Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 4th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Nov., 1888
I, RICHARD MORRIS, of Bennett Park, Blackheath, in the County of Kent, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a construction of filter simple, compact, and readily
accessible for cleansing.
I provide a vessel preferably of cylindrical form open at the top. This vessel is
divided into two compartments, an upper and a lower, by a horizontal partition through
which there is a central passage from which a tube projects some distance down into
the lower compartment and up into the upper compartment, the lower mouth, and in
some cases the upper mouth, of this tube being covered by a strainer with porous
fabric preferably of asbestos. In this tube I place a block of prepared carbon or I
fill the tube with granular carbon or other suitable filtering material. In the annular
space of the upper compartment surrounding this tube put filtering material, such
as sand or granular carbon, and I insert a second vessel mouth downwards of such
size that its periphery forms a partition dividing the annular space around the central
tube into two parts communicating under the second vessel which does not reach the
bottom of the upper compartment.
Water supplied at the top of the vessel has to pass through the filtering material
first down outside the second or inverted vessel, then up between it and the central
tube and finally down through the tube into the lower compartment, from which it
can be drawn off when required by opening a cock or valve.
When additional length of flow is required through filtering material, there may be
in the upper compartment another larger tube projecting up outside the inner shell
of the inverted vessel which in this case is made with an outer shell to divide into two
the annular compartment surrounding the second tube.
For cleansing the filter, the inverted vessel may be removed so as to give access to
the space around the central tube, and this tube can be cleansed on removing the
strainers at its ends.

page_text: An Improvement in Filters.
I, RICHARD MORRIS, of Bennett Park, Blackheath, in the County of Kent, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates to a construction of filter, simple, compact and readily
accessible for cleansing, as I will describe referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a domestic filter according to my invention, all the
parts of which may be of glass, earthenware or other ceramic material.
A is the outer vessel at the bottom of which the filtered liquid collects, and from
which it can be run by an outlet B provided with a stop cock. C is the removeable
cover. Within the vessel A is suspended an inner vessel D which is open at the top
and is made with a tubular portion E projecting upwards and a tubular portion F pro-
jecting downwards from its bottom, the lower mouth of F being perforated or fitted
with a porous screen. A third vessel G is placed mouth downwards so that its wall
forms a partition dividing the annular space between E and D. From G extends
upwards a tube H for admitting the charge of filtering material. The tube E F may
be filled with a block of porous carbon, or with granular animal charcoal rammed in,
and the spaces between 1 and G and between G and E are filled with suitable filtering
materials of any known kind, such as sand, charcoal, spongy iron, or mixtures of these.
Liquid poured into the upper part of the vessel D has to find its way in a zigzag
course, as indicated by the arrows, through the filtering materials to the bottom of the
vessel A whence it can be drawn when required in a filtered condition.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section, and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan on X X shewing a
modified form in which the annular spaces, through which the liquid has to flow in its
zigzag course, are duplicated.
For this purpose a second partition E projects up from the bottom of D and a
second partition G¹ projects down from the top of G; also, besides the central tube H
for introducing the granular filtering material into the central space, there are other
two tubes H'H' for introducing it into the annular spaces.
In
Fig. 4 is a vertical section of a similar arrangement of the filter provided for filtering
under pressure, the exterior vessel A being of metal with its cover C bolted on.
this case it is preferred to direct the flow of liquid upwards from the inlet B to the
outlet K so that sediment may collect in the bottom of the vessel A. The inverted
vessel G is held in position by a setting screw L.
Fig. 5 shews a modification in which the zigzag course of the liquid is determined
by two inner basins l'and M placed in the filtering material.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
A filter wherein the liquid travels in a zigzag manner through filtering material
occupying annular spaces between partitions which project upwards from a basin
below and alternate with partitions projecting downwards from a removeable inverted
basin above, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of October 1888.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 25th day of January 1893, allowed,
under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment of this
Specification.
I, RICHARD MORRIS, of Bennett, Park, Blackheath, in the County of Kent, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a construction of filter simple, compact, and readily
accessible for cleansing.
