Improvements in Appliances for Regulating and Controlling the Supply of Gas and other Fluids Under Pressure.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 5th Cec., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Regulating and Controlling the
Supply of Gas and other Fluids Under Pressure.
1 HUGH WILLIAMS of the Mount Stockport in the County of Chester Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in appliances for regulating and controlling
the supply of gas and other fluids under pressure.
A combined regulator and antifluctuator as now constructed usually consists of an
hermetically sealed vessel fitted with a rising and falling cover like a gasometer. The
gas or other fluid under pressure is admitted to this vessel by a pipe connected to the
main or other source of supply and is conducted from the vessel by an outlet pipe to
the point desired for any purpose such as lighting heating &c.
My improvements consist chiefly in applying to the inlet or supply pipe a valve
arranged to be operated by the movement of the cover of the vessel so as to open the
inlet more or less or to close it completely as necessary for the purpose of maintaining
as nearly as possible a uniform supply of gas through the outlet irrespective of
variations in the quantity consumed.
Dated this 4th day of March 1880
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Regulating and Controlling the
Supply of Gas and other Fluids Under Pressure.
I, HUGH WILLIAMS, of the Mount, Stockport in the County of Chester, 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 improvements in appliances for regulating and controlling
the supply of gas and other fluids under pressure.
A combined regulator and antifluctuator as now constructed usually consists of an
hermetically sealed vessel fitted with a rising and falling cover like a gasometer. The
gas or other fluid under pressure is admitted to this vessel by a pipe connected to the
main or other source of supply and is conducted from the vessel by an outlet pipe to
the point desired for any purpose such as lighting heating &c.
My improvements consist chiefly in applying to the inlet or supply pipe a valve
arranged to be operated by the movement of the cover of the vessel so as to open the
inlet more or less or to close it completely as necessary for the purpose of maintaining
as nearly as possible a uniform supply of gas through the outlet irrespective of
variations in the quantity consumed.
The Drawing is simply intended to illustrate a convenient arrangement of valve
applied according to my improvements but it is obvious that many other suitable
forms of valve may be employed and modifications made in the details and in the mode
of operating the same from the rising and falling cover without departing from my
invention.
In this view a designates the hermetically sealed vessel; the inlet pipe through
which fluid under pressure is supplied to the vessel a; c the rising and falling cover
dipping into the liquid in the annular space a¹; and d is the outlet pipe through which
fluid passes from the vessel a and is conducted to the point where it is used or
consumed.

page_text: In the inlet pipe is fitted according to my Invention the valve e the stem of which
is passed through the rising and falling cover c and is secured to the latter by a
nut care being taken to make a gas tight joint. The stem of the valve e is loaded
with weights g to increase the pressure and regulate the rising of the cover c while to
guide the valve and prevent the cover from lifting too high a pin 4 is fixed in the valve
the pin passing through a slot in the pipe b.
Holes as shown are made in the inlet pipe band corresponding holes in the valve e
so that when the parts are in the relative positions shown in the Drawing fluid under
pressure can flow freely from the inlet pipe into the vessel a and away through the
outlet pipe ; but when through any decrease in the consumption of fluid and
consequent tendency to increased pressure in the vessel the cover c is lifted the
valve e rising with it partially or wholly closes the inlet holes and so regulates the
supply.
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
The application to a combined regulator and antifluctuator of a valve arranged to be
operated by the rising and falling cover so as to control the inlet of fluid under
pressure and maintain an approximately uniform supply of Anid through the outlet
substantially as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 4th day of December 1980
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.