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Description

A. STEPHAN.

MECHANICAL MEASURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY2o.1915.

Patented Aug. 8, 1916 A. STEPHAN. MECHANICAL MEASURE.

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' AUGUST STEPHAN, or rnnEPonT, ILLINOIS..

MECHANICAL MEASURE.

Speciication of Letters Patent.

' Patented Aug. 8,1916.

I Application ilesl May 20, 1915. Serial No. 29,368.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, AUGUST STEPHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State lof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Measures; and I do declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an improved mechanical measuring device for dispensing numerous kinds of fluids, the present lembodiment of the invention, however, being designed primarily for measuring heavy oils,-but it will be evident that its application need not be limited to use for this one purpose.

The object of the invention is 'to provide a device of the class described which may be simply and inexpensively manufactured and marketed, yet which when applied to use, will be eflicient and durable and will possess a number of advantageous features.

With this general object in view, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction and in the unique combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed. Y

In the accompanying drawings which constitute a part of the application, Figures 1 and 2 are vertical sections of the invention showing two different positions of the valve member thereof and parts operable therewith; and Figs. 3 and 4 are horizontal sections as seen on the planes indicated by the lines 3 3 and 4-4 of Fig. 1.

In describing the invention, I shall refer to these drawings by similar reference characters v placed on corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 1 indicating an upright tank which may be of rectangular formation as shown in the drawings 'or of any other preferred design, said tank being provided with a removable cover plate 2 having near its center a stuiing box 3 and an air vent 4, while spaced near one of its edges, the opening 5 is provided, this opening being alined with an additional opening 6 which is formed in the bottom 7 of the tank. In addition to the opening 6,

thel bottom 7 is provided with a second opening 8 spaced inwardly therefrom and with a third opening 9 spaced an appropriate distance fromvthe opening 8.

Depending through the alined openings 5 and 6 and having nuts 10 bearing against the outer sides ofthe top and bottom, is the upright feed pipe 11 whose upper end. may be connected to'any appropriate source of iluid supply, while its lower end is threaded into one end of a U-coupling 12 whose othery end receives therein a `pipe 13 which constitutes a continuation of the feed pipe and which is passed upwardly through the opening 8 in the bottom 7 while threaded up- Wardlly through the opening 9, is a delivery Plpe As' clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the two pipes 13 and 14 rise from the bottom 7 and are threadedinto a pair of eccentrically disposed openings ina stationary plate 15, this plate being preferably though not necessarily of circular formation as shown in Fig. 4. By this detail of construction, it will be evident that no other fastening means is necessary to secure the plate 15 (an essential-part of the invention) in place, but that the two pipes 13 and 14 eifectively accomplish this end. v

Overlying the plate 15 and having apertures alined with the pipes 13 and 14 and an additional aperture -alined with the socket 16 formed in the upper side of said plate 15, is a washer 17 of leather or lthe like, while bearing upon the upper side of this washer, is the rotatable valve plate 18 having therein a port 19 adapted to normally aline, with the inlet 13 to allow the tank to lill with the oil or other iiuid to be dispensed. It is to be observed, however, that when the port 19 isso alined with the pipe 13, an imperforate portion of the plate 18 overlies the open upper end of the pipe 14 and prevents the discharge of fluid therefrom until said plate is rotated a predetermined amount towbring one of an arcuate series of delivery pipes 20 .carried` therebyl and projecting therethrough, into alinement with the pipe 14.

