IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR STORING MEASURING PETROLEUM AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66,, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical
Draughtsman, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR STORING
MEASURING PETROLEUM AND OTHER LIQUIDS."-A communication
from abroad; by Frederick Moritz Beral Bertram, of the City of
- Hamburg, North Germany.
AND
Sealed the 24th November 1868, and dated the 6th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 6th June 1868.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
STORING AND MEASURING PETROLEUM AND OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
The chief object of this Invention is to store and draw off in given
'quantities petroleum and other volatile hydrocarbon oils without risk
of their becoming ignited.

page_text: The liquid to be stored and measured is admitted to a closed chamber
through a neck or nozzle protected by an internal cup of wire gauze,
which on the cover being removed will prevent flame from passing down
to the liquid contained in the chamber. A tube at the bottom of this
chamber fitted with a tap turned by a master key conducts the oil to a
receiver below. The oil from this receiver passes to a horizontal pipe
which is formed with two, three, or more branches, all of which may,
if desired, lead to one and the same discharge spout. In each of these
branches is a socket fitted with a two-way cock, and these sockets are
severally brought into connection with a measuring chamber capable of
containing, say, the one a half pint, another a pint, a third a quart, and
so on of the oil to be measured. These measuring chambers are closed
and cannot be tampered with, and air tubes lead from their upper sides
to the top of the supply chamber to allow of the air escaping on the
entrance of the oil to the measuring chamber. Mounted on the hori-
zontal pipe is a vertical pipe communicating therewith and with the
receiver. In this pipe is an indicating float which shows (through a
glass face in the pipe) by its position when the measuring chamber has
filled. To enable the apparatus to deliver the oil in quantities according
to its specific gravity the measuring chambers are fitted with a kind of
trough which is pivotted so that it can be set to any angle to enable it
to receive and retain a portion of the liquid admitted to the chamber.
The greater the specific gravity of the liquid the less will be required to
be delivered to make up the determined weight, and the nearer to the
vertical the trough must be set; but as the specific gravity decreases
the trough will be brought nearer to the horizontal, and it will then
retain a decreased quantity. A pointer on the pivot spindle moving over
a graduated face will show how the trough is to be set to adapt the
measure to the oil being measured. The drippings of the spout are
caught by a nozzle, and the cans used to hold the oil are to be fitted
with diaphragms of wire cloth.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria. by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special
licence that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as. I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton,
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 "IMPOVED
APPARATUS FOR STORING AND MEASURING PETROLEUM AND OTHER LIQUIDS," being
a communication to me from abroad by Frederick Moritz Beral Bertram,
of the City of Hamburgh, North Germany, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 Alfred Vincent Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say):-
The chief object of this Invention is to store safely and to draw off in
given quantities petroleum and other volatile hydrocarbon oils without
risk of their becoming ignited.
In the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in
section, of the improved apparatus mounted on a cast-iron stand; Fig. 2
is a front elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a back view, the case of
the apparatus being in section to show the interior.
A, A, is the stand, upon which is mounted the case B containing the
measuring apparatus, and above this case is set the reservoir or vessel C

page_text: for containing the petroleum or other liquid to be stored and measured.
This reservoir C may be described as a closed chamber fitted with a neck
or nozzle c for admitting the volatile oil to the vessel. This nozzle is
protected by an internal cup of wire gauze c¹, which on the removal of
the cover from the nozzle will prevent flame from passing down to the
liquid contained in the chamber, or the oil may be supplied to the closed
chamber by a force pump D. A. discharge pipe E leads off from the
bottom of the chamber C, and it is fitted with a tap e turned by a master
key. This pipe enters a receiver F, and it is fitted with a second tap e¹
on the spindle of which is mounted an
and fall of which and the consequent opening or closing of the tap e
will depend on the accumulation or discharge of the liquid in or from
the receiver. The oil or other liquid is admitted by the pipe E into the
closed receiver F below. In communication with this receiver is a
pendent pipe G which bending round at right angles leads to a
arm carrying a float e, the rise
formed with a set of branches (four
G, is
two-way cock g (see
These sockets are
series of measuring
horizontal pipe G. This pipe is
being shewn in the Drawing) all of which may if desired lead to one
and the same discharge spout; in the Drawing however they are shown
with independent spouts. Each of these brances G', G³, G³,
formed with a socket and in each socket is fitted a
the enlarged detached sectional view, Fig. 4).
severally brought into connection with one of a
chambers H1, H2, H3, H4, which are capable of containing, say, the one a
half pint, another a pint, a third a quart, and so on of the oil to be
measured. These measuring chambers are closed vessels made as shown
on an enlarged scale in longitudinal section at Fig. 5 and in cross
section at Fig. 6. Being closed vessels they cannot be tampered with,
and to provide for the free admission and discharge of the oil air tubes
lead from the upper sides of the vessels H to the top of the supply
chamber C for the escape of the air on the entrance of the oil to these
measuring chambers. Mounted on the horizontal pipe G¹ is a vertical
pipe I communicating through the pipes G, G', with the receiver.
this pipe I is an indicating float i which shows (through a glass face in
the pipe) by its position when the measuring chamber has filled. When
.no oil is being drawn off the float i will maintain an elevated position,
but immediately a measuring chamber has by the
been brought into communication with the pipe G
the oil in the pipe I running down to assist in
soon, however, as that is filled the oil will
In
turning of a cock g
the float i will drop,
As
filling the vessel H.
regain its former level in

page_text: the pipe I and the float will return to its former position. To enable
the apparatus to deliver the oil in quantities according to its specific
gravity the measuring chambers are fitted with a kind of trough K (see
Fig. 6) which is pivotted so that it can be set to any angle to enable
it to receive and retain a portion of the liquid admitted to the chamber.
The greater the specific gravity of the liquid the less wll be required
to be delivered to make up the determined weight, and the nearer to
the vertical the trough must be set, but as the specific gravity decreases
the trough will be brought nearer to the horizontal, and it will then
retain a decreased quantity. By reference to Figures 1 and 5 it will be
seen that affixed to the outer end of the axle of each trough K is a pointer
L formed with a segment rack into which gear worms on a transverse
shaft . The pointers L will by the turning of this shaft be caused io
move over the graduated faces M. and thus the troughs may be set to
adapt them to the varying specific gravity of the oil being measured.
When quantity is to be measured irrespective of specific gravity the
troughs may be turned as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 6, when
all the oil admitted to the measuring chamber may be drawn therefrom
by the two-way cock g in connection therewith. By turning this cock
in one direction it will be understood that a communication will be
opened between the receiver F and its measuring chamber, and by giving
it another greater turn the measuring chamber will be allowed to
discharge its contents down the spout into any suitable receiving vessel.
The form of can preferred to be used to hold the oil is that shewn at
Fig. 7, the neck of which is fitted with a diaphragm of wire cloth. In
order to catch the drippings from the spouts little inclined gutters are
provided, as at N, Figures 1 and 3, below the spouts. These gutters are
hinged to a transverse box N¹ and their lower ends enter the box.
When a can is brought to be filled the act of lifting the can to the spout
will tip up the gutter out of the way (into the dotted position of Fig. 1).
and when the can is removed the gutter will fall and catch any drops
that may hang on the spout and guide them into the box N¹. O is a
pipe fitted with a tap for drawing off the oil from the receiver in large
quantities without being measured.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "Improved
Apparatus for Storing and Measuring Petroleum and other Liquids,"
as communicated to me by my correspondent, and explained the manner
of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under

page_text: the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the improved apparatus
constructed and operating as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said
I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fifth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)