A Filter Attachment for Water Pipes and such like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left. 27th Aug. 1896-Accepted. 24th Oct.. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Filter Attachment for Water Pipes and such like.
We, JOHN ABRAHAM of Townhead, Drymen, Stirlingshire, Painter, ROBERT
MCMILLAN, Wellwood, Drymen, Stirlingshire, Clothier, and JOHN BLAIR, of
Stirling Road, Drymen, Stirlingshire, Bootmaker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an attachment for domestic water pipes and such like
for filtering the water used for drinking and other purposes.
The attachment consists of a short tube which is attached by means of a pinching
screw or a coupling or in other manner to the domestic tap or pipe. This tube is
provided with a, or more than one, bayonet or other slot at its lower end. Fitted
telescopically within this tube is a short tubular piece provided with a wire gauze
or other filter and also with a pin or pins or an arm or arms for engagement with
the bayonet slot or slots aforesaid.
The attachment being fitted on the end of the pipe acts as a filter and can be
readily cleaned when necessary by merely disengaging the lower telescopic piece
from the slot or slots and then removing any sediment, dirt, etc.
Dated this 26th day of November 1895.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
Glasgow and London, Agent.
A Filter Attachment for Water Pipes and such like.
We, JOHN ABRAHAM of Townhead, Drymen, Stirlingshire, Painter, ROBERT
MCMILLAN, Wellwood, Drymen, Stirlingshire, Clothier, and JOHN BLAIR, of
Stirling Road, Drymen, Stirlingshire, Bootmaker, 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 an attachment for domestic water pipes and such like
for filtering the water used for drinking and other purposes.
And in order that our said invention may be properly understood we have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the filter.
Fig. 2 is a view showing the parts of the filter separated.
Fig. 3 is a section of the filter.
Fig. 4 is a view showing the filter fitted to an ordinary water cran or tap.
Fig. 5 shows, in section, a slight modification.
Referring to the drawings whereon the same reference letters wherever repeated
indicate the same parts.
The attachment consists of a short tube a which is attached by means of a
screw b or a coupling or in other manner to the domestic tap or pipe c (Fig. 4).
This tube a is provided with a, (or more than one) bayonet slot d at its lower end.
Fitted telescopically within this tube is a short tubular piece e provided with a

page_text: wire gauze or other filter f and also with a pin 9 (or pins) or an arm (or arms) for
engagement with the bayonet slot (or slots) aforesaid.
A rubber ring is also preferably fitted in the tube a.
The attachment being fitted on the end of the pipe acts as a filter and can be
readily cleaned when necessary by merely disengaging the lower telescopic piece e
from the slot (or slots) and then removing any sediment, dirt, etc.
In the modification at Fig. 5 a piece of asbestos cloth f¹ is fitted over the upper
end of the tubular piece e.
The wire gauze can be soldered in place on the piece e.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
consider novel and desire to claim is :-
A filter constructed substantially as hereinbefore described and shown on the
drawings annexed.
Dated this 26th day of August 1896.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
Glasgow and London, Agent.