IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE OR TABLE AND OTHER FOUNTAINS
Year: 1884

page_text: TRUVIDIONAU
DIVIFICATION.
I EDWIN COX GEE of 5 St Stephens Road Lewisham in the county of Kent,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
PORTABLE OR TABLE AND OTHER FOUNTAINS to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce a fountain that shall be very ornamental
and sightly in appearance and very effective in cooling or scenting or otherwise
impregnating the surrounding atmosphere and this fountain while it is especially
adapted for table use as it can well be made of an extremely small and compact
size and shape can still be used in conservatories and other places as a fixed
immovable fountain of any required size.
In the smaller portable or table fountains I support a reservoir for the water
scent or other liquid on uprights or pillars at a convenient height above the base
of the apparatus. This reservoir and the supporting pillars thereof can be made
of any size and shape and ornamented or not as may be desirable. A short vertical
discharge pipe is fitted to the bottom of the reservoir and surrounding the end of
this pipe is the bell or funnel shaped mouth of another vertical pipe the lower end
of which terminates in a closed box or chamber. This chamber and its pipe are
supported in position by a central pivot pin secured on the base in the centre of an
open tank or receptacle for the liquid formed on the said base and round the upper
end of the pipe at or below the funnel shaped mouth thereof is fitted loosely a
bracket which depends from the underside of the reservoir above or is secured to
the supporting pillars or elsewhere. On the side or sides of the closed chamber are
fitted two or three or more small horizontal pipes which may either issue radially
therefrom in which case they are all bent or elbowed or curved horizontally in
the same direction or they may issue tangentially therefrom also in the same
direction. These pipes have open ends and in their upper sides may be made one
or more minute apertures. Thus the water scent or other liquid issuing from the
reservoir above falls into the funnel shaped mouth and down the pipe passing out
through the horizontal pipes and falling into the tank below. This horizontal
tangential outflow of the liquid causes the vertical pipe with its chamber to revolve
and as minute streams may also be issuing through the apertures if any in the
upper sides of the horizontal pipes a very pretty effect is produced and the
surrounding atmosphere is thoroughly affected. When I find it expedient so to do
I can arrange in a suitable chamber below the base or elsewhere a pump which

page_text: may be driven by clockwork or otherwise and the water scent or other liquid
falling into the tank passes to this pump and is pumped up again into the reservoir
above it may be through one of the supporting pillars thereof. I can also dispense
with the reservoir and obtain the required head or elevation by pumping the
liquid up through a pipe which communicates directly with the upper end of the
vertical pipe ending in the closed box or chamber.
The larger fountains I may construct in the same manner or I may deem it
expedient and preferable to cause the closed box or chamber which carries the
horizontal pipes to revolve round the end of the vertical pipe in which case I can
dispense with the short discharge pipe the funnel shaped mouth and the supporting
bracket and secure this pipe directly to the reservoir above or to the upper end of
the pipe up which the liquid is pumped. The smaller fountains can also be
constructed in this manner. In the larger fountains also I can place the reservoir
and the pump in any position with regard to the fountain that may be expedient
in each case.
Dated this Oth eve of Wahun.
- TOOL

page_text: I EDWIN Cox GEE of 5 St Stephen's Road Lewisham in the county of Kent
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
PORTABLE OR TABLE AND OTHER FOUNTAINS and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
'
The object of my invention is to produce a fountain that shall be very ornamental
and sightly in appearance and very effective in cooling or scenting or otherwise
impregnating and treating the surrounding atmosphere and this fountain while it
is especially adapted for table use as it can well be made of an extremely small
and compact size and shape can still be used in conservatories and other places as
a fixed immovable fountain of any required size.
In order to explain my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed I refer to the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of a portable or table fountain.
On a suitable base A. I erect a convenient number of uprights or pillars B on
which I support at a convenient and proper height above the said base A a
reservoir C for the water scent or other liquid. The base pillars and reservoir
aforesaid can be made of any sizes and shapes and proportions and ornamented or
not as may be desirable and can also be formed of any suitable material. A short
vertical discharge pipe D is fitted to the bottom of the reservoir C preferably at or
about the centre thereof to which pipe D can be fitted if required a suitable valve
or cock for governing and controlling the passage of the liquid out of the said
reservoir C. Surrounding the pipe D is the bell or funnel shaped mouth E of a
vertical pipe F the lower end whereof terminates in a closed box or chamber G.
This chamber G and its pipe F are supported in position on and by a central
pivot H mounted on the base A. or as shewn in the drawing in an open tank or
receptacle I for the liquid formed on the said base A or mounted thereon and round
the upper end of the said pipe F is fitted loosely a bracket K at or below the
funnel shaped mouth E to keep the said mouth E in position which bracket K
depends from the underside of the reservoir C above or is secured either fo the
supporting pillars B as shewn in the drawing or elsewhere as may be convenient.
In Figure 2 I shew on an enlarged scale an horizontal section of the closed box or
chamber G and its attachments as hereinafter described. On the side or sides of
the closed chamber G which may be made of any desired shape and size are fitted
two or three or more small horizontal pipes L which also may be made of any
desired shapes and sizes. These pipes L may either issue radially from the
chamber G as L' and L' in which case the said pipes L are bent or elbowed or
curved horizontally in the same direction or the said pipes L may issue tangentially
from the said chamber G as I and L' in the same direction as shewn in Figure 2.
These pipes L have open but preferably contracted ends and the water scent or
other liquid issuing through the pipe Ď from the reservoir C falls into the funnel
shaped mouth E and down the pipe F passing out from the closed chamber G in
the bottom thereof through the horizontal pipes L and falling into the tank I or
the base A below. This horizontal tangential outflow of the liquid causes the
vertical pipe F with its chamber G and pipes L to revolve on the pivot H and a
very pretty effect is thereby produced. In order also to increase and heighten the
beauty of this effect I can also when desirable make minute apertures in the upper
sides of the horizontal pipes L or as is preferable make these minute apertures or

