US171979A - Improvement in measuring-faucets - Google Patents

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T. W. BLACKERBY -9a G. K. NOLAND.`

MEAsUmNG-FAUCET.

Patented Jan. 11, 187s.

UNITED STATES' PATENT (DE'EICE.y

ATHOMAS, w, BLACKEEBYAND GEORGE K. noLA'ND, 0E usrnivronn7 KY.;

SAID BLACKEBBY ASSIGNOR vTO MARY ANNy BLACKERBY, OF SALTEV PLACE.

IMPRovl-:MENT IN MEAsuRlNe-FAuce-r's'.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,979, dated January 11, 1876; application filed October 22, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that we, THOMAS W,"BLACK ERBY and GEORGE K. NOLAND, both of Stanford, in the, county of Lincoln and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful' Improvements in Measuring-Faucets and we do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification.

This invention consists in a novel combination of measuring chambers, an interposed valve or plug chamber having separate inlet and outlet passages, and ai hollow plug or valve divided into compartments,`formin g sep arate receiving and delivering chambers, and provided, respectively, with an inlet-passage and an outlet-passage, the whole operating by the turning of the plug to lill and draw oi' liquid from either measuring-chamber, substantially as hereinafter described.

Figure l represents a longitudinal vertical section of a two-ehambered measuring-faucet having Vour improvements applied, and with l -its plug or valve in a position for charging or lling the one measuringchamber; Fig. 2, a similar view, but with the plug turned to discharge the liquid from said ineasuringehamber. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the same on the line w a'. Fig. 4. is a view, in perspective, of the plug or valve. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line y y through the valve or plug and chamber in which itworks; and Fig. 6 a horizontal section of the same on the line A A' are the two measuring-chambers of the faucet, of different capacities to each other,

-to provide for drawing oft' different-measured quantities of liquid, according to which of the two chambers is used. These two chambersare joined at their one or inner end by a valve or plug chamber, B, which is provided with two independent upper inlet-passages, a a, the one communicating with the one measuringchamber A, and the other with the other measuring-chamber A'.` Said plug-chamber B is also provided with two independent lower outlet-passages, b b, in like communication, respectively, with the two measuring'chambers A A'. l The faucet is l attached to the cask or4 .barrel by a screwthread on thel upper end of l the plug-chamber, o r otherwise. O is the plug or valve, which may either be kof a conical or cylindrical construction to t the chamber .B, v

`in which it turns or works. This plug C is hollow, and divided, so as to constitute au upper receiving-chamber, E, and a lower outletcompartment, E', the former of said chambers being open at its top to receive the liquid from the cask or barrel, and the other of such chambers or compartments being open below to provide for the discharge of the liquid after being measured. F is the handle by which the plug 0 is turned between suitable stops,

to adjust the plug into its filling or discharging positions, asV regards either measuring chamber, or to close said chambers, as required.v This handle may be secured on the lower end of the plug by a nut, g, having airvents or recesses on its lower face for operation in connection with longitudinal air-vents or recesses, as shown inFig. 4, on the lower end ot' the plug, which protrudes beyond the nut, to provide for the escape of air from the neck of a bottle or other vessel under the course of being iilled, and the mouth of which inlet-passage to the liquid from the receiving chamber E into both measuring-chambers A A', through the passages c a, by suitably turning the plug when it is required to till said measuring chambers. The outlet compartment E' of the plug C is also provided on the opposite side of the latter with a passage, f, which, when adjusted by the turning of the plug into line with either ofthe passages b b of the plug-chamber, forms an out-let for the liquid from either measuring-chamber A A', respectively, into the outlet-compartment E', and when said passage fis so adj usted, the inlet-passage d of the plug is turned out of line or range with the inlet-passage a of the same measuring-chamber A or A'.

In this way, or by these means, accordingly as the plug C is turned to the rightor to the left, to bring the passagefin linewith eitherl which the passage d is arranged is an air-recess, l, in the upper portion oi the plug. This recess is of a length and arranged so that, on turning the plug O to discharge from either measuring-chamber A Athrough its outlet b and plug-passagef, said recess is brought in communication with one or other of two airorices, m m, in or through the sides ofthe upp'er portion of the plug-chamber B, and so that said recess l is, furthermore, in communication with the inlet-passage a of the measuring-chamber from which the liquid is being discharged. This provides for the admission of air to the top of the liquid in' the measuringchamber being emptied, to facilitate the expulsion of the liquid, and alike for this purpose, as Well as to facilitate the running on of all the liquid from the measuring-chambers, it is desirable to make said chambers (when arranged horizontally) of a tapering form, diminishing in capacity toward their outer ends.

vThe measuring-chamber A is represented as fitted with aspacing stopper or plunger, G, working Within a cylindrical sleeve extending longitudinally within the chamber, and open at its inner end. By moving this stopper G vin or out, the working capacity of the measuring-chamber is increased or diminished to adjust it to any desired measurement, and the rod ofthe stopper may be graduated to facilitate such adjustment.

-To provide for drawing 0E the liquid from the cask or other vessel without measuring itas, for instance, when itl is desired to empty the cask or vessel-either measuring- -chamber may be fitted with a discharge-tube in its bottom, provided with a cock to close it at other times, but which, when opened, and the plug C is adjusted to put its inlet-passage d in communication with the passages a a, establishes a free outlet for the liquid from the cask or vessel.

We claim- The combination of the measurin g-chambers A A', one of which is provided with a gradu-v ating-plunger, G, the interposed valve-chamber B, having' passages a a and b b, and the 4valve G, provided with an inlet-passage, d, and `outlet-passage j', in communication, respectively, with avreceiving-chamber, E, and outlet-compartment E in said valve, substantially as described.

Trios. w. BLACKERBY. e; K. NoLAND.

`Vlitnessessy BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN, FRED HaYNEs

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