Improvements in Apparatus for Dispensing Measured Quantities of Liquor.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Dispensing Measured Quantities
of Liquor.
I, ALFRED JARAY, of No. 7, Torrington Square, in the County of London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for rapidly dispensing measured quantities
of liquor and, if desired, registering the number of the quantities dispensed.
For this purpose I provide two vessels of known capacity, preferably of glass
so that their contents may be seen, and I connect ports on their upper and lower
ends with rotary slide valves or plugs like those of stop cocks, these valves or
plugs having passages connected, the upper to a pipe supplying liquor and the
lower to a pipe for discharging liquor.
In one position of the valves or plugs, the one vessel is filled and the other is
emptied, on turning the valves or plugs half round, the vessel that was empty is
filled and that which was filled is emptied, and so on alternately, each half turn
of the valves or plugs dispensing one measure of liquor. The valves or plugs
being connected to a suitable counter, the number of their half turns can be
registered, the quantities of liquor dispensed being thus recorded.
As there is one of the vessels always full, no time is required for filling the
measure when it has to be dispensed. Each vessel is provided with a valve for
letting air out when it is filled and letting air in when it is emptied, these valves
being closed when they are floated up by the liquor.
Dated this 27th day of April 1898
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Dispensing Measured Quantities
of Liquor.
I, ALFRED JARAY, of No. 7, Torrington Square, in the County of London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for dispensing measured quantities of liquor,
which quantities may be registered as I shall describe referring to the
accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section, Fig. 2 is a side view and Fig. 3 is a plan on
the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 shewing one form of apparatus according to my invention.

page_text: Fig. 4 is a vertical section and Fig. 5 is a side view of a modified form of
the apparatus provided with a registering counter.
Referring first to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, ab are two vessels of known capacity,
preferably of glass to shew the liquor inside. Above them is a, rotary, slide valve
or disc which has a hole through it connected by a branch d to the interior of
a plug e, this interior being in constant communication with a supply pipe f.
Below the vessels ab there is also a rotary slide valve connected by a
spindle to the upper slide valve c, this disc has also a hole through it leading
to a discharge i, this hole being diametrically opposite to the hole in c. The
upper and lower covers of the vessels ab have, holes with which the holes of the
discs cg coincide as they are turned, and the disc c has through it an aperture j
provided with a float valve which opens to allow escape of air when the vessel is
being filled. It has also through it a hole which allows air to enter when the
vessel is being emptied.
In the position shewn in Fig. 1. the vessel is full and is empty. On
turning the plug e half round by a handle i so as to invert the position of the
discs cg, the vessel b is filled while a empties itself.
of the plug e, a measure of liquor, is dispensed.
Thus for every half turn
In the modified form shewn in Figs. 4 and 5 in which parts corresponding
to those in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are marked by like letters, instead of disc valves
there are two connected plugs mn like those of a stop cock, and, these are turned
half round by pushing a rod o in opposition to a spring, this rod having on it
rack teeth engaging with a pinion ? which is free to turn on the spindle h. On
the pinion is fixed a ratchet wheel engaged by a spring pawl mounted upon
a disc q. This disc is connected to the lowest of a series of superposed counter
rings of known kind each figured on its circumference with numerals from
0 to 9 and provided with the usual appliance for carrying, each on making
complete revolution causing the next above it to turn one division. The lowest
ring is turned one division by each half revolution of the disc q
a
The counter rings r are enclosed within a cylindrical casing having an opening
in front through which the numerals can be seen. The rod o moves between
stops such a distance that when it is pushed home in opposition to the spring it
causes the pinion p to make half a revolution. Each of the vessels ab has
at the top a float valve s, t, which hangs open for allowing air to issue until it
is closed by the liquor floating it up to its seat.
.
The rod o is caused to make its backstroke by the spring turning the pinion
backwards, but owing to the pawl on the disc 7 slipping on the ratchet, the
plugs are not turned back.
of this
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. Apparatus for dispensing measured quantities of liquor, constructed and
operating, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the
drawings.
2. Apparatus for dispensing and registering measured quantities of liquor
constructed and operating substantially as described with reference to Figs. 4 and 5.
Dated this 25th day of January 1899.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.