TECHNIQUE AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING FLUIDS

TECHNIQUE AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING FLUIDS A technique and apparatus for measuring liquids and granular materials comprising a measuring head which may either take the form of an attachment to or an integral part of a conventional primary container. The measuring head comprises two elements: (1) an upwardly extended modifying pour spout seated on the mouth of the primary container and disposed at an acute clockwise angle to the axis of the primary container; and (2) a measuring vessel which encloses or is coupled to the modifying pour spout of the primary container, and which has its own dispersing mouth disposed at a counterclockwise angle relative to the axis of the primary container. The pour angle of the primary container is so modified relative to the dispensing mouth of the measuring vessel that the filled contents of the measuring vessel can be completely dispensed without any of the contents of the primary container escaping into the measuring vessel. Further, the relative pour angles of the primary container and the dispensing mouth of the measuring vessel are so related that when the primary container is tipped with its axis at a preselected obtuse angle in a counterclockwise direction to the vertical reference, its entire contents can be dispensed through the dispensing mouth of the measuring vessel. A pair of indicating scales on the transparent or translucent measuring vessel permit the contents to be measured in pourto-measure position and to be remeasured when the axis of the primary container is vertical. An added scale measures the amount of the contents remaining in the measuring vessel after pour-back to the primary container. The measuring vessel can be uncalibrated or calibrated in English volumetric units, or in metric volumetric units, or in both.