Year: 1887

page_text: I JOHANNES CORNELUS WILHELMUS PAUWELS of The Hague, Netherlands, Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in water meters and is as follows :-
A cast iron or other metal box is provided and divided in two pieces and fastened
together by screws, bolts or in any other suitable manner. Inside this box or casing
is a wheel with a groove or hollow therein for purpose hereinafter described. This
wheel is connected by arms to a central pivot or axis and the arms are provided
on the end in the groove with fans. This wheel has a part cut out and at each end is
a pipe or tube leading outside the case one for inlet of the water and the other for the
outlet. The central pivot or axis is connected up in any convenient manner with any
desired registering mechanism. The spaces between the fan are made to hold any
desired quantity.
The water passes into this wheel and by its pressure operates the fans and revolves
the fans in the square wheel and in its course round it operates the registering
mechanism and registers the quantity passing through.
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I JOHANNES CORNELUS WILHELMUS PAUWELS, of The Hague, Netherlands, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in water meters and consists of a cast iron or
other metal box preferably of elliptical shape formed of two flanged pieces or parts
whose flanges are connected together by screws, bolts or in any other suitable manner.
Inside this box or casing is arranged a wheel square shaped in cross section and having
the form of a hollow ring furnished with a groove for the purpose hereinafter described.
Within this wheel rovolve a number of spokes, arms or ribs connected to a central
axis and provided with fans at their extremities which project within the groove into
the wheel. The latter carries at each end a pipe leading outside the case, one being an
inlet and the other an outlet for the water. The central axis is connected in any con-
venient manner with suitable registering mechanism to which I lay no claim.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood, I have shewn the
same in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a side view in perspective of
my improved water meter, and Fig. 2 a perspective of one half of the box or meter,
shewing the inside mechanism.
A is the cast iron flange of one half of the box B (fig. 1) having the usual straps or
tabs t to be bolted to the other half. R is the ring fixed to the half box shown in Fig. 2
by means of the straps s s...and having a square cross section or ends as shewn by the
inlet I and the outlet O, both of which are furnished with pipes P P¹ as shewn in fig. 1.
The spokes arms or ribs r of the fans ff pass through a groove formed in the ring R.
a is the axle communicating with any suitable registering mechanism arranged in
the box b.
When water is admitted through the pipe P", it enters at I, travels through the
ring R and causes the fans to rotate within the said ring and hence the axis a to
revolve and to register the amount of water flowing out through the outlet O and
pipe P, on the dial of the registering mechanism arranged as before stated, in the
box b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :
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The improvements in water meters as herein described and for the purpose set forth.
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
Dated this 9th day of August 1888.
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.