Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 14th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 17th Feb., 1888
I THOMAS PANARIO of 17 St. Philip's Street Battersea in the county of Surrey
Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In water waste preventers similar to that described in the specification of my
Patent No. 2861 dated 27th February 1886 wherein the bend of the syphon is filled
by a propeller plate on which plate is a ball or floating appliance and by which plate
the valve that admits water to the cistern can be closed an evil is experienced in that
if the pull be retained when the propeller plate has been caused to assume a vertical
position or thereabouts which position is thereby maintained the valve will
continuously admit water to the cistern which water will pass away therefrom by
periodical flushes. A further minor evil is found in the use of the stop by which the
plate is prevented passing beyond the desired position and against which frequent
percussions are made.
Now the object of this my invention is to remedy these evils.
To carry out this object I fit an arm to the plate or to the pivot thereof so formed
that when the plate has been brought into the vertical position or thereabouts that is
desired to start the syphon this arm will engage under the lever of the valve and so
raise the same as to shut off the supply of water and thus if the pull is held or
retained in this position no water can enter the cistern. When the pull is released
the plate is caused to move towards the desired horizontal position by a counter-
weight attached to the same or to another arm thereon when the valve opens and
water is admitted to the cistern until the plate has attained the somewhat horizontal
position and the supply is again shut off by the plate raising the lever of the valve.
The stop can be dispensed with either by making the plate of such dimensions that
it cannot attain an exactly vertical position by reason of the free end thereof coming
in contact with the bottom of the cistern or by so forming the lever to which the pull
is attached that the pull cannot bring the plate into the exactly vertical position or by
so forming the arm to which the counterweight is attached that this counterweight
will always bring the plate into the desired nearly vertical position whenever it is
allowed so to do or by a combination of two or more of these methods.

page_text: Improvements in Water Waste Preventers.
I THOMAS PANARIO of 17 St. Philip's Street Battersea in the county of Surrey
Clerk 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 :-
In water waste preventers wherein as described in the specification of my Patent
No. 2861 dated the 27th day of February 1886 the bend of the syphon is filled by
the motion of a propeller plate on which plate is a ball or floating appliance and by
which plate the valve that admits water to the cistern is closed an evil is experienced
in that if the pull be retained when the propeller plate has been caused to assume a
vertical or nearly vertical position which position is thereby maintained the valve will
continuously admit water to the cistern which water will pass away therefrom by
periodical flushes or through the overflow pipe. A further minor evil is found in the
use of the stop by which the plate is prevented passing beyond the desired position
and against which frequent percussions are made.
Now the object of this my invention is to remedy these evils and I carry out this
object in manner as is hereinafter described and as is shewn in the accompanying
drawing wherein Figure 1 is a vertical section of my water waste preventer and
Figure 2 is a plan of the same with the cover removed.
The cistern A is filled with water by any suitable valve B and the flush is delivered
through any usual syphon D the bend whereof is above the regulated water level in
the cistern. At or a little above this water level is pivoted transversely and
horizontally across the cistern A one edge of the plate E the dimensions whereof are
about those of the transverse vertical area of the cistern A below the line of pivoting
aforesaid and to this plate E or to the pivot F thereof is attached the lever H whereto
the pull K is connected which pull K may be a rope or a chain or a rod or other
appliance and is led to the required position for use in any manner as may be
desirable. On or in or to the plate E and near the free end thereof is secured in any
convenient manner a ball or other floating appliance I preferably in such wise that
half of the said ball or appliance L will be on each side of the said plate E and to the
side edges of this plate E can conveniently be fitted two deep flanges M to prevent as
far as may be the water from passing by the sides of the said plate E. The lever N
of the valve B carries on its end one or more rollers P or otherwise bears on the
plate E and is so bent and formed that when the said plate E is in an horizontal
position or thereabouts the supply of water through the valve B is shut off. A cover R
can conveniently be fitted to this cistern A and an overflow pipe T can also be fitted
preferably at the opposite end of the cistern A to that in which the syphon D is
situated.
When water is admitted to this cistern A through the valve B the ball or floating
appliance causes the plate E to float on or in the water until the plate E has
attained the horizontal position or thereabouts when the supply of water is shut off as

page_text: aforesaid. The pull K can then be actuated and the plate E propels the water into
the syphon D filling the bend of the same and starting the syphonic action that
empties the cistern as is desired which syphonic action is so quickly established that
long before the wave of water that is propelled by the plate E towards the syphon D
can return to the opposite end of the cistern A the level of the water is so lowered by
the flush thus established that the overflow pipe T will not come into action wherefor
this overflow pipe T can be fitted at a level in the cistern A a little below the level of
the bend of the syphon D.
According to this method of construction it is obvious that if the pull be held and
retained when the propeller plate has been caused to assume the vertical or nearly
vertical position the water will be continuously admitted to the cistern and a periodical
flush will be created or the water will pass away through the overflow pipe. To
obviate this evil an arm V is fitted to the plate E or to the pivot F thereof or otherwise
so formed and constructed that when the plate E is in this vertical or nearly vertical
position this arm V will engage under the lever N of the valve B and so raise the
same as to shut off the supply of water and thus if the pull is held and retained no
water can enter the cistern. When the pull is released a counterweight W preferably
attached to this arm V causes the plate E to move towards the desired horizontal
position when the valve B opens and water is admitted to the cistern and the aforesaid
cycle of operations is repeated and so on.
The stop can be dispensed with either by making the propeller plate of such
dimensions that it cannot attain an exactly vertical position by reason of the free end
thereof coming in contact with the bottom of the cistern or by so forming the lever
to which the pull is attached or the arm which engages under the lever of the supply
valve that the pull cannot bring the plate into the exactly vertical position or by so
forming the arm to which the counterweight is attached that this counterweight will
always move the plate in the desired direction away from the exactly vertical position
whenever it is allowed so to do or by a combination of two or more of these methods
as may be expedient or desirable in each particular case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
1. In a cistern the combination with a syphon of the propeller plate E fitted with
the bali or floating appliance L the arm V and the counterweight W and the lever N
of the supply valve B substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
declared.
2. The water waste preventer substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in
the accompanying drawing.
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