Portable liquid metering device

• US 4,265,370 A
• Filed: 03/22/1979
• Issued: 05/05/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1979
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation (Perspecta, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation (Perspecta, Inc.)
• Inventors: Reilly, David H.
• Primary Examiner(s): ROLLA, JR., JOSEPH J
• Application Number:
  US06/022,984
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 222/23, 222/25, 222/36, 222/37, 222/70, 222/153, 222/129.3, 222/129.4, 222/206, 222/211, 222/215
• US Class Current: 222/25
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/00 Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it

Abstract

A portable liquid metering device for detachably securing to the opening of a liquid container and adapted to discharge a predetermined volume of liquid upon tipping and having a register for counting and displaying the number of times the bottle is tipped.

Claims

1. A self-contained portable liquid metering and dispensing device comprising:

a housing (10) having upper pouring means (10a) and lower inlet means (19) for detachably securing to the opening of a liquid container;

air means (16) extending through said housing into said lower means (19);

conduit means connecting said pouring and lower means and including a flexible resilient portion (13), means (12a) for pinching off flow in said resilient portion (13), a reverse polarity motor means (11) connected to and actuating said pinching means (12a);

power means (20) for actuating said motor means (11);

movable magnet means (24b) moved by tipping of the device;

switch means (24) actuated by said magnet means (24g);

logic means (100) actuated by said switch means (24) to cause said motor means to rotate to release said pinching means (12a) from said resilient portion (13), stop rotation for a predetermined period of time and then rotate on reverse to pinch off said resilient portion (13); and

means (17) for counting and displaying the number of actuations of said switch means (24);

all of said means being carried completely by said housing.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein means (22) carried by said housing are provided to vary said predetermined period of time.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein means (18) carried by said housing are provided to count and display the number of times the device is removed from the liquid container.

4. The device of claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein display is not visible except when user passes a magnet over a magnetic reed switch means (23) carried by said housing and connected to said logic means (100).