AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND DISCHARGING WATER
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Chidley at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st April 1880.
JAMES CHIDLEY, of Cutsdean, in the County of Worcester, Builder and Contractor.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND DISCHARGING WATER."
My Invention consists of certain improvements herein after described in tho
construction or combination of certain parts for regulating and facilitating and
otherwise controlling the flow of water, and more effectually preventing its freezing
in the said apparatus and the nozzle or tap in connection therewith; its working is
indispensable with current supply.
I will now describe my Invention thus :—The body, cylinder, or shaft I construct
of any desired form and size most suitable to my requirement, as the circumstances
of any particular case may require; this body recoives a domed shapo cover or
otherwise.
The method of actuating is by hand pressure or other power applied to a plunge
rod of angular shape, which is attached to and passes through the centre of the
upper surface of a detached air reservoir, the exterior of which somewhat corre-
sponds to the interior of the body into which it is fitted. This said air vessel I
propose being constructed of thin metal by preference, and in diameter somewhat
less than the body, as may be expedient, according to the pressure of the current.
This, in cases where the pressure of the current is not great, the air vessel should
approach in size the body, a tube fixed in the centre of air-vessol with stop end
fixed to plunge rod, and the vessel, the tube, and the said plunge rod being properly
compacted together and placed upon a second tube, which said tube is the overflow
and outlet pipe, and fixed to the bottom of the apparatus, the water escaping by
apertures arranged around the whole surface somewhat below that of the apparatus
outlet, viz., the nozzle or tap.
The water will at all times buoy up the air vessel (the which is specially shaped
at its base), and pass freely off by the waste or outlet pipe, which must in bore be
a degree in excess of the supply pipe. The waste pipe is held in position by means
of stays affixed to the body, and these are mounted with a yielding material so that
in drawing or forcing the water the air vessel in descending finds a seat or bearing,
and without injury the seats or bearings are so arranged to allow a dip sufficiently
to riso the water, cut off the escape, and drive the pressing current at once up a
space or groove in air vessel specially provided, and into the outlet arranged for

page_text: drawing. By removing the pressure of the hand or other power from the plunge
rod the air vessel is raised to its level and normal position, the current lowered and
passes off again by the waste or outlet pipe, thus proving the efficiency of this my
said Invention.
In the cover to the said apparatus I arrange a form having a cavity around its
circumference; this I also fill with a yielding material, the object of which is to
protect the air vessel when ascending suddenly from the pressure of the water
below. This form serves the purpose also of controlling or guiding the plunge rod
when actuated.
I here dispense with the ordinary stop tap, nothing but a simple nozzle or bend
pipe as outlet being required in the descending and ascending movement. The
action will be noiseless, and the pressure can be proportioned according to the supply
required.