Improved Apparatus for Measuring Liquids.
Year: 1895

page_text: Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Measuring Liquids.
We, ARTHUR HENRY RECKLESS, of Church Street, Ashbourne in the County
of Derby, Chemist, and WILLIAM DAVENPORT of Buxton Road, Ashbourne
aforesaid, Clockmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of our invention is to provide an improved apparatus for measuring off
any given quantity of liquid and prevent any undue waste thereof.
In carrying out our invention we provide a vessel preferably of glass or other
transparent substance marked off in any suitable manner and to contain any desired
quantity of liquid: from the bottom of this vessel there passes a tube leading to a
cock, the plug of which is so bored that in one position it allows the liquid to pass
from the main supply tank by any suitable pipe or conduit to the interior of the
measuring vessel, in another position it allows the liquid when measured to pass
from the measuring vessel by a suitable pipe or spout to any desired receptacle
underneath same, in another position the plug of the cock presents a blank surface
to both the inlet and outlet, between the two former positions, thus preventing
any liquid escaping and allowing the liquid to remain in the measuring vessel, if
desired, a short time before being passed out at the delivery pipe or spout. In
further carrying out our invention we form a square or other angular end to the
plug or otherwise fix thereon a washer so formed that notches or the like thereon
engage a spring stud or its equivalent fixed to the barrel or body of the cock and
thus stop the plug in any of the three before mentioned positions as may he
desired.
The above apparatus may be of any size and to coutain any required number of
different quantities and may be used for measuring any kind of liquid.
Thin a dreambay 1905
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicants.
Improved Apparatus for Measuring Liquids.
We, ARTHUR HENRY RECKLESS of Church Street, Ashbourne in the County
of Derby, Chemist, and WILLIAM DAVENPORT of Buxton Road, Ashbourne
aforesaid, Clockmaker, 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 :-
The object of our invention is to provide an improved apparatus for measuring off
any given quantity of liquid and prevent undue waste thereof.
In describing our invention reference will be had to the sheet of drawings
forming a part of this specification upon which :-
Figure 1 is a vertical section through our improved apparatus.
Figure 2 is a side elevation shewing part of said apparatus, as will be hereinafter
explained.

page_text: In carrying out our invention we provide a vessel A preferably of glass or
other transparent substance marked off in any suitable manner and to contain any
desired quantity of liquid: from the bottom of this vessel there passes a tube B
leading to a cock the plug C of which is so bored that in one position it allows the
liquid to pass from the main supply tank by any suitable pipe or conduit D to the
interior of the measuring vessel, it being shewn in full lines in this position on
the drawings; in another position it allows the liquid when measured to pass from
the measuring vessel by a suitable pipe or spout E to any desired receptacle
underneath same, the latter not being shewn upon the drawings; in another position
the plug of the cock presents a blank surface to both the inlet and outlet, between
the two before mentioned positions, thus preventing any liquid escaping and
allowing the said liquid to remain in the measuring vessel if desired a short time
before being passed out at the delivery pipe or spout, it is shewn in this position
by the dotted lines F on the drawing.
In further carrying out our invention we form a square or other angular end to
the plug or otherwise fix thereon a washer G (see Figure 2) so formed that
notches or the like thereon engage a spring stud or its equivalent H fixed to the
barrel or body of the cock or in other suitable position and thus stop the plug in
any of the three before mentioned positions as may be desired. Figure 2 shews
the position of the washer as it would be when the plug is in the position shewn
on Figure 1 when the plug presents blank surfaces to the different tubes the end
of the spring catch would engage the notch I, when the liquid is passing from the
measuring vessel out at the spout the spring catch or stud would engage the
notch K on the washer.
Although we have shewn upon Figure 1 a vessel only capable of measuring a
pint or less it will be understood that this is for the sake of illustration only and
that our invention may be applied to apparatuses of any desired size, which may
be graduated or divided off in any required manner either upwards or downwards
or both, according to the purpose for which it is used.
It will also be evident that the supply tube or conduit D may be of any length
or kind and fixed in any desired position in relation to the cock and measuring
vessel, and that any framework or other protection may be used around the
glass or other vessel and any suitable means be employed for fixing the apparatus
in any desired position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
In combination with a measuring vessel for liquids and a two way plug cock of
the type shewn, an indicating washer or the like on the end of the plug of the
said cock, notched to engage a spring catch or its equivalent to stop the said plug
in any of the three positions, substantially as and for the purposes described and
illustrated.
Dated this 8th day of August 1896
W. SWINDELL,
Imperial Chambers, Albert Street, Derby, Agent for the Applicants.