US463088A - Filling attachment - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

T P. D. WINKLEY. FILLING ATTACHMENT.

No. 463,088. Patented Nov. 10, 1891.

Zia/620762" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK D. \VINKLEY, OF BROOKLYN, IVIS CONSIN.

FILLING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,088, dated November 10, 1891.

Application filed June 1, 1891. $erial No. 394,739- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK D. WINKLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Green and State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Filling Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide for the filling of vessels from a source of supply in such a manner and by such means as to require no care to prevent absolutely all danger of overflow, and to regulate definitely the quantity of liquid contained in the can or other vessel when it is removed from beneath the source of supply.

My invention includes a filling-tube adapted to enter the mouth of the vessel to be filled, with a chamber located around said fillingtube, said chamber having at its mouth a packing-ring adapted to receive and bear upon the mouth of the vessel to be filled, with a passage around the filling-tube from the can to the chamberlocated around said tube and with a passage from said chamber, the can being filled through the filling-tube and the surplus liquid being siphoned off around ,the said tube and the passage connected therewith until the liquid in the can has been lowered to a point slightly beneath the end of the filling-tube.

The invention consists in various devices and combinations of devices, hereinafter fully described and particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my improved filling device with a vessel in position beneath the same, the filling device being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the parts on line 00 x of Fig. 1-. Fig.3 is a bottom view of the fillingpipe to show the radial wings projecting therefrom.

It is well known that in the filling of vessels from a source of supply there is great liability of overflow of the vessel, especially where the supply is located in a dark place or the vessel to be filled is made of material not transparent, and the necessity of means to prevent this overflow and permit of the vessel being filled with a definite quantity has led me to devise, the means which I will now describe.

passage E, and the plug B intercepts this passage in one position, as shown in Fig. 1. [n this position the passage through the plug registers with the passage a, which is in connection with the pipe 0, leading to the source of supply, and when the plug is turned in the position shown in Fig. l the liquid may flow freely into the can or other vessel to be filled.

The lowerpartot the castingA is provided with a chamberJ of larger diameter than the central bore E, and located within this chamber isa filling-tube F, of the same internal diameter as the central opening E, this tube being suitably secured in place and forming practically a continuation of the central passage. The end of the tube projects beyond the bottom line of the casting and is adapted to enter the mouth of the vessel to be filled. It is provided upon its periphery with a series of longitudinal wings extending laterally from the periphery of the tube, with the outer edges thereof extending at an angle from the lower end of the tube upwardly, so as to serve as a guide in directing the contracted mouth of the vessel to be filled to a seat upon the ring or packing of flexible material fitted to a recess in the lower end of the casting, as clearly shown in the figures at H. The chamber J, it will be seen, surrounds the fillingtube and is provided at its upper end Witha discharge-pipe N, which may lead to any suitable point of discharge. It will thus be seen that the liquid will flow in through the pipe 0 and through the filling-tube, when the valve is in the position shown in Fig. l, to the can. It may flow freely without any watchfulness upon the part of the operator until he is satisfied that sutficient fluid has flowed through to fill the can. lie then turns the plug by means of the handle to cut off the flow through the pipe 0, and thus opens the central opening E for the admission of air. If the can has been more than filled, the surplus will run out through the chamber J around the fillingtube and out at the discharge-pipe N, which will thus establish a siphon action, which Will be aided by the pressure of air on the surface of the liquid in the tube F, and this siphonage will continue until the liquid has been lowered in the vessel being filled below the end of the pipe F, and thus by providing the pipe F of a definite length the height of the liquid in the can being filled can be definitely determined.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A filling attachment consisting of a main part having a central passage through the same in connection with the air at one end, with a valve therein, a passage With suitable connections to a source of supply, also controlled by said valve,'a filling-tube adapted to project into the mouth of the-vessel to be filled, a packing fitting the mouth of the vessel to make the connection liquid-tight, anda passage around said filling-tube in connection with a discharge, substantially as described.

2. A filling attachment consisting of acasting A, a central opening through the same, open at one end to the air, a supply-pipe opening therein into the central passage, a valve at the junction, at filling-tube, guiding wings or flanges projecting from said fillingtube, and a chamber around said tube to connect with the passage, substantially as described.

In testimony Whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK D. WINKLEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. GEIGER, MCGOVERN.

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