A Method of Utilising Pressure of Water Supply for Effecting Drainage, and Apparatus for that Purpose.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1890-Accepted. 9th Aug. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Utilising Pressure of Water Supply for Effecting
Drainage, and Apparatus for that Purpose.
I, RICHARD CLERE PARSONS of No. 18, Abingdon Street, Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
My invention relates to means of utilising the pressure of the water supplied for
domestic or other purposes, for effecting drainage in cases where the drainage liquid
has to be raised to a higher level. For this purpose, instead of feeding local or
domestic tanks or reservoirs with water directly from the mains, I cause the water
to pass on its way to these tanks or reservoirs through a hydraulic engine con-
nected to a drainage pump. The pressure of the water in the main being almost
always considerably greater than that necessary for feeding the local tanks or
reservoirs, this excess of pressure is thus rendered available to effect the pumping
of the drainage liquid, which in quantity seldom exceeds that of the supply of water
from the main.
Dated this 4th day of Autober 1900
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Utilising Pressure of Water Supply for Effecting
Drainage, and Apparatus for that Purpose.
I, RICHARD CLERE PARSONS of No. 18 Abingdon Street, Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil 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:-
My Invention relates to means of utilising the pressure of the water supplied
for domestic or other purposes for effecting drainage, in cases where the drainage
liquid has to be raised to a higher level. For this purpose, instead of feeding
local or domestic tanks or reservoirs with water directly from the mains, I cause
the water to pass on its way to these tanks or reservoirs through a hydraulic engine
connected to a drainage pump. The pressure of the water in the main being almost
always considerably greater than that necessary for feeding the local tanks or
reservoirs this excess of pressure is thus rendered available to effect the pumping
of the drainage liquid which in quantity seldom exceeds that of the supply of water
from the main.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a section of the lower part of a house
or building having apparatus applied to it according to my Invention. Figure 2 is a
side view of the hydraulic pump A shewn in Figure 1. From the main B supplying
the town or district with water under pressure, the service pipe 6 leads into the house,
and divides into two branches, C leading as supply to a hydraulic engine D of any
suitable known construction, and f leading to the ball cock supply of a cistern F.
Both these branches are provided with shut off cocks or valves, that for f being
preferably loaded by a weight or spring so as to close itself unless it be held open by
a suitable pull or otherwise. The water, after operating in the hydraulic engine D
returns by a pipe E to the cistern F. From the cistern F may be supplied, as shewn,
a water closet or urinal W and bath R, as well as sinks and other services. The
waste water from the bath and other services may collect in a tank H from which a
pipe leads to one of the suction valves of the pump A. From the closet or urinal W

page_text: a separate pipe u leads to another suction valve of the pump A. The discharge from
the pump passes up the pipe I to the sewer or main drain J. The closet and tank H
may be ventilated by a pipe V. I prefer to arrange the pump A as shewn in Figure 2
so that its piston rod may be uncoupled from that of the hydraulic cylinder D and
connected to a hand lever a for working the pump by hand if necessary. It will be
seen that the valve in the pipe f being closed and that in C being open, the water
from the main B, on its way to supply the cistern F, has to pass through the hydraulic
cylinder working as in a water pressure engine and driving the pump A, by
which the waste water and sewage is pumped up to the sewer J.
When a large
supply of water is rapidly wanted, as for a bath, the cock or valve in f can be opened
so as to admit supply direct to the cistern without passing through the water
engine D.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described method of utilising the pressure of water supplied for
domestic or other purposes for effecting drainage, by causing that water to work a
hydraulic pump.
2. In combination with the water supply pipes and cisterns of a house or other
building and with the drains thereof, a water engine and pump, arranged so that the
water supplied works, the pump, and the pump effects the drainage, substantially as
herein described.