US1501310A - Liquid-delivery tap - Google Patents

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3y as 1924. 1,501,310

(3. CHAMBERS LIQUID DELIVERY TAP Filed April 6. 1923 2 Shana-Sheet. 1

July i c. CHAMBERS" I LIQUID DELIVERY TAP Filed April 6, 1923 2 Sheets-Shegt '2 4 4 Id? I Patented July 1 5, 1924..

KT D S T TES connnmus CHAMBERS, or SHIRLEY, ENGLAND.

LIQUID-DELIVERY TAP.

Application filed April 6,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS CHAMBERS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Monkspath Priory, Shirley, in the county of Warwick, England, have invented certain new Improvements in Liquid-Delivery Taps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention comprises improvements in liquid delivery taps and refers to that class of such in which two delivery taps or valves are interconnected so that two or more different liquids may be simultaneously delivered from difi'erent containers, both being controlled by a single handle or equivalent. The invention is particularly applicable for use in the delivery and mixture .of a syrup and soda water, so that the propor tions of these liquids as delivered are con stant.

The primary object'of the present invention is to construct a tap of this kind which will deliver a measured quantity of the one liquid, and in accordance therewith the one tap or valve is constructed as a measure, preferably incorporating a glass front, so that the delivery to and from the measure is visible.

Further objects of the invention will be apparent from the following description.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of a liquid delivery tap according to this invention.

Figure 2 is an end elevation thereof. Figure 3 is a plan view thereof with the operating handle removed.

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4.4 in

Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a section on the line 55 in Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a section on the line 66 1n Figure 4.

In the construction illustrated, the main body portion 1 of the tap is in the form of a casting having two vertical tapered socket members 2 and 3 adapted to receive the plug portions 4 and 5 of a tap, these two socket members 2 and 3 being secured together by means of the integral connecting web 6. The one socket member 2 carries a visible measuring device which comprises a chamber 7 formed on the front of the socket and communicating therewithby means of the two vertically spaced ports 14 and 15 and hav- 1923. Serial No. 630,315.

ing a glass front 13 through which the passage of the liquid, say a syrup, to and from the chamber 7 may be observed.

The socket members 2 and 3 are provided with inlet pipes 8 and 9 respectively, and the plug portion 4 of the syrup delivery valve has a port opening 10, which in one position comes adjacent the upper port 14 of the'chamber 7 and so puts the syrup inlet pipe into communication with the said. measuring chamber 7. A second port opening 11 is also provided in the plug 4, which when the plug has been rotated through substantially a right angle, comes adjacent the lower port 15 and puts the delivery end of 1 the plug into communication with the uring chamber 7 for the discharge of the syrup, the lower end of the plug 4 being of tubular form, as shown at 12 in Figure 4.

In order to facilitate the discharge of the syrup or the like, air is allowed to pass into the upper part of the chamber 7, through the hole 26 in the socket member 2, which is now in communication with the port 10, and from thence through the radial hole 27 provided in the plug member 4 to the port 14, and thence to the chamber 7.

The second plug member 5 is used to control the delivery of soda water and is provided with a small axial hole 17 opening at its upper end into a radial port 18 adapted to register with the inlet pipe 9. The soda water is thus passed directly from the inlet pipe 9 to the outlet of the tap when the plug member 5 is in a suitable position.

The outlet end of the plug 5 is preferably provided with a small screwed in cap 28 having a closed end 29, a central passage 30 and two or more radial openings 31. The object of this plug is to prevent foaming by causing the soda water or other liquid under pressure to break into two small jets.

The outlets 12 and 17 of the two plug members 4 and 5 communicate with the upper ends of the two tubular limbs 22 and 23 of a substantially Y shaped delivery member, whereby the syrup or like liquid and the soda are discharged into the drinking vessel or tumbler, well mixed together. The two tubes 22 and 23 are secured to the lower ends of the socket members 2 and 3 by means of the screwed connecting collars 24 and 25.

The upper ends of the plug members 4 and 5 are provided with toothed wheels 19 and 20 meshing one with the other, the plug 4. also being provided with a controlling handle 21, whereby the two; plugs are simultaneously operated.

In the normal or off position of the valves, the operating handle 21 is disposed in the plane of the two socket members 2 and 3, the plug member 5 is disposed. so that the radial port 18 is at right angles to the inlet pipe 9, and the plug member 1 disposed that the inlet port 10 is in communication with both the inlet pipe 8 and the port 1 1 leading into the measuringchamber 7, so that the chamber 7 is norm-ally kept full of syrup or the like.. When the operating handle 21 is moved through a right angle, the lower port 11 of the plug member 4 comes into communication with the measur ing chamber 7 through the port 15, the supply to the chamber 7 being simultaneously cut off. The movement of the handle 21 is also transmitted to the plug member 5 through the medium of the toothed wheels 19 and 21, and this plug member 5 is also rotated through a right angle bringing the radial port 18 into communication with the inlet pipe 9. Thus simultaneous delivery of the two liquids takes place, and these are delivered to the tumbler or drinking vessel, having been already .mixed in the junction portion of the two tubes 22 and 23.

Normally the handle 21 would be returned to the off position immediately all the syrup or the like had flowed out of the measuring chamber, in which case a standard quantity of soda would be supplied. If, however, more soda was required, the taps could be held open for any longer period desired. As soon as the handle is returned to its off position, the port 10 puts the measuring chamber 7 into communication again with the inlet pipe 8 and the chamber refills.

What I claim then is A liquid delivery tap comprising a pair of tap bodies having laterally extending inlet passages in corresponding positions on the sides ot the two bodies and outletpassages in their lower ends; a measuring chamber disposed in the side of one of the tap bodies opposite the inlet passage therein, having inlet and discharge openings; a transparent front for said measuring chamber; a pair of plug valves in said bodies having diametral ports, the valve in the measuring chamber body having two ports, one for the inlet and one for the outlet, and the valve in the other body having a single port, which port and said outlet port are arranged in the same angular relation and in different angular positions to said inlet port, so that said single port and said outlet port are opened together when the said inlet port is closed and vice ve-rsa; gearing interconnecting said valves so: that they move simultaneously and by the same amount, and an operating handle on one of said plug valves.

In witness whereof I afliX my signature.

CORNELIUS CHAMBERS.

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