US578767A

US578767A - John ormerod

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Publication number: US578767A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-03-16
Anticipated expiration: 1914-03-16

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOIIN ORMEROD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN SODA FOUNTAIN COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VALVE-OPERATING MECHANISM FOR SYRUP-JARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,767, dated March 16, 1897.

Application led August 27, 1895. Serial No. 560,637. (No model.)

To otZZ whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, JOHN ORMEROD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Valve-Operating Mechanism for Syrup-.I ars, of which the following is a specieation.

Heretofore the operating devices for the valves or valve-rods of syrup-jars in sodawater fountains were located above or below the case containing the syrup-j ars. Such arrangements were very inconvenient and difficult to operate.

My invention is designed to overcome these objections and to generally improve the valveoperating mechanism; and it consists in the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out by the claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a soda-water fountain, part of the front wall being broken away to show two syrupjars and the valve-operating mechanism 3 Fig. 2, a cross-section through one of the jars, and Fig. 3 an enlarged sectional view of the valve-operating mechanism.

A is the casing, and B B the syrup-jars, having measuring-chambers B'. Each' jar is provided with valves ct and a and a valverod a2, which rod is tubular, so as to provide an air-passage for venting the measuringchamber. These jars and their valves are of the well-known construction employed in the Matthews apparatus.

To operate the valves, I provide each valverod with a head b, which is preferably screwed onto the rod, as shown, and each head has an extension recessed at ZJ. In front of each jar is an upright rod c, working in guides c' and provided with a head c2, which enters recess Z7. The lifting-rods c of two adjacent jars are independently operated by the rocking lever d, carried by a spindle d', to which is rigidly secured a key or handle d2. Spindle d' passes through a sleeve d3, set into an opening in the casing, and said sleeve is secured in place by a cap d4, screwed onto the outer end of the sleeve and setting against the casing. The upper edges of the two arms of the rocking lever are preferably curved so as to form a cam-surface, thus allowing a more easy movement.u To insure the lever returning to its normal position, I provide a plate or platform e, which is pressed upwardly against shoulders d5 d5 on lever d by a spiral spring e', which is seated in a box e2. The spring c enters the tubular shank e3 of the platform e, 6o

and the shank e3 fits snugly into the box c2 and serves to guide the platform. The shoulders d5 on the rocking lever d are provided with projections d, which work in grooves in the platform e, which serve to prevent the ,platform from tilting sidewise.

Boxes e2 are set into cross-piece O, which forms part of the casing.

D D are labels placed on the outside of the casing and in front of the jars and bearing 7o the names of the syrups in the jars.

E is a draft-arm for drawing beverages. To draw syrup from the jar marked Lemom for instance, handle cl2 is pushed toward that label, by which movement rod c in front of that jar is raisedby the cam action of the arm cl, and rod c lifts valve-rod a2 by engaging with head D, thus opening the valve a and closing valve a', whereby the syrup in themeasuring-chamberis discharged. When 8o the handle d2 is released, it is returned to its normal position by the action of spring e', and the lifting-rod c and valve-rod a2 return to their normal positions by gravity, thus closinO valve a and o enin@v valve a whereu on 8 D D 9 p the measuring-chamber is relled, as is now well understood.

To draw syrup from the jar marked Orange, handle cl2 is pushed toward that label,

thus rocking lever d in the opposite direc- 9o tion and raising rod c in front of that jar, whereby the valves are operated, as before described. This arrangement of the valveoperating mechanism is much simpler than that heretofore employed, and the operatinghandle is placed in the most convenient position for operation, thus enabling an attendant to serve more quickly. The operatinglOO out departing from the spirit of my invention and that it may also be altered to operate a` single valve instead of two adjacent valves without .detraeting from the advantages of my construction.

What I claim isl. In a soda-water fountain, the combination with the Valve-rods of two adjacent syrupjars, of the lifting-rod for each valve-rod, the rocking lever for raising said lifting-rods, the handle for operating said lever,and the spring for returning said lever to its normal position substantially as set forth.

2. In a soda-Water fountain, the combination with the valve-rods of two syrup-jars, of the lifting-rod for each valve-rod, the rocking lever for raising said lifting-rods, a handle for operating said lever, and a spring-pressed plate engaging with the said rocking lever, whereby it is returned to its normal position, substantially as set forth.

8. In a soda-water fountain, the combination with the valve-rods of two syrup-jars, of the lifting-rod for each valve-rod, the rocking lever for raising said lifting-rods, the handle for operating said lever, two shoulders on said lever, and a spring-pressed plate with which either one of said shoulders will engage when the lever is operated, whereby the lever is returned to its normal position, substantially as set forth.

4. In a soda-Water fountain, the combination of the case, syrup -jars provided with valves and valve-operating devices Within said case, the rocking lever Within said case situated so as to engage adjacent valve-operating devices, the spring for returning said lever to its normal position, the spindle eX- tending through the case and the handle on said spindle outside the case, substantially as set forth.

5. In a soda-Water fountain, the combination of the case, a syrup-jar within the case and provided with a valve at its lower end, a valve-rod passing throughthe jar, an arm extending out from said valve-rod, a lifting-rod adapted to engage beneath said arm, a lifting device engaging beneath the lower end of said lifting-rod, but unconnected with the same, and an operating device passing through the front wall of the case and operatively connected with s'aid lifting device, substantially as set forth.

6. In a soda-Water fountain, the combination of the case, a syrup-jar within the case and provided with a valve at its lower end, a valve-rod passing through the jar, a liftingrod adapted to engage with said valve-rod, a rocking lever engagingbeneath the lower end of said liftingrod, but unconnected with the same, and an operating device passing through the front wall of the case and operatively connected with said rocking lever, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 8th day of July, 1895.

v JOHN ORMEROD. Witnesses:

EUGENE CONRAN, JOHN R. TAYLOR.