A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS WITH LIQUIDS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugone Carloss, of Hackney Wick, in the County of
Middlesex, Chemist, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF
AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS WITH LIQUIDS."
0 Mar 1877
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugene Carless at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd March 1877.
EUGENE CARLESS, of Hackney Wick, in the County of Middlesex, Chemist.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING CASKS AND
OTHER VESSELS WITH LIQUIDS."
The primary object of my Invention is to provide means of indicating when
casks and other vessels are sufficiently filled with liquids, thus preventing the
overflow and waste of same.
A convenient way of carrying my Invention into effect is as follows:-According
to one arrangement, I provide a funnel-shaped vessel, or I take a funnel and form
apertures in the tube thereof, the base of the tube being closed; a vertical tube is
passed from the top of the funnel and through an aperture in the base of tube
thereof; and through the aforesaid tube I place a rod, carrying at its lower end a
float and at its upper end an indicator, and round that portion of the aforesaid tube
that is contained in the funnel I place another tube, at the bottom of which is
fitted a bung or valve so as to close the funnel when the cask or other vessel
is full by pressing down the tube and thereby forcing the bung into the base of the
funnel.
The action is as follows:-Liquid enters receptacle through the apertures in the
tube, and when the liquid touches the botton of the float it begins to rise, and with
it the rod, thus indicating that the receptacle is full; the tube with the bung is
then pressed down, thereby forcing the bung into the base of the funnel, and the
passage of the liquid to the receptacle is thus immediately arrested.
Automatic means may be employed for cutting off the supply by connecting to
the rod a series of levers for operating the bung, for which a valve may be substituted
Sanoid

page_text: Similar arrangements may, according to this Invention, be applied to a hose for
filling receptacles direct from tank.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Eugene Carless in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
September 1877.
EUGENE CARLESS, of Hackney Wick, in the County of Middlesex, Chemist.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING CASKS AND
OTHER VESSELS WITH LIQUIDS."
.
The primary object of my Invention is to provide means of indicating when
casks and other vessels are sufficiently filled with liquid, thus preventing the
overflow and waste of same.
A convenient way of carrying my Invention into effect is as follows:-According
to one arrangement, I provide a funnel-shaped vessel, or I take a funnel and form
apertures in the tube thereof, the base of the tube being closed. A vertical tube is
passed from the top of the funnel and through an aperture in the base of the tube
thereof; and through the aforesaid tube I place a rod carrying at its lower end a
float and at its upper end the indicator, which may be a ball.
Automatic means may be employed for cutting off the supply by connecting to
the rod a series of levers for operating the float.
Similar arrangements may, according to this Invention, be applied to a hose for
filling receptacles direct from the tank.
And in order to explain my said Invention more fully I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which,-
Figure 1 is a vertical section through a filling funnel, made according to this
Invention. A is the funnel; a forms the closed bottom thereof, and at c the funnel.
is open for the liquid to pass out. For this purpose the funnel proper is, for the
convenience of manufacture, in this case, united to the bottom a by two or more
bars or pieces of wire. To the bottom a is fixed a vertical tube B which passes up.
to the top of the funnel. Through this tube passes a rod b carrying at its lower
end a float D, which in this case for the better protection, is enclosed or guided in a
tube C. The funnel being inserted in the cask, the liquid poured into it passes out
at c in the direction of the arrows. When the cask is filled so far that the liquid
rises to the float D, the said ffloat ascends and gradually raises the indicator, and
when the indicator F ceases to rise, the operator knows that the cask is full, thus
preventing waste by overflow.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of a funnel of similar construction but fitted with
the aforesaid automatic arrangement for closing the bottom of the funnel when the
cask is full, at the same time also visibly indicating that such is the case. The
funnel is here shewn with several apertures at c, near the botton a. The vertical
tube B with internal rod b and float D, as before, is here fitted with a valve F
which serves to close the funnel below. The pipe B is moveable so as to slide up
and down, being guided at top and bottom. The rod b is connected to a lever é,
which, at the opposite side of its fulcrum by means of a rod j is connected to a bell
crank lever f, to which is jointed a rod g with a bolt or catch i taking in or under
a nose or notch hat the side of the vertical tube B. The liquid being poured into
the funnel and the valve E being in the raised position as here shewn, passes out
through the apertures at c in the direction of the arrows. When the cask is filled,
the float D rises (the air in the tube C escaping through the air holes ) and with
it the rod b, whereby, through the intervention of levers e, j, f, and q, the bolt i is
withdrawn from the nose, thereby causing the vertical tube B to drop, and the
valve E thereof then closes the bottom opening of the funnel, thus preventing the
overfilling of the cask.

page_text: The funnel may be graduated inside (say in gallons) so as to measure the quantity
of liquid that may be poured into the cask.
Figure 3 is a vertical section of a tube for filling direct from tank fitted with
similar outlet aperture or apertures c near the bottom a, which latter carrics a
vertical tube B with the internal rod b, carrying at its lower end the float D, and at
its other end the indicator F. The action is exactly the same as described with
reference to Figure 1.
And having thus described and ascertained the nature of this Invention and the
means of carrying the same into effect, I declare that I claim,-
The application of indicating appliances to funnels, tubes, and other vessels for
filling casks and other vessels with liquids, substantially as set forth.
Also in addition thereto, automatic means for closing the bottom of funnels or
other vessels for filling purposes, substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugene Carless, have hercunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.