Improvements in Fountains for Ornamental Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fountains for Ornamental Purposes.
JOHN Fox Plasterer of 15 College Place Chelsea in the County of Middlesex
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
By means of two flexible bags or water elevators with a flexible tube, attached
to each, the ends of which are joined to each end of a metal tube A which,
has a chamber in the centre from which is a tube or fountain jet-the chamber
has a valve at each end; when the valve at one end of the chamber is forced
open, the pressure of the water keeps the other closed; hence the only means
of escape being through the tube or jet, which causes the spray.
By raising one of the bags full of water above the level of the jet, the water
from the raised bag must pass through the valved chamber; no matter which of the
bags are raised its action is the same.
To conduct the water from the fountain dish, a metal tube B the ends of which
are connected to the flexible tubes the same as tube A, this tube is placed by
the side of tube A. in its centre is a chamber with two valves acting the reverse
to valves in tube A, these valves allow the water to pass out through them but
not in; the water enters this chamber through a pipe from the fountain dish and
passes through the flexible tube into the bag which is lowered for that purpose
so that when the lowered bag is filled the raised one is empty: so by lowering
the empty bag and raising the full one the fountain will continue to play.
JOHN FOX.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fountains for Ornamental Purposes.
JOHN Fox Plasterer 15 Bury Street Chelsea in the County of Middlesex 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 :-
:―
By means of two flexible bags or water elevators with a flexible attached to cach,
the ends of which are joined to each end of a metal tube (A) which, has a chamber
in the centre, from which is tube or fountain jet the chamber has a valve (C)
at each end.
When the valve at one end of the chamber is forced open the pressure of the
water keeps the other closed; hence the only means of escape being through the
tube or jet, which causes the spray.
By raising one of the bags full of water above the level of the jet, the water
from the raised bag must pass through the valved chamber: no matter which of
the bags are raised its action is the same.
To conduct the water from the fountain dish, a metal tube (B) the ends of
which are connected to the flexible tubes, the same as tube (A), this tube. is placed
by the side of tube (A), in its centre is a chamber with two valves acting the
reverse to, valves in tube (A) these valves allow the water to pass out through
them but not in the water enters this chamber through a pipe from the fountain
dish and passes through the flexible tube into the bag, which is lowered for that
purpose, so that when the lowered bag is filled the raised one is empty. So by
lowering the empty bag and raising the full one the fountain will continue to
play.

page_text: The bags are closed on all sides and have a capped inlet. Each of the flexible
tubes has a tap for regulating purposes.
The flap valves are hinged at the top.
The object of this invention is to make a fountain which can be utilised
wherever there are means of suspending the bags, such as window-recesses,
conservatories, or summer houses, and may be, attached to fish globes, aquariums
or window ferneries.
The novel feature of this invention consists in the method of causing the
water to flow from side to side, and from one bag to the other, by means of
opposite acting valves.
Although the bags, valves and tubes may not be new severally, when combined
they produce a new combination and hence a new apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, what I claim is :-
1. The combination of a self-contained fountain.
2. The method of causing the water to flow alternately from one elevator to the
other.
3. A. fountain regulated by the action of swing valves.
Dated this Sixth day of April A.D. 1892.
JOHN FOX,
15, Bury Street, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex.