RAISING AND REGISTERING THE MEASUREMENTS OF WINE, SPIRITS, AND OTHER FLUIDS BY MEANS OF THE SELF-REGISTERING FLUID ENGINE
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthias Smith, of Number 12, Hyde Park
Road, Leeds, in the County of York, George Frederick Waldener,
of Rugby, in the County of Warwick, and Arthur Carey Lee, of
Kingston House, Leeds, in the County of York, for the Invention
of "RAISING AND REGISTERING THE MEASUREMENTS OF WINE, SPIRITS, AND
OTHER FLUIDS BY MEANS OF THE SELF-REGISTERING FLUID ENGINE."
Sealed the 6th December 1870, and dated the 17th October 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthias Smith, George
Frederick Waldener, and Arthur Carey Lee at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 17th October
1870.
We, MATTHIAS SMITH, of Number 12, Hyde Park Road, Leeds, in the
County of York, GEORGE FREDERICK WALDENER, of Rugby, in the
County of Warwick, and ARTHUR CAREY LEE, of Kingston House,.
Leeds, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said

page_text: Invention for "RAISING AND REGISTERING THE MEASUREMENTS OF WINE,
SRIRITS, AND OTHER FLUIDS BY MEANS OF THE SELF-REGISTERING FLUID ENGINE,"
to be as follows:
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The self-registering fluid engine of our Invention is intended for the
use of wine and spirit dealers, and others to register in exact figures
the quantity of liquid drawn.
The engine consists of a pump of a capacity to deliver any specified
quantity of fluid at each stroke (of if single acting at each up stroke) of
the plunger which works in connection with a registering apparatus,
arranged and applied according to our Invention to indicate on dials
the quantity of liquid delivered to any given total in half gills, pints,
quarts, or gallons. The pump is operated by a cranked axle. connected
to the plunger and rotated by a suitable winch handle, cogs formed on
the cranked axle gear continuously if the pump is double acting or at
intervals if single acting, with a spur wheel carrying an index to register
the lowest denomination of quantities as half gills. A pin on this wheel
acts at each revolution on a train of wheels also provided with pointers
to record in gills, pints, quarts, and gallons the quantity of liquid
discharged from the pump, the registering apparatus being thus set in
motion at each discharge of liquid by the pump. A pawl and ratchet
on the axle prevents any backward movement of either pump or
register.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Matthias Smith, George Frederick Waldener, and
Arthur Carey Lee in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th 2
April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, MATTHIAS
SMITH, of No. 12, Hyde Park Road, Leeds, in the County of York,
GEORGE FREDERICK WALDENER, of Rugby, in the County of Warwick,
and ARTHUR CAREY LEE, of Kingston House, Leeds, in the County of 3
York, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight-hundred and seventy, in the thirty-

page_text: fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Matthias Smith, George Frederick
Waldener, and Arthur Carey Lee,. Her special licence that we, the said
Matthias Smith, George Frederick Waldener, and Arthur Carey Lee, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Matthias Smith, George Frederick Waldener, and Arthur Carey Lee,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times. thereafter
during the term therein expressed,, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"RAISING AND REGISTERING THE MEASUREMENTS OF WINE, SPIRITS, AND OTHER
FLUIDS BY MEANS OF THE SELF-REGISTERING FLUID ENGINE," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Matthias Smith, George
Frederick Waldener, and Arthur Carcy Lee, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain tlie nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the.
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Matthias Smith, George Frederick
Waldener, and Arthur Carey Lee, do hereby declare the nature of our
said 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 Sheet of Drawings hercunto annexed,.
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, (that is to say)
The self-registering fluid engine of our Invention is intended for the
use of wine and spirit dealers, and others to register in-exact figures the
quantity of liquid drawn.
The engine consists of a pump of a capacity to deliver any specified
quantity of fluid at each stroke (or, if single-acting, at each up-stroke).
of the plunger, which works in connection with a registering apparatus.
arranged and applied according to our Invention to indicate on dials the
quantity of liquid delivered to any given total in half gills, gills, pints,
quarts, or gallons.. The pump is operated by a cranked. axle connected

page_text: to the plunger, and rotated by a suitable winch handle. Cogs formed
on the cranked axle gear continuously if the pump is double acting, or
at intervals if single acting, with a spur wheel carrying an index to
register the lowest denomination of quantities, as half gills. A pin on
this wheel acts at each revolution on a train of wheels, also provided
with pointers to record in gills, pints, quarts, and gallons the quantity of
liquid discharged from the pump, the registering apparatus being thus
set in motion at each discharge of liquid by the pump. A pawl and
ratchet on the axle prevents any backward movement of either pump or
register
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved self-registering wine,
spirit, and general liquid engine of our Invention; Figure 2 is a central
vertical section, and Figure 3 a rear view with the back of the case or
framing in which it is mounted removed to show the disposition of the
parts; Figure 4 is a front view of the registering apparatus detached
from the pump, and with the dial plate of the box in which the parts are
mounted, and the front plate removed to show the disposition of the
indicating gear.
A is the cylinder of the pump, made of a capacity to contain a
specified quantity of liquid, which it delivers at each up stroke of the
bucket B if the pump is single acting, like that shown in the Drawings,
or at each up-and-down stroke if made double acting. The bucket B is
worked through the medium of the bucket rod C and rod D from an
eccentric E on a spindle F, operated by a winch handle G by the
attendant. Instead of employing an eccentric the spindle F may be
cranked, and the rod D connected to the crank, but we prefer the
eccentric which permits of the stroke of the piston being reduced, as
herein-after explained, whereby the engine is made to deliver a portion
only of the contents of the cylinder A. The spindle F is mounted in
steel bushes or bearings in the case or framework H of the apparatus,
and passes through the plates I and I' of the box which carries the
indicating gear. As the cylinder is single acting, cog teeth a are formed
on one side or portion only of the circumference of the spindle F, so as
to act upon the indicating gear only during the up-stroke of the bucket,
when the discharge of the contents of the cylinder takes place; or if

