A NEW SIPHON METER FOR LIQUIDS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jozé Luis, of the British and Foreign Office for
Patents, No. 1", Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW
SIPHON METER FOR LIQUIDS." -A communication from abroad by A.
Grenet, of No. 10, Rue Mogador, Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 9th December 1859, and dated the 16th June 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jozé Luis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th June 1859.
I, JOZE LUIS, of the British and Foreign Office for Patents, No. 1", Welbeck
Street, Cavendish Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
SIPHON METER FOR LIQUIDS," & that it has been communicated to me from
abroad by A. Grenet, of No. 10, Rue Mogador, Paris, in the Empire of
France, to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to measure liquids as they pass from one
vessel to another without having recourse to the ordinary means of emptying.
The advantages to be derived are,-
1st. A perfect exactness in the measuring.
2nd. The prevention of fraud or mistake in the annotation of the quantities.
3rd. Decrease in the number of workmen required.

page_text: 4th. The rendering unnecessary the great attention required in a long and
confusing operation.
5th. To shorten the time of emptying, as by means of the siphon meter the
liquid passes direct from one vessel to another.
6th. Spilling the liquid is entirely avoided.
7th. To prevent evaporation which only deteriorates the liquid.
8th. The men are no longer exposed to the serious illnesses resulting
especially from the fumes of alcohol.
The machine when wound up works alone, measuring the liquids, and
showing on its dial the quantities as they pass through.
It is composed of two parts, which may be called the principal and acces-
sory apparatus. The accessory part is but an ordinary siphon, and this is
only necessary when the liquid is moved from one barrel to another, but
entirely useless when the empty barrel can be placed beneath the tap of the
cask to be emptied.
The principal apparatus or part invented is composed of a cylinder
(3, Fig. 4), divided inside by a sloping partition into two recipients (1, Fig. 2),
perfectly equal in size. Each of these recipients contains two gallons, and is
furnished with an opening, one opposite to the other (3, Fig. 2). It is by
these openings that the liquid enters and passes out, introduced by a tube
(1, Fig. 1, 3, 4). This tube is furnished at its lower end with a disk
(3, Fig. 3), opening in the centre, sliding on a circular hoop of the cylinder
(2, Fig. 3), and pressed to this hoop by a spring (4, Fig. 3), resting on a
square plate (4, Fig. 4), being part of the framework of the apparatus. The
disk is thus pressed on the circular hoop to prevent the liquid from filtering
beneath the edges, and again, as greater security, this opening of the tube
above-mentioned is furnished level with the disk with a valve which closes at
the first movement of the emptying, being pressed by the edge of the opening
of the cylinder, and opening as soon as it comes above this opening. The tube
above-mentioned being in diameter slightly less than the opening of each
receiver, facilitates the working of the valve, and the size of the outlets
permits the emptying of, the receptacles in a shorter time than it takes to fill
them. It has already been remarked that the liquid enters by the upper
opening and goes out at it when it comes to the bottom by the cylinder turning
half round. The upper part of each receptacle corresponding with the
openings is furnished inside with a tympan (4, Fig. 2), in which rises and
falls a metal float (5, Fig. 2), according as the receptacle emptics or
fills. This float is furnished with a rod (6, Fig. 2), passing through the
mantle of the receptacle.

page_text: When one of the recipients is full the rod of the float raises one of the
palets (6, Fig. 4), adapted to moveable transmitting bar (8, Fig. 4); this bar
is furnished at one of its ends with a hook (9, Fig. 4) holding or letting free,
according as it rises or falls, a fan wheel (10, Fig. 4), the spring of the clock-
work adapted to the fan wheel, causes the cylinder to turn by means of cog-
work on the pinion (13, Fig. 4, & 7, Fig. 2), of the central shaft. The hook is
raised during the time the cylinder empties half as the pallet then slides along
a pad (7, Fig. 4), encircling the cylinder; it sinks by its own weight when it
meets with one of the notches made in the pad at the level of the holes where
the rod of the float passes, and it is during this the springs (12, Fig. 4), cause
the wheels of the dial to move (4, Fig. 5).
