Improvements in Air Propeller and Cistern for Ventilation of Water Closets and other Apartments.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 15th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Air Propeller and Cistern for Ventilation of Water
Closets and other Apartments.
We, JOHN MCINTYRE, of 27, Bachelors Walk, Dublin, Decorator, and TIME
SANATARY VENTILATING SYNDICATE LTD., of 24, Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
We
Our invention relates to an improved method of removing effluvia, foul air,
smoke & gases from water closets, & other apartments & buildings-by means of
an air propeller, & pelton-wheel combined the motive power being water.
place on the cover of a suitable water closet or other cistern an air propeller &
pelton-wheel combined. Carried on ball-bearings, mounted on an axle, fixed rigid
at each end-to two pillars secured to lid of cistern-and inset in lid to the
required depth. The periphery of wheel is encased in a cover-with two internal
splash rims one at each side; which effectually prevents the escape of water.
By an adaptation of a special ball-cock, the water required to fill cistern, after
each flushing operates the propeller, driving it with great velocity, during the
period of refilling-drawing at same time the effluvia foul air, smoke or gases
from the closet or apartment-and forcing same through a tube to the outside.
This arrangement of the combined propeller & wheel, prevents the air of the closet
or apartment being obstructed in the process of expulsion to the exterior of
building and when suitably geared, can be worked under low pressure.
By a modification of the same principle, the lid or cover of cistern can be dis-
pensed with, & apparatus can be fixed to almost every description of cistern. &
can be worked either vertically or horizontally-and independent of cistern, for
the ventilation of smoke & sitting rooms-lavatories & the like, by means.
of one or more jets of water-without danger of splashing or spray arising there-
from-owing to the construction of wheel caseing-as before described.
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page_text: ball valve shewn by abcde in our said previous patent, the nozzle N of which
would be arranged to impinge upon the cups or radial divisions M substantially
as at Fig. 1, the whole being arranged substantially as at Figs. 3 and 4. In this
case the provision of a conduit for the water falling from the nozzle N would be
superfluous, since the water so issuing therefrom after performing its work for
rotating the air propeller and water-wheel would fall into and charge the cistern R
in the usual way.
By a very slight modification of the apparatus described and shewn, and with-
out departing from the principle involved the lid or cover S of the cistern R may
be dispensed with, and the apparatus be arranged for fixation upon almost every
form of cistern, and to be worked either vertically or horizontally and by the
means of more than one jet N if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is: -
(1) As a means for ventilating w.c.'s urinals, lavatories, and other apartments,
or buildings, the combination of an air propeller and pelton or turbine wheel,
contained within a splash frame such as A B, the blades of the said propeller pro-
viding spokes for the rim of the said pelton or turbine wheel and both operated
by a jet of water from a nozzle in connection with a service of water under
pressure, impinging upon the blades or cups of the said pelton wheel or turbine
and so imparting rotary motion thereto and to the said propeller substantially as
herein set forth and shewn.
(2) In combination with a flushing cistern such as R, with or without a lid S,
the construction, use, and application of a casing AB, enclosing an air propeller,
the blades of which K form the spokes of a pelton wheel or turbine having in its
peripheries cups or their equivalents M, upon which impinges a stream of water
under pressure supplying the said cistern, thus imparting rotary motion to the
said turbine or pelton-wheel and fan, substantially as and for the purposes herein
described and shewn.
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GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.