A Quantity Registering Tap and Indicator.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1890-Accepted, 30th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Quantity Registering Tap and Indicator.
CHARLES LOTINGA 60 Salisbury Road Cardiff Ships Steward do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed for the purpose of registering the quantity of liquids
drawn off from casks tanks, jars or any other utensil.
The said invention is designed more particularly for use in hotels-bars,―wine &
spirit vaults, by wine and spirit merchants or by oil merchants, or other persons, or
in any trade, where the necessity for measuring liquids is called for.
The invention consists of a tap made of brass, copper, gun metal block tin, or other
suitable material.
Within the tap is a revolving wheel or worm; the revolutions made by this wheel
or worm is caused by the liquid passing through the said tap which is supplied through
an apperture in the stem of the tap; the liquid running into the revolving wheel or
worm; the number of revolutions indicating the quantity passed being registered on
a disc, and by the means of multiplying wheels and hands showing.thereon, half
noggins, noggins, half pints, pints quarts and gallons etc. or other measures if required;
according to the nature of the trade in which it is required to be used.
The self locking arrangement is also claimed as an important feature in this inven-
tion, it being designed, to prevent any attendant or unauthorized person opening the
said indicator-dial cover, or admit of their tampering with same, and until the
utensil, into which the tap is fixed, is empty or practically so, the tap is immovable,
likewise the dial cover and indicator, which is a security against the register being
feloniously dealt with. An arrangement is made as will be shown on a drawing by
which a fixing piece, (which falls into a recess provided for the purpose attached to
the lid of the indicator) is inserted simultaneously with the bush carrying the wheel
or worm within the tap referred to. To open the indicator lid it would be necessary
to remove the bush and as the removal of the bush would allow the contents of the
vessel into which the tap would be fixed to escape, thus the indicator is safe against
any interference or alteration until the removal of the tap from the vessel or cask &
by this arrangement the tap and indicator are practically if not absolutely safe against
unauthorized persons altering the indicator or attendants cheating their employer.
The indicator can either be placed on the side of the tap, with handle for turning
on or off on the opposite side, or the indicator can be placed on the top with the
handle underneath, in which case a worm similar to a turbine is used to measure the
quantity passed through the tap-which is duly registered on the indicator (as before
explained).
DU 11
L 1
A 1000
W. COOPER PENN,
Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Quantity Registering Tap and Indicator.
CHARLES LOTINGA 60 Salisbury Road Cardiff 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 is designed for the purpose of registering the quantity of liquid
drawn from casks, tanks, jars or any other vessel and is more particularly designed
for use in hotels, bars wine and spirit vaults-or by wine and spirit merchants, oil

page_text: merchants, or other persons or in any trade or business where the necessity for
measuring liquids is required.
The invention consists of a tap made of brass copper gun-metal block tin or other
suitable material..
Within the tap is a revolving wheel or worm; the revolutions made by this wheel
or worm is caused by the liquid passing through the said tap which is supplied through
an aperture in the stem of the tap and running into the revolving wheel or worm ;
the number of revolutions indicating the quantity passed and registering same on a
dial by means of multiplying wheels and hands, and made adaptable to suit any
measurements, such as half noggins, noggins, half pints, pints, quarts, gallons, etc.;
or any other measure required, suitable to the trade in which the tap is wanted to
be used.
The self locking arrangement is also an important feature in this invention, it
being designed to prevent any attendant or unauthorized person opening same or the
indicator dial cover; or admit of their tampering with same, as the tap is immovable
until the vessel into which the tap is fixed is empty; thus, preventing the register
being feloniously dealt with. An arrangement is made by which the fixing piece
(which falls into a recess provided for the purpose attached to the indicator) is
inserted simultaneously with the bush carrying the wheel or worm within the tap
referred to. To extract the said bush for the purpose of opening the indicator lid,
would have as serious a result as pulling the tap out of the vessel of liquor in which
the tap had been inserted, as it would probably cause a serious loss of the contents as
it could not be replaced without taking the tap out to refix the indicator lid―by this
arrangement therefore this tap and indicator combined are practically if not absolutely
safe against unauthorized persons altering the indicator or cheating their employers
and the attendants from meddling with it.
The indicator must either be placed on the side of the tap with the handle for
turning on or off on the opposite side, or the indicator can be placed on the top
with the handle underneath in which latter case a worm similar in construction to
a turbine is used to indicate the quantity passed through the tap and duly registered
as before explained, on the indicator or register.
And in order that the invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.
Figure 1. is the outside view of the tap; A. being the main portion of the tap
B. the indicator or register C. the handle for turning on or off.
Figure 2. is a sectional view of the complete tap, A being the main portion of the
tap partly in section, B. the indicator or register. C the handle for turning on or off.
D the rotator which revolves as the liquid passes from the vessel, in which the tap is
fixed, through the tap, transmitting the motion by the spindle E to the multiplying
wheels F to which are attached hands, which indicate on a dial the quantity drawn
off. G is the lid with glass top securely fastened in same, to which the self locking
arrangement is attached, the clip of which is passed through a slot in the dial the
☐ piece dropping into a recess in the bush H. The bush being in two parts, the lower
portion H¹ being screwed on to the portion marked H as shown & receiving the point
of the spindle on which the rotator D is fixed. The handle C being held securely by
the screw I on to the square projection of H¹.
Figure 3. biddy of tap.
Figure 4. opposite view of biddy.

page_text: Figure 11. view of handle from underneath.
Figure 12. screw for fixing same to tap, and
Figure 13. being the side view of handle.
Figure 14. rotator side view.
Figure 15. ditto front view with spindle.
Figure 16. F register, dotted lines denoting multiplying wheels beneath. G lid &
glass top. O. catch, referred to in description of Figure 7. P. aperture through
which catch passes and drops into recess N provided in boss, as also shown in
Figure 7.
Figure 17. side view of same.
Figure 18. F dial and indicator Q, to show quantity drawn off, the same to be
provided to measure such quantities as required by the trade for which the tap may
from time to time be designed-viz. beer, spirits, oils &c. &c.
Having now fully described the nature and object of the invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed I claim as new and novel the following
1. The arrangement of the mechanism by which the tap becomes self indicating
and self regestering as substantially set forth.
2. The use of the self locking attachment as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this Third day of June One thousand eight hundred and ninety.
W. COOPER PENN,
Of 134, Norwood Road, West Norwood, London,
and of Princes Chambers, Cardiff,
For the Applicant, Charles Lotinga.