US450561A

US450561A - durnbaugh

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Publication number: US450561A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-04-14
Anticipated expiration: 1908-04-14

Description

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

J. A. DURNBAUGH. REGISTERING BEER PAUGET.

No. 450,561. Patented Apr. 14,1891.

114: mm runs (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. LDURNBAUGH. REGISTERING-BEER FAUOET.

Patented Apr. 14,

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH A. DURNBAUGH, OF \Yl XSI'IING ON, DISTRIC" OF COLUMBIA.

REGISTERING BEER-FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,561, dated April 14, 1891.

Application filed January 29, 1891. Serial No. 379,538. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JosEPH A. Dunnnaucn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Registering Beer- Faucet, of which the follo\\"ing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in measuring-faucets.

The object of the present invention is to provide for liquid beveragessuch as beer and the like-a measuring-faucet adapted to draw a glass or other predetermined quantity of the liquid at each emptying of the faucet, and capable of accurately registering the n u mber of glasses or drawings of the liquid.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a measuring and registering faucet constructed in accordance with this invention, and shown applied in operative position to a barrel. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the faucet, the top plate being removed. Fig. 3 is a similar View, the top plate and registering-dials being removed. Fig. & is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail sectional view illustrating the registering mechanism. Fig. 7 is a detail view of the indicating-dials.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1

designates a faucet having its inn er end tapering and adapted to be driven into a barrel, and provided at its outer end with a casing 2, which forms a measuririg-chamber adapted to contain a glass or other predetermined quantity of liquid, and provided in its upper face with a recess 3, adapted to contain mechanism for registering the number of glasses of liquid drawn.

The faucet is especially designed for measuring beer, and as beer-faucets are in constant use it is desirable and advantageous to register the number of glasses drawn and keep a check on the person drawing the beer. The body or tubular portion of the faucet is provided with a longitudinal conduit 4, which leads from the barrel or the inner tapering end to the measuririg-chamber 5, and terminates at the top of the latter in order to fill the same without requiring additional pressure; and at the end of the conduit 4 is arranged a filling-spigot (J, which, when open, permits the liquid to run into and fill the chamber 5, and at the outer end of the faucet is arranged a drawing-spigot, which empties the chamber 5, and is adapted to be turned to empty the said chamber only when the drawing-spigot 6 is closed.

The stem of the drawing-spigot is provided with a cam 8, which is arranged in the recess 3 at the bottom thereof, and is adapted to engage one end 9 of a centrally-pivotec'llever 10 to withdraw the other end 11 from engagement with a disk 12, mounted on the stem of the drawing-spigot 7 to permit the latter to be turned to empty the contents of the measuring-chamber. The lever 10 is fulcrumed on the pivot 13, and has its end 11 provided with a dog 14, which is normally held in engagement with a notch 15 of the disk 12 bya spring 16, having one end secured to the lever 10 and its other end attached to a screw or projection 17, rising from the bottom of the recess The cam Sis arranged to engage the lever 10 to release the disk 12 when the filling-spigot is turned off, thereby preventing the emptying-spigot being opened while the filling-spigot is open. The lever 10 has pivoted to it a spring-pressed pawl 18, which engages a ratchet-wheel 19 and rotates the same one tooth at each opening and closing of the filling-spigot, and the ratchet-wheel is mounted upon aspindle 20, which is provided at its upper end with an indicating-dial 21, bearing numbers from one to twenty-five, and arranged to display one of them in an opening 22 of a top plate 23, forming a cover for the recess 3. The spindle 20 is journaled in the bottom of the recess and in the top plate 23, and carries an actuatingdisk 24, provided with a single toot-h 25, which at each complete revolution of the spindle and indicatingdial moves a four-toothed cog 26 one tooth. The cog-wheel 26 is mounted on a spindle 27, which is journaled similarly to the spindle 20, and is provided at its upper end with an indicating dial 29, hearing the numbers 0, 25, 50, and '75, and the spindle 27 carries an actu ating-disk 30, which is constructed similarly to that heretofore described, and is provided with a tooth 31, arranged to engage at each complete revolution of the spindle 27 a cogwheel 32, mounted on a spindle 33, and having ten teeth. The spindle 33 carries an indicating-dial 3t and an actuating-disk 35, which meshes with a cog-wheel 36 of a spindle 37. The indicating-dial 34 bears numbers from O to 9, and at each complete revolution of the spindle 33 the tooth 38 of the actuating-disk 35 moves the cog-Wheel 36 one tooth, and indicates a thousand on the dial 39 at the upper end of the spindle 37. The figures of the dials are displayed through the openings 22 of the top plate 23, and it will thus be seen that an examination of the faucet will indicate at a single glance the number of glasses of beer or other liquid drawn.

It will bev seen that the faucet is simple and inexpensive inconstruction, adapted to be used in the ordinary manner, and is capable of readily indicating the number of glasses of the liquid drawn.

What I claim as new is 1. The combination, in a faucet, of the body 1, provided at its outer end with a casing having a measuring-chamber 5 communicating with the conduit, the filling-spigot 6, arranged at the end of the conduit, the emptying-spigot 7, means for locking the emptyingspigot when the filling-spigot is open, and registering mechanism actuated by the looking means, substantially as described.

2.v The combination of a faucet, the casing 2 arranged at the outer end thereof and provided with a measuring-chamber and having a recess 3, the filling-spigot arranged at the end of the faucet proper, the drawing-spigot, and the lever having one end arranged to engage and lock the drawing-spigot and the other end arranged to be engaged by the filling-spigot, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination of a faucet provided with a casing having a measuring-chamber, thefilling-spigot, the drawing-spigot, the lever having one end arranged to engage and lock the drawing-spigot, and the other end arranged to be engaged by the filling-spigot, and registering mechanism connected to and being operated .by the lever, substantially as described. 7

4. The combination of a faucet provided with a ineasuringchamber, the filling-spigot carrying a cam, the drawing-spigot carrying a disk provided with a notch, and the lever having one end arranged to engage the notch of said disk and its other end arranged to be engaged by said cam, substantially as de scribed.

5. The combination of a faucet provided with a measuring-chamber, the drawing-spigot, the filling-spigot, the lever arranged to engage the drawing-spigot and to be engaged by the filling-spigot, the spindle carrying an indicating-dial, the ratchet-wheel mounted on the spindle, and the pawl connected to the lever and engaging the ratchet-wheel and operating the same, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a faucet having a measuring-chamber, the drawing-spigot, the filling-spigot, the lever having one end engaging the drawing-spigot and its other end arranged to be engaged by the filling-spigot, the spindles 20 and 28, carrying indicatingdials, the ratchet-Wheel mounted on the spindle 20, the pawl pivoted to the lever and engaging the ratchet-Wheel, a cog-wheel mounted on the spindle 28, and an actuating-disk mounted on the spindle 20 and provided with a tooth arranged to engage the said cogwheel, substantially as, described.

7. The combination of a faucet having a measuring-chamber, the filling-spigot carryinga cam, the drawing-spigot provided with a disk having a notch, the lever fulcrumed intermediate of its ends and provided at one end with a dog to engage the notch of said disk and having its other end arranged to be engaged by the cam, and a spring connected with the lever and holding the dog in engagement with the notch of said disk, sub--