IMPROVEMENTS IN TAPS OR COCKS, WHICH IMPROVE- MENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO REGULATING THE FLOW OF WATER TO WATER- CLOSETS AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES."
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Pope, of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, Builder,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TAPS OR COCKS, WHICH IMPROVE-
MENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO REGULATING THE FLOW OF WATER TO WATER-
CLOSETS AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Pope at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st February 1877.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
JOHN POPE, of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, Builder
TAPS OR COCKS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO REGULATING THE
FLOW OF WATER TO WATERCLOSETS AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES”
"
My Invention relates to a tap or cock intended more particularly for use in con-
nection with the domestic water supply, and which is operated by hand in order to
open the same for the passage of the water, and closed automatically as soon as the
operating pressure or action is removed or discontinued so as to prevent wasto or
loss of water
My Invention consists essentially in the employment of a conical plug arranged
relatively to a seat of corresponding form in the line of flow of the water, and
carried by a stem or spindle passing through a gland or stuffing box to the exterior
in such a manner that by the act of depressing the stem or spindle the plug shall be
removed from its seat and the tap or cock thereby opened for the discharge of the
water, but that so soon as the hand of the operator is removed the plug shall be
forced to its seat by the pressure of the water and the tap or cock thus closed, in
which position it is maintained by the pressure of the water until again opened by
the hand of the operator
If required a lever may be employed, in order to obtain increased power for
operating the plug, and means may be provided for maintaining the tap or cock in
its open position without the necessity for the operator retaining his hold of the
stem or spindle

page_text: The stein or spindle may also be so arranged as to act upon the plug in lieu of
being formed in one with it
The tap on cock is also applicable for flushing water closets and other like
1eceptacles,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Pope in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th July
1877
JOHN POPE, of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, Builder "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TAPS OR COCKS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO REGULATING
THE FLOW OF WATER TO WATERCLOSETS AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES"
My Invention relates to a tap or cock intended more particularly for use in con-
nection with the domestic water supply, and which is operated by hand in order to
open the same for the passage of the water and closed automatically as soon as the
operating pressure or action is removed or discontinued, so as to prevent waste oi
loss of water
My Invention consists essentially in the employment of a conical plug arranged
relatively to a seat of corresponding form in the line of flow of the water, and carried
by a stem or spindle passing through a gland or stuffing box to the exterior in such
a manner that by the act of depressing the stein oi spindle the plug shall be removed
from the scat and the tap oi cock thereby opened for the discharge of the water,
but that so soon as the hand of the operator is removed the plug shall be forced to
its seat by the pressure of the water and the tap on cock thus closed, in which
position it is maintained by the pressure of the water until again opened by the
hand of the operator
If required a lever may be employed to obtain inci cased power for operating
the plug, and means may be provided for maintaining the tap or cock in its open
position without the necessity for the opeintor retaining his hold of the stem oi
spindlo
The stem or spindle may also be so arranged as to act upon the plug in lieu of
being formed in one with it
The tap on cock is also applicable for flushing water closets and other like
receptacles
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pope, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July, in the yeu of our Loid One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
JOHN PODE