The delivery pipes 20, as clearly shown in Figs. land 2, rise .fromthe plate 18 and are disposed on an arc spaced either radially inward or radially outward from the port 19, whereby regardless of the amount to which the plate 18 is rotated, none of said delivery pipes 20 will register with the inlet pipe 13, but any one of the aforesaid pipes 20 may be brought into vertical alinement with the pipe 14. By so-doing, and by varying the lengths of the pipes 20, any desired inlet pipe 13, the result being that the oil until thelevel of such oil reaches the upper end of the pipe 2 0 in question. Needless to say, the supply delivered-to the pipe 14 is then checked. rIhe same operation takes place when discharging any desired amount of fluid from the tank, by positioning the proper pipe 20 above the delivery pipe, the relative positions. of the pipes 20 and 14 being ascertained from the exterior of the tank by any appropriate type of indicating means placed thereon. Such means, however, is not illustrated since any one of the numerous designs of such devices, well known to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates, may be applied to use for this purpose. v

In order to retain the plate 18 in proper 1 relation to the pipes A13 and 14, the center thereof is provided with ajournal 21 preferably though not necessarily formed as an integral part thereof, and received by the.

sprocket 16 while in order to rotate the plate 18 in the manner above set forth, it is provided with an ,upright cylindrical stem 22 either formed integrally therewith or secured thereto in any preferred manner, the

upper end of this stem being extendedv through the stuiing box 3 and being reduced directly above said box to provide an annular .shoulder 23 against which a nut 24 having a threaded engagement with a portion of said stung'box bears, whereby lto retain the plate 18 in proper frictional contact with the washer 17 for obvious reasons'. Secured to the upper end of the stem 22, directly above the nut 24, is a handle 25 which'may be in the form of a lever'as disclosed in the present application, or` of any other preferred design. n

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be evident that although very simple construction has been provided for the attainment of the desired ends, the complete device will be highly efficient in operation' and will possess a number of advantageous features. Particular emphasis is laid upon the unique manner in which the plate 15,is

4plishing probably the, best results, and in the preceding such details have been described, but it will be evident that I need not be limited thereto, or to character of materials, proportions of parts, etc., otherwise than to the extent to which the appended claims .restrict me. within the tank will be discharged through the active pipe 2O and the delivery pipe 14,

' I claim:- v

1. In combination, a tank having in its bottom a pair of spaced openings, a non-rotatable plate disposed in contact with said bottom and having openings alined with the aforesaid openings, an inlet pipe 'threaded through one o f the openings in the bottom and into one of the openings in the plate, a delivery pipe threaded through the other opening in the bottom and into the other Opening in the plate, a rotatableI valve plate 90 operating over -the aforesaid. plate andl having its axis disposed nearer to one of the aforesaid pipes than to the other, a port in saidl valve plate normally alining with the inlet pipe, and an arcuate series of upstanding delivery tubes of unequal length rising from the valve'plate and spaced from the -axis thereof a distance equal to that at which the delivery pipe -is spaced therefrom.

. 2. In a fluid measuring device, the combination of a horizontal rotary valve disk having concentricwith its axis a series of upstanding uid delivery tubes of unequal lengths.l said disk also having an inlet opening spaced radially from the arc of theseries of tubes, in combination with a tank, a fluid inlet into the bottom thereof adapted for registration with the inlet opening in the valve disk, and an outlet from said tank for registrationwith-the aforesaid fluid delivery tubes. g

' -3. A fluid measuring device comprising a closed tank having a Hat horizontal bottom, a flat horizontal plate resting on said bottom and having in its upper side a central socket, a flat horizontal gasket restingon the plate and having an opening registering with the socket, an upright inlet pipe threaded through the tank bottom, the plate and into the gasket, an upright outlet pipe likewise threaded through the tank bottom, the plate and into .the gasket, said pipes terminating in a plane below the upper side of the gasket'and being spaced unequal distances in opposite directions from the socket, a flat horizontal valve plate resting on the gasket said socket, said plate also having a Psingle inlet opening for registration with the inlet and having a central stud depending into tulliesoii unequl lngth lising from the nesses. va ve p ate an a apte v or registration v Vwith the outlet pipe, means for rotating said GUS STEPHAN 5 valve plate, and means for supplying iuid to Witnesses:

the aforesaid inlet pipe. LAWRENCE JAYNE In testimony whereof I have hereunto -set CEAS.' E. NoEsKE.

p pe, an arcuate series of upright outlet my hand in presence of two subscribing wit-

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