Improvements in Vessels for Measuring Liquids and Filling the same into Bottles or other Vessels.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vessels for Measuring Liquids and Filling the
same into Bottles or other Vessels.
I, FRANK ROSE, of 16, Glen Street, Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian,
North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows, that is to say :-
My said invention consists in making an improved vessel which can be con
veniently used for measuring liquids of any kind and for filling the same into
bottles or the like.
My improved measurer, made with or without a handle, is wholly or partly of a
vertical cylindrical form or of any other convenient shape. The bottom of the
upper part, forming the measuring capacity, is a short distance above the bottom of
the vessel; and in the lower part there is fitted a nozzle communicating with the
measuring part, but which is fitted with a small valve opening upwards, but by
preference covered by a perforated diaphragm a little above the bottom. The stem
of the valve extends downwards and has fixed on it a small crosshead which extends
through diametrically opposite slots in the nozzle. When the nozzle is entered into
the neck of a bottle the neck acts on the crosshead and lifts the valve, allowing
liquid that may have been measured into the upper part to flow into the bottle.
The vessel can also be used as an ordinary filler without measuring separate fillings
of the upper part. A spring may be applied to the valve to insure its closing when
the nozzle is withdrawn from the bottle neck. One or more openings may be
formed in the lower part, or it may consist of mere legs, so that the user can see
when entering the nozzle into the bottle neck; or spring or other guides may be
arranged within the lower part to guide the nozzle into a bottle neck.
Dated this Seventeenth day of December 1895
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in Vessels for Measuring Liquids and Filling the
same into Bottles or other Vessels.
1, FRANK ROSE, of 16 Glen Street, Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian,
North Britain, Engineer, 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, that is to say :—
My said invention consists in making an improved vessel which can be con-
veniently used for measuring liquids of any kind and for filling the same into
bottles or the like.
My improved measuring vessel is made partly or wholly of a vertical cylindrical
form and with a division or bottom to which there is fixed a depending central
nozzle fitted with a valve opening upwards. The valve has a depending spindle
made with a crosshead fitted to work in guide grooves in the nozzle. If the nozzle

page_text: of the vessel be entered into the neck of a bottle, the valve will be lifted by the
action of the bottle neck upon the spindle crosshead, and liquid contained in the
vessel will escape into the bottle.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings,
to be hereinafter referred to, and showing examples of my improved measuring
vessel.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a vertical section. Figure, 2, is an elevation.
Figure, 3, is a sectional elevation.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
My improved measurer, A, made with or without a handle, B, is shown as partly
of a vertical cylindrical form, but may be of any other convenient shape. The
bottom, C, of the upper part, forming the measuring capacity is a short distance
above the bottom of the vessel; and in the lower part there is fixed a nozzle, D,
communicating with the measuring part, but which is fitted with a small valve, E,
opening upwards, but by preference covered by a perforated diaphragm, G, a little
above the bottom, C. The stem, H, of the valve, E, extends downwards and has
fixed on it a small crosshead, J, which extends through diametrically opposite slots
in the nozzle, D, and is made with return legs, K, parallel to the valve stem, H,
and working in vertical grooves in the nozzle, these legs being also made with
lateral projections, L, at their upper parts. When the nozzle, D, is entered into
the neck, M, of a bottle, the action of the neck, on the projections, L; which are
part of the crosshead, lifts the valve, E, which is kept in its seat by a helical
spring, N, arranged between it and the diaphragm, G, and liquid that may have
been measured into the upper part of the vessel, A, flows into the bottle. The
spring, N, applied to the valve, E, insures the valve closing when the nozzle is
withdrawn from the bottle neck, M. The vessel, A, can be also used as an
ordinary filler without measuring separate fillings in the upper part. One or more
openings may be formed in the lower part as indicated by the dotted lines, P, in
Figure, 1, or it may consist of mere legs, Q, as shown in Figure, 2, so that the user
can see when entering the nozzle, D, into the bottle neck, M. Spring or other
guides, R, may as shown in Figure, 3, be arranged within the lower part to guide
the nozzle, D, into a bottle neck, M.
The vessel, A, may be made of metal, glass, or any other suitable material, and
may have a graduated scale, S, marked on it, as shown in Figure, 3, when made
wholly or partly of a transparent material. By means of the graduated scale, S,
part of the contents of the vessel can be discharged with great accuracy such as is
required when dealing with medicines or chemicals.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A vessel for measuring liquids and filling the same into bottles or other vessels,
made with a nozzle having a valve arranged to open on inserting and close on
removing the nozzle into and from a bottle neck or the like substantially as
herein before described.
Dated this Seventeenth day of July 1896.
EDMUND HUNT;
Applicant's Agent.