Improved Apparatus for Measuring Liquids.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Measuring Liquids.
I, GUSTAV KESSLER Manufacturer of Schmiedefeld, Erfurt Germany do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the invention is an apparatus which in selling liquids as for instanco
oil, spirits, and the like affords a very convenient, at the same time clean and above
all an exact, regular measure of the quantity.
The liquid is in a bottle, no matter what size, which is provided with two tubes
or openings of which one is provided with a burette the other with an india rubber
ball. The bottle is filled after the burette-is taken out, then the latter is put on
again: A cock separates the burette and the bottle.
.
If the india rubber ball which is provided with a little hole is pressed the liquid
rises through the pressure of the air into the burette in which its quantity can easily
be ascertained. By means of a cock the liquid can be tapped through a pipe,
at the same time showing the quantity, or can pass back into the bottle
aforesaid.
Dated this 28th day of February 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Measuring Liquids.
I, GUSTAV KESSLER, Manufacturer of Schmiedefeld, Erfurt, Germany 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 :-
The object of my invention is to produce an apparatus wliich will indicate in an
exceedingly convenient and cleanly manner the quantity of liquid sold.
My invention is represented in several forms in the accompanying sheet of
drawings in which
Fig. 1 shows a form having a special draw-off pipe e furnished with a stop.
cock f.
Fig. 2 shows a form whereby the liquid can be drawn off by means of the cock d
and can also be returned to the bottle.
Fig. 3 shows another form of the apparatus with the draw-off pipe at a right.
angle with the axis of the cock.
The bottle or container a of any desired size is provided with a tube g into which
is ground the end of the burette b. A short tube is affixed to and opens into a.
and is furnished at its outer end with the india rubber ball ce, the size of which is
made proportionate to the size of the bottle and burette. The ball is also.
provided with a small hole. The mode of using the apparatus is as follows:-
The burette b is lifted out of the tube 9 and the fluid poured into a. The
burette is then replaced and the cock d opened so as to establish a communication
between the burette b and the bottle or container a. The thumb is then placed.
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page_text: over the hole in the ball c and the latter compressed whereupon the pressure of air
will lift the fluid from a into b to any required height. When the fluid has risen
in the burette to the required height, communication with the container a is cut off
by shutting the cock d and the fluid is kept standing in the burette until it is either
drawn off (in larger or smaller quantities as required) by the outlet pipe e and the
cocks dorf, or returned to the bottled by the reverse rotation of cock d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. The combination of the bottle or container a, tube g, burette b cock d, tube h,
india-rubber ball and vertical or horizontal, or more or less so, outlet tube e,
with or without the draw off cock f, together forming my improved apparatus for
measuring liquids substantially as described in the above Specification and
exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of December 1885.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
:
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.