Improved Apparatus for Drawing Off Measured Quantities of Liquids and Giving a Constant Flow of Liquid as well.
Year: 1898

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Drawing Off Measured Quantities of Liquids
and Giving a Constant Flow of Liquid as well.
JAMES HENRY AIREY, Watchmaker, &c., 195, High Street West, Sunderland,
Co. Durham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a tap or cock with the keys placed at the side, also
a vessel which is attached to the tap, to act in place of a measure. To provide
air to allow the measurer to be filled, also to provide air for the emptying of the
measurer I place a tube to the top of the measurer. This apparatus is so arranged,
that as well as runing a measured quantity, it will give a constant flow as well.
Where the tap is used for measured quantities only, a recorder would be
attached so that a record might be taken of the quantities drawn off.
To explain the above more clearly, I may say, the tap in appearence is the same
as an ordinary spirit tap, but at the top where the handle or thumb piece is,
in the ordinary tap, I screw on a hollow pear shape or any shaped vessel. This is
the measurer, it may be for a small whisky or any other quantity of liquid.
In this tap the key is worked at the side. The gap in the key is about half the
circumference of the key. When the gap is upwards, it extends from the flow
from the cask to the opening up into the measurer, which allows the measurer to
get filled.
When the key is turned on, the flow from the cask is closed & the liquid flows off
from the measurer, on through the tap mouth. Then to obtain the constant flow,
the key is turned backwards fully a half turn, the result is, the opening up into
the measurer is closed & the gap in the key is downwards & is large enough to give
a free passage from the cask on to the tap mouth & will flow constantly, until
'cut off.
Improved Apparatus for Drawing on measured Quantities of Liquids
and Giving a Constant Flow of Liquid as well.
JAMES HENRY AIREY, Watchmaker, &c., 195, High Street West, Sunderland,
Co. Durham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
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My invention as described in my Provisional Specification will be better under-
stood, by refering to Fig. 1, in drawings. When the key of the tap is, as shown
in Fig. 1, it allows the liquid to flow up through an opening into the measurer B,
& when turned up to C, Fig. 1, it allows the liquid to flow away from the tap.
Fig. 2, represents the tap with a drooping long neck F, this is to allow the
measurer B, to be below the hole in the cask, barrel, &c., so that it may get filled,
no matter how little there is in the cask.
The tap can also be arranged as shown in Fig. 3, the measurer B, & plug A
Fig. 3, being attached together, with a handle G, Fig. 3, placed to the neck of the
measurer B, to turn the tap on or off. This arrangement would allow the tube E
Fig. 2, to be revolved in a socket H Fig. 3, a hole would be put in this tube E at
the side & would communicate with the air tube I Fig. 3 through a hole in the
socket H. By this means a more perfect measure would be obtained by the
action of turning the handle G Fig. 3 to let the liquid run off, if at the same time
the opening from the socket H to the air tube I was thereby closed, to stop the
liquid in the tube I from coming back into the measurer B. The air tube I
is carried up to the top of the cask, barrel, glass or china keg, large glass bottles,
urus, &c. To provide air to allow the measurer B to empty itself, a hole would
be placed at J through the socket H Fig. 3.
Fig. 4 shows the regulator K Fig. 4 & 5 that is screwed into the neck of the
measurer B, inside. This is simply a tube with a bridge L Fig. 4 which can be
screwed up or down. A better idea will be got of the action of the filling of the
measurer B, & the running the measured quantity off, also the constant flow, by
refering to Figures 6, 7 & 8.
Fig. 6 represents the key M at rest, as shown in Fig. 1 & 2. This (Fig. 6) allows
a free passage from the barrel to the measurer B, & allows it (the measurer) to
fill. Fig. 7 gives the position, when the key M is turned up to C Fig. 1, which
allows the measured quantity to run off.
And Fig. 8 shows the position of the key M when brought back & turned down-
wards to D Fig. 1 thereby allowing a free passage from the barrel to the tap
mouth & gives a constant flow.
The regulator K Fig. 5 will be better understood by refering to Fig. 6, which
shows the regulator checking a certain amount of liquid running away from the
measurer B. It will therefore be seen that should the measurer B, hold more
than the measure, by screwing the regulator K upwards, it can be altered so that
the measurer B, will simply run off the desired quantity. This can be done by
inserting a long necked key into tube E Fig. 1 & 2, with a gap to fit onto
the bridge L Fig. 4. This process will bring the measure to the desired capacity.
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:-
1st. The improved apparatus, for drawing off measured quantities of liquids,
as & for the purpose hereinbefore described and represented in drawings,
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, & 6, 7 & 8.
2nd. An air tube in combination with a self measuring tap as hereinbefore
described & represented.
3rd. The regulator K for adjusting the measure in a self measuring tap, shown
in drawings, Figs. 4 & 5 & 6.
Data 1141
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1000