Improved Attachment for Street Gullies to Enable them to Take Off Storm Water.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Attachment for Street Gullies to Enable them to Take Off
Storm Water.
BENJAMIN ROGERS, 191, Brunswick Road, Bromley-by-Bow, in the County of
London, Inspector of Works, 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:-
My invention consists in constructing a box of cast or malleable iron, steel or
other suitable material of the section shewn at A, Fig. 1 (and may be made in
any convenient size or shape). The front side of this box or side nearest the road-
way I make as a grating formed of vertical bars and spaces, as at B, B Figs. 1
& 2. This grating serves as an overflow should the ordinary gully grating, shewn
at C, C, Figs. 1 & 3 become obstructed. I also form the top of the box into a
grating, either with plain bars and spaces, or arranged in any other way to give
the required area, through the openings, as shewn at D, Figs. 1 & 3. This top
grating may be either cast with the box, or it may be separate from it, and
dropped in, and secured by a suitable arrangement, to prevent it being removed
by any one but the person whose duty it is to look after such matters. This
top grating will only come into use when the ordinary gully grating C, and the
vertical grating B (of this box), become obstructed, when the water, or other
liquid, will flow through it into the chamber below, E, Fig. 1, and thence through
the main pipe or outlet.
In the side of the chamber E, Fig. 1, and immediately below the frame of the
ordinary gully grating, I provide an opening F, Fig. 1, of any required size and
shape, to admit the water or other fluid, which cannot flow into the chamber
through the ordinary gully grating, in consequence of its being obstructed.
The box forming this storm overflow, will be fixed immediately alongside the
ordinary gully grating frame, and take the place of a portion of the kerb at the
edge of the pavement, which must be removed for this purpose.
Its purpose is to allow the overflow of water, or other fluid from storms, or
other causes, to pass into the chamber, and thence to the main pipe or outlet,
when the ordinary gully grating becomes inoperative through obstruction of any
kind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. The application of a box made with gratings at the front side and on the
top to allow the storm water or other fluid, to flow away, should the ordinary
means become obstructed.
2. That this box be placed at the edge of the pavement, to take the place of
and form part of the kerb, so that no impediment to the roadway is caused by it.

page_text: 3. The introduction of an opening in the side of the chamber, to admit the
overflow into it should the ordinary gully grating become obstructed.
4. That it is applicable and can be adapted to existing street or yard gullys or
the like.
Dated thin Lith
1000