LockING APPARATUS FOR REGULATING A CONSTANT MEASURED SMALL OR LARGE SUPPLY OF FILTERED OR UNFILTERED WATER TO BE DELIVERED INTO EXISTING CISTERNS OR OTHER RESERVOIRS, OR BY A NEW SYSTEM INTO CLOSED TANKS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Robert Newton, of 43, Seymour Street,
Portman Square, in the County of Middlesex, Architect and
Surveyor, for the Invention of "A LockING APPARATUS FOR REGULATING
A CONSTANT MEASURED SMALL OR LARGE SUPPLY OF FILTERED OR UNFILTERED
WATER TO BE DELIVERED INTO EXISTING CISTERNS OR OTHER RESERVOIRS, OR
BY A NEW SYSTEM INTO CLOSED TANKS."
Sealed the 9th December 1875, and dated the 12th October 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Robert Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th October 1875.
I, HARRY ROBERT NEWTON, of 43, Seymour St., Portman Square,
in the County of Middlesex, Architect and Surveyor, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "A LOCKING APPARATUS FOR REGULATING
A CONSTANT MEASURED SMALL OR LARGE SUPPLY OF FILTERED OR UNFILTERED
WATER TO BE DELIVERED INTO EXISTING CISTERNS OR OTHER RESERVOIRS, OR BY A
NEW SYSTEM INTO CLOSED TANKS," to be as follows:-
That the foregoing object is effected by means of locking flanged or

page_text: unflanged brass or galvanized iron or other metal boxes or barrels, with
screw or soldered connections externally & internally, the said boxes
or barrels being made large or small, square, round, octagonal, conical,
or other shape, variable in sizes & lengths according to the required
quantity of water, the apparatus being inserted at any point in the
supply pipes between the service pipe and the house. Within the said
apparatus is screwed the regulated filtering channel, and within that
is screwed the guaged diaphragm, and also the screwed regulator for the
constant supply of any exact amount of water. The filtering channel is
filled wholly with prepared charcoal or sand, or partially with both in
layers, or therein is inserted shapes of porous stone, or other loose, porous,
or perforated materials.
The apparatus can be applied to all pipes and apparatuses & systems
now in use in houses without further expense; or it can be applied
especially in the case of new houses to the following new system for the
further preservation of the purity of water, viz., that of a closed
galvanized iron tank or other apparatus requiring but the smallest
connections and the smallest and most inexpensive piping, the object
being by the reduction of pressure and by connecting all tanks together
to do away with all ball-cocks in the interior of each house, excepting
one for the high service and one for the low service, and in lieu of which
ball-cocks to introduce in the case of new houses a shutting-off float,
and where heavier metal pipes are used to do away with all ball-cocks
& floats altogether.
The locking principle, so as to regulate the supply of water, can be
applied with flanged heads to all screw down and other ordinary cocks
now in use, and the foregoing principles in all respects can be applied
to all cocks attached to all mains & to all service, supply, draw off,
and other pipes or cocks under or above ground, and can also with
various materials & chemicals be applied to the passage of all liquids,
gases, and vapours.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Harry Robert Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HARRY
ROBERT NEWTON, of 43, Seymour Street, Portman Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Architect and Surveyor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Harry Robert Newton, Her
special license, that I, the said Harry Robert Newton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Harry
Robert Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "A LOCKING APPARATUS FOR REGULATING A CONSTANT MEASURED
SMALL OR LARGE SUPPLY OF FILTERED OR UNFILTERED WATER TO BE DELIVERED
INTO EXISTING CISTERNS OR OTHER RESERVOIRS, OR BY A NEW SYSTEM INTO CLOSED
TANKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Harry
Robert Newton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Harry Robert Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
S
moulation

