IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE FLOW OF FLUIDS, APPLICABLE TO WATER-CLOSETS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1857

page_text: by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Horace Taylor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th March
1857.
I, JOHN HORACE TAYLOR, of 24, Alma Street, Hoxton, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE FLOW OF FLUIDS, APPLICABLE
TO WATER-CLOSETS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of appa-
ratus for regulating the flow of fluids applicable to water-closets and other
purposes where the prevention of waste of water is a desirable object. The
apparatus consists of an outer cylinder closed at the top, fitted with a stuffing-
box, through which works the valve spindle, such spindle being connected by
a spring catch or otherwise to a weighted lever connected with the handle or
pull of the closet if used for that purpose.
When a spring catch is used it is so arranged that it will disconnect the
valve spindle from the lever when the lever is raised to its greatest height,
the regulating valve herein-after described being then totally detached from
the actuating weighted lever and out of the control of the party using the closet.
The regulating valve consists of a long cap or tube, having a small aperture

page_text: at its upper end, and sliding water-tight or nearly so over a tube which is fitted
at its upper end with a small clack or valve. This latter tube is open at the
bottom, and is fixed by flanges or otherwise to the mouths of the inlet pipe, or
the end of the inlet pipe may be carried up inside the apparatus if found
desirable. The lower portion of this pipe is perforated with numerous holes
up to a height corresponding to the stroke of the valve, so that when the valve is
elevated the perforations will be uncovered and water will flow therethrough into
the outer casing or cylinder, and thence into the service or closet pipe, which
opens into it. Immediately on the raising of the regulating valve it is filled with
water at its upper end through the small clack or valve herein-before referred
to, and when released, which is effected by the self-acting spring catch or by
simply letting go the pull of the closet, the regulating valve will remain
elevated until all the water it contains at its upper end has escaped through
the small aperture made therein, by which time the valve will have descended
so far as to cover the perforations, and will bring its face or lip down on to an
india-rubber or other suitable valve seat.
The length of time the valve will remain open will obviously depend on the
size of aperture through which the water must escape, and this aperture may
be regulated by a stop-cock in connection with a dial and indicator, so that
the apparatus may be easily adjusted to allow any desired quantity of water
to flow through in a given time. When the regulating stop-cock is used, the.
stem of the valve may be hollow, and a pipe fitted with the stop-cock may be
conducted therefrom to the closet pipe, so that the small amount of escape
water will flow into the closet.