Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1886
Complete Left, 25th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 4th Mar., 1887.
BURTON RICHARD PHILLIPSON Engineer 10 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin,, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to my present invention I construct a trough of metal or earthenware,
in the said trough I provide a trap for the discharge of liquids.
The trap is formed with a metal plate covering the outgo which plate can be
removed and the outgo exposed for clearing should the trap become choked. Liquids
discharged from the trough are received by a tank which serves when necessary, the
double purpose of a separation for grease from water and a flusher for drains. The
construction of the tank is as follows:-
Its body is a vessel of any form which will hold liquids, it is furnished with an inlet
pipe, the delivery of which is within the tank at a low level. A guard plate is
provided and so placed that liquids flowing into the tank are directed upwards.-
Upon the side of the tank is provided a box or projecting chamber, which is open to
the tank, through this box all liquids leaving the tank passes. The box is furnished
with a tube or with a syphon which tube or syphon is carried down into a trap fixed
beneath it, the trap into which the tube or syphon dips usually serves for the
reception of surface water as well as for the intake to the drains of the liquids
discharged from the tank. Although I purpose in ordinary to use the trough in
connection with the tank I do not confine myself. I would use the tank for the
reception of the discharge from rain water pipes or bath wastes and connect the
trough to it only if I had occasion for its use.
BURTON RICHARD PHILLIPSON.

page_text: BURTON RICHARD PHILLIPSON of 10 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, 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:
According to my present invention I construct tanks for the intermittent discharge
of water or other liquids principally for the flushing of drains and sewers but
applicable to all purposes where an intermittent flow of liquid is desired. My tanks
are constructed in two different patterns, the first:-No. 1 (shewn in section in 1 ×)
is more especially suitable in cases where the supply of liquid is very limited the
second No. 2 (shewn in section 2×) is intended for use where the supply is more
abundant. The tank No. 1 is a vessel open at the top; carried and swinging upon a stand,
upon the side of the vessel is fixed a pipe (C) within the tank is placed a plate (D)
enclosing a space; the enclosed space together with the pipe (C) forms a siphon; the
action of the tank is as follows:-Liquid flowing into the vessel, fills it until it reaches
as high as the line (E). The tank is so balanced upon its stand that the weight of the
liquid oversets it and it tilts forward sufficiently to start the siphon, it is kept from
going too far by the stop (F). The siphon action continues until the tank is nearly
empty the vessel rights itself upon its stand when the siphon action has lowered the
liquid so as to make the lower portion outweigh the upper; in some cases I find it
desirable to drown the outlet from the siphon.
The tank No. 2 is somewhat similar in construction to No. 1 being a vessel with an
enclosed space within it and an annular siphon discharging from a projection at one
side of it It has no stand or moving action The vessel is so placed that its siphon
dips into an ordinary surface trap set in the ground, and is sealed at its lower
extremity by the water in the surface trap, its action is as follows:-Through the
gradual filling of the tank the air within the siphon becomes compressed and in
consequence of the pressure the water stands to a higher level in the open portion of
the tank than it does within the siphon pipe, through the increase of pressure, within
it the air finally escapes through the bottom of the siphon and a continuous flow of
liquid is set up which empties the tank into the surface trap, in both patterns of tank
I use a ventilation pipe (P) leading to the enclosed space within the tank when
I desire to separate and hold back grease and other floating matter from the water or
other liquid discharged by the tank. This pipe I omit when the tank is intended for
use as a flusher only.
In some cases I prefer to use a number of smaller pipes placed
together instead of one large one at the discharging side of the siphon.

page_text: 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 combination of a siphon with a solf tilting and self righting tank, or cistern
for the intermittent discharge of liquids.
2. The use of an intermittent flushing tank, having an annular siphon so constructed
as to overhang and discharge into a surface trap.
3. The use of an intermittent flushing tank having an annular siphon, fixed outside
the main body of the tank.
4. The formation by means of a plate or screw of an enclosure within a flushing
tank, which enclosure forms part of a siphon for the discharge of liquid from the tank.
5. The use of a ventilation tube to an enclosure in a flushing tank, for the purpose
of partially stopping the action of a siphon used for the discharge of liquids from
a tank.