Improvements in or relating to Coin Freed Apparatus for Delivering Measured Quantities of Liquid from a Cask, Jar, or Bottle.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Coin Freed Apparatus for Delivering
Measured Quantities of Liquid from a Cask, Jar, or Bottle.
I, WILLIAM SHERAR, late of 1 Auvigny Gardens, Putney, in the County of
Surrey, but now of 49 Gladesmore Road, Stamford Hill, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 :-
This invention has reference to coin freed apparatus of the kind described in the
Specification in connection with my application for Letters Patent No. 18380
of A.D. 1893 by the aid of which apparatus beer or other liquid may be sold
directly from a cask, jar or bottle. The first part of my present invention consists
of the herein described improved arrangement of mechanism which is operated by
the insertion of the coin to unlock the spindle of the plug which governs the flow
of liquid from the cask, jar or bottle to the closed receptacle in which the liquid is
measured and also the flow of the liquid from the measuring receptacle through the
delivery outlet and also governing the air vent, and the second part of my present
invention consists of the herein described improved means for venting the measure
as the liquid is withdrawn therefrom and also for venting the cask.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing of
which
Fig. 1 is a front sectional elevation ;
Fig. 2 is a side elevation on line A-B of Fig. 1, of coin freed mechanism for
delivering measured quantities of beer or other liquid from a cask as described in
my prior Specification above referred to but embodying my present invention;
Fig. 3 is a sectional plan on line Y-Y of Fig. 1 of the mechanism operated by
the coin;
Fig. 4 is an elevation of a part of the said mechanism and
Fig. 5 is an elevation and Fig. 6 is a sectional plan of the governing plug of the
said apparatus.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures of the
drawing.
The first part of my present invention is arranged as follows:-Near the upper
end of the spindle / which operates the governing plug h of the liquid measuring
and delivering device there is formed or attached a projecting lug n and above this
with a suitable space intervening two semicircular or approximately semicircular
discs o o' are formed or attached concentrically with the axis of the spindle.
Opposite the lower disc o a balanced lever pis pivoted in the case so that
normally one of its ends lies opposite the flat surface on the said disc and prevents
this disc and the spindle being revolved until the end of said lever has been
depressed by the insertion of a coin through a shoot q through a slot in which a
lug p¹ on the lever p projects the coin being supported in a position to retain the
lever in its depressed position by lug n until the disc and spindle are revolving
when owing to the lug n being removed from under the coin the latter is allowed
to fall.
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Catches. r rsee Fig. 4 or cam plates are pivotted at each side of the slot
prevent the withdrawal of a coin when once inserted whilst near the upper disc o
a plate s is so pivotted that a coin when passing it displaces it so that it rests
against the flat surface of the upper disc thus preventing this disc and the spindle
being revolved until the pivotted plate has regained its normal position thereby

page_text: obviating to a great extent the possibility of the end of the lever p being
depressed and the spindle revolved by the aid of a knife blade or the like.
I will now describe the second part of my present invention :-The hollow taper
plug is as described in my prior Specification above referred to provided at its
lower part with three openings marked h¹³ ³ which govern the flow of the liquid
from the cask into the closed receptacle a' and the flow of liquid from the measuring
receptacle through the said outlet and which three slots are so arranged that when
the plug is revolved to allow liquid to enter the measuring receptacle the outlet is
closed and vice versa. Above the said openings h¹ h* * of the plug his formed a
recess t which when the plug is in the position shown by Figs. 1 and 2 opens an air
passage u communicating with the atmosphere and so allows air to enter the
measure as the liquid escapes therefrom but when the plug is turned to open the
measure inlet the said recess opens the interior of the measure to a second air
passage communicating with the interior of the cask through a hollow screw w
held in such a position in an opening formed in a lug projecting from the measure
by a screw plug that a slot in the end thereof communicates with said air
passage v and allows the air in the measure to pass into the interior of the cask.
My invention is applied to coin freed apparatus of the kind herein referred to for
delivering measured quantities of liquid from a jar, or bottle similarly as above
described with reference to a coin freed apparatus for delivering measured
quantities of liquid from a cask.
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 :-
(1) In coin freed apparatus of the kind herein referred to for the sale of liquids
from casks, bottles, jars and like receptacles the improved releasing mechanism
operated by the coin consisting of balanced lever plug n and partially circular
disc o arranged and operated substantially as and in the manner described and
illustrated.
(2.) In coin freed apparatus of the kind herein referred to the pivotted plate
and partial circular disc o arranged and operated substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
(3.) In coin freed apparatus of the kind herein referred to the pivotted cams or
plates substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
(4.) In coin freed apparatus of the kind herein referred to and in combination
with the closed measuring vessel thereof the means for admitting air into the said
closed measuring vessel when the liquid is running out of the same and for allowing
the air to pass through the said measuring vessel to the cask jar or bottle when the
said measuring vessel is filling substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of October 1894.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.