CONSTRUCTION OF A METER FOR MEASURING WATER, SPIRITS, OR ANY OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Richmond, Engineer and Machinist, of 21,
Carlisle Terrace, Fairfield Road, Bow, in the County of Middlesex,
Joseph Quick, jun', and Alexander Fraser, Civil Engineers, both of
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Richmond, Joseph
Quick and Alexander Fraser at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 8th November 1858.
We, JOHN RICHMOND, Engineer and Machinist, of 21, Carlisle Terrace,
Fairfield Road, Bow, in the County of Middlesex, JOSEPII QUICK, jun', and
ALEXANDER FRASER, Civil Engineers, both of Sumner Street, Southwark, in
the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"CONSTRUCTION OF A METER FOR MEASURING WATER, SPIRITS, OR ANY OTHER
FLUIDS," to be as follows:-
The ram meter is constructed and made of a cylinder of iron, brass, or any
other metal, is divided in the middle by a stufling box, which is adjusted by
screws through the cylinder cover. The ram which works in the cylinder is
made of iron, brass, glass, or any other material, it will move through the
stuffing box in the cylinder, a suflicient space being left for the water, spirits, or
any other fluids that may be passing through the meter. The end of the ram

page_text: is continued through the cylinder cover by a small rod, the end of which is
connected to a slide or slot motion, by which means the length or stroke of
the ram is indicated. The water, spirits, or any other fluid which is passing
through the meter will be thrown at the top or bottom of the ram by
Richmond's patent quarter rotary valve, four-way cock, slide, or any other
valves. The motion which is given to the cock or valves is constructed of
quadrant catches, released by a camb or lever, moved by a lever of the slot
motion from off the ram, by which means the cock or valve will be moved
instantaneously, so that no water; spirits, or any other fluids which may be
passing through the meter will be lost, or not registered by the return of the
ram top or bottom. The water, spirits, or any other fluids will be registered
by an index attached to the meter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions. of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Richmond, Joseph Quick and Alexander Fraser in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th May 1859. .
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
RICHMOND, Engineer and Machinist, of 21, Carlisle Terrace, Fairfield Road,
Bow, in the County of Middlesex, JOSEPII. QUICK, junior, and ALEXANDER
FRASER, Civil Engineers, both of Sumner Street, Southwark, in the County
of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent, Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Iler
reign, did, for Herself, Iler heirs and successors, give and grant unto is, the
said John Richmond, Joseph Quick, junior, and Alexander Fraser, Iler
special licence that we, the said John Richmond, Joseph Quick, junior, and
Alexander Fraser, our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said John Richmond, Joseph Quick, junior, and Alexander Fraser,
our 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 "THE CONSTRUCTION OF A METER FOR
MEASURING WATER, SPIRITS, OR ANY OTHER FLUIDS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said John Richmond, Joseph Quick, junior, and
Alexander Fraser, our exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in

page_text: writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the sanie 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 we, the said John Richmond, Joseph Quick, junior,
and Alexander Fraser, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The ram meter is constructed and made of a cylinder of iron, brass, or any
other metal, divided in the middle by a stuffing box, which is adjusted by
screws through the cylinder cover. The ram which works in the cylinder is
made of iron, brass, glass, or any other material; it will move through the
stufling box in the cylinder, a sufficient space being left for the water, spirits,
other fluid that may be passing through the meter. The end of the ram is
continued through the cylinder cover by a small rod, the end of which is con-
nected to a slide or slot motion, by which means the length of stroke of the
ram is indicated. The water, spirit, or other fluid which is passing through
the meter will be thrown at the top or bottom of the ram by a quarter
rotatory valve, four-way cock, slide, or any other valves. The motion which
is given to the cock or valves is constructed of quadrant catches, released by a
camb or lever, moved by the lever of the slot motion from off the ram, by
which means the cock or valve will be moved instantaneously, so that no
water, spirit, or other fluid which may be passing through the meter will be
lost or not registered by the return of the ram top or bottom. The water,
spirit, or other fluid will be registered by an index attached to the meter.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, we would state that the
shape or form of the apparatus may be greatly varied, and the mode of
working the valve or cock may be differently arranged; but we claim the
application of a plunger or plungers, or ram or rams, working in a cylinder or
cylinders, to the purpose of measuring water, spirits, or any other fluids; also
the application of a hollow disc valve, as described, for the purpose of passing
the same alternately to either end of the cylinder or cylinders, or for any other
hydraulic purposes, but more especially in connexion with water meters of
any description.

page_text: box; F, G, the slide or slot motion; II, valve box; J, hollow disc valve;
K, faced seat for the valve; L, L, L, ports or passages; M, delivery pipe';
N, inlet pipe from main or reservoir; O, O, quadrant catches; R, valve rod;
S, camb for the purpose of releasing the catches; W, a small. tube inserted in
the side of the cylinder between the cup leathers or packing; X, screw, which
being removed; shews if there is any leakage in the packing; a, a, index.