🏭 Wilhelm Sedlbauer (Munich) Germany, is a confirmed manufacturer and developer of utility-meter register mechanisms. Patent CH166837, filed in 1933, explicitly covers the manufacture of counting mechanisms for gas meters, water meters and electricity meters. While evidence for manufacture of complete water meters remains unconfirmed, Sedlbauer can be firmly classified as a specialist producer of meter-register technology used within utility metering systems.

🔧 Based on the evidence Wilhelm Sedlbauer of Munich was a manufacturer of water meter register mechanisms and supplied a number of undisclosed water meter manufacturers.

Company Overview

Founder: Wilhelm Sedlbauer (1873-1954)🧭 Archival records from Bavaria describe him as a factory owner of a precision mechanical workshop in Munich.

The 1933 patent relates to:

"A method for manufacturing counting mechanisms for gas meters, water meters, electricity meters etc."

This confirms that Sedlbauer was involved in the highly specialized production of:

- Meter register mechanisms

- Number wheels

- Counting assemblies

- Precision gearing

- Utility meter instrumentation. Patent details

Patent Number: CH166837

Filing date: 6 January 1933

Publication date: 31 January 1934

IPC classifications:

G04B 29/00

G06M 1/02

The modern Sedlbauer company traces its heritage to Wilhelm Sedlbauer and today manufactures electrical and electromechanical products, indicating the firm's strong roots in precision engineering.

📜 Historical Significance Sedlbauer's importance may lie less in producing meter bodies and more in supplying the register technology that made utility metering possible.

The register mechanism is often the most technically sophisticated part of a meter because it converts fluid movement into a permanently recorded numerical reading.

Many nineteenth and early twentieth century meter makers purchased or licensed specialized register systems from precision instrument firms rather than manufacturing them entirely in-house. Sedlbauer appears to have operated within this highly skilled sector of the metering industry.