US1029725A

US1029725A - Measuring-faucet.

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Publication number: US1029725A
Application number: US65946511A
Authority: US
Inventors: Paul H Smith
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-11-10
Filing date: 1911-11-10
Publication date: 1912-06-18
Anticipated expiration: 1929-06-18

Description

P. H. SMITH.

- MEASURING PAUGET. v APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 1911.

Patnted June 18, 1912.

gaat? 4,9 @Stroe/MM s PAUL H. SMITH, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

MEASURINGr-FAUCET.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Application filed. November 10, 1911.

Patented June 18, 1912.

serial No. 659,465.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known. that I, PAUL I-I.- SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Measuring-Faucets, of which the following is a specication.

The chief object of this invention is to provide a check upon persons drawing or serving small quantities of liquid from a container and to prevent waste and loss due to carelessness or dishonesty in handling the liquid.

The invention consists, generally stated, in an improved combination including a valved faucet through which only a single unit, approximately, of a liquid can be withdrawn from the container by a single operation of the valve, and a registering mechanism, operated by the valve, for registering and indicating the number of times the valve has been operated, as for withdrawing a unit of the liquid. y

In the accompanying drawing forming part hereof illustrating an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a front view in elevation of the invention with a part in section and parts broken out showing its application to a barrel. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation with the shield for the operating mechanism removed, an outline of the shield being indicated in broken lines. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4: is a section of sufficient parts to showthe liquid passages in the valve and faucet body.

The faucet body is shown in a form for use in connection with a barrel or keg and comprises a portion 5 for entering the barrel, a nozzle or outlet 5a and a lateral neck 5b' for the connection of the measuring device 6. The valve 7, which is of the plug rotary form has an angular passage 7 a bored to admit liquid from the barrel into the measuring device when standing in a given position or to permit liquid to discharge from the measuring device 6 through the nozzle when turned to another, the passage in the intermediate position being closed. In theparticular construction shown the handle 7U of the valve is arranged on the valve so that it is vertically dependent when the passage 'Y'a is in full open position to admit liquid from the container into the measuring device and a half revolution of the handle will bring the said passage into position to discharge the liquid. Fixed on the stem or shank of the valve adjacent the faucet body is a ratchet wheel 8 engaged by a hook pawl 9 pivoted on the faucet body in position to prevent the handle 7b from being turned backward. Mounted on the faucet body' vertically above the axis of the valve is a registering mechanism 10 of any suitable well known construction and having a spring actuated shaft 10 provided with an arm 10b and a lug 10G. Fixed on the shank or stem of the valve is an arm 7 that revolves with the handle 7b; and the lug 10c stands in the path of the arm 7 so that each time the arm is revolved the register arm 1()b is raised by the arm 7c and then retracted by its spring to normal position. The ratchet, its pawl, the arm 7 C and arm 10b and its lug are inclosed in a hood or shield 11 so that there can be no unauthorized manipulation of those parts. The parts are designed to be so arranged with reference to the passage in the valve so that when the handle is raised and revolved the measuring device is filled and then the register operated before the passage is turned into position to discharge through the nozzle, the contents of the measuring device. The register contains suitable exposed number wheels as at 12 to indicate the total number of complete revolutions of the operating handle so that it can be readily observed whether the accounting in cash or otherwise corresponds with that expected or required.

13 is a vent tube connected with the measuring device open at its upper end at or above the level of the liquid in the container so as to permit the filling and discharge of the measuring device. This tube can be of such small diameter as not to seriously affect the measuring function of the measuring device by change in the level of the liquid inthe container and the error caused by such change can be corrected or lessened by making the exact quantity to be measured half lill the vent tube or by keeping the level of the container constant from a second container as well understood.

What I claim is:

A measuring faucet comprising, in combination, a measuring device provided with a vent, a faucet body having an inlet and a discharge passage, with valve chamber between them, a. rotary valve in said chamber, said valve having an axial passage permanently communicating with the measuring device and said valve also having a radial passage connected With said axial passage and adapted to be moved to direct iiuid through the aforesaid inlet passage into the measuring device or from the measuring device into the aforesaid discharge passage, a Aregistering mechanism including an arm7 an arm in connection With the rotary valve for actuating the arm of the registering mechanism and means for preventing the PAUL H. SMITH- Witnesses M. W. RICKETTS, HARRY A. CLARKE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.