AN IMPROVED INDICATOR FOR REGISTERING THE WITHDRAWAL OF LIQUIDS FROM CASES OR OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Strickland Ottley,, of No. 10, Eversholt St.,
Oakley Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED INDICATOR FOR REGISTERING THE WITHDRAWAL OF LIQUIDS FROM
CASES OR OTHER VESSELS."
Sealed the 3rd September 1860, and dated the 10th March 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Strickland Ottley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 10th March 1860.
I, JOHN STRICKLAND OTTLEY, of No. 10, Eversholt St., Oakley Square, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED INDICATOR FOR REGISTERING THE WITHDRAWAL OF LIQUIDS FROM
CASKS OR OTHER VESSELS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the indication of the quantity of liquids
withdrawn from casks and other vessels, and as a protection for publicans
against the dishonesty of servants.
The indicator A is composed on the principle of a gas meter, the outer dial
being marked with quarterns, pints, pints, quarts, up to 1 galln. Of the two
smaller dials, one marks the number of galls. up to 10 galls., the other, the number
of 10's of galls. up to 100 galls., and is operated upon by a water cask B placed
upon the same level with the the spirit casks C, and in which a constant
supply of water is kept by means of a ball tap. D, the pressure being regulated.

page_text: by a false bottom placed inside it, as also in every cask which will by it be
indicated. The flow of water will be conducted by a pipe F, behind the range of
of taps jutting from which, so as to meet the various pipes H from the different
spirit casks at the junction of a double tap G turned by one key at the same
instant, so that the flow of spirits or wine, &c. shall be an exact counterpart in
quantity with the flow of water that will be registered on the indicator, from
which it will be discharged by a waste pipe.
I claim the security of my Invention on the use of water as described
aforesaid, passing through a double tap to an indicator.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Strickland Ottley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th September 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
STRICKLAND OTTLEY, of No. 10, Eversholt Street, Oakley Square, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said. John Strickland Ottley, Her special license that I, the said John Strick-
land Ottley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said John Strickland Ottley, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED INDICATOR FOR REGISTERING THE WITHDRAWAL OF LIQUIDS FROM CASKS
OR OTHER VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Strickland Ottley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Strickland Ottley, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained-in and by the

page_text: following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,"
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
:-
My Invention of "An Improved Indicator for Registering the Withdrawal.
of Liquids from Casks or other Vessels," has for its object the indication of:
the quantity of liquid withdrawn therefrom, as a protection against fraud, and
consists in causing a quantity of water equal to that of the liquid withdrawn to
be passed through a meter furnished with registering apparatus, and an indi-
cator dial, so that the quantity of water passed through the meter may be made:
to indicate the quantity of liquid withdrawn. Thus by turning the key of the
tap for withdrawing the liquid, an equal quantity of water will be admitted
into the meter, on leaving which it will be registered and indicated on the dial:
thereof. The constant supply of water is maintained by means of a ball valve
in the water cask. or vessel, and the pressure, of water and of the liquid is
regulated and rendered uniform by means of a false bottom in the water cask,
and also in each cask or vessel containing the liquid, all of which are on the
same level with the water cask or vessel. A two-way cock in communication
both with the water cask and the cask containing the liquid to be withdrawn,
serves to pass the same amount of water to the meter.as it passes of the liquid
to the usual fount or outlet for the same.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed to
describe in what manner the same is to be performed by referenco to the
accompanying Drawing, which represents the parts above referred to, but mý
Invention is not confined to the arrangement of the parts shown.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A is the water cask shewn in section. This cask is placed on the same level.
with the range of casks B containing spirits or other liquids required to bo
withdrawn therefrom; C is a ball cock for maintaining a constant supply of
water to the cask A; D is a false bottom, by means of which the pressure of
water in the water pipe is regulated and kept uniform; E is a similar falso
bottom for producing the same effect in the pipe leading from each of the
spirit casks; F is an orifice through which the water is allowed to pass from
the space in the cask above the false bottom D to that below the same; G is
a similar orifice for the same purpose in the false bottom E; by this means the
column of water contained in the space below D, and that of liquid contained
in the space below E, will produce equal pressure in the two pipes H
and I, the one H for conveying water, and the other I for conveying
spirit or other liquid to the two-way cock K; this cock is furnished with two
openings at the back, in which the ends of the pipes H and I are inserted;

page_text: Hshews the pipe for conveying water from the cock K to the meter, the
indicator dial of which is shewn at L, and I shews the pipe or fount by which
the spirit or other liquid is withdrawn; M is the air tube in the casks to
supply the necessary vent....
The meter for indicating and registering the quantity of water passed through
it may be varied in its construction, but I prefer that it should be furnished
with a kind of sink at the top for the reception of the water from the pipe H,
and that the outlet for the water to the waste pipe should be so arranged as to
maintain a level of water sufficiently high to prevent any jerking motion from
being imparted to the revolving drum on the smallest quantity giving motion
to the drum passing out of the meter.
It will be evident, on inspection of the Drawing, that on turning the
cock H for the withdrawal of liquid from either cask B in the range, for the
amount of liquid withdrawn at the fount I*, the same amount of water will be
passed through the pipe H to the meter, which will be registered. and
indicated by the dial L as it passes out of the meter, so that the entire quantity
of liquid withdrawn will thus become registered and indicated.
I would remark that any number of casks for liquids may be contained in
the range at B, each cask being provided with a pipe I, cock K, and fount I",
and brought into communication with the water cask A.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I do hereby declare that what I claim as of my.
Invention is, the indication of the quantity of liquids withdrawn from casks
or other vessels by means of an equal quantity of water passed through a two-
way cock to a meter furnished with registering apparatus and an indicator
dial, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Strickland Ottley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
WILLIAM SPENCE,
50, Chancery Lane,
JOHN STRICKLAND OTTLEY. (L.S.)
⚫ Patent Agent.