The dial (5, Fig. 5), which is visible even when the machine is enclosed in its
box (Fig. 1), shows the number of half-emptyings, that is to say, the number
of gallons which have run through. To suit the requirements of trade it
would be easy to have the quantity of liquid introduced in the receptacle
marked in smaller measure than that of two gallons, by arranging cylinders of
glass or crystal on which the measures could be marked.
It may be remarked that the pallet and hook weigh scarcely more than
3. dwts., and the float of the receptacle has a power of about 12 dwt. The
hook which acts as brake to the clockwork would not have the power to stop
its movement, represented by a power of more than 20 lbs, if it had not a
vertical action, but as it stops the fan wheel horizontally, more than ten times
the same amount would be required for either to break.
At each half turn of the cylinder the liquid runs out by where it has entered,
and is received in a metal funnel adapted to the box in which the machine is
fixed. This funnel ends in a tube (2, Fig. 4), which must communicate with
the cask, &c., to be filled.
It will be easily seen from what has been said that while one of the
receptacles empties the other fills, thus causing no loss in time; as the liquid
runs into one of the receptacles, the air, whose place is taken, is driven out at
a little opening situate at the most sloping part of the cylinder. When the
cylinder has made a half revolution the air pressing the liquid takes in its turn
the place of the liquid as the latter runs out by entering at another small
opening opposite the other; this last, by means of a key, is closed when at the
bottom, and open by the transverse bar of the framework when at the top.
The machine is wound up like other clockwork by means of a key (4, Fig. 1),
acting on the ratchet work, represented (1, Fig. 5); a bell is made to ring by
the same work when it is about to stop.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jozé Luis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th December 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JozÉ
LUIS, of the British and Foreign Office for Patents, No. 1, Welbeck Street,
Cavendish Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
"
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Jozé Luis, Her special licence that I, the said Jozé
Luis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Jozé Luis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain' and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW
SIPHON METER FOR LIQUIDS," (a communication from abroad by A. Grenet,
of No. 10, Rue Mogador, Paris, in the Empire of France,) upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Jozé Luis, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
'months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jozé Luis, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, 'to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
1. My Invention consists of an apparatus so constructed as to measure liquids
as they pass from one vessel to another, without recourse being had to the
ordinary means of emptying.
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The advantages to be derived are,-
1st. A perfect exactness in the measuring.
2nd. The prevention of fraud or mistake in the annotation of the quantities.
3d Decrease in the number of workmen required

page_text: a long and confusing operation.
5th. To shorten the time of emptying, as by means of the siphon meter the
liquid passes direct from one vessel to another.
6th. Spilling the liquid is entirely avoided.
7th. The prevention of an evaporation which would deteriorate the liquid.
8th. The men employed are no longer exposed to serious illnesses which
result especially from fumes of alcohol.
2
The machine when wound up works alone, measuring the liquids and
showing on its dial the quantities as they pass through.
It is composed of two parts, which may be called the principal and
accessory apparatus. The accessory part is simply an ordinary siphon, and is
only necessary when the liquid is moved from one barrel to another (placed so
as to require a siphon), but entirely useless when the empty barrel can be
placed beneath the tap of the cask to be emptied.
The principal apparatus is what I claim as my Invention, and is formed of
a cylinder (3, Fig. 4), divided inside by a sloping partition (2, Fig. 2, into two
perfectly equal receptacles. Each of these receptacles contains 2 gallons
(ordinary French measure), and is furnished with an opposite opening
(3, Fig. 2). It is by these openings that the liquid runs in and out; it enters
by the same tube (1, Figs. 1, 3, 4); this tube is furnished at its lower end
with a disc (3, Fig. 3), open in the centre, sliding on a circular hoop of the
cylinder (2, Fig. 3), and pressed to this hoop by a spring (4, Fig. 3), resting
on a square plate (4, Fig. 4), being part of the framework of the apparatus.
