Improvements in or connected with Liquid Measures for Spirits and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Liquid Measures for Spirits
and the like.
We, ALFRED EMERSON JANES and HENRY ARTHUR RULE, Engineers, of Adding-
ton Works, Addington Square, in the County of London, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention for improvements in or connected with liquid measures for spirits
and the like relates to that class of measures in which a measure is suspended
below a tap from which it is filled and which when filled is tilted to empty the con-
tents, and has for its object to tilt the measure automatically. This invention
consists in connecting the pivoted measure to the tap in such manner that as the
tap is being turned off the measure is tilted and then resumes its normal position.
In one arrangement, a butt jointed arm is attached to the plug of the tap and
when the tap is turned on it passes over a curved arm fixed to the measure, the
joint being free to give in this direction. When the tap is turned off the jointed
arm comes at the latter part of its motion against the curved arm and tilts the
measure and finally passes beyond the arm when the measure assumes the normal
position by its own weight.
This mechanism may be modified in various ways without departing from the
nature of this invention, for example the measure may be tilted by a cam directly
connected to the plug of the tap, the tap always being turned in the same direc-
tion; or the tilting arm or cam may be geared to the plug; or the arms may be
replaced by a link connected to the measure at one end and working at the other
end in a cam race moving with the cock.
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WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in or connected with Liquid Measures for Spirits
and the like.
We, ALFRED EMERSON JANES and HENRY ARTHUR RULE, Engineers, of Adding-
ton Works, Addington Square, in the County of London, 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:-
This invention for improvements in or connected with liquid measures for spirits
and the like relates to that class of measure in which a measure is suspended below
a tap from which it is filled and which when filled is tilted to empty the contents,
and has for its object to tilt the measure automatically. This invention consists in
connecting the pivoted measure to the tap in such manner that as the tap is being
turned off the measure is tilted and then resumes its normal position.

page_text: In one arrangement, a butt jointed arm is attached to the plug of the tap and
when the tap is turned on it passes over a curved arm fixed to the measure, the
joint being free to give in this direction. When the tap is turned off the jointed
arm comes at the latter part of its motion against the curved arm and tilts the
measure and finally passes beyond the arm when the measure assumes the normal
position by its own weight.
This mechanism may be modified in various ways without departing from the
nature of this invention, for example the measure may be tilted by a cam directly
connected to the plug of the tap, the tap always being turned in the same direc-
tion; or the tilting arm or cam may be geared to the plug; or the arm may be
replaced by a link connected to the measure at one end and working at the other
end in a cam race moving with the cock.
In the accompanying sheets of illustrative drawings:-Figs. 1 and 2 are front
and side elevations of a liquid measurer constructed according to this invention,
and Figs. 3 and 4 show a slightly modified construction of measurer.
The liquid measurer a fits into a gimbal ring b formed with the trunnions c
mounted in bearings o in the U bracket d itself mounted in a socket e situated on
a bracket fadapted to be secured to the barrel of an ordinary cock 9 such as is
used in spirit receptacles and the like. The measure or ring is so weighted that
normally the measure assumes the position shown in Fig. 2. The U bracket d is
kept in position laterally in the socket e by the pins hh¹, the pin / also serving
to limit the motion of the bracket in the socket as clearly shown. The bracket can
be clamped in the operative position shown, or out of use by the thumb screw i.
The cock g is of any ordinary construction but has preferably a quick cut off. The
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end is prolonged and has secured to it an arm 7 having a butt jointed end.
of the trunnions c is also prolonged and has rigidly fixed on it an arm m.
bearings o slide on the arms of the bracket d and are fixed by the thumb screws n
so that the bearings can be adjusted as desired.
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In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the cock and measure are actuated
through a train of wheels s mounted on the cock, to prevent the measure being
turned over too quickly.
The operation is as follows:-The cock being turned off as shown in Fig. 2 the
cock is operated to turn on the liquid and move arm in the direction of the arrow
until the jointed end passes over the arm m on the trunnion and falls by its own
weight clear. When the measure is full, the cock is again turned and first the
liquid is cut off and then the end of the arm 7 comes against the arm m and tilts
the measure so that the contents are emptied into a glass or other receptacle held
in the proper position and finally the arm / passes beyond the arm m and the
measure and parts assume by gravity the position shown in Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The combination with a pivotted liquid measure and a cock, of a means for
automatically tilting the measure as the cock is being turned off substantially aɛ
described, for the purpose specified.
2. The automatic tilting liquid measure substantially as described with reference
to the drawings.