Apparatus for Supplying Consecrated Water.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Supplying Consecrated Water.
I, JOHANN JACOB BRUNS, Junior, Engineer, of 68, Vossenstraat, Arnheim, in.
the Kingdom of Netherlands, 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:-
The consecrated water of the reservoirs, used in catholic churches, serves the
purpose of being employed by numerous healthy and diseased people regardless of
rank and vocation. It is often found to be in a dirty and always impure condition
so that diseases are often caused by its application.
The present invention is destined to remove this disadvantage by preventing
the application of water already used and supplying always a sufficient quantity
of clean and fresh water. The invention relates to a dropping apparatus for
consecrated water in connection with a basin of special form the mutual effect of
which excludes any pollution of the water.
The device is illustrated by the accompanying drawing in different form of
execution.
Fig. 1 shows the water reservoir W placed upon a console. This water reservoir
is closed airtight by a cover D provided with a cock e for discharging the air, the
tightening may be effected in the ordinary manner by means of a thread, locking
ring or by a liquid. The bottom of W has the form of a neck, the cylindrical
contraction of which has a side opening o at the lowest point, passing through
the discharge pipe tightened on h. On a is arranged the sliding sleeve
closes the opening o tightly, when pushed downward from the position shown
in the drawing. The bottom of a touches the bottom of the dish S.
which
As soon as o is clothed by and W is filled with water up to the tightening
edge being closed by D and the air discharged through e the water will be in an
almost evacuated reservoir, after e has been closed. The discharge of water
from o may, if this opening is rendered either partly or entirely free by means of
the slide, only reach the level of the opening, so that the quantity of water
coming from o after each discharge of water from S affects the closing of o
automatically and permanently until W has been emptied.
The discharge from S is effected by means of the dropping syphon the sucking
knee of which mounted in S is filled out with the bundle of fibre f promotes the
conveyance of the water to the dropping aperture of t by means of capillary action.
The stopper having the shape of a needle which is introduced through the
bundle of fibre into effects the greatest possible uniformity of water discharge
into the groove R of the plate P mounted obliquely in the basin B which may be
regulated easily by means of the stopper .
The arrangement illustrated in Fig. 2 and differing from Fig. 1 consists merely
in the condition of the discharging parts from W to S. In place of the cylindrical
neck of the discharge pipe a with opening o and the closing slide the
conical neck H and the discharge pipe connected with it and provided with

page_text: closing cock V is applied, the sloping end o of which regulates the water level in S.
For producing a quiet discharge a cone k with channels may be inserted into H.
In case the arrangements referred to relates to stationary water reservoirs of any
desired proportions which may be filled, after the cover has been removed, directly
by a water conductor. Fig. 3 shows an apparatus, the water reservoir W of which
after having been filled through the neck H is closed by means of a discharge
pipe a correspondingly shaped.
It is quite clear that for this purpose the water reservoir must be lifted from
the console, reversed, opened, filled, closed and placed again upon the console,
in case it is not suspended by an arrangement, permitting of a compulsory
reversing securing at the same time the discharge and filling position in which
case the dish S must obtain a corresponding form, in order of being able to remain
stationary.
If W is filled, the discharge pipe a is placed into a fixed connection with the
closing slide e, the tightening ring d, the nut m perforated by holes and partly
embracing the tightening ring d and the screws on the neck H whereupon dis
drawn tightly into H by means of m and s. After a perfect tightening having
been effected between wand the opening o is closed by means of v, so that the
reversion and erection of W may be done according to the drawing. As soon as
the discharge from W through the holes 7 has been effected, after o has been
made free by means of thus regenerating the water level in the dish S, the
dropping action of the apparatus will begin and may be regulated according to
the mouth of the sucking knee of the dropping siphon t mounted in the clamp and
adjustable by the regulating device y assuming a lower or higher position.
The sloping plate P in the basin B serves for the reception and conducting of
the water dropping from t the basin thus taking the place of the ordinary basin for
consecrated water, while the remaining parts of the dropping apparatus is kept
ready for use in the filled reservoir W after the water has been consecrated.
In the groove R of the new reservoir there is always consecrated water in
sufficient quantity. It is impossible to apply water already used, as the groove R
is permanently washed out, while the water as soon as it has passed the groove,
is discharged through.
If the apparatus is to be placed out of action, is lifted out of the water by
means of Y.
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 dropping apparatus for consecrated water, the water reservoir W to be
closed airtight at the top with a cylindrical neck Hat the bottom the side
opening o of which regulates the water level in the dish S arranged below, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2). In a dropping apparatus for consecrated water, the water reservoir W to be
closed airtight at the top with conical neck H at the bottom to be supplied with
a channeled cone k in connection with a discharge pipe to be closed by means
of a cock, the lower sloping of which effects the regulation of the water level in
the dish arranged below, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3). In a dropping apparatus for consecrated water, the water reservoir W to be
closed airtight, the neck H of which serves at the same time for the filling and
discharge, in connection with a discharge pipe a provided with tightening ring d
perforated screw nut m and screws and the side aperture o of which effects the
regulation of the water level in the dish S arranged below, substantially as and for
the purpose stated.
4). In a dropping apparatus for consecrated water, the dropping siphon t to be
adjusted in a vertical direction and filled with fibrous material f and supplied with
a pin shaped stopper with the effect of a sucking and dropping apparatus sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described,

page_text: 5). A dropping apparatus for consecrated water, a plate P, mounted obliquely
below the same in a basin B for the automatical and adjustable supplying with
water of the groove R arranged in the latter, substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
Total thin 91st dove of Tonuom 1000
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agents, 62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents for the Applicant.