Improvements in Apparatus for Controlling, Mixing, Measuring, and Recording the Flow of Liquids.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Controlling, Mixing, Measuring, and
Recording the Flow of Liquids.
I, HENRY SUTCLIFFE, of the firm of Wright Sutcliffe & Son, Brass Founders,
Adelaide Street, Halifax, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved appliances for purposes aforesaid and comprises
a combination of two or more taps for controlling, mixing, measuring, and recording
the flow of liquids, working or geared together by two ordinary wheels which are
operated upon by a handle or lever attached to the plug of the tap. The handle is
made of sufficient weight to bring itself back into proper position after being
operated upon; or the apparatus may be worked with a wheel only in the ordinary
way.
On the spindle of one tap is a catch wheel divided into as many parts as may be
required to operate the spindle of the tap so that when the handle is lifted up to open
the tap, after its release it falls down by its own weight and closes the tap or taps.
The lever that operates the tap or taps, upon which the handle is fixed has a disc or
small lever upon which is fixed a catch for operating the tap or taps.
This invention also comprises a tap or taps having inlet and outlet ways as
described in my specification number 2303-1886.
The improvements consist in forming the plug of the tap or taps with port holes
corresponding with the outlet holes of the body of the tap or taps and not cutting
away the plug in order to bring the port ways into communication.
By coring the plug of the tap or taps the openings are made to correspond exactly
with the outlets or of the inlets of the body part of the tap or taps thus making a
better covering of the port ways and preventing leakage.
The plug of the tap or taps, in order to ensure a perfect record of the liquor with-
drawn, has a toothed wheel fixed upon it, which wheel also has a ratchet or catch
wheel on its upper surface.
There is a corresponding small spring pressed or weighted wheel with ratchet
teeth which works in the slides of the body of the tap (or taps) thereby preventing
its being turned only in one direction.
On the body of the tap or taps is fixed a mounting upon which is fitted a case to
receive the counter and which receives a toothed wheel which when fitted to the tap
or taps is in connection with the wheel on the plug of the tap (or taps) which
controls the flow of the liquid thus producing a perfect record of the quantity of
liquid withdrawn.
Dated this Fifteenth day of February One thousand eight hundred and eighty-
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Controlling, Mixing, Measuring, and
Recording the Flow of Liquids.
I HENRY SUTCLIFFE of the firm..of Wright Sutcliffe & Son, Brass Founders,
Adelaide Street Halifax in the County of York 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 :-
In order that my invention may be more fully understood I append the following

page_text: Z IS A Side elevation of 1g. 1.
Fig. 3 is an end elevation of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a side elevation. (partly in section) showing the recording or counting
apparatus with spring check for preventing the counter or checking apparatus being
turned backwards.
Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of spring check as shown at Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a plan view of Fig. 5 showing spring check.
Fig. 7 is an elevation of an improved plug.
Fig. 8 is a cross section on line A. B of Fig. 7.
This invention relates to improved appliances for purposes aforesaid, and com-
prises a combination of two or more taps 1. 1 for controlling, mixing, measuring
and recording the flow of liquids, working or geared together by two ordinary
wheels 2 and 3 which are operated upon by a handle or lever 4 attached to the plug
of the tap. The handle is made of sufficient weight to bring itself back into proper
position after being operated upon; or the apparatus may be worked with a wheel
only in the ordinary way.
On the spindle of one tap is a catch wheel 5 divided into as many parts as may
be required to operate the spindle of the tap so that when the handle 4, is lifted up
to open the tap, after its release it falls down by its own weight & closes the tap or
taps. The lever that operates the tap or taps upon which the handle is fixed, has a.
disc 6 or small lever, upon which is fixed a catch 7 for operating the tap or taps.
This invention also comprises an improved plug for tap 8 or taps 1. 1 having
inlet and outlets ways 9. 9. The tap 8 Fig. 4 Sheet 4 is more fully described in my
specification No. 2303 1886.
The improvements consist in forming the plug, 10, (Figs. 7 & 8) of the tap or
taps with port holes 11. 11. corresponding with the outlet holes 12. 12. (see Fig. 8
Sheet 4) of the body of the tap or taps, and not cutting away the plug in order to
bring the port ways into communication.
By coring the plug 10 of the tap or taps, the openings 11. 11. are made to
correspond exactly with the outlets 12. 12. and with the inlets of the body part
of the tap or taps, thus making a better covering of the port ways and preventing
leakage.
The plug of the tap or taps (in order to ensure a perfect record of the liquor
withdrawn) has a toothed wheel 13 fixed upon it, which wheel also has a ratchet or
catch wheel 14 on its upper surface. There is a corresponding small spring-pressed
or weighted wheel 15 with ratchet teeth, which works in the slides 16 of the body
of the tap as shown at Fig. 6 Sheet 4 thereby preventing its being turned only in
one direction. On the body of the tap is fixed a mounting 17 upon which is fitted
a case 18 to receive the counter 19. and which receives a toothed wheel 20 which
when fitted to the tap is in connection with the wheel 13 on the plug of the tap
which controls the flow of the liquid, thus producing a perfect record of the quantity
of liquid withdrawn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that: what I
claim is::
1st. The combination of two or more taps for controlling, mixing, measuring,
and recording the flow of liquids for purposes substantially as herein set forth.
2nd. The improved apparatus in combination with recorder as shown on Sheet 4.
Figs. 4. 5. and 6. for purposes substantially as herein set forth.
3rd. The improved plug as shown on Sheet 4 Figs. 7 and 8 for purposes sub-
stantially as herein set forth.
Dated th: tul
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1000
HENRY SUTCLIFFE.