Improvement in Indicators for use in Filling Casks and like Vessels with Liquids.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Indicators for use in Filling Casks and like Vessels
with Liquids.
J
ANDREW KEY MILLER Oldwick Wick N.B. Clerk do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
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An instrument consisting of certain parts and of such a character that by its use
the instant of a cask or other such vessel being full is indicated. Further its use is
to aid the avoidance of waste by overflow by showing to the operator the
approaching to fullness of the cask or other such vessel.
The foregoing results are obtained as follows-
By using (1) a cylinder of glass or other suitable material about eighteen inches
long or of other convenient length and of about three quarters of an inch or other
convenient diameter. The cylinder is partially closed at one end. (2) A float
which may be made of cork or a hollow glass bulb or be made of any other suitable
material. To this float is attached a stem with an index. The float and stem are
of such a character and dimensions as to be capable of moving easily up and down
within the cylinder. The instrument is now placed in the bung-hole of a cask or
other such vessel and as the liquid rises therein the float is buoyed up.and pushes
the stem carried thereon up the cylinder. By watching the index of the stem the
varying vacuity of the cask or other such vessel is shown to the operator.
Dated this the Thirty-first day of December 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Indicators for use in Filling Casks and like Vessels
with Liquids.
I; ANDREW KEY MILLER, of Oldwick, Wick, N.B., Accountant, 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 relates to improvements in indicators for use in filling casks and
like vessels with liquids which consists of an instrument of such a character that by
Further
its use the instant of a cask or other such vessel being full is indicated.
its use is to aid the avoidance of waste by overflow by showing to the operator the
approaching to fulness of the cask or other such vessel.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is half in elevation and a half in vertical section.
Fig. 2, is a side view of the arm or ear and the india rubber protector.
The foregoing results are obtained as follows:-
By using an instrument constructed with a cylinder a of glass or other suitable
material about 24 inches long or any other convenient length and of about of an
inch or other convenient diameter, the cylinder a is partially closed at one end b.
A float c which may be made of cork or may be in the form of a hollow glass bulb
or may be made of any suitable material is placed inside the glass cylinder a. To
this float c is attached a stem d with an index. The float c and the stem d are of
such dimensions as to be capable of moving easily up and down within the
cylinder a

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The tube or cylinder a is made with ears or arms e for preventing the tube from
getting altogether down at the aperture at which the vessel is being filled. These
arms or ears e are covered with india rubber protectors which is fitted on
eccentrically so as to make a cushion or buffer between the ear and the vessel being
filled.
The instrument is now placed in the bunghole of the cask or other vessel and as
the liquid rises the float is buoyed up and pushes the stem carried thereon up the
cylinder. By watching the index of the stem the varying vacuity of the cask is
shown to the operator.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In indicators for use in filling vessels with liquids, the combination of the tube
or cylinder a ears or arms e india rubber protectors and float c stem d with a
partially closed opening b at one end of the cylinder a, substantially as herein
described and according to the accompanying drawing.
2. In indicators for use in filling vessels with liquid, the combination of a float to
'which is attached a glass cylinder enclosing an index graduated to show inches, the
float and index stem are of such dimensions as to move easily within the glass tube
For cylinder a, substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying
drawing.
3. In indicators for use in filling vessels with liquid, the combination of the glass
tube or cylinder a with the partially closed aperture 6 at one end and the arms or
ears e and india rubber protectors f, substantially as herein described and according
to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 29th day of September 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.