Method of Preserving Water and like Pipes with Means for Enabling Incrustation to be Removed.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 26th Oct.,
1888
Method of Preserving Water and like Pipes with Means for Enabling
Incrustation to be Removed.
I, CECIL HENRY FITZMAURICE, of 53 Sigden Road, Middlesex, Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to line or coat the inside of water and like pipes with
a fusible or reducible by heat material, so that the incrustation can be readily removed
and the pipe be re-prepared for further use.
For the purpose of my invention, I employ a material which can be readily
rendered plastic, such as sealing wax, varnish, or its or their equivalent or a com-
bination of two or more such materials or the like or I use an india rubber or a
compound of the same or a soft or other metal such as lead, Spence's metal, or the
like, which will adhere to the inside of a water pipe to preserve the interior from the
direct contact of incrustation which forms therein, in rapidity according to the hard-
ness or the chemical constituents contained in the water, which deposit and block up
the passage, and which in the usual way necessitates the destruction of the pipe.
By my invention, the incrustation is formed on the lining material, so that by sub-
jecting the pipe, say to fire heat, the lining will be softened to enable the incrustation
to be drawn out and the pipe to be reused.
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page_text: I, CECIL HENRY FITZMAURICE, of 53 Sigden Road, Middlesex, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to line or coat the inside of water and like pipes with
a fusible, or reducible by heat, material, so that the incrustation of the pipe is prevented
forming or in the case of old pipes the incrustation can be readily removed and the pipe
be re-prepared for further use."
For the purpose of my invention, I employ a material which can be readily rendered
plastic, such as Sealing Wax, Parafine Wax, Varnish, or its or their equivalent, or a
combination of two or more such materials, or the like, or I use an india rubber or
a compound of the same, or a soft or other metal, such as Lead, Spence's Metal, or
the like, which will adhere to the inside of a water pipe to preserve the interior
from the direct contact of incrustation which forms therein in rapidity according
to the hardness or the chemical constituents contained in the water which deposit
and block up the passage, and which in the usual way necessitates the destruction of
the pipe.
By my invention, the incrustation is formed on the lining material, so that by
subjecting the pipe, say, to fire heat, the lining will be softened to enable the
incrustation to be drawn out and the pipe to be re-used after a relining.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim :-
:-
Lining water and like pipes with a liquifiable adhesive composition or material as a
protecting agent against incrustation as set forth.
The 14th day of September 1888.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Cecil Henry Fitzmaurice.