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double acting the spindle would be provided with teeth on both sides
to act on the registering apparatus, so as to record both the up and down
strokes of the piston. The cogs a gear as above mentioned with a cog
wheel K mounted between the plates I, I¹, and the arbor of which
carries a pointer b, to indicate on a dial d, marked on dial plate L
(attached to plate I') the lowest denomination of quantities, quarter
gills, for instance, according to the capacity of the cylinder, or the
quantity delivered at each stroke. Each time the cogs a gear with
wheel K the pointer is moved from one figure on the dial d to another.
A pin c on the side of this wheel acts at each revolution of wheel K
upon the next wheel M of a number of similar wheels forming a train,
each carrying a pointer on its spindle to indicate on a corresponding
dial on the dial plate La multiple of the quantity indicated by the first
pointer b. The indicator may be made to register "units"
topmost dial, and on the succeeding dial, tens," hundreds," and
thousands," up to any required number of revolutions of the spindle;
or if preferred, the engine may be made to draw an imperial measure
at each stroke, ¼ gills, for instance, as before mentioned, thus the
dials d, e, f, g, may respectively indicate "quarter gills," "half pints,"
"gallons," and "tens of gallons," according to the relative number of.
teeth of the several wheels, or if required the dials may be made to
indicate the actual money value of the quantities drawn. The wheels
M, N, O, are formed with ratchet teeth, as shown, and are mounted
near one another, so that an arm on the spindle of one wheel will
come in contact at each revolution with a tooth of the succeeding
wheel, and move the same one tooth, and so on for the remainder.
Springs i, Figure 4, bear against the teeth of all the wheels to check
their motion. A spring pawl acting on ratchet wheel P carried on the
spindle F prevents any backward motion of the latter. The hands or
pointers of the indicating gear may be adjusted to any position required.
by moving them when the cogs a are not in gear with the wheel K, but
to prevent fraud the apparatus is mounted in a closed case H, with a
glazed opening, through which the dials are visible; are holes formed
in the eccentric E at a greater or less radius or distance from the true
centre of the disc E, so as to vary the throw of the eccentric by passing
the spindle F through one or other of the holes k, according to the
length of stroke required. R is the delivery pipe leading from the top
of the cylinder A to the point of delivery, or preferably into a hollow

page_text: vessel or bulb S fixed on the pipe R (of rather larger cubic contents
than the quantity drawn at cach stroke) in which the liquid is first
received, so as to spend the force with which it is ejected from the
cylinder before it is discharged at the spout 1. The liquid runs by
gravitation from the bulb S, which thus prevents waste when drawing
the liquid in a small vessel. T is a tap in the delivery pipe R for
cutting off the communication between the cylinder and the bulb when
the engine is not working, and thus the cylinder and delivery pipe may
be kept fully charged, and evaporation prevented, the bulb being empty.
m is a pipe for the admission and exit of air in the bulb S as it is filled
and emptied. This air pipe m is carried inside the casing H, to prevent
its being closed for the purpose of abstracting the liquid at the spout by
suction; n is the admission valve at the bottom of the cylinder, in
which it may be fitted, or preferably in the union pipe below it (which
connects the cylinder to the pipe leading from the source of supply), so
that the union may be disconnected and the valve examined and cleaned
without disturbing the rest of the apparatus. Several engines may be
arranged side by side in one case, as shown in Figure 5, according to the
number required. In a double-acting cylinder another inlet pipe would
be provided at the upper part, fitted, as also the delivery pipe, with a
suitable valve to regulate the passage of the liquid. The cylinders may
be made of the usual metals, or of glass or porcelain, and the pipes
coated inside with tin, or some vitreous or ceramic substance, or the
interior of both cylinder and pipes may be electro-plated. The bulb
may be made of glass, but we prefer to make it as well as the tap of
metal electro-plated.
Having described the nature of our Invention and the manner of
performing the same, we would observe that we make no claim to the
separate use of a pump, or of an indicating apparatus; but that what we
claim as our Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent is,
1st. Drawing off a given quantity of liquid, and simultaneously
registering or recording the quantity drawn by means of a cylinder
having a piston worked in connection with indicating apparatus, and

page_text: 2ndly. The general arrangement of apparatus constituting the im-
proved self-registering engine of our Invention, combined and operating
ubstantially as herein-before described and shown in the Drawings..
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederick Waldener, for
myself and on behalf of the said Matthias Smith and Arthur
Carey Lee, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth
day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.