page_text: fit very small short pipes or nozzles M in the upper or other part of the chamber G
and thus while part of the liquid is passing out of the ends of the pipes Land
causing this part of the apparatus to revolve as herein before described part of the
liquid is also issuing through the minute apertures or nozzles M in an upward
direction and these small streams also fall back into the tank I or base A when
their force is expended as shewn in the drawing and thus the appearance and effect
produced in increased in beauty and the surrounding atmosphere is thoroughly
effected.
When I deem it expedient so to do I can construct a suitable chamber in or
below the base A or elsewhere for the reception of the liquid wherein also I can
place a pump which may be driven by clockwork or otherwise and the water scent
or other liquid which falls into the tank I can pass through a pipe or pipes N to
this chamber and thence is pumped up into the reservoir C above it may be through
one of the supporting pillars B thereof and when the apparatus is fitted in this
manner I can if I choose dispense with the reservoir C and obtain the required
head or elevation by pumping the liquid up through the pipe as aforesaid which
pipe would communicate directly with the upper end of the vertical pipe F
hereinbefore described.
In Figure 3 I shew a vertical section of another method of fitting the closed box
or chamber G which carries the horizontal pipes L according to which method the
short pipe D the funnel shaped mouth E and the supporting bracket K hereinbefore
described are dispensed with and the pipe F is secured directly and rigidly to the
bottom of the reservoir C or to the end of the pipe up which the liquid is pumped
as aforesaid and the closed box or chamber G is so fitted that it can revolve on and
round the end of the fixed pipe F' which end is formed there for the joint between
the chamber G and the pipe F being fitted and arranged and constructed in any
convenient manner to render the said joint water tight while at the same time the
chamber G is free to revolve as is desired.
A modification of this method of construction consists in leading the vertical
pipe F down one of the supporting pillars and not down in the centre of the
apparatus as shewn in the drawing and the said pipe F would then pass through
the base A and the tank I if any and would form the pivot on which the chamber G
would revolve in place of the pivot H as shown in the drawing the joint being
fitted in manner as herein before described.
These methods as aforesaid of causing the chamber to revolve round a fixed
pipe would be especially suitable for the larger fountains wherein the weight of the
vertical pipe might be an objection and cause the revolutions to be sluggishly
performed but the smaller fountains can also be fitted in the same manner if
desired.
I have thus described and shewn what in my opinion are the preferable methods
of construction of this my improved fountain but I would have it clearly understood
that I do not in any wise limit myself to the shapes or proportions of the said
fountain and of the several parts thereof or to the methods of fitting or details of
construction of the said fountain or parts thereof as shewn in the drawing for the
same may be made of any shape or proportion or size and be fitted and constructed
in any manner that may be suitable or convenient in each particular case and the
said several parts of the fountain may also be placed in such positions in respect of
each other as may be desirable or proper to produce the effect and action required
as herein before stated.
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. In a fountain the combination of the reservoir C the fixed pipe D the revolving
pipe F chamber G and horizontal pipes L with or without the apertures or nozzles M
and the tank I or receptacle below the whole combined and operating substantially
as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and declared.

page_text: 2. In a fountain the combination of the reservoir C the fixed pipe F the revolving
chamber G and horizontal pipes L with or without the apertures or nozzles M and
the tank I or receptacle below the whole combined and operating substantially as
and for the purpose hereinbefore described and declared.
3. In a fountain the combination of the fixed or revolving pipe F the revolving
chamber G and horizontal pipes L with or without the apertures or nozzles M
substantially as.and for the purpose hereinbefore described and declared.
4. The combination with the fountain as herein before claimed of a chamber in
or below the base of the said fountain and containing a pump by which the liquid.
is raised for the use of the said fountain substantially as hereinbefore described
and set forth.
5. The portable or table and other fountains substantially as hereinbefore
described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 8th dow of Nawamba- 1001.