I provide a vessel preferably of cylindrical form open at the top. This vessel is
divided into two compartments, an upper and a lower, by a horizontal partition through
which there is a central passage from which a tube projects some distance down into
the lower compartment and up into the upper compartment, the lower mouth, and in
some cases the upper, mouth, of this tube being covered by a strainer with porous
fabric preferably of asbestos. In this tube 1 place a block of prepared carbon or 1
fill the tube with granular carbon or other suitable filtering material. In the annular
space of the upper compartment surrounding this tube I put filtering material, such
as sand or granular carbon, and I insert a second vessel mouth downwards of such
size that its periphery forms a partition dividing the annular space around the central
tube into two parts communicating under the second vessel which does not reach the
bottom of the upper compartment.
Water supplied at the top of the vessel has to pass through the filtering material
first down outside the second or inverted vessel, then up between it and the central
tube and finally down through the tube into the lower compartment, from which it
can be drawn off when required by opening a cock or valve.
When additional length of flow is required through filtering material, there may be
in the upper compartment another larger tube projecting up outside the inner shell
of the inverted vessel which in this case is made with an outer shell to divide into two
the annular compartment surrounding the second tube.
For cleansing the filter, the inverted vessel may be removed so as to give access to
the space around the central tube, and this tube can be cleansed on removing the
strainers at its ends.
DL: FIL
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1000
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, RICHARD MORRIS, of Bennett Park, Blackheath, in the County of Kent, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates to a construction of filter, simple, compact and readily
accessible for cleansing, as I will describe referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a domestic filter according to my invention, all the
parts of which may be of glass, earthenware or other ceramic material.
A is the outer vessel at the bottom of which the filtered liquid collects, and from
which it can be run by an outlet B provided with a stop cock. C is the removeable
cover. Within the vessel A is suspended an inner vessel D which is open at the top
and is made with a tubular portion E projecting upwards and a tubular portion F pro-
jecting downwards from its bottom, the lower mouth of F being perforated or fitted
with a porous screen. A third vessel G is placed mouth downwards so that its wall
forms a partition dividing the annular space between E and D. From G extends
upwards a tube H for admitting the charge of filtering material. The tube E F may
be filled with a block of porous carbon, or with granular animal charcoal rammed in,
and the spaces between D and G and between G and E are filled with suitable filtering
materials of any known kind, such as sand, charcoal, spongy iron, or mixtures of these.
Liquid poured into the upper part of the vessel D has to find its way in a zigzag
course, as indicated by the arrows, through the filtering materials to the bottom of the
vessel A whence it can be drawn when required in a filtered condition.
a
Fig. 2 is a vertical section, and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan on X X showing
modified form in which the annular spaces, through which the liquid has to flow in its
zigzag course, are duplicated.
For this purpose a second partition E' projects up from the bottom of D and a
second partition G' projects down from the top of G; also, besides the central tube H
for introducing the granular filtering material into the central space, there are other
two tubes H'H' for introducing it into the annular spaces.
Fig. 4-is a vertical section of a similar arrangement of the filter provided for filtering
under
or pressure, the exterior vessel A being of metal with its cover bolted-on.-In
this ense it is preferred-to-direct-the flow of liquid upwards from the inlet B-to-the
outlet K so that sediment may-collect in the bottom of the vessel A:-The inverted
vessel G is held in position by a setting screw L.
Fig. 5 shews a-modification in which the zigzag course of the liquid is determined
by two inner basins 1 and M-placed in the filtering material.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I make no general
claim to a filter wherein the liquid travels in a zig zag manner through annular spaces
unless there be access to these spaces for charging them with filtering material, but what 1
claim is :-
:-
A filter wherein the liquid travels in a zigzag manner through filtering material
occupying annular spaces between partitions which project upwards from a basin
below and alternate with partitions projecting downwards from a removeable inverted
basin above, the said basin having a tube or tubes extending up from it for charging the
spaces with the filtering material, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of October 1000
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.