New or Improved Means for Securing Rain Water and like Pipes to House Walls and similar Places.
Year: 1895

page_text: New or Improved Means for Securing Rain Water and like Pipes to
House Walls and similar Places.
I, HENRY JOHN HARVEY, of Queen's Road, Weybridge, Sanitary Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The chief object of the present invention is to provide means for fixing
rain water pipes in position, whereby any desired length of pipe may be
quickly and easily removed and replaced without disturbing the remaining
lengths. My invention also greatly facilitates the fixing of the pipes in the first
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instance.
According to my invention I provide a collar or slide, corresponding in
shape with the section of the pipe, which collar is slipped over the end of
the latter and engages with the underside of the socket piece or head thereof.
Upon this collar is formed a projecting arm, the extremity of which is
made of or dovetail or other suitable shape and is adapted to be slipped into a
correspondingly shaped socket or slot secured to or formed on or in a plate which
is affixed by nails to the house wall or like place. The said plates are arranged at
such distance apart that each pipe will just enter the socket piece of the adjacent
pipe, consequently each plate will only support the weight of one length of pipe
and sufficient play will be allowed to each length to permit of its being lifted
sufficiently to release the arm of its supporting collar from the socket. The said
arms may be made of any desired length so as to accommodate plinths or other
projections on the wall.
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In fixing rain water pipes by the ordinary method some difficulty is frequently
experienced by reason of the nail holes in the wall attachment not coming opposite
to the joints in the brickwork; to avoid this difficulty I prefer to pierce nail holes
all round the four sides of my wall plate, the nail holes in two opposite sides of the
plate being differently spaced to the nail holes in the other sides and I provide each
plate with two corresponding sockets or slots disposed at right angles to each
other, thus should the position of the nail holes be unsuitable when the plate is in
one position, the latter may be turned a quarter round when
pair of the
differently spaced holes in what were previously the horizontal edges of
the plate will be sure to be found near enough to the desired position for all
practical purposes.
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Dated this 10th day of January 1895.
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page_text: New or Improved Means for Securing Rain Water and like Pipes to
House Walls and similar Places.
I, HENRY JOHN HARVEY, of Queen's Road, Weybridge, Sanitary 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 chief object of the present invention is to provide means for fixing
rain water and like pipes in position whereby any desired length of pipe may
be quickly and readily removed and replaced without disturbing the remaining
lengths in any way. My invention also greatly facilitates the fixing of the pipes
in the first instance.
According to my invention, I provide a collar, corresponding in shape with the
section of the pipe, which collar is slipped over the end of the latter and engages
with the underside of the head thereof. Extending from this collar is an arm, the
extremity of which is made of T, or dovetail, or other suitable shape, and is
adapted to be slipped into a correspondingly shaped socket secured to or formed
on a wall plate which is affixed by nails to the house wall or like place. The said
wall plates are arranged at such distance apart that each length of pipe will just
enter the head of the adjacent length, consequently each wall plate will only
support the weight of one length of pipe and sufficient vertical play will be allowed
to each length to permit of the disengagement of its supporting collar from the
socket of the wall plate. The said arms may be made of any desired length so as
to accommodate plinths or other projections on the wall.
In the accompanying drawings in which similar letters refer to corresponding
parts in all the figures:
:-
Fig. 1 represents two lengths of rain water pipe secured in position according to
my invention.
Fig. 2 is a face view of a wall plate and socket.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the collar and arm, shewing the latter slipped into the socket
of the wall plate.
a a are the lengths of pipe upon each of which there is slipped a collar 6 which
engages with the underside of the head a 1 thereof and has an arm c extending
therefrom. The extremity of this arm c is made of T, dovetail, or other suitable
shape, and enters and fits a socket d of corresponding shape formed on the wall
plate e which latter is secured to the wall. The wall plates e are so spaced, or
placed at such a distance apart, that each length of pipe a will just enter the head
of the adjacent length, as illustrated, consequently each wall plate will only
support the weight of one length of pipe and sufficient. vertical play will be allowed
to each length to permit of its being lifted sufficiently to disengage the arm of its
collar from the wall plate socket d. 1 am thus enabled to remove and replace any
desired length of pipe without in any way disturbing the remaining lengths.
In fixing rain water pipes by the ordinary method, some difficulty is frequently
experienced by reason of the nail holes in the wall attachment not coming opposite
to the joints in the brickwork. In order to avoid this difficulty, prefer to
construct the wall plates as represented in Fig. 2, and to pierce nail holes round
the four sides of the wall plate, the nail holes in two opposite sides of the plate
being differently spaced to the nail holes in the other two sides, and I provide each
wall plate with two corresponding sockets d disposed at right angles to each other.
By this arrangement, should the position of the nail holes in the vertical edges of
the wall plate be unsuitable when the latter is placed in position, the wall plate may
be turned a quarter round, when some of the differently spaced holes in the now

page_text: vertical edges of the plate will be sure to be found near enough to the desired
position for all practical purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described means for securing rain water and like pipes to house
walls and similar places, consisting in providing each length of pipe with a collar
free to slide thereon and engaging with the underside of the head thereof, said
collar having an arm extending therefrom which is adapted to enter and fit a socket
provided on a wall plate, the wall plates being fixed at such a distance apart that
each length of pipe just enters the head of the adjacent length, substantially as
described and for the purpose set forth.
2. The combination with a rain water or like pipe, of a collar free to slide
thereon and engaging with the underside of the head thereof, an arm extending
from said collar, and a wall plate having a socket adapted to receive the end of
said arm, substantially as described.
3. For the purpose set forth, a wall plate provided with sockets disposed at right
angles to each other and having nail holes formed around the four sides thereof,
the nail holes in two opposite sides being differently spaced to those in the
remaining sides, substantially as described and as illustrated.
4. Means for securing rain water and like pipes to house walls and similar places
substantially as illustrated in the annexed drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1895.
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Chartered Patent Agents,
19 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.