Improvements in or appertaining to Vessels or Receptacles for Holding, Measuring, and Discharging Liquids.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
Improvements in or appertaining to Vessels or Receptacles
for Holding, Measuring, and Discharging Liquids.
I, JANE PARISH, late of No. 6, Maynard Street, Leicester, but now residing at
No. 1, Elm Street, Belgrave, in the County of Leicester, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to vessels or receptacles
of all kinds for holding, measuring and discharging liquids being a further develope-
ment of my Patent No. 6821, dated May 10th of 1887, to overcome a great difficulty
in making the strip or transparent scale liquid proof.
By my present invention this is entirely obviated. I put in the side of tankards,
pots, cans or other vessels for holding liquids that the contents may be immediately
read off from the outside a series of glass discs, bulbs, or bull's eyes, or other similar
shapes specially set in a flanged metal cup and firmly fitted in holes cut out at equal
intervals in a vertical line in the sides of the vessel or receptacle, the scale recording
the quantities the vessel should contain is marked or impressed at the side of each
hole in a line with each transparent eye, and opposite to a straight line etched across
the centre of each glass disc, bulb, bull's eye or similar shape.
The said transparent eyes are made proof against all liquids except acids in the
following manner a flanged cup or frame is cast in white metal, or other suitable
metal or composition, the flange being internally to support the glass eye, it is then
covered by a thin layer of cement, the glass is then placed in to fit exactly and
pressed on the cement, it is then transferred to a lathe for the rim to cover the edge
of the glass to be spun, a bevelled raised edge is thus formed round the outer edge
of the glass, the rim projecting above the face of the glass to avoid breakage, thus
they become impervious to all liquids, except acids, whether hot or cold.
This invention can be employed to liquor casks, or casks containing spirits to
obviate the use of gauging rods or sticks to denote the contents, the transparent eyes
being fitted in holes drilled out at intervals one above the other in the staves of the
cask.
The outside of the flanged cups in this case would be screwed, or the discs may be
employed in iron cooking pots or other culinary vessels for denoting if they require
replenishing and made of toughened glass, they may also be put in the wells of oil
rans or lamps made of metal, opaque, or porcelain and the like or for water indicator
in boilers.
Dated this 30th day of August 1889.
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Vessels or Receptacles
for Holding, Measuring, and Discharging Liquids.
I, JANE PARISH, late of No. 6, Maynard Street, Leicester, but now of No. 1, Elm
Street, Belgrave, in the County of Leicester, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to vessels or receptacles
of all kinds for holding, measuring and discharging liquids being an outcome or
further developement of my previous Patent No. 6821, dated May 10th of 1887, and
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page_text: consists in the employment of transparent eyes, bulbs, or bull's eyes arranged in
the manner hereinafter described and shown in the drawings accompanying this
specification in which Figure 1 is a side view of a tankard or can made of blocked
tin or other metal having the glass eyes, or discs arranged therein.
Figure 2 are dies C and C, employed in pressing out the metal, the face of the
lower die C, is shown in figure 2.
Figure 3 is a sectional view of the eye A, the flat top view of which is shown in
figure 3.
Figure 4 is an outer view of the eye, A, the additional portion or lower part of
which is screwed to be put into staves of casks, or in pot or porcelain articles made
with threaded holes to receive them as shown in figure 5.
Figure 6, is an end view of a large cask or barrel with the indicators inserted in
the bung and front thereof.
Figure 7, is another view of a cask or barrel set upon its end and the measuring
indicators inserted vertically in the side of same.
Figure 8, is a view of a glass jar or bottle having an outer casing of metal
this form of receptacle is suitable for chemists and the like for holding and measuring
chemical preparations or acids.
Figure 9, is a glass phial encased in the metal cover D, this is adapted and designed
for the use of doctors or apothecaries for measuring and discharging acids and the
like.
Figure 10, shows a small hand oil lamp with an eye A, fitted therein.
Figure 11, is a can for holding, measuring and discharging oil and the like.
Figure 12 is a view of a milk can, equally applicable to milk churns or other
receptacles for holding, measuring and discharging milk.
Figure 13, is a cut off view of a tea urn, or other such receptacle for holding
boiling liquids.
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The eyes are set above the tap so that the person can immediately see without
causing an escape of steam by removing the top or lid the quantity the vessel
contains.
Figure 14, is a front cut off view of a vertical boiler provided with the transparent
recorders.
Figure 15, is a cut off view of an oil tank, reservoir or brewers vat, or large
copper with the transparent eyes set therein and Figure 16 is a view of what is
commonly called a sauce pan or irou cooking pot, and other culinary vessels, or
cooking utensils can be similarly treated for the purpose herein referred to.
