AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF FAUCET OR COCK
Year: 1857

page_text: application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed
by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Newton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
June 1857. A communication.
1; WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF FAUCET OR COCK,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention of an improved construction of faucet or cock has for its
object the application of a filtering device to a faucet or cock in such a way
that the water may be made to pass either through the filtering medium or
not, as desired. For certain purposes pure or filtered water is not required,.
and in such cases the water may be prevented from passing through the
filtering medium, and allowed to flow unobstructed and rapidly from the
faucet. The parts of the faucet are so constructed and arranged that the
filtering medium will be perfectly cleansed merely by the flow of the water in
passing through the faucet.
The body
or shell of the faucet is formed of a chamber, having a curved
pipe attached to its upper end, which pipe is provided with a cock or valve,
while the lower end of the chamber has attached to it a pipe, which is pro-
vided with a cock or valve for closing the same when required.

page_text: Within the chamber, at about it's centre, there is placed a ring, having bars
fitted within it. The upper surfaces of these bars are knife-edged, and they
branch or radiate from one side of the ring, or they may be described as being
placed in the ring in a fan form. The lower edges of the bars are longitudinally
of convex form, the upper edges being horizontal.
The ring and bars may be cast in one piece. The ring rests upon a shoulder
on the inner side of the chamber.
The filtering medium may be formed of a piece of felt, Canton flannel, or
any proper material. This filtering material is placed upon the bars and ring,
and a perforated metal plate is placed upon it, and is kept in proper position
by the lower edges of a cap piece, which forms the upper part of the chamber.
The filtering material, ring, and bars, and the perforated plate divide the
chamber into two compartments.
The water pipe communicates with the lower compartment just below the
horizontal bars, and the ring is so fitted in the chamber that the converging
ends of the bars will be over the orifice of the water supply pipe.
When the lower cock or valve is closed and the upper cock is open, the
water being under pressure will pass into the lower compartment up through
the filtering material and out through the top pipe; but when the cock
on this pipe is closed and the cock on the lower pipe is open, the water
will pass out through the latter. In the former case the water will of course
be filtered, but in the latter case it will not. Thus, in cases where filtered
water is not requisite, the water is allowed to escape through the lower pipe,
and as the flow of the water is considerably impeded, in passing through the
filtering material, much time will be saved in drawing it from the pipe.
The filtering material is kept clean by means of the bars, which direct the
water from the supply pipe over the whole under surface of the filtering
material, and by closing the cock in the upper pipe and opening the cock of
the lower one, the water, as before stated, will escape through the lower pipe,
thereby thoroughly cleansing the under surface of the filtering material.