A New or Improved Water-feeding Apparatus, Adaptable to Urns and Kitchen and other Boilers.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1890
A New or Improved Water-feeding Apparatus, Adaptable to Urns
and Kitchen and other Boilers.
I, CHARLES RICHARD GORRINGE of 4 Hornsey Rise Gardens London N. Gentleman
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:-
My invention relates to a new or improved water feeding device adaptable to urns and
kitchen and other boilers, and consists essentially of a cylindrical or other receptacle in
which moves a float, opening or closing by means of suitable leverage a valve carried at
the top of the said receptacle and connected to a pipe leading to any suitable water supply
pipe or tap. My improved feeding device may be adapted to urns, kitchen and other
boilers or to any other machine or apparatus for which a constant supply of liquid is
required and automatically controlled or regulated according to purposes of con-
sumption.
In the following description I will assume my apparatus adapted to a hot water
urn such as used in public houses hospitals and other places of public resort,
but it will be understood that such an application is only described by way of example.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have shewn the same
in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1. is a sectional elevation of my
improved water feeding device. Figure 2. showing in elevation its application to a
hot water urn. Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
The apparatus consists of a cylinder A, open at the top and provided with an outlet O
at the bottom through which the water supplied flows into the urn Z through the pipe P,
as shewn in dotted lines in Figure 2. Within this cylinder is arranged a float B provided
with a hollow chamber M into which descends a rod S connecting the lever L and the
bottom of the float B to which it is fixed by means of a pin or pivot T. The upper end
of the rod S is joined to the lever L by a pin U the said lever being fulcrumed upon a
projection K as shewn in Figure 1. The lever L is connected to the lever H by
means of a link J the upper and perforated end of which may be fixed by a pin
according as required to one of the holes I formed in the said lever for the purpose of
adjustment. The lever H is joined to the stem D of the conically seated valve (}
which is carried by the bridge Q and communicates with the pipe P leading to any
suitable supply pipe or tap. A screw E is provided and bears upon the guide F
carrying one end of the lever H and bearing upon a horizontal flat spring G one end
of which is fixed to the wall of the cylinder A. Figure 2 shows the adaptation of my
improved apparatus to an urn Z the outlet leading into the latter by means of a
pipe p, shewn in dotted lines on the same figure as the level of the water descends in
the cylinder A the float sinks and depresses the lever L which pulls down the
perforated end of the lever H and with it the valve stem D thereby opening the
valve and allowing the water to flow into the cylinder A. As the latter fills the
float gradually ascends and closes the valve C through the agency of the lever L
link J lever H and valve stem D the flow of water being gradually interrupted.
The screw E has for its object to increase or decrease the tension of the spring G
according as the water supplied is under a greater or lesser pressure the spring
controlling by its action upon the valve the pressure of the water flowing through
the same.
As my improvements are capable of some modification without departing
from the principle thereof I do not restrict myself to material dimensions or to the
precise form or placement of the several parts thereof.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said invention I
declare that what I claim is :-
1. The improved water feeding apparatus arranged constructed and operating
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

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2. The adaptation of the apparatus claimed above to an urn Z substantially as described
and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
3. In combination with the water feeding apparatus claimed above the spring G
guide F screw E and lever H for controlling the rush or inflow through the valve C
of the supply of water under pressure substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 27th day of June 1890.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.