Improvements in Gully Traps.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 2nd June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gully Traps.
We, WILLIAM OATES and JOHN JOHNSTON GREEN, of Halifax, in the
County of York, Sanitary Pipe Manufacturers, and ARTHUR CROSSLEY, of
Stafford Lawn, Halifax, aforesaid, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
This invention in gully traps consists in forming them in cross section in the shape
of a pentagon, hexagon, polygon, or triangle so that when the gully is placed
against a wall or other surface the overflow pipe can either be made to project at
right angles or to the left or right, so that the trap can be adapted to meet
connecting pipes of three angles.
Dated this 6th day of January 1893.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gully Traps.
We,
WILLIAM OATES, and JOHN JOHNSTON GREEN, of Halifax, in the
County of York, Sanitary Pipe Manufacturers, and ARTHUR CROSSLEY, of
Stafford Lawn, Halifax, aforesaid, 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 :-
This invention in gully traps consists in forming the tops in the shape of a
pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, or triangle, so that when the gully is placed
against a wall or other surface, the overflow pipe can either be made to project at
right angles or to the left or right, so that the trap can be adapted to meet
connecting pipes of three or more angles.
Such being the nature and object of our invention we will now refer to the
accompanying sheet of drawings illustrating several forms of the tops of gully
traps, and shewing how we put our invention into practice.
Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate the tops of gully traps in the form of a pentagon with
the overflow pipe A pointing at both right and left hand angles so that the said
overflow pipes can be connected direct into the main drain without the use of an
elbow pipe or bend now necessary.
Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate the tops of gully traps of triangular shape which also
allow the overflow pipe A to assume two angles.
Figs. 5, 6, and 7, illustrate the tops of gully traps of hexagon shape but in this
case the overflow pipe A can be made to occupy three positions.
Figs. 8, 9, 10, and 11, illustrate the tops of gully traps of heptagon shape. In
this case the overflow pipe A can be made to assume four different positions.
Figs. 12, 13, and 14, illustrate the tops of gully traps of octagon shape, permitting
the overflow pipe A to assume three different positions.
It is obvious that our improved gully can be placed in such a position as to
point the overflow pipe A in any of the directions illustrated in the drawings, so
as to meet the requirements of drains in various positions, whereby we dispense with
an elbow or bend usually required for that purpose.
We wish it to be understood that the overflow pipe is arranged so as to project
from the gully at a position under one of the flat sides of the top of the gully and
not at one of the angles.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The combination of gully traps with tops of any of the shapes illustrated in the
drawings, and where the overflow pipe A occupies a position under one of the flat
sides of the gully trap tops.
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TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.