IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING AND CONTROLLING THE SUPPLY OF WATER FOR DOMESTIC AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Morris and George
Eskholme at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 30th January 1871.
We, WILLIAM MORRIS, the younger, of Kent Water Works, Deptford,
in the County of Kent, Engineer, and GEORGE ESKHOLME, of Rother-
ham, in the County of York, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of our said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING AND
CONTROLLING THE SUPPLY OF WATER FOR DOMESTIC AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
This Invention relates, firstly, to an improved construction of ball tap
intended to be used in connection with waste preventing service boxes
for supplying waterclosets, urinals, stand posts, and other purposes.
The object of the said improved construction is to reduce the liability
to injury of the seating of the said ball tap, and to simplify the
machinery or mechanism of waste preventing service boxes. For this
purpose it is proposed to make the seating moveable in lieu of fixed,
the said seat being either attached to a loose fitting disc or to a flexible
diaphragm, or it may be formed on a sliding tube or otherwise arranged
so as to accomplish the same object.

page_text: Secondly. This Invention relates to an improved apparatus for pre-
venting continuous waste of water and for ensuring the delivery of a
regulated quantity and no more at one operation. This apparatus is
applicable to waterclosets, stand posts, and other purposes, and consists
of a sliding discharge pipe or nozzle working partly inside a cylinder or
water chamber communicating with the supply pipe in combination
with a moveable seating, the seat being attached either to a loose or to
a tightly fitting piston or to a flexible diaphragm inside the said cylinder
or water chamber. When a tight fitting piston or a diaphragm is
employed one or more perforations are to be made therein so as to permit
the water in the cylinder to pass from one side to the other of the piston
or diaphragm, the same result being thereby obtained as when a loose
fitting piston is employed.
In any one of these modifications the discharge is limited or restricted
to the time during which the seat is moving or falling on to the inner
mouth of the discharge tube, that is to say, during the time the water
is passing from one side to the other of the piston or diaphragm.
Thirdly. This Invention relates to a peculiar arrangement of apparatus
to be attached to ordinary pan or valve waterclosets for the purpose
of ensuring the effectual water tapping or sealing of the closet or the
delivery of the requisite quantity of water to the basin after the handle
of the closet is released and the cock shut. For this purpose it is
proposed to employ a supplementary service box situate between the
supply cock and the watercloset basin, and by preference placed under-
neath the seat.
The water for flushing the closet fills and passes through the said
service box which is always left full after the supply cock has been
shut, but discharges its contents into the basin of the closet, and thereby
ensures the necessary quantity being delivered into the basin after the
supply has been shut off.