with an ordinary wine or spirit bottle
attached to plug M as indicated by dotted lines on drawing, the neck of the bottle
being downward. The small arrows indicate the course of the liquid in its
passage from the jar through the plug H, down and along the tube G, and into
the chamber of the apparatus marked J
In Fig 1 (which is a front section of the apparatus but with the spindle
in exactly the same position as Fig. 1) the arrows indicate the liquid passing
from the lower chamber J through the passage E into the upper chamber or
vessel when this is fully charged no more bubbles of air will be seen to rise
out of the small tube K.
For the delivering Fig. III the spindle is turned either to the right or left and
thus closes the aforesaid passages and opens the outlet Falso the inlet for air C
Fig. IV and so delivers the exact contents of the vessel A through the outlet F
and down the spout N. Independent of the measure 1 can attach an extra tap L
Fig. I for drawing off loose measures from main supply in jar.
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:-
I. An improved apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquids, as
herein before described and shown on accompanying drawings.
II The arrangement of the lower passage E working in conjunction with
the chamber J and the air escape tube K connected with the upper passage D
as shown.
III Its operation for controlling the filling and delivering of liquid as
described in specification and shown on drawings.
Dated this 17th day of July 189N
FREDERICK WILLIAM WELLER.