Improvements in Pipe Joints or Connections for Cast or Wrought Iron or other Pipes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pipe Joints or Connections for Cast or Wrought
Iron or other Pipes.
JABEZ FACER Glass Etcher and Designer Hagley Road Oldswinford_and
CHARLIE ARTHUR FACER Glass Gilder Enameller and Designer Hagley Road
Oldswinford Stourbridge do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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We provide 1st a coupling box or connection with right and left handed
keyways inside for the purpose of securing the pipes which are provided with lugs
or keys corresponding to the keyways in the coupling box. The coupling box is
also provided with a groove inside for the reception of an india rubber or other
suitable ring for packing purposes.
The lugs or keys may be cast on the ends of the pipes or in the case of pipes
which require cutting in suitable lengths (i.e.) shorter than the usual cast lengths
the lugs or keys may be inserted in the pipes by drilling holes in the pipes and
screwing them in such a manner as shall make them perfectly secure.
Dated this Lith day of March 1894
JABEZ FACER.
CHARLIE ARTHUR FACER.
Improvements in Pipe Joints or Connections for Cast or Wrought
Iron or other Pipes.
JABEZ FACER Glass Etcher and Designer and CHARLIE ARTHUR FACER
Glass Gilder and Decorator Wordsley Stourbridge in the County of Stafford late
of Hagley Road Oldswinford Stourbridge in the County of Worcester 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:-
We provide first a coupling box A or connection with right and left handed
keyways C inside for the purpose of securing the pipes which are provided with
lugs or keys E on the ends corresponding with the keyways in the coupling box.
The coupling box is also provided with an inner groove for the reception of an
india rubber or other suitable ring B for packing purposes.
The lugs may be cast on the ends of the pipes as H or in the case of pipes
which require cutting in suitable lengths (i.e.) shorter than the usual cast length
the lugs may be inserted in the pipes by drilling holes in the pipe, and screwing
them in as E or fixing them in as G and J in such a manner as shall make them
perfectly secure.
Having now provided the coupling box and pipes we place the ends of the pipes
in the coupling box in such a position as to allow the lugs or keys to run in the
keyways far enough to permit the coupling box to be partially turned round with the
aid of a spanner or wrench, this has the effect of drawing the pipes together and

page_text: embedding the ends in the india rubber or other ring; the joint is thus locked and is
secured as shown in A.
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
claim is.
1st. The particular arrangement of the right and left handed keyways and the
groove for the ring inside the coupling box.
2nd. The studs, or lugs, or keys fixed or inserted in the ends of the pipes.
3rd. The coupling box with the keyways and ring groove arrangement and the
lugs or keys in the ends of the pipes in combination as a joint or coupling, which
combination enables us to dispense with the use of nuts & bolts and flanges also
with caulking or cementing in the manner now usually adopted it also enables us to
use up odd lengths of cut pipes which hitherto have had to be wasted.
Dated this 12th day of December 1894.
JABEZ FACER.
CHARLIE ARTHUR FACER..