IMPROVEMENTS IN TAPS OR COCKS FOR REGISTERING AND MEASURING WINES. OR FLUIDS." OTHER
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Rowland Corrie at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd May 1878.
EDWARD ROWLAND CORRIE, of Epsom, in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TAPS OR COCKS FOR REGISTERING AND MEASURING WINES. OR
FLUIDS."
OTHER
This Invention has for its object improvements in the arrangement and construc-
tion of taps or cocks, whereby they are caused to draw off and register measured
quantities of wines and spirits or other liquids or fluids from a cask or other vessel,
so that the exact quantity drawn therefrom may be ascertained from time to time,
as desired. For this purpose, according to my Invention, a measuring chamber or
vessel of metal, china, glass, or other suitable material is combined with a tap or
cock, the capacity of the said measuring vessel being equivalent to each successive
quantity of wine or other fluid which is required to be drawn from the cask or
vessel containing the supply, the same being registered each time the measuring
vessel is filled and discharged.
The capacity of the measuring vessel may be equivalent to that of a wine glass,
quarter of a pint, or other quantity, more or less.
The plug of the tap or cock is formed with two ways or passages, so that when
the lever or handle of the plug is moved into one position a passage is opened from
the vessel containing the supply to fill the meausuring vessel, a self-acting stop
valve being arranged in combination therewith to determine the quantity to be
measured, and prevent the fluid from overflowing when it is full.
By moving the plug into another position the passage from the vessel containing
the supply is cut off, and another passage is opened to allow the contents of the
measuring vessel to flow out through the discharge passage of the tap or cock into
a glass or other receiving vessel.
The plug of the tap or cock gives motion to a pinion which actuates a train of
wheels, which give motion to suitable counting and registering apparatus, such as
is well understood. Each movement of the plug of the tap for filling the measuring
vessel moves the pointer of the registering apparatus to indicate the same upon a
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page_text: dial; the movement of the plug to discharge the contents of the measuring vessel
also acts upon the registering apparatus, each revolution of the plug recording the
discharge of the contents of the measuring vessel on the registering apparatus.
The Hoat which acts to close the air valve of the measuring vessel is capable of
adjustment by varying the distance between the float and the valve, so as to regulate
the quantity of the liquid to be measured by the measuring vessel very accurately.
The position of the float can be adjusted by a screw upon the rod that the valve
is upon to any height so as to regulate the quantity of liquid to be measured off by
the measuring vessel.
The higher the float is placed in the vessel the larger the quantity measured
thereby.
The float and valve may be made of india-rubber, metal, or other suitable
material.
The method of arranging and actuating the registering apparatus may be
varied.