IMPROVE- MENTS IN HEATING AND SUPPLYING WATER FOR BATHS AND OTHER USES, IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATER CLOSETS, AND SUPPLYING THEM WITH WATER AND IN COCKS FOR DRAWING OFF LIQUIDS
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALPRED
TYLOR, of Warwick Lane, in the City of London, and HENRY GEORGE FRASI,
of Herbert Street, North Road, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day
of April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the fifteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Alfred Tylor and Henry George Frasi, our exors, adñors, and
assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we,
the said Alfred Tylor and Henry George Frasi, our exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Alfred Tylor and Henry George Frasi, our
exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HEATING AND SUPPLYING WATER FOR BATHS AND OTHER USES, IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF WATER CLOSETS, AND SUPPLYING THEM WITH WATER AND IN
COCKS FOR DRAWING OFF LIQUIDS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that we, the said Alfred Tylor and Henry George Frasi, or one of
us, should cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing

page_text: over into the eduction pipe d, and thence into the bath or other receiver, and
the length of time the water remains subject to the heating apparatus of the
boiler will depend on the quantity allowed to flow in by the supply pipe, which,
as before mentioned, depends on the degree to which the cock on the supply
pipe is allowed to be open.
Figure 2 shows the section of a similar apparatus differing principally in
having a cylindrical outside form, and having a coiled pipe on the interior in
order to get more heating surface to be exposed to the heat rising from below;
and the gas burner is shewn without the lighting apparatus, which is
represented in Figure 1; and Figure 3 shows a like arrangement of apparatus
when it is desired to draw off hot water at a point near the source of supply,
and this Figure shows a double vessel 6 as a receiver with a heater or burner,
the double part of the vessel being shown to be filled with non-conducting
matters, to aid in the keeping of the water hot. The gas burner is of an
ordinary construction, and, separately, is not of our invention; but as it is
difficult to light numerous jets without explosion, we employ the following
apparatus, see Figure 5. e is the supply pipe opening into the tube f, having
three stuffing boxes; g is a tube sliding within the tube f. When the parts
are in the position shewn, no gas will flow to the end at h; but by forcing the
tube g a slight distance the hole i will come beyond the middle stuffing box,
and will then allow of gas passing into the tube g, and the same will be lighted
as it passes the jet at j; and the pushing the tube g further in will bring the
opening / within the tube f, and the opening I will pass beyond the end stuffing
box, so that the gas will have a free passage in all directions and arrive at the
burner at a period later than the light, by which the lighting of the burner will
be without explosion.
We will now describe our improvements in waterclosets and in supplying
them with water.
Figure 5 shows a front elevation of apparatus combined according to this
part of the Invention. Figure 6 shows a sectional view of the water-supply
vessel or chamber and apparatus applied to a watercloset, and Figure 7
shows a plan of the apparatus. a, a, is the vessel, the nature of which is clearly
shewn, into and from which water is supplied in the following manner :-
b.is the induction pipe into the vessel, which is covered with a valve c, which
is actuated by a ball and lever d, the valve being moved by the connecting
link e.
The apparatus is so arranged that when the float is up the valve is
closed. The water in the chamber or vessel a stands ordinarily at the same
level as it does in the basin of the closet. f is a pipe from the vessel or
chamber by which water flows into the upper part of the pan when the float or
ball is pressed down. 9 is another pipe leading from the lower part of the

page_text: vessel a, by which any excess of water in the vessel a will flow into the basin
through the axis of the pan of the basin into the pan by the pipe h, the axis of
the pan being hollow, as is shown. By this arrangement it will follow that,
in filling up the handle i, the lever j will be lifted, which, by the slotted
crank, will give motion to the axis of the pan; the other end of the
lever at the same time giving motion to the lever m by the connecting rod n,
which, by the rod o, causes the float or ball to be pressed down, which
will open the valve by which the flow of water will take place into the vessel
or chamber a, from whence it will flow into the basin of the closet so long as
the ball or float is kept down, and immediately the float or ball again rises
into its highest position the valve will be closed, when, as the water in the
vessel a will stand higher in the chamber or vessel a than in the basin, the
water will flow into the basin.
Figure 8 shews an arrangement, partly in section, of apparatus suitable for
applying this part of our Invention to ships' waterclosets, particularly when it
is intended to be placed below the water line of the ship.
Figure 9 shows another elevation, also partly in section.
a is the vessel or
chamber within which the ball, valve, and apparatus just described for shutting
off the in-coming water; but in place of causing the ball valve to descend by
the pressure of the lever, as in the former case, it descends when the water is
pumped from out thereof at each working of the pump p, within which a
a piston p¹ works, there being a bag or flexible cylinder fixed to the piston,
as shown. 9 are the valves and passage leading from the basin to the under
part of the pump barrel, and r is the passage away from the pump into the
sea. s is a pipe leading from the vessel a into the upper part of the pump
barrel, there being a valve which opens to allow the water to flow as the piston
descends. t is a pipe leading from the pump barrel into the basin. By this
arrangement, when the piston is raised the soil and water from the basin will
flow into the lower part of the pump, and water from the upper part of the
pump will be forced into the basin, and on the descent of the piston the valves
to the basin will close and water will flow from the vessel a into the upper
part of the pump, by which the ball or float in that vessel or chamber a will
descend, when water will be again admitted into such vessel from the sea,
which will again float the ball, and the in-coming of the water will be cut off.
We would remark, in regard to our improvements in waterclosets and in the
means of supplying water thereto, that the details may be varied without
departing from the peculiar arrangement or combination herein described.
We will now describe the third part of our Invention. Figure 10 shows
the section of a cock constructed according to part of our improvements. a is
the barrel, b is the seat of the valve c, which is so arranged as to rise and fall

page_text: or move to and from its seat without turning, and this is accomplished by
means of a screw on the stem d, which turns in the collar e. The valve c is
affixed to the cylinder c', which has a screw formed into its upper part, in which
the screw d¹ turns, as shewn. On the interior of the cylinder a is a projection
which enters into and slides within the groove c³, which prevents the cylinder
rotating.
Figure 11 shows a section of a ball cock or valve. fis the lever to which
the float or ball is affixed. g is the valve which moves on a hinge at h, and
is faced in a circular groove with vulcanized india rubber. i is a link which
connects the valve to the lever, and it is this peculiar combination of parts
which constitutes the novelty of this ball cock or valve.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, we would have it understood that we do not claim any of
the mechanical parts separately; but what we claim is,
First, the improvements herein described in combining apparatus for heat-
ing and supplying water for baths and other uses.
Secondly, we claim the mode of combining apparatus herein described
in constructing waterclosets, and providing means for supplying them with
water.
And,
Thirdly, we claim the improvements in cocks herein described.
In witness whereof, we the said Alfred Tylor and Henry George Frasi,
have hereunto set our hands and seals this Twenty-seventh day of
October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-two.
ALFRED (L.s.) TYLOR.
HENRY GEORGE (L.s.) FRASI.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid Alfred Tylor and Henry George
Frasi came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid
was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.