An Improved Contrivance or Apparatus for Feeding Gasalier Water Cups with Water to Prevent or Check Escape of Gas at them.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Contrivance or Apparatus for Feeding Gasalier Water
Cups with Water to Prevent or Check Escape of Gas at them.
I, JAMES NEWLANDS MILLER, residing at Broomlea, Joppa, in the County of
Midlothian, and of no occupation 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 has for its object the feeding, by an improved method, of water
cups of gasaliers having such cups, with the water they require to prevent or check
escape of coal gas or other inflammable gas, at them. It is illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
Said object is effected by means of an apparatus consisting of the combination of
a suitable pipe or tube A, and a suitable propelling appliance having, with each
other, a suitable watertight connection admitting of water being forced through it,
and through said pipe or tube, by said propelling appliance, into said water cups.
Said pipe or tube A may be of very small diameter. It may consist of more
parts than one. It may be telescopic. It, or any of its parts, may be detachable.
Of its ends one is hereinafter termed its outlet and the other its inlet. To render
it capable of discharging water into said water cup, it is or may be suitably bent
near its outlet; and it is or may be of sufficient length to admit of a person, while
standing on the floor, putting its outlet within said cup.
Said propelling appliance may be a syringe B (Figures 1 and 2.) or a watertight
compressible bag or bladder C (Fig. 3.) or a small pump D (Fig. 4.) or any other
suitable contrivance.
Said watertight connection, between said pipe or tube and said propelling
appliance, is at the inlet of that pipe or tube, and it is or may be-according to the
case-at or with the nozzle or mouth of said syringe, or at or with the mouth of
said compressible bag or bladder, or of said pump.
If said syringe be metallic (B Fig. 1.) it may receive its requisite supply of
water by submerging the outlet of said pipe or tube in water, and (while it is so
submerged) drawing its piston outwards towards its other end. If said syringe be
in whole or in part an elastic bag (B Fig. 2.) it may be supplied with water through
its mouth by temporarily detaching said pipe or tube, or otherwise. If said
propelling appliance be a compressible bag or bladder, it may be similarly supplied
with water. The apparatus may have other forms than the drawings exhibit.
While said apparatus is being used to feed the water cup of a gasalier, the
outlet of said pipe or tube is put within said cup, or in any other position in which
it can discharge into it. The water cup is then fed with the water it requires by
pressing the piston of said metallic syringe inwards towards its nozzle, or by
compressing the elastic bag which may form a part or the whole of said syringe, or
by compressing said compressible bag or bladder, or by working said pump-as the
case may be.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. An apparatus, substantially as described, for feeding water cups of gasaliers
having such cups with the water they require to prevent or check escape of coal or
other inflammable gas at them, said apparatus consisting of a combination of a
suitable pipe or tube and a suitable propelling appliance having, with each other,
a suitable watertight connection admitting of water being forced, by said propelling
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page_text: appliance, through said connection and through said pipe or tube into said water
cup, as hereinbefore specified;-or any mere modification of said apparatus.
2. An apparatus, substantially as described, for feeding water cups of gasaliers
having such cups, with the water they require to prevent or check escape of coal
gas or other inflammable gas at them-said apparatus consisting of a combination
of a suitable pipe or tube and a suitable propelling appliance connected, as
herein before described, with it, for forcing the requisite water into said water cup,
through said pipe or tube,-which propelling appliance is or may be either a
syringe, or a watertight compressible bag or bladder, or a pump, as hereinbefore
specified; or any mere modification of said apparatus.
Dated this 29th day of November 1892.
JAMES N. MILLER.