IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE OR TABLE FOUNTAINS.
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Badcock, of Lymington, in the Connty of
Southampton, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE OR TABLE
FOUNTAINS.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Badcock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th December 1877.
HENRY BADCOCK, of Lymington, in the County of Southampton. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PORTABLE OR TABLE FOUNTAINS."
My Invention consists in a portable or table fountain in which the jet of water
is raised or discharged by the pressure of a gas or gases generated by the combina-
tion of suitable chemicals contained in a compartment provided for their reception
in the base or pedestal of the fountain constructed for this purpose, in the following
manner: According to my Invention the base or pedestal of the fountain contains
a double vessel, consisting of an inner and an outer cylinder or chamber of other
form, the one containing water and the other a mixture of chemicals (such as tar-
taric acid and bi-carbonate of soda or other acid and carbonate or bi-carbonate)
which by their chemical union will generate a gas or gases in sufficient quantity to
exert the necessary pressure on the surface of the water in the other vessel to expel
it in the form of a jet. The two chambers communicate at the upper part by
suitable holes or passages in order that the gas or gases generated in the one may
have access to and press upon the water contained in the other, and the water
chamber is provided with a discharge tube that passes through its cover and ter-
minates at the upper end in a union and stop cock, the lower end extending down
nearly to the bottom of the said chamber, so that the whole of the water must be
expelled through said tube before the gas can escape, both chambers being otherwise
closed air-tight. The water and chemicals are introduced into their respective
chambers at openings in the cover closed by screw caps.

page_text: The double chamber constructed and charged with water and chemicals, as above
described, is placed within the pedestal of the fountain, which is of sufficient size to
receive in the space around said double chamber the waste water that collects in the
fountain basin, which is conducted to said receptacle through suitable overflow
passages. The fountain basin is mounted on the cover of the pedestal, and the 5
discharge pipe from the water chamber is connected to the jet pipe fixed in the
fountain basin by a short india-rubber tube.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Badcock in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th June
1878.
HENRY BADCOCK, of Lymington, in the County of Southampton, "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PORTABLE OR TABLE FOUNTAINS."
My Invention consists in a portable or table fountain, in which the jet of water
is raised or discharged by the pressure of a gas or gases generated by the combina-
tion of suitable chemicals contained in a compartment provided for their reception
in the base or pedestal of the fountain constructed for this purpose in the following
manner: According to my Invention the base or pedestal of the fountain contains
a double vessel, consisting of an inner and an outer cylinder or chamber of other
form, the one containing water or other liquid, and the other a mixture of chemicals
(such as tartaric acid and bi-carbonate of soda or other acid and carbonate or
bi-carbonate) which by their chemical union will generate a gas or gases in sufficient
quantity to exert the necessary pressure on the surface of the water in the other
vessel to expel it in the form of a jet. The two chambers communicate at the upper
part by suitable holes or passages in order that the gas or gases generated in the one
may have access to and press upon the water contained in the other, and the water
chamber is provided with a discharge tube which passes through its cover and ter-
minates at the upper end in a union and stop cock, the lower end extending down
nearly to the bottom of the said chamber, so that the whole of the water must be
expelled through said tube before the gas can escape, both chambers being other-
wise closed air-tight. The water and chemicals are introduced into their respective
chambers at openings in the cover closed by screw caps.
The double chamber constructed and charged with water and chemicals, as above
described, is placed within the pedestal of the fountain, which is of sufficient size to
receive in the space around said double chamber the waste water that collects
in the fountain basin, which is conducted to said receptacle through suitable over-
flow passages. The fountain basin is mounted on the cover of the pedestal, and the
discharge pipe from the water chamber is connected to the jet pipe fixed in the
fountain basin by a short india-rubber tube.

page_text: double vessel containing the water and chemicals; and Figure 3 is a perspective
elevation of the said double vessel removed from the outer case or pedestal A,
Figures 1 and 2, which is of box shape, and may be of any suitable external
shape or design, and made of glass, china, metal, wood lined with sheet metal,
or other suitable material, and should be water-tight if it is intended to receive
the overflow water from the fountain basin B. It has a removeable lid A' to
allow the said double vessel to be removed for filling and emptying, the lid A'
being also constructed with a sliding panel or door at a to give access to the cock by
which the jet is controlled.
The cover A' is surmounted by the catch basin B, from the centre of which rises
the jet tube, provided with nozzle C, the tube, if it rises much above the basin B,
being concealed by another basin b, and tulip or other ornament b¹.
The jet
tube extends down below basin B, and into the cover A', for a purpose hereafter
mentioned.
The double vessel containing the water and chemicals is preferably of cylindrical
form, D being the outer and E the inner vessel. Both are constructed preferably of
stout sheet copper, and the outer vessel D is closed air tight. Its top is provided
with two apertures d, e, each closed by screw caps or stoppers, preferably of hexa-
gonal or other shape, so as to be turned by a spanner, and provided with leather or
other suitable washers to prevent the escape of gas. The opening & being for the
introduction of the chemicals, is therefore situated over the space between the sides
of the vessels D and E, whilst opening e is over vessel E, and is for filling said
vessel with water.
The vessel E is of smaller diameter and of less depth than vessel D, and it is open
at top to the vessel D, having no cover of its own, but being soldered to the top or
cover of vessel D, so that there is a space between the sides and between the
bottoms of said vessels D, E. The two vessels are placed in communication by a
number of holes f through the sides of vessel E, at their upper edge. G is the
discharge tube, which passes through another opening in the top of D, and descends
to within about half an inch of the bottom of vessel E Its lower end is open and
protected by a muslin or gauze strainer to prevent it being choked by "foreign
substances, and it is provided at its upper end with a stop cock g, which screws
into the opening in the top of D, and a union g' for connection with the lower end
of the jet tube by a short length of india-rubber tubing g³, which, as well as the
stop cock g, is concealed within the hollow or domed cover A².
The vessel E being filled with water nearly up to the holes f, and the chemicals
being placed in the space at the bottom of vessel D, between it and vessel E, and the
openings d, e, closed by their screw caps, the stop cock g being closed, the double
vessel D, E, is then placed in the pedestal A, and the jet tube connected to the
union g', the cover A' carrying the basin B and jet nozzle are then fitted in place,
and the fountain is ready for use By slightly tilting it some of the water in E is
caused to run through holes into D, and mingle with the chemicals, thereby
generating gas, which passes from D, through holes f into E, and presses on the
surface of the water, which when cock g is opened is discharged through tube G and
nozzle C in the form of a jet The water is caught by basin B, and may either
remain therein oi preferably be allowed to run through an overflow hole in said
basin, and through a short length of india-rubber tubing, if necessary, into the
pedestal A, which in this case is made of sufficiently greater capacity than the
vessel D to hold in the space around said vessel as much of the contents of vessel E
as overflow from basin B.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner of performing the same,
I declare that what I claim as my Invention, to be protected by the hereinbefore in
part recited Letters Patent, is,-
First. The improved portable or table fountain consisting of the hollow pedestal
or receptacle for the liquid and gas producing chambers, and for the overflow water,
the double vessel D, E, constructed as described, the cover A', basin B, and jet tube
and nozzle C, all substantially as herein shown and described.

page_text: Second. In a portable or table fountain the double vessel or combined liquid
receptacle and gas producing chamber provided with discharge tube, the whole
arranged and constructed substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Badcock, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
HENRY RADCOCK
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