Improvements in Automatic Measuring Apparatus for Liquids.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Measuring Apparatus for Liquids.
I, ROBERT PICKWELL Bank Buildings St. Mary Street Cardiff Civil 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:―
My invention has reference to improvements in or relating to the construction of
cocks or taps for the purpose of automatically measuring any given quantity of
liquids such as wines, spirits, oils &c. for use in drawing off such measured quantity
of liquids from either bottles, jars, or other reservoirs or tanks.
I have caused to be annexed to this Specification one sheet of drawings, the
figures of reference marked upon such drawings will hereafter be referred to.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of such automatic tap or cock shewn fitted to the
neck of an ordinary bottle.
In carrying my invention into effect I combine with or fit to the cock or tap
marked A one or more measures marked B. B. but by preference two of any desired
capacity and made of glass or any other suitable material.
Such tap or cock is made in such manner as shewn that when the plug C of such
tap or cock is in the position shewn a direct communication is opened from the
bottle D or other cistern or tank through the neck of the tap or cock, & through
the way of the plug marked E and along one of the branches marked F F on the
cock or tap into one of the measures of any capacity marked B B the measure is
thereby filled.
In this position a direct communication is also open from the other of the
measures B B through the way in the plug of the tap and through the opening G
in the nose of the tap, the contents of such measure being thereby discharged into
the open.
The measures are preferably made of glass and by means of a socket and cork or
other suitable joint at H. H. are simply attached to one or more of the branches F F
of the cock or tap.
Such measures have no valves of any description but the air is allowed free
ingress & egress by means of a small air pipe II attached to the top of such
measure by means of cork or other stoppers J. J. or any other suitable attachment.
A small air pipe K passes through the cock inside the bottle up to near the
inverted bottom of the bottle, such air pipe being made self adjustable by means of
a flexible connection at any point L such pipe destroys the vacuum in the bottle as
the liquid is being drawn off.
The cock is made with straight nozzle & fitted with cork bung on the neck for
use in attaching to, and drawing off, and measuring liquids, directly from bottles, in
which case, the neck of the cock, is fixed into the neck of the bottle, as shewn by
means of such cork, bung, or other suitable means.
The cock can also be made suitable for fixing in a horizontal position into any
cistern or tank by means of cork, bung, or any other suitable connection in either
of the two following ways; first, by making the nozzle of the cock curved down-
wards to right angles so as to discharge in a vertical direction or preferably by
making the neck of the tap curved at right angles, in both of which cases the cock
and measures is constructed in precisely the same manner as already described with
the exception of the curved nozzle or the curved neck.
In this form I do not by preference attach the small air pipe K to the cock as in
most cases such cisterns or tanks are not airtight but where such cisterns are air-
tight I fix the small air pipe to the cock up to the top of the cistern or tank as in the
case of the cock fitted to the bottles.

page_text: The improvements consist of an improved tap or cock equally applicable to being
fitted to either bottles or cisterns absence of valves and automatically measuring
any given quantity from such bottles or cisterns direct thus saving the risk of
over or under measure loss of time and perfectly simple and inexpensive
construction.
When the cock is turned in one
From the fore going action will be as follows
direction one of the measures is emptied into the open and the other measure at the
same time is being filled; when the cock is turned in the other direction the same
action takes place only vice-versa.
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 1
claim is
1. Simple and cheap cock or tap fitted with a two way plug and two or more
branches leading from such tap or cock substantially as set forth and for the
purposes described and shewn on the drawings.
2. A tap or cock of such shape as described that can be produced or made by
fitting to any ordinary existing spirit, bib, or other plug-cock, a new plug and
branches of the shape already described.
3. A simple glass or other measure or measures of any capacity without any
valves or complicated connections with simple air pipe fitted to the cock or tap
substantially as described suitable for measuring liquids of any description.
Dated this Second day of July 1894.
חגז המת
DIGIZWELT
ROBERT PICK
PICKWELL