page_text: measured small or large supply of filtered or unfiltered water to be
delivered into existing cisterns or other reservoirs, or by a new system
into closed tanks consists of an arrangement having two separate and
distinct uses,―
1st. Regulating apparatus, including regulators, compressed filters,
loose filter, strainer, and sediment tubes or receptacles.
2nd. Of a locking apparatus for securing any regulating apparatus
from being tampered with, this locking apparatus being constructed out
of any screw unions of any size and length used for any or all purposes
in the metal trades, but with the addition of enlarged flanges to side
impinging faces of union for perforation and to pass the shank of
padlocks or other fastenings through, and is also constructed out of any
ordinary right and left-hand screw unions, but with the addition of
enlarged flanges to side impinging faces, the male screwing portion
being made movable so as to make the contact of side impinging faces
simultaneous; the whole arrangement when combined being for
establishing a continuous refiltering, measuring, circulating, and over-
flowing water supply system for application to all existing systems
and fittings, and for locking up cach regulating apparatus (after being
adjusted to the special required action) for prevention of any alteration
of adjustment, and which combination is carried out by means of locking
flanged or unflanged brass or galvanised iron or other metal boxes or
barrels with screw or soldered connections externally and internally to
the supplying pipes. The said boxes or barrels are made large or small,
square, round, octagonal, conical, or of other shape, variable in sizes and
lengths according to the required quantity of water to be dealt with and
the size of the apparatus to be enclosed.
The apparatus may be inserted at any point in the supplying pipes
between the service pipes and the house or elsewhere as may be
desired.
The construction and arrangement of my improved apparatus will be
best understood by reference to the accompanying Sheets of Drawings,
in which, in Sheet No. 1, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section
through the centre of the apparatus; Figure 2 an end elevation; and
Figure 3, a view shewing the apparatus enclosed within a wooden, cast
iron, or other metal box.

page_text: Figure 4 shews my improved locking apparatus only as applied to
taps and cocks of any ordinary description.
Figures 5, 6, and 7 shew the details of locking flanges and fastenings.
Similar letters of reference apply to similar parts in Figures 1, 2, and
3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
The apparatus as a whole consists of various parts with independent
functions, and may be used together or separately as desired, all the
parts being as required connected by flanged locking pieces and joined.
at the extremities to supplying pipes by soldered joints.
Any portions may be connected with the supplying pipes and may be
of any required size or shape so as to have whatever amount of filtering
capacity is required, and consists as shewn by Sheet No. 1 of an outer
barrel A into which is screwed at one end a connecting piece B, and
about midway of its length the filtering barrel C filled with prepared
charcoal, sand, or with shapes of same or of porous stone or other loose
porous or perforated materials. The water is first delivered through a
coned gauze, see Figure No. 1, B, with or without a domed or flat
diaphragm washer D perforated approximately, and inserted into the
main barrel or screw barrel, the charcoal or sand or other filtering media
in which being only slightly compressed, and beyond this is a screw E
which presses the metal gauze Fon to the charcoal or sand or other media
to the compactness that is desired for filtering, and may be screwed up
to such a solidity as would prevent the passage of water at almost any
pressure, but sand is only partially compressible. This barrel is screwed
in so as to admit of its being taken out for adjustment or cleansing or
for replacing it with another.
Another part of the apparatus has the screw regulator G inside of it,
and which regulator has the finest cut slot horizontally in its length
(the slot can be made larger or additional slots cut according to require-
ment), by which as it is screwed in or out of the barrel H the amount of
water to be delivered in 24 hours, can according to pressure be exactly
adjusted; a connecting piece is screwed in this end also for connecting to
supplying pipes; at the other end is a large circular flange L with small
holes through which is put a padlock fitted also into corresponding holes
in loose flange plates M perforated with different numbers of holes, so as

page_text: to lock the apparatus and prevent it being tampered with, for which
purpose when right and left-hand screw unions (Figure No. 10, Sheet 1)
are not used, the under faces of unions are fitted with grooves and pins
so as to prevent the instrument turning round and unscrewing when
locked, Figure 1°, Sheet 1, and which arrangement is especially applicable
to all ordinary unions, and for still greater security the apparatus may
be kept in a small wooden or metal box which can be locked, and the
whole apparatus will then be secured from alteration except by

