Improvements in Indices for Gas and other Meters.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 14th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Indices for Gas and other Meters.
We, WILLIAM DEIGHTON of Petergate Harrogate, Plumber and THOMAS
WRIGHT, of Lamberts Yard, Briggate, Leeds, Gas Meter Manufacturer, both in
the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our improvements have reference to the construction of indices for gas and
other meters and consist of an arrangement whereby not only may the amount of
gas or other liquid consumed be ascertained but also the price of the same.
The improvements consist in using the ordinary wheel gearing in a meter to
not only indicate the cubical amount of gas or liquid used, but also the price of
the same.
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For the above purpose we proceed as follows. For instance on the spindle or
shaft representing the hundreds of cubic feet, we employ a large and outer circle
which is marked all round giving the price. On the same spindle having a hand
denoting the amount of cubic feet, we provide a longer hand which points to the
money value.
When any change in price takes place, the prices on the dial plates have to be
altered to suit.
Dated this 21+ 1 of Amil 1001
J. W. HARDING,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Indices for Gas and other Meters.
We, WILLIAM DEIGHTON of Petergate, Harrogate, Plumber, and THOMAS
WRIGHT of Lambert's Yard Briggate, Leeds, both 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 :-
This invention has reference to indices for gas and other meters and is designed
to enable both the amount of gas or other fluid consumed and also the price thereof
to be seen at a glance, the registering of the quantity and of the value being effected
by the same train of wheels.
For this purpose around the spindle or shaft of the pointer for registering
hundreds of cubic feet we provide a large outer circle in addition to and concentric
with that divided to represent the hundreds of feet, this outer circle having prices
marked thereon representing the value of the gas consumed.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a dial for a gas meter having
the circular scales or circles representing the quantities of gas consumed arranged
in the ordinary manner. Around the hundreds" circle A is provided the large
outer circle B on which in a radial line with the 0 on the "hundreds" circle is
marked the price per thousand cubic feet of the gas, in this case assumed to be

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three shillings while around the circle B are marked fractions of this sum the
fraction gradually increasing in value as shewn and the space between the fractions
being divided off to indicate intermediate values. The "hundreds" pointer C is
made sufficiently long to extend over both circles A and B and the circles are so
graduated that the value indicated by the pointer on the outer circle corresponds
with the quantity on the inner circle.
In some instances as for instance in the dials of wet gas meters the circle 13 may
be made of such size as to pass between the thousands and the ten thousands
circles as shewn more clearly in Fig. 2 the pointer C being lengthened corre-
spondingly.
Fig. 3 represents a convenient form of dial for indicating the value of the gas
consumed up to ten thousand cubic feet. In this case the pointer D on the spindle
of the thousands circle E is prolonged sufficiently to extend over the circle B¹
which encloses all three circles and the price of ten thousand cubic feet-in this
case supposed to be thirty shillings-is placed in line with the O on the circle.
The aforesaid circle B₁ is graduated from 1 up to 30 as shewn, the division
representing shillings and shewing the value of the amount of gas represented on
the circle E. With this arrangement the hundreds circle A. (Fig. 3) may be
surrounded by a circle B graduated to represent the corresponding values after
the manner of the corresponding parts in the arrangement shewn in Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we are aware
that it has heretofore been proposed to use in connection with a gas meter index
means for indicating both the quantity and the value of the gas consumed, we
therefore make no general claim for such invention, but what we claim is :—
1. In a meter index, concentric circles, one marked to shew quantity of gas or
other fluid, the other marked to shew the price or value of gas or other fluid con-
sumed, and a finger or pointer arranged to extend over both circles so as to shew
at a glance both the quantity consumed and the price to be paid for that quantity
as hereinabove described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 14th day of January 1892.
WILLIAM DEIGHTON.
THOMAS WRIGHT.