IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINATION COCKS OR VALVES FOR SUPPLYING WATER TO BATHS IN SPRAY OR OTHER FORMS to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, JAMES GRAY CONNELL, of 38 St Enoch Square, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Brassfounder, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINATION COCKS OR VALVES FOR SUPPLYING
WATER TO BATHS IN SPRAY OR OTHER FORMS to be as follows:-
"
My said Invention has for its object to construct cocks or valves for baths in an
improved manner, and so that one valve may serve for delivering the water in
three different forms. The main movable piece of the improved valve is a conical
plug like that of a common tap but it is made hollow and with various openings
or passages, into or through it, and it can be placed in three different positions
according to the form in which it is wished to have the water delivered. The
hollow plug works in a fixed conical shell or body; and some arrangements may
be modified by transposing the parts and making the shell movable and the plug
fixed. The passages communicate with a delivering part which may be stationary;
or it may be movable with the movable plug or shell of the valve. In one arrange-
ment of the delivering part there is a perforated disk for delivering the water in
spray, with a round nozzle at the centre for delivering a douche jet, whilst above
the douche nozzle there is a slit for delivering the water in a broad sheet or wave;
and each of these parts communicates with separate passages. When the delivering
part moves with the valve the different outlets are arranged so as to be each
in its proper position for delivering the water when the valve is turned into the
corresponding position.
In the accompanying explanatory drawings, figure, 1, is a front view of one
modification, figure, 2, being a vertical section as at right angles to figure, 1. A
second modification is shown in vertical section in figure 3; and figure, 4, is a
front elevation of a third modification figures, 5, and 6, being vertical sections as
at right angles to figure, 4. In these drawings the same reference numerals are
used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
In the modification shown in figures, 1, and 2, the hollow plug, 7, is vertical and
works in a shell or body, 8, formed with an inlet, 9, at the inner side and with a
flange and screwed nozzle, 10, for fixing it to the side of the bath and to the service
pipe. The plug, 7, is made with four openings, an upper one, 11, a pair of
diametrically opposite middle ones, 12, and a lower one, 13; and the inlet, 9,
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page_text: which is elongated vertically but narrow horizontally communicates with whichever
of the openings is turned to it. At the outer side of the shell opposite the inlet, 9,
there are three ports, 14, 15, 16, one above the other, the top one, 14, communicating
with a passage which broadens horizontally and terminates in a narrow slit, 17, for
delivering the water in a wave or sheet. The middle port, 15, communicates with
a douche nozzle, 18; whilst the lowest port, 16, communicates with the interior, 19,
of a cone having a perforated spray disk, 20, covering the front of it except at the
parts where the wave mouth, 17, and douche nozzle, 18, project. The plug, 7, is
turned by means of a handle, 21, and when in the position shown in figure, 2, the
water has access into the plug by the lowest opening, 13, and passes out by the top
opening, 11, to the wave passage, 14. If the plug is turned half round the water
will enter it by the upper opening, 11, and pass by the lower opening, 13, into the
spray port, 16; and if the plug is turned a quarter round the water will pass across
by the middle openings, 12, to the douche port, 15.
In the modification shown in figure, 3, the hollow plug,.8, is placed horizontally
and has the delivering piece fixed to its outer end. The inlet, 9, in the shell, 8,
communicates with the inner end of the plug and passes by ports, 22, into a
passage, 23, formed in the shell, 8, and this passage communicates with ports, 14,
15, 16, in the plug and leading to the wave, douche, and spray delivering parts, 17,
18, 19, according to the position into which the delivery piece with the plug is
turned by means of a handle, 21.
In the modification, shown in figures, 4, 5, and 6, the delivering piece, 24, is
attached to the movable plug, 7, by means of a right-angled branch pipe, 25. In
figure, 5, the section is as taken, through the plug, 7; and in figure, 6, it is as
taken through the branch pipe, 25, and delivering piece, 24. The passages, 14,
15, 16, are twisted between the plug, 7, and the branch pipe, 25, and at the end
of the latter they communicate respectively with spaces, 26, 27, 19, in the shovel-
shaped delivering piece, 24. This piece is in figures, 4, 5, and 6, shown in position
for delivering a douche jet from the nozzle, 18. If the piece, 24, is turned up
through a quarter of a circle into a horizontal position it will deliver a wave or
sheet from the slit, 17, at its extreme end; and if it is turned further up through
another quarter of a circle the perforated plate or disk, 20, will face towards the
bath and the parts will be in position for delivering the water in spray.
Dated this twelfth day of February 1884.

