IMPROVEMENTS IN FAUCETS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LIQUIDS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Levi Lincoln Tower, of the State of Massachusetts,
of the United States of America, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FAUCETS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LIQUIDS."-A communication
by Arthur Gates Wilson, late of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, but
now resident at New York, in the State of New York, of the said United
States.
Sealed the 16th June 1868, and dated the 20th December 1867.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Levi Lincoln Tower at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 20th December 1867, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent
Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME, BE IT
KNOWN, that I, LEVI LINCOLN TOWER, of the State of Massachusetts, of the
United States of America, have become possessed of an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FAUCETS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LIQUIDS," (such
Invention has been communicated to me by Arthur Gates Wilson, late of
Chicago, in the State of Illinois, but now resident at New York, in the State
of New York, of the said United States,) and I do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention and the manner in which it is to be performed to be

page_text: fully set forth and described in the following Specification, and represented
in the accompanying Drawings:-
The nature of the said Invention consists in a faucet and a measuring vessel
or funnel so combined and constructed that when the faucet is inserted in a
vessel or barrel for the purpose of extracting a liquid therefrom such liquid
by the key, plug, or valve of the faucet being turned may be caused to either
run into the measuring vessel or be discharged therefrom through the faucet,
the
purpose being to first let into the measuring vessel any desirable quantity of
such liquid, and next to arrest the flowage of it into such vessel and discharge
it by means of the faucet.
And the nature of the Invention further consists in the combination and
arrangement of a deflector with the measuring vessel and the faucet, such
deflector being to prevent the liquid while entering the funnel or measuring
vessel from being thrown out of or above it by the head or pressure of liquid
in the vessel from which such liquid may be extracted.
And the nature of the said Invention further consists in a peculiar arrange-
ment of the measuring vessel, the faucet, and its eduction tube, the same
being in order to bring the top of the measuring vessel down to or about to
the level of the inner surface of the bottom of a barrel or vessel to which the
combined faucet and measuring vessel may be applied, thereby enabling all
the liquid contents of the vessel to be extracted from it.
The main purpose of the Invention is the measurement of a liquid during
its discharge from a vessel through a faucet, and prior to its discharge from
the said faucet by its main eduction passage.
Of the Drawings above mentioned Figure 1 exhibits a vertical section, and
Figure 2 a top view of the Invention or combined faucet or cock and
measuring funnel or vessel; Figure 3 is a perspective view of the key or plug
of the faucet.
In such Drawings A denotes the faucet, and B the measuring vessel or
funnel; C is the key or plug, and D the induction tube, and E tho educt
of the faucet. The deflector is represented at F, as placed in the lower part
of the conical measuring vessel or funnel, and over the opening a which leads
into it from the body of the faucet. The said deflector is a concavo-convex
cone supported within the vessel B by means of a series of arms d, d, d,
extended from one to the other. The plug passage of the faucet I usually
make laterally and horizontally through it, it being shown at e, and I open
into such the induction pipe D and also the educt E, the same being in
manner as represented in Figure 1. There also opens out of the plug chamber

page_text: or passage, and directly between the said two inducts and educts thereof a
passage a leading into the measuring funnel B which is to be screwed or
otherwise properly fixed on the body of the faucet. This measuring funnel
is a conical or other proper shaped vessel having marks or grooves m, m, m,
or other proper equivalents on its inner surface and at different altitudes
thereof in order to indicate the measure or amount of liquid which may be in
the vessel when at the level of either of such marks or devices. The key or
plug of the faucet is made with a chamber G provided with two openings b, c,
leading from it in manner as represented in Figure 1, these openings being
in the plane of the axes of the induct and educt of the faucet body. On
turning the plug of the faucet the discharging passage of the faucet may be
closed and communication be opened between the measuring funnel and the
induction pipe, and by again turning the plug such communication may be
cut off, and communication between the funnel and the discharging pipe of the
faucet be opened. In this way when the Invention is applied to a cask or
vessel liquid therefrom by turning the plug of the faucet and by the head
or pressure of the liquid in the vessel may be caused to flow into the
mensuring funnel, and after such liquid may have attained a desirable altitude
therein the further flowage of such liquid may be arrested by turning the
plug or key. By still further turning such plug or key the liquid in the
funnel may be discharged therefrom through the faucet and into any vessel
placed beneath or below it.
This valuable Invention has important advantages over most if not all
ordinary means of measuring liquids while being drawn from a vessel.
The liquid in passing into the funnel will strike against the deflector, and by
it will be deflected laterally or in the directions indicated by the arrows in
Figure 1.
I do not intend to limit my Invention to the exact forms or proportions of
its parts as set forth and as represented in the Drawings, as others may be
adopted so long as the principles of the Invention are maintained or not
materially varied.
I claim as the said Invention the following, viz.,-—
The combination as well as the arrangement, substantially as described, of
the faucet and the measuring vessel.
Also, the combination as well as the arrangement, substantially as described,
of the faucet, the measuring vessel, and deflector.
Also, the arrangement, substantially as described, of the faucet, the
measuring vessel, and the induction tube of the faucet, the upper part of

page_text: such tube under such arrangement being on or about on a level with the top
of the measuring vessel.
In witness whereof, I, the said Levi Lincoln Tower, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this 29th November, 1867.
LEVI LINCOLN TOWER. (L.S.)