IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MEASURING FLUIDS OR LIQUIDS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Rowley and James Humphrey, both of
Leeds, in the County of York, Mechanics, for the Invention of
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MEASURING FLUIDS OR LIQUIDS."
Scaled the 15th September 1871, and dated the 4th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Rowley and
James Humphrey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 4th April 1871.
We, JOHN ROWLEY and JAMES HUMPHREY, both of Leeds, in the
County of York, Mechanics, do hereby declare the nature of our
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MEASURING FLUIDS OR LIQUIDS
"
This apparatus, which is applicable to drawing off and measuring all
kinds of fluids or liquids, consists of a portable vessel made as shewn
on Drawing. This vessel is made with concave bottom finishing level
with the top of the measuring apparatus, the portion below being left
so that no injury can happen to the pipe fixed to it, besides being the
base for the vessel to stand upon.
The use of the apparatus we describe as follows:-To the concave
bottom we fix a pipe A, as shewn in section Fig. 2, to which is fixed

page_text: a cock B placed horizontally to the registering glass gauge C, below as
shewn is another cock D, which tapering carries the fluid or liquid
to a bottle or other vessel.
The measuring apparatus is a glass tube marked as shewn to register.
any quantity. Having opened the cock 13 the fluid or liquid passes up
into the measure; as soon as the requisite quantity is shewn in the glass
the cock B is closed, and the cock D opened the fluid or liquid is let off.
Fig. 3 is a separate seat for the glass measure, and being made so as to
fit any measure, according to its size, the re-fixing of a measure if broken
is but a few minutes labour.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Rowley and James Humphrey in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 4th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Join
ROWLEY and JAMES HUMPHREY, both of Leeds, in the County of York,
Mechanics, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto ourselves, the said John Rowley and James
Humphrey, Her special license that we, the said John Rowley and
James Humphrey, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said John Rowley and James Humphrey, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during tho 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 "IMPROVED APPARATUS
POR MEASURING FLUIDS OR LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said John Rowley and James Humphrey, by an instrument
in writing under our hands and seals, 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 Scal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after thic
date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Rowley and James
Humphrey, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :—
This apparatus, which is applicable to drawing off and measuring all
kinds of fluids or liquids, consists of a portable vessel made as shewn
on Drawing. This vessel is made with concave bottom finishing level
with the top of the measuring apparatus, the portion below being left
so that no injury can happen to the pipe fixed to it, besides being the
base for the vessel to stand upon.
The use of the apparatus we describe as follows:-To the concave
bottom we fix a pipe A, as shown in section Figure 2, to which is fixed
a cock B placed horizontally to the registering glass gauge C, below
as shewn is another cock D, which tapering carries the fluid or liquid
to a bottlo or other vessel.
The measuring apparatus is a glass measure marked as shewn to
register any quantity. Having opened the cock B the fluid or liquid
passes up into the measure; as soon as the requisite quantity is shewn in
the glass the cock B is closed and the cock D opened, the fluid or
liquid is let off. Figure 3 represents the screw seat for the glass
measure which screws on between to two taps B and D, direct over D,
so that the fluid is discharged with a direct descent. It will be seen that
we can measure from half ounce (or less) up to any required quantity,
and that measures can be changed at pleasure as may be desired.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Rowley and James Humphrey,
have respectively heretofore set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
cighth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
W. WILLIAMS,
JOHN ROWLEY.
(L.8.)
JAMES HUMPHREY. (L.S.)
Clerk with Messrs. North & Sons,
Solicitors,
Leeds.