improveшения и аррагали 101 Lead and other Tubes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1886.
Complete Left, 28th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Apr., 1887.
improveшения и аррагали
101
Lead and other Tubes.
I, HENRY SWIFT HOLGATE of 19 Drake Street Broughton Lane Cheetham near
Manchester in the County of Lancaster Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be follows:-
This Invention relates to apparatus for connecting taps or cocks with lead and
other tubes and has for its object to diminish or prevent risk of injury to the
apparatus and to enable the connection to be made and unmade with greater facility
than at present.
These improvements consist in attaching or securing to the end of the tube a
union and in casting or otherwise forming upon the nozzle or other convenient part
of the tap or cock pins nibs or projections the union and the pins nibs or projections
being respectively so formed or shaped that they may engage with each other and be
secured together by a part turn of the union or by the movement of catches or other
movable parts. The reverse arrangement may be adopted that is to say: the union
may be attached or secured to the end of the tap or cock and the pins nibs or pro-
jections may be cast or formed upon the end of the tube or to a nozzle attached
thereto.
The joint between the ends of the tap or cock and of the tube may be tightened
or secured by an india-rubber or leather ring by a lead washer or by any ordinary and
suitable means usually employed for a similar purpose.
.
Instead of connecting lead pipes to the union by soldering to a tail pipe in the
usual manner I may pass the end of the pipe through the union and expand it with a
conical tool the expanded end may then be beaten down to the form of a flange by an
annular tool in the face of which a groove may be formed which will produce a
corresponding ridge on the face of the flange and permit a more secure joint to be
made. A brass thimble is inserted into the union before the introduction of the lead
tube and serves to permit the union to be rotated around the lead tube if necessary.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
70, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Connecting Taps or Cocks with
Lead and other Tubes.
1, HENRY SWIFT HOLGATE, of 19 Drake Street, Broughton Lane, Cheetham, near
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Mechanical Engineer, 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 relates to apparatus for connecting taps or cocks with lead and other
tubes, and has for its object to diminish or prevent risk of injury to the apparatus,
and to enable the connection to be made and unmade with greater facility than at
present.
These Improvements consist in attaching or securing to the end of the tube a union,
and in casting or otherwise forming upon the nozzle or other convenient part of the
tap or cock, pins nibs or projections, the union and the pins, nibs, or projections,
being respectively so formed or shaped that they may engage with each other and be
secured together by a part turn of the union, or by the movement of catches or other
inovable parts.
The reverse arrangement may be adopted, that is to say, the union may be attached
or secured to the end of the tap or cock, and the pins, nibs, or projections may be
cast or formed upon the end of the tube or to a nozzle attached thereto.
The joint between the ends of the tap or cock and of the tube may be tightened or
secured by an india-rubber or leather ring, by a lead washer, or by any ordinary and
suitable means usually employed for a similar purpose.
Instead of connecting lead pipes to the union by soldering to a tail pipe in the
usual manner, I may pass the end of the pipe through the union and expand it
with a conical tool, the expanded end may then be beaten down to the form of a
flange by an annular tool in the face of which a groove may be formed which
will produce a corresponding ridge on the face of the flange and permit a more
secure joint to be made. A brass thimble is inserted into the union before the
introduction of the lead tube and serves to permit the union to be rotated around the
I lead tube if necessary.
And in order that this my said Invention may be better understood and carried into
practical effect, I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings to which reference is
hereinafter made. Similar parts where they occur are indicated by similar letters of
reference in the various figures.
Fig. 1. represents in longitudinal section a tap having a bib, nozzle or tube con-
nected therewith; Fig. 2 is a front view of the tap with the bib, nozzle or tube and
the union removed therefrom; Fig. 3. is a plan of the interlocking union shown in
section in Fig. 1. Fig: 4 represents the end of a lead or composition tube about to
be expanded by means of a conical headed tool; Fig. 5 shows the end of the same or
a similar tube afterwards beaten up or flanged by an annular headed tool; Fig. 6 is a

page_text: brass tail pipe having a dovetailed groove turned in its face, into and upon which.
is forced a lead washer; and Fig. 7. is a double joint to each end of which the
union may be applied. In Figs. 4 and 5 opposite ends of a single tool are formed to
the respective shapes required, and this is the form I prefer to employ although two
separate tools may be used.
A is a tap B is a tube to be connected to a tap or cock; C C are nibs or
projections on the tap having inclined faces; D D are corresponding recesses in the
union, the inner faces of the parts between the recesses may be plane or inclined;
E is the union; F is the conical head of the tool; G is its annular head; H is a lead
washer and I the brass thimble. As shown in Fig. 1. the joint between the nozzle of
the tap and the tube is made by metallic contact, if however the arrangement shown
in Fig. 5 is used, the joint may be made tight by means of india rubber, lead, leather
or other suitable washer which will be compressed between the face of the nozzle and
the end of the pipe.
Although I show by the appended drawings the best and most convenient means at
present known to me of carrying out my Invention it will be evident that these may
be modified to a considerable extent without departing therefrom.
Joints or connections between different lengths of pipe tube or hose have for a long
time past been made by means of unions engaging with nibs pins or projections and
I therefore desire it to be understood that I make no claim to these devices except as
herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
(1) As an apparatus for connecting taps or cocks with lead or soft metal tubes;
the combination with an interlocking union, of a lead, leather, or similar and suitable
washer, and a brass thimble; substantially as hereinbefore set forth and described.
(2) As an apparatus for connecting taps or cocks with lead or soft metal tubes; the
combination with an interlocking union, of a flanged end of the tube and a brass
thimble; substantially as hereinbefore described.
(3) As an apparatus for connecting taps or cocks with brass or hard metallic tubes;
the combination with an interlocking union, of a lead or other soft metallic washer
dovetailed into the flange or end of the tube; substantially as hereinbefore described.
(4) The conical and annular headed tool or tools; substantially as and for the
purpose described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
(5) The brass thimble; substantially as and for the purpose herein before set forth
and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of February A.D. 1887.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for Applicant.