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The object of this invention is to make a recording scale of the character as
shown which shall be entirely liquid proof.
This was found to be a great difficulty in the strip shown in my previous Patent
and in the Patents hereinafter alluded to and more especially in vessels made of tin
and the like which is required to hold hot liquids.
To effect this I employ transparent eyes encased in a metal cup which are fitted
that the flanged portion comes on the inside of the holes cut or stamped out in the
sides preferably of tankards, pots, cans or other vessels for holding liquids so that the
contents can be immediately read off from the exterior, the glass discs, bulbs, or bull's
eyes, or other similar shapes as above stated are set in a flanged metal cup which is
soldered or otherwise fitted tightly in the holes arranged at intervals in a vertical line
in the most conspicuous and convenient part of the vessel or receptacle, the scale to
record the quantities the vessel contains is marked, or impressed at the side of each
hole in a line with the bar or etched line 3, across the face of each glass disc, bulb,
bulls eye or similar shape.
The eyes are made proof against all liquids except acids by the following means:
the flanged case or cup is stamped or cast in white metal, or other suitable metal or
composition: the bottom a', of which is turned inwards to support the glass eye,
bulb, or bulls eye B, the inside of the cup being previously coated with a small
quantity of cement a³, the cup is then transferred to a lathe and the rim a³, covering

page_text: the top of the glass spun so that a raised bevelled edge is formed round the outer
edge of the glass to avoid breakage (see figure 3.) by this means the eyes are rendered
impervious to all liquids whether hot or cold.
It will be seen from the examples shown in the drawings that the eyes can be
applied to any kind of vessel or receptacle for holding, measuring and discharging
liquids whether it be of the character shown in figures 6 or 7 which illustrates liquor
casks, or casks containing wine or spirits, or they may represent oil casks having the
transparent eyes set in the sides or ends thereof in holes drilled or screwed out at
intervals in a vertical line in the staves of the cask, or in spirit jars or casks made of
earthenware, the holes, being cut or cast in when shaping such vessels as the jugs
shown in Figs. 4 and 5. In the metal can for holding oil shown in figure 11 the
transparent eyes are fitted in the roof and side thereof, that the liquid inside can be
seen without removing the cork.
An eye is also put in the bung of a cask as shown in dotted line ', in figure 6
for the purpose above named. In the example shown in figure 10 representing a
hand lamp of the ordinary type of small lamps for burning oil, the eye is put in so
that the length of wick and quantity of oil therein can be ascertained without
unscrewing the top of the well-the screw for raising the wick is not shown.
The said eye's can be put in the oil wells of any lamp made of metal or other
non-transparent material, or in vessels for holding, measuring and discharging milk
as the tankard shown in Figure 1, or the ordinary milk can shown in Figure 12. Or
in tea urns or vessels for holding boiling liquids such as shown in Fig. 13, or in
boilers for example as shown in Fig. 14, or in malting tubs, brewers vats, or oil tanks
as represented in Figure 15, or the culinary articles such as irou pots, or
shown in Figure 16, or other such vessel or receptacle to denote the quantity con-
sauce pans
tained therein, or to see from the outside if they require replenishing the glass eyes in
this case may be of crystal or roughened glass.
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In stamping the cup out to the shape desired by the dies C and C shown in
Figure 2, it may be accomplished by hitting the shank with a mallet, or the shank
of the die C, may be inserted in the plunger of any ordinary screw press, the die C,
being placed on the bed thereof, a whole circle or the two semi-circles figure 2
with or without the recording line, being stamped out.
In vessels or receptacles for holding and measuring ale, stout or the like used by
victuallers and others shown in Figure 1, which are required to be standard or
Imperial measures and stamped by the Board of Trade for Inland Revenue, the
recording line is etched across the glass-or for medicinal appliances-such as the
bottle D, Figure 8, representing an ordinary glass vessel having a covering of metal,
as also the phial D, Figure 9, which is a glass vessel having a covering of metal,
the recording line is etched across the glass and the scale denoted opposite on the
metal case:
I am aware that indicators and also glass bodied cans or reservoirs have been
Patented such as in the American Patents Nos. 36,190, 200,274, and 240,688. Also
the English Patent of Baller No. 12,590 of 1884.
But my indicators are made to be entirely liquid proof and not liable to be
broken.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
laim is:
In vessels or receptacles as herein described for holding, measuring and discharging
iquids, transparent eyes B, encased in a metal cup A in the manner and arranged
ubstantially as set forth.
Dated this 4th day of June 1800
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Patent Agent, of No. 19, Bowling Green Street, Leicester,
Agent for the Applicant.