An Improved Measuring Bottle.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1893-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
An Improved Measuring Bottle.
GEORGE FREDERICK BOWRY 1 Lever Street, Goswell Road St. Lukes E.C.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A metal bottle to hold liquids with a float inside attached to cord which passes
through a tube inserted over the outside of handle, to which is attached a metal
weight which falls in a groove outside the bottle, with marks by side of groove to
register the quantity of liquid contained within.
October 19th 1809
GEORGE FREDERICK BOWRY,
1, Lever Street, Goswell Road, St. Lukes.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK BOWRY, of 1 Lever Street, Goswell Road, St. Lukes,
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, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, in which
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a bottle or can constructed in accordance with
the invention,
Figure 2 an elevation of same taken at right angles to Figure 1, and
Figure 3 a partial sectional plan taken at line X X of Figure 2.
The object of the invention is to provide means whereby the quantity of liquid
contained in a bottle or can is indicated outside the same.
In the drawings A represents a metallic bottle or can which may be of any
suitable shape. B is the handle of same made hollow and curving upwards so as to
rise above the highest point to which liquid in the bottle rises when the same is
quite full. This hollow handle opens at its upper end into the upper part of the
bottle or can; the lower end being attached to but opening free of the side of the
bottle or can as shown in Figure 1. C is a float of cork or other suitable material,
D is a cord attached at one end to the said float and which after passing up through
the hollow handle B is attached at its other end to a counterbalance weight E
which slides up and down in a guide channel F F preferably made to overlap the
weight E as shown in Figure 3 so as to retain such weight in the guide channel.
It will now be understood that the float C rises and falls with the liquid in the
bottle or can A, and that the weight E falls as the float rises and vice versa, indi-
cating by marks at the side of the guide channel F F and outside the bottle or
can A the quantity of liquid actually contained in the latter.
In the drawings the cord D is shown passing through and guided by the handle B
which is made hollow for that purpose; but if preferred the handle may be made in
the usual or any other suitable way, and the tube B for the cord to pass through
may be carried over the top of the handle or at the side thereof or in any other
position with reference thereto and may be connected with or be fixed independent
of the handle as may be preferred.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The improved measuring bottle having a float C, and indicating weight E
connected together by a cord, a guide tube B for the cord and a guide channel F F
for the indicating weight, combined and arranged substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the drawings.
Second. The improved measuring bottle constructed and arranged substantially
as hereinbefore described.
G. F. BOWRY,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.