The disc is thus pressed on the circular hoop to prevent the liquid from filtering
beneath the edge, and again, as greater security, the opening of the tube
above-mentioned, is furnished, on a level with the disc, with a valve, which
closes at the first movement of the pouring out, being pressed by the edge of
the opening of the cylinder, and opening as soon as it comes above it. . The
tube above-mentioned being of a diameter slightly less than the opening of
each receiver facilitates the working of the valve, and the size of the opening
permits of the emptying of the receptacles in a shorter time than it takes to
fill them. It has been already remarked that the-liquid enters by the upper
opening and goes out by the same, when it has become the lower opening by a
half turn of the cylinder. The upper part of each receptacle corresponding
with the openings is furnished inside with a tympan (4, Fig. 2), in which rises
and falls a metal float (5, Fig. 2), according as the receptacle empties or fills.
This float is furnished with a rod (6, Fig. 2), passing through the mantels of
the receptacles.

page_text: When one of the receptacles is full the rod of the float raises one of the
pallets (6, Fig. 4), adapted to a movable transmitting bar (8, Fig. 4); this
bar is furnished at one end with a hook (9, Fig. 4); holding or letting free
according as it rises or falls a fly wheel (10, Fig. 4). The spring of the clock-
work adapted to the fly wheel, causes the cylinder to turn by means of cog-
work on the pinion (13, Fig. 4, & 7, Fig. 2), of the central shaft. The hook
is raised during the time the cylinder empties half, as the pallet then slides
along a band (7, Fig. 4), encircling the cylinder, and sinking of its own weight
when it meets with one of the notches made on the band at the level of the
holes where the rod of the floats passes through, and it is during this the
springs (12, Fig. 4), cause the wheels of the dial (4, Fig. 5), to move.
The dial (5, Fig. 5), which is visible even when the machine is enclosed in its
box (Fig. 1), shows the number of half emptyings, that is to say, the number
of gallons which have run through. It would be easy, according to the
requirements of trade, to have the quantity of liquid introduced in the
receptacles marked in smaller measure than that of 2 gallons, by arranging
cylinders of glass or crystal on which the measures could be marked.
It must be observed that the pallet and hook weigh scarcely more than
three dwts., and that the float of the receptacle has a power of about 12 dwts.,
the hook which acts as break to the clockwork would not have the power to
stop its movement, represented by a power of more than 20 lbs., if this had
not a vertical action, but as it stops the fly by seizing it horizontally, more
than 10 times the same amount would be requred for either to break.
At each half turn of the cylinder the liquid runs out by where it has entered
and is received in a funnel in metal or otherwise adapted to the box in which
is fixed the machine. This funnel ends in a tube (2, Fig. 4), which must
communicate with the cask, &c., to be filled.
It is easily seen, from what has been said, that while one of the receptacles
empties the other fills, thus causing no lost time. As the liquid runs by degrees
in one of the receptacles, the air, whose place is taken, is driven out at a little
opening situated at the most sloping part of the cylinder. When the cylinder
has half emptied, the air presses the liquid, and takes in its turn the place by
degrees as the liquid runs out, by entering at another little opening opposite
the first; this last can, by means of a key. (5, Fig. 4), be closed when at the
bottom, and opened by the transverse bar of the framework when at
the top.
The machine is wound up like other clockwork by means of a key
(4, Fig. 1), acting on the ratchit represented (1, Fig. 5); a bell is made to
ring by the same work when it is about to stop.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same may be carried out, I wish it to be clearly understood that I
do not confine myself to the precise details above stated, as they may be
varied or modified without departing from the principle; what I claim is
the system and arrangement of the apparatus, as above described and shown in
the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jozé Luis, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this 15th day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.