IMPROVEMENTS IN MEASURING OR METER TAPS AND VALVES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonathan Hurn Faulkner, of Brixton, in the
County of Surrey, and William Tatters, of 35, Patmore Street,
Battersea, in the said County, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jonathan Hurn
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Faulkner and William Tatters at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 17th April 1873.
We, JONATHAN HURN FAULKNER, of Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, and WILLIAM TATTERS, of 35, Patmore Street, Battersea, in
the said County, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEASURING OR METER TAPS AND VALVES," to be as
follows:-
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This Invention consists in the following arrangement applicable to-
taps and valves which are intended to measure or act as meters, namely,
in constructing a tap, having a plug in which there are two distinct
channels, one channel having its orifice at one point of the plug, and
the other channel its orifice at an opposite point of the plug, so that
when one channel is discharging the other is filling. This plug acts

page_text: in connexion with two distinct chambers, corresponding one to each
channel, each chamber being constructed of a capacity to contain only a
given amount of liquid or fluid. The valve acts in the same way, having
two faces. Thus this tap or valve acts as a measurer or meter of liquids
or fluids by filling and refilling the chambers aforesaid, which contain
only given quantities.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jonathan Hurn Faulkner and William Tatters in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th October 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JONATHAN
HURN FAULKNER, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, and WILLIAM
TATTERS, of 35, Patmore Street, Battersea, in the said County of Surrey,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Jonathan Hurn Faulkner and William
Tatters, Her special licence that we,, the said Jonathan Hurn Faulkner
and William Tatters, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Jonathan Hurn Faulkner and William Tatters,
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. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MEASURING OR METER. TAPS AND VALVES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we; the said Jonathan Hurn. Faulkner and William Tatters,.
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in 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
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 we, the said Jonathan Hurn Faulkner and
William Tatters, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained' in and' by the following statement :-
This Invention consists in the following arrangement applicable.to
taps and valves, which are intended to measure or act as meters, namely,
in constructing a tap having, a plug in which there are two distinct
channels, one channel' having its orifice at one point. of the plug, and
the other channel' it's orifice at an opposite point of the plug, so that
when one channel' is discharging, the other is filling. This plug acts in
connection with two distinct chambers, corresponding one to eacli
channel, each chamber being constructed of a capacity to contain only
a given amount of liquid or fluid. The valve acts in the same way,.
having two faces; thus this tap or valve acts as a measure or meter of
liquids or fluids by filling and refilling the chambers. aforesaid, which
contain only given quantities.
The foregoing, statements particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said. Invention, and indicate in what manner. the same is
to be performed or put in practice, and in- further compliance with the
condition in the said Letters Patent contained, we will now further and
particularly describe and ascertain in what manner the same is to be
performed or carried out in practice, by referring to the Drawings
accompanying these Presents.

page_text: is formed like an eccentric or cam to which is attached a rod M for
registering the number of times the valve is opened and liquid drawn off.
The cock shown in section in Fig. 3 will measure differential quan-
tities of any liquid or gas where varying degrees of admixture arc
required, which is to be reduced by any other liquid or gas, for instance,
over-proof spirit is required to be made under-proof or any given
strength by addition of water. This cock will admit a correct quantity
of the water to flow through one of the channels, while at the same
time the liquid or spirit with which admixture is required flows through
the other, the quantity being regulated by the amount of opening of
the channels. The same applies equally to gases, either admixture may
be in equal proportions, or otherwise, as may be required, if ¼ of one
kind of gas, and the other it will measure it out correctly and give the
required degree of admixture.
This cock or valve will also serve as a complete stop-cock where one
chamber or connection is required to be cut off, and not to be used, or
both connections, such form of cock being shown in Fig. 4, and in this
case the plug would be formed as in Fig. 3.
"
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of our Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed
or put in practice, we hereby declare that we claim the Invention of
improvements in measuring or meter taps and valves" as the same is
herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jonathan Hurn Faulkner and
William Tatters, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.
J. H. FAULKNER.
(L.S.)
W. TATTERS.
(L.S.)
Witness,
T. MORGAN,
Secretary, Inventors' Patent Right Assn.,
21, Cockspur Street,
S.W.
Limited.