page_text: and a continuous system established that would act with or without
fittings or small pipes of any kind, doing away with ball-cocks and other
existing apparatus entirely, and letting the water when the cisterns are
full overflow at waste in basement or by a warning pipe, as shewn in
letter D, Figure 11.
Sheet No. 1, Figure 12, C System.-This shews the application of a
system similar to the foregoing, so that enlarged glands or closed tanks
made of galvanised or enamelled iron, hardened glass, or other metals
could be placed anywhere on the supplying pipes, and overflow into each
other, the lowest overflowing, as shewn at Figure 12, at the lowest point
into the open, or at the lowest sink, or at those points shut off at tell-
tale waste D, Figure 12, so as not to overflow at all, but allow all pipes
and tanks to remain charged. With this system is also shewn glass
sediment tubes, or draw-offs, or both F, F, F, Figure 12, so as to be able
continually to observe the quality of the water delivered.
Sheet 1, Figure 8, shews the same general arrangement as previously
throughout described, but in a somewhat simpler form, being in fact a
long hollow bar or series of small hollow bars screwed together above
or below the main end of supplying pipes, and which can be locked up
by a long thin solid bar padlocked in the centre. The parts of this
arrangement, as well as all others shewn under this Patent, can be made
of hardened glass where practicable, and for the purpose (by tran-
sparency) of ascertaining readily the actual condition and state of the
water supplied for domestic or drinking purposes.
This form of arrangement could also be repeated in rows of filters,
Sheet No. 1, Figure 9, so as to obtain large supplies of filtered water
readily; or in cases where the impurity of the water rendered it necessary,
to have large filtering media so as not to run the risk of choking up
before the ordinary period of necessary cleansing.
Figure 10 shews an elevation (and by dotted lines a section) of left
and right hand screw locking union, the screwing part of which is
entirely detached from barrel, with central part hexagon, fitting into
hexagon central flanged piece, so as by shifting when screwing up to
adjust itself to the side flanges simultaneously, the central screwing
portion being any length, and further screwed through the centre for
insertion of filters and regulator.

page_text: Sheet 2, Figure No. 13, shews the foregoing system as applied to any
ordinary tap or stop-cock, and with a further traversing screw A across
the box for adjustment and regulation of the tap opening, and with the
filtering channels formed of one barrel or a series of small flanged con-
necting pieces, so as to obtain any length or size required with the 5
greatest power of compression, and united together by left and right
hand screw union, as at Figure 10, Sheet No. 1, and also for a provision
for locking up the boxes from the top, or bottom, or sides, as the case
may be, and by a flat adjusting screw eye piece to tighten up.
Figure 14 shews the supplying pipes spreading out with an enlarged 10
gland and with the filtering media applied in the same way as the fore-
going, but with larger area, and impinging filtering surface of charcoal,
or sand, or other material, and with glass sediment basin for ready and
continued inspection.
Sheet 3, Figure 15, shews the same arrangement for filtering with a 1
combination of pipes, and with four small rivetted turn off or on, or
stop-cocks, or taps for reversing the current of water so as to cleanse the
filters when the locked and flanged union is removed.
Figure 16 shews the same with upper and lower filters, so as where
impurity exists to accelerate settlement of sediment; to flush this it has 20
to be screwed off and put on at reverse side.
Figure 17 represents a float for shutting off the supply, and Figure 18
the same by the use of a ball and valve.
Figure 19 shows a glass bulbous filter.
Figure 20 shews a glass sediment tube with or without draw-off.
2
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and how the
same is to be carried into practical operation, I wish it to be understood
that what I claim by the herein-before recited Letters Patent is,―
1st. The use and variable application of the entire apparatus, and as
developed in all the variations, as herein-before described and illustrated 31
by accompanying Drawings, to any existing water supply system, so as
to establish uniformity of district delivery of water and delivery simul-
taneously of any varying amounts of water into distinct and separate
houses, as desired.

page_text: other pipes or cocks under or above the ground, and for application of
same to any apparatus for the passage of liquids, gases, and vapours.,
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Robert Newton, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
Witness,
CHARLES BARLOW,
23, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C.,
Patent Agent.
HARRY R. NEWTON. (L.S.)