IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS FROM ONE VESSEL TO ANOTHER, AND FOR FILLING BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS WITH LIQUIDS
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of the firm of Messieurs J. C. Robertson and Company,
of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the thirteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my exors, adñors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Richard.
Archibald Brooman, my exors, adññors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING
LIQUIDS FROM ONE VESSEL TO ANOTHER, AND FOR FILLING BOTTLES AND OTHER
VESSELS WITH LIQUIDS," (being a communication from a foreigner residing
abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, should cause a particular description of the

page_text: nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby declare that the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the present Specification thereof, reference being
had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
Figure 1 represents the said improvements as applied to a funnel for filling
bottles; Figure 2 is a vertical section, and Figure 3 a plan of the same.
A is the funnel; B, the valve tube; C, a light float, which may be either
open or closed at bottom; D, float spindle rod; E, cross plate, shewn sepa-
rately in plan in Figure 8; F, F, are stop pieces fixed to the valve tube B;
H, a float lever, shewn detached in Figure 4; J, wing lever, with cross pieces
r, r, which is weighted at one end G, as shewn in Figure 5; I, a support fixed
to the cross plate E, and shewn detached in Figure 6; K, K, are wings
hinged to the upper part of the stop pieces F, F; L, a valve, of any convenient
kind, attached to the tube B; m, m, links, which connect at each side
the levers Hand J; N, a cone, which is fixed inside the funnel pipe, and has
a small hole at its apex for the free passage of the float spindle D. To facilitate
the flow of the liquid through the funnel there are several openings in the
funnel pipe, as shewn at o, o. P is the valve seating; q, wire handle for lifting
the tube B with its valve L, as shown in Figure 7. All these different parts
may be made of tin or any other suitable material, and of any convenient size.
The action of the funnel is as follows:-When the tube and valve are ready
for action, as represented in Figure 2, in which case they are supposed to have
been lifted up till the stop pieces F, F, touch the cross plate E, and allow the
wings K, K, to fall into the position shewn, where they are held by the cross
pieces 1, r, in the wing lever J, and thus keep the tube V with its valve L.sus-
pended; the wing lever J being hung midway in the support I, and being
connected by the side links m to the float lever H, they thus act in unison.
The lever H being hung in the same support I, at about one-fourth of
its length from the link end, it follows, that the leverage thus gained,
together with the weight of the float and its spindle, is sufficient to keep
the cross pieces r, r, of the lever J between the wings K, K, as shewn; but as

page_text: the liquid rises in the vessel and into the funnel pipe, the float being immersed
in the liquid loses weight, allowing thus the weighted end G of the wing lever
J to preponderate and detach the wings K, K, whereupon the valve falls into
the seating P, and thus cuts off the supply of liquid to the vessel. The
required height to which the liquid is to be raised depends on the length of the
funnel pipe, as found by trial, and the weight the float has to overcome; for
this latter purpose small screw nuts, as shewn at R, may be adopted, and thus
add or diminish the pressure on the end of the float lever H.
For filling large vessels, such as barrels, &c., the apparatus may be fixed in
any part of a filling tub.or other vessel; but I prefer fixing it to one side of
the tub, as shewn in Figure 9, where A2 is a part of the tub, to the side
of which is made fast the cross plate E, and through which the upper end of
the valve tube B2, with stop pieces F2 and their wings, are allowed to pass..
Figure 10 is a vertical section of this apparatus. a represents the bottom of
the filling tub; B³, valve tube; C, float; D2, the float rod; E³, cross
plates; F, F, stop pieces, to which are hinged the wings K2, K2; G², inlet
pipe with flange, secured to the tub either inside or outside. This pipe is made
of the requisite size to be inserted through the bunghole or aperture of
the vessel to be filled. H³, an inner pipe, closed at the upper end, and con-
nected at both ends to the inlet pipe G2 by a few small cross stays, as shewn
in Figure 11; thus a good space between the pipes G2 and H2 may be given
for the descent of the liquid into the vessel, as shewn by the arrows.
1 is a
small crosshead, screwed on the float rod D2, which serves to keep the wings
asunder and the valve suspended during the inflow of the liquid into the vessel;
but when the liquid rises into the pipe G2, the float being acted upon, the
crosshead I is detached, and the valve L' falls into its seating P². This
method of detaching the wings may be considered as more simple than that
described for the bottle funnel; but it has been found in practice that the
small diameter of the float in this case has not sufficient buoyant power
to detach with the required certitude the crosshead I from the wings K², K²;
but for filling larger vessels the size of the float may be encreased, so as
to remedy that defect.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim under the
said Letters Patent is, the regulating of the transfer of liquids from one vessel
to another by the means or apparatus before described, that is to say, in so far
as regards the combination of valves, floats, levers, wings, and other con-
trivances, whereby the flow of the liquid from one vessel is stopped as soon as