Improvements in Water-waste Preventers for Water-closets and other Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water-waste Preventers for Water-closets and
other Purposes.
HENRY ENOCH Plumber No. 30 Hatherley Street Cheltonham in the County of
Gloucester do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It has for its object simplified construction and noiseless action.
:-
I take an ordinary cistern and fix into it an horizontal division thereby dividing it
into two chambers or compartments. I then cut a hole in the bottom of the cistern
and also in the horizontal division and fix an upright spindle to work therein with a
double valve formed upon it (working in the apertures) the bottom valve fitting the
bottom hole and the upper valve fitting the upper hole.
In action the double valvo shuts the upper hole while it opens the bottom one,
thereby discharging a certain quantity of liquid. The construction enables the
cistern to be fixed either right or left hand. The upper valve is made movable upon the
spindle by means of a screwed nut or other suitable appliances for the purpose of
reguliting the flow of water into the bottom chamber.
also use an air pipe one end of which is made secure to the horizontal division of
the cistern the other end being carried to the top of the cistern, and fitted with a
tap or any other suitable appliance for the purpose of regulating the passing of the
air from the lower chamber, by this means the filling of the lower chamber with
liquid can be regulated to any given time.
I claim by this invention, that any cistern divided into compartments can be
regulated to discharge any given quantity of liquid in any given time.
Dated this till das of th1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water-waste Preventers for Water-closets and
other Purposes.
HENRY ENOOH of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucester, Plumber, 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:-
This Invention has for its object simplicity in construction and silence in
action.
This Invention refers only to the Double-Valve and its Seatings.
I form the Double Valve by taking a piece of tube and making an upright spindle
and fixing thereon a disc of India rubber to fit the upper soating and a round ball to
fit the lower seating I attach the ball valve to the bottom of the tubular spindle
with a pin making the pin hole in the tube elongated so as to provide an air vent.
The upper seating is made cup shape to afford play for the indiarubber, the bottom
seating is made to fit the ball valve. In action immediately the spindle is slightly
raised, the upper valve is closed and this valve being made of India rubber or other
flexible material upon further raising the spindle this valve is further raised in the
cup seating, and the bottom valve raised up out of its seating, thereby allowing the
liquid to discharge itself down a pipe fixed underneath the cistern & connected to
the underside of the bottom valve. Upon pulling the lever the water flows from the
cistern & flushes the water closet. In application to a water cart the double valve
is fixed in the body of the water cart. A necessary chamber is formed in a similar
way to that of a cistern. A pipe is attached to the underside of the bottom valve;
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page_text: to this pipe is attached a spreader or perforatal pipe otherwise a nozzle by which tho
water is distributed in the form required. Upon pressing down the lover the said
double valve cuts off the water upon the slightest action of the lover thoroby pro-
vanting waste of water in the case of a cistern or water cart. A solid spindle may he
used instead of a tubular one and an air pipe or air channel made for the air vent
instead of using the tubular spindle.
Having thus set forth the nature of my Invention I next proceed to describe it with
reference to the drawings, figures and letters described thereon:-Fig. 1 is a drawing
of a complete cistern such as is generally used for water closets. A part of the front
is broken away to show the entire construction. That portion of the cistern between
the bottom and the divisions & containing the double valve forms a measuring
chamber and that part which measures the quantity of water to he discharged and
by its peculiar construction entitles it to be called a Water-Waste-Preventer.
Fig. 2 is an onlarged view of the Double Valve. In action the upper valve A is
open and the lower valvo is closed; the measuring chamber is now full of liquid the
air passes up the spindle at the orifice markod B and the water runs into the measuring
chamber round the spindle marked C.
Fig. 3. is an enlarged view of the same thing as Fig. 2 but simply showing the
double valve in its position for discharging the liquid; the dise-valve is closed & tho
bottom valve in position for discharging the liquid.
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. To use a spindle with 2 valves fixed on it to any kind of cistern, water
cart or other vessel suitable for the Invention, and the corresponding seatings for
them.
II. To use tubular or solid spindles.
III. To mako the upper disc valve and the lower Ball-Valve and their seatings in
any other shape to suit this form of spindle for the purpose of controlling or
discharging liquid.
IV. To make the said spindle & valves with any kind of metal, wood, india rubber
or any other suitable material.
V. To make the said spindle & valves suitable for a water cart. The body of the
water cart which is of a similar shapo to a cistern is provided with a spindle made
of suitable length and is fixed with its valves in an upright position between the top
plate with its cup seating and the bottom plate with its ball seating as shown in Fig. 2.
The spindle is operated on with a lover in a similar manner as that of a cistern and as
shown in Fig. 1 and may be fixed in any convenient part of the said water cart
body.
Dated this 4th day of November 1889.