US114607A - Improvement in automatic liquor-discharges - Google Patents

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A. C. ROWE.

Improvement in Automatic Liquor-Dischargers-..

No. 114,607, Paiemed May 9,1871.

n ri-*m* ttiirt iita ARTHUR C. ROWE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 114,607, dated May 9, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN- AUTOMATIC LIQUOR-DISCHARGES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parl: of the lame.

To all who/m 'it may concer-n Be it known that I, ARTHUR C. Rows, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and improved Automatic Liquid-Discharge for Vinegar-Generators, of

which the following is a-speciiication.

Natm'e of the Intention.

ling and gauging thedischarge of uid into a vinegargenerator, as hereinaftery described.

In the drawing- Figure I is a vertical section of a vvinegar-generator with my improved liquid-discharge applied thereto.

Figure II is a plan ofthe generator, with the cover removed to show the relative position of the parts.

Figure III, a detached perspective view of the iutermittent discharge. v

Figure IV, a diagram, showing a modification in 4the arrangement of the regulating-weight.

By reference to Figs. I and II- A is the generator, of ordinary construction, with a common perforated head, a, and cover b, provided with a slot, 'b.

O is a supply-reservoir, and

c4 the feed-pipe, passing into the cover of the generator b, and thence discharging into the compart-l ments d d ofthe automaticdischarge D, which latter' is hung ou a central axis, E. l

A rod, f, projecting perpendicularly from the `plane of the axis E and from the center of the' partition dividing the compartments d d', has an adjustable weight, F.

charging the liquid, and at the same time elevating the empty compartment d to the corresponding posi- 'tin occupied by d' under the feed-pipe, as shown in dotted lines ;l and when this compartment has received a suiicient supply from the constant stream through c to voverloalance the counterpoise .F the same operation ls repeated as described in the loase -oi' d', and so The weight F on the rod lf, by being raise and lowered, regulates the quantity of liquid the con-partments d d will hold before discharging. This result is effected by carrying the center of gravity in the Weight F further from a vertical line drawn through the axis of the dumping-reservoir D in proportion as the weight' isV raised The slot b in the generatorcover allows the rod f a free lateral motion.

The advantages gained by using the automatic feed are important as compared with the ordinary method, which-'consists in employing a man with a pail to sup ply the generator at regular intervals. It saves the constant employment of at least one man, Vand in large manufactories that of several men, night and day.

It will be noticed that each time the liquid is discharged the end of the compartment in which it collected is carried downward suddenly until it strikes the perforated head of the generator with a force equal to the gravity of the liquid, thus imparting a sudden jar and reaction -to the generator-head, which has thel eiect of disturbing and dischargingl the mother which collects in and around the perforations in the head, and thereby leaving them unobstructed for Vthe passage of the liquidl just discharged. i This shock to the generator-head happens at precisely the right moment, While the simultaneous overflow of the liquid acts in conjunction to disturb and remove the mother perfectly. This is an advantage of importance in the manufacture of vinegar', as it saves the time and labor consumed by stopping operations andremoving the mother from the perforations in the generator-head by hand, so frequent and essential in the old meth od.

By the use of my device the liquid is also distributed over the generator-head with more evenness andl greater regularity than heretofore, and therefore the mother is not so 'liable to collect and clog up.

The use of the adjustable weights enables both the quantity of liquid discharged and the intervals be tween the discharges to be regulated at pleasure and with precision. I amdaware that a liquid-discharge has been reudered intermittent on the principle of overcoming a counterpoise. I do not, therefore, claim this principle broadly; but What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement ofthe dischargeD, Vwith its comv partments d d on the opposite sides of the `central axis E, the upright lrod f, and adjustable weight F, the whole constructed and operating, in reference to the` perforated head a, substantially in the manner herein shown and described.

' In witness whereof I have hereunto 'signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR C. ROWE. Witnesses:

J. B. GRmFENHAGEN, C. O. Pncx.

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