AN, IMPROVED METHOD OF CONNECTING GAS AND OTHER PIPES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy, of Odin
Lodge, King's Road, Clapham Park, in the County of Surrey, for. the
Invention of "AN, IMPROVED METHOD OF CONNECTING GAS AND OTHER
PIPES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alphonse Rene Le Mire
de Normandy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 12th March.1862.
I, ALPHONSE RENE LE MIRE DE NORMANDY, of Odin Lodge, King's
Road, Clapham Park, in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CONNECTING GAS AND OTHER
PIPES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in connecting gas and other
pipes. For this purpose the pipes to be connected are made plain at their
ends, that is to say, without sockets, flanges, or projections, and a disc or plate;
with a hole in the centre of it, the diameter of which should be rather larger.
than the external diameter of the pipe, is then slipped over the ends of each,
pipe, and a washer or packing of vulcanised india-rubber or other suitable
material is then slid over or tightly wound round the ends of each of the
pipes, leaving however a portion of each pipe to protrude beyond the said
washers or packing, and afterwards over the ends of the pipes, and between the
said washers or packing a short length of tube or plain socket made just to.
fit loosely to the exterior of the pipes is passed. The ends of the pipes to be
connected are then butted end to end so as to meet about midway within the

page_text: short exterior tube or loose socket, and the plates or discs are drawn towards
each other by bolts, the washers being by this means compressed between
the plates or discs, and the ends of the short tube, and a secure joint is thus
made.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 3rd September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALPHONSE
RENE LE MIRE DE NORMANDY, of Odin Lodge, King's Road, Clapham Park,
in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Loril One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy, Her special licence, that I, the said
Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully night make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CON-
NECTING GAS AND OTHER PIPES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy, executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy,
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
This Invention has for its object an improved method of connecting gas
and other pipes. For this purpose, the pipes to be connected are made plain

page_text: at their ends, that is to say, without sockets, flanges, or projections, and a
disc or plate with a hole in the centre of it, the diameter of which should be
rather larger than the external diameter of the pipes, is then slipped over the
ends of each pipe, and a washer or packing of vulcanized india-rubber, smaller
than the pipes to be united, is then slid over each end of the said pipes so as to
grip them tightly, or if another suitable material other than vulcanized india-
rubber, such as, for example, gasket and tallow, or gasket and red lead, or
other similar or analagous substance is used, then the said gasket should be
tightly wound round the end of each of the pipes, leaving, however, a portion
of each pipe to protrude beyond the said washer's packing, and afterwards
over the ends of the pipes, and between the said washers or packing a short
length of tube or plain socket made just to fit loosely to the exterior of the
pipes is passed. The ends of the pipes to be connected are then butted end
to end so as to meet about midway within the short exterior tube or loose
socket, and the plates or discs are drawn towards each other by bolts, the
washers being by this means compressed between the plates or discs and the
ends of the short tube, and a secure joint is thus made.
The annexed Drawings, which is a vertical section of the joint, shows
clearly the contemplated arrangement.
A, A, are the two ends of the pipes to be united; B is the socket; C, C,
are the washers of vulcanized india-rubber gripping the pipes tightly with
washers of india-rubber may be replaced by some other suitable packing
wound tightly round the said pipes; D, D, discs or pressing plates; E, E,
bolts by means of which the washers of india-rubber or other suitable packings
are compressed so as to form a sound joint.
What I claim as my Invention is the method of connecting gas and other
pipes, herein described, or any method, substantially the same for effecting the
same object.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
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