page_text: I, JAMES GRAY CONNELL, of 38 St Enoch Square, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Brassfounder, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINATION COCKS OR VALVES FOR SUPPLYING
WATER-TO BATHS IN SPRAY OR OTHER FORMS," and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement that is to say':—
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My said Invention has for its object to construct cocks or valves for baths in an
improved manner, and so that one valve may serve for delivering the water in
three different forms. The main movable piece of the improved valve is a conical
plug like that of a common tap but it is made hollow and with various openings
or passages into or through it, and it can be placed in three different positions
according to the form in which it is wished to have the water delivered. The hollow
plug works in a fixed conical shell or body; and some arrangements may be modified
by transposing the parts and making the shell movable and the plug fixed. The
passages communicate with a delivering part which may be stationary; or it
may be movable with the movable plug or shell of the valve. In one arrangement
of the delivering part there is a perforated disk for delivering the water in spray,
with a round nozzle at the centre for delivering a douche jet, whilst above the
douche nozzle there is a slit for delivering the water in a broad sheet or wave; and
each of these parts communicates with separate passages. When the delivering
part moves with the valve the different outlets are arranged so as to be each in
its proper position for delivering the water when the valve is turned into the
corresponding position.
In the accompanying explanatory drawings figure, 1, is a front view of one
modification, figure, 2, being a vertical section as at right angles to figure, 1.
A second modification is shown in vertical section in figure, 3; and figure, 4, is a
front elevation of a third modification, figures, 5, and 6, being vertical sections as
at right angles to figure, 4. In these drawings the same reference numerals are
used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.'
In the modification shown in figures, 1, and 2, the hollow plug, 7, is vertical and
works in a shell or body, 8, formed with an inlet, 9, at the inner side and with a
flange and screwed nozzle, 10, for fixing it to the side of the bath and to the service
pipe. The plug, 7, is made with four openings, an upper one, 11, a pair of
diametrically opposite middle ones, 12, and a lower one, 13; and the inlet, 9,
which is elongated vertically but narrow horizontally communicates with whichever
of the openings is turned to it. At the outer side of the shell opposite the inlet, 9,
there are three ports, 14, 15, 16, one above the other, the top one, 14, communicating
with a passage which broadens horizontally and terminates in a narrow slit, 17, for
delivering the water in a wave or sheet. The middle port, 15, communicates with
a douche nozzle, 18; whilst the lowest port, 16, communicates with the interior, 19,
of a cone having a perforated spray disk, 20, covering the front of it except at the
parts where the wave mouth, 17, and douche nozzle, 18, project. The plug, 7, is
turned by means of a handle, 21, and when in the position shown in figure, 2, the
water has access into the plug by the lowest opening, 13, and passes out by the top
opening, 11, to the wave passage, 14. If the plug is turned half round the water
will enter it by the upper opening, 11, and pass by the lower opening, 13, into the
spray port, 16; and if the plug is turned a quarter round the water will pass
across by the middle openings, 12, to the douche port, 15.

page_text: In the modification shown in figure, 3, the hollow plug, 8, is placed horizontally
and has the delivering piece fixed to its outer end. The inlet, 9, in the shell, 8,
communicates with the inner end of the plug and passes by ports, 22, into a
passage, 23, formed in the shell, 8, and this passage communicates with ports, 14,
15, 16, in the plug and leading to the wave, douche, and spray delivering parts, 17,
18, 19, according to the position into which the delivering piece with the plug is
turned by means of a handle, 21.
In the modification shown in figures, 4, 5, and 6, the delivering piece, 24, is
attached to the movable plug, 7, by means of a right-angled branch pipe, 25. In
figure, 5, the section is as taken through the plug, 7; and in figure, 6, it is as taken
through the branch pipe, 25, and delivering piece, 24. The passages, 14, 15, 16,
are twisted between the plug, 7, and the branch pipe, 25, and at the end of the
latter they communicate respectively with spaces, 26, 27, 19, in the shovel-shaped
delivering piece, 24. This piece is in figures, 4, 5, and 6, shown in position for
delivering a douche jet from the nozzle, 18. If the piece, 24, is turned up through
a quarter of a circle into a horizontal position it will deliver a wave or sheet from
the slit, 17, at its extreme end; and if it is turned further up through another
quarter of a circle the perforated plate or disk, 20, will face towards the bath and
the parts will be in position for delivering the water in spray.
I do not restrict myself to the precise details herein described or delineated
provided that the distinctive features of my Invention are retained, these being,
the hereinbefore described mode of making of a bath supply cock or valve with
three passages communicating with douche, spray, and wave discharge outlets; and
the combination of parts of each of the modifications shown in the drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim, is:-
1. The making of a bath supply cock or valve with three passages communicating
with douche, spray, and wave outlets, the parts being arranged and operating
substantially as herein before described.
2. The combination of parts substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to figures, 1, and 2, of the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination of parts substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to figure, 3, of the accompanying drawings.
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4. The combination of parts substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to figures, 4, 5, and 6, of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this twenty-second day of October 1884.
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EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.