AN IMPROVED BALL VALVE OR COCK
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Georgo Verrell Osborne and Alfred James
Peerless, both of Rahero Street, Goswell Road, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BALL VALVE OR
COCK."
Scaled the 9th July 1869, and dated the 12th January 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Verrell Osborne
and Alfred James Peerless at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 12th January 1869.
We, GEORGE VERRELL OSBORNE and ALFRED JAMES PEERLESS, both
of Ralcro Street, Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declaro the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BALL VALVE
On Cock," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in so constructing a ball valvo as that the
pressure of the water from the main shall assist in opening and closing
the said valve.
We propose to effect this in the following manner, that is to
say: In a suitable casting we adapt a valve formed with a stem, the
upper part of which works water-tight through a hole in tho said

page_text: casting, and the protruding part of the stem is connected to one end of
a horizontal vibrating bent lever, to the other end of which a hollow
ball of metal is fixed and operated upon by the water in the pistern in
which the ball valve is fixed in the usual way. The diameter of the
aforesaid valve is somewhat less than the opening in the pasting in
which it works, and the valve, which is formed hollow with an annular
flat seat, is kept tight by coming into contact with an elastic annular
seat at the top of a short outlet pipe, through which the water passes
from the water main into the cistern for filling the same, the water
cutering the valve casting by another short pipe fixed thereto and to
the service pipe at right angles, or nearly so, to the aforesaid outlet
pipc.
The operations of this improved ball valve are as follows:-Supposo
the ball to be down, by which the valve will be raised from its seat, a
clear passage will thus be opened for the water to pass into the cistern,
and by fixing a piece of leather or other suitable material on to the
stem of the valve the pressure of the water acting against it will tend to
lift the valve, and as the cistern fills and the valve closes the pressure of
the water from the main acting on the upper side of the valve, the surfaco
of which is in excess of that of the piece of leather on the stem, will
assist the ball in closing the valve. By these means the cistern will
fill very quickly and the supply be shut off almost suddenly, the action
of the valve being very gentle whatever be the pressure of the water
from the main,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 25
filed by the said George Verrell Osborne and Alfred James Peerless
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th July 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
VERRELL OSBORNE and ALFRED JAMES PEERLESS, both of Rahere
Street, Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc..
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page_text: cessors, give and grant unto us, the said George Verrell Osborne and
Alfred James Peerless, Her special licence that we, the said George
Verrell Osborne and Alfred James Peerless, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said George Verrell Osborne and
Alfred James Peerless, our 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 IMPROVED BALL VALVE OB COCE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Verrell Osborne
and Alfred James Peerless, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said George Verrell Osborne and
Alfred James Peerless, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to
Bay -
This Invention consists in so constructing a ball valve as that the
pressure of the water from the main shall assist in opening and closing
the said valve.
We propose to effect this in the following manner, that is to
say: In a suitable casting wo adapt a valve formed with a stem, the
upper part of which works water-tight through a hole in the said casting,
and the protruding part of the stem is connected to one end of a
horizontal vibrating bent lever, to the other end of which a hollow ball
of metal is fixed and operated upon by the water in the cistern in which
the ball valve is fixed in the usual way. The diameter of the aforesaid
valve is somewhat less than the opening in the casting in which it
works, and the valve, which is formed of.vulcanized rubber, is kept tight
by coming into contact with an annular seat at the top of a short outlet
pipo through which the water passes from the water main into the
cistern for filling the same, the water entering the valvo casting by

page_text: another short pipe fixed thereto and to the service pipe at right angles,
or nearly so, to the aforesaid outlet pipe.
The operations of this improved ball valve are as follows:-Suppose
the ball to be down; by which the valve will be raised from its scat, a
clear passage will thus be opened for the water to pass into the cistern,
and by fixing a piece of leather or other suitable material around the
stem of the valve the pressure of the water acting against it will tend
to lift the valve, and as the cistern fills and the valve closes the pressure
of the water from the main acting on the upper side of the valvo, the
surface of which is in excess of that of the piece of leather on the stem,
will assist the ball in closing the valve. By these means the cistern will
fill very quickly and the supply be shut off almost suddenly, the action
of the valve being very gentle whatever be the pressure of the water
from the main.
And in order to explain this Invention more completely we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative
Sheet of Drawings accompanying these Presents and to the numeral
figures and letters of reference marked thereon respectively as

page_text: on to which fits and screws the ring I employed to hold the piece of
vulcanized rubber K or elastic valve securely in position, for which
purpose the ring I is formed with a lip at i, so that supposing the
piece K to be connected by the screw L to the valve stem H, and the
ring I to bo afterwards screwed thereonto, the lip i will squeeze and
hold the edge of the rubber K firmly in its place. M marks a cylindrical
shaped piece of metal to which the lever N of the ordinary ball or float O
is connected by a slot at c and fulcrum at⚫. P is a cupped leather
fitting closely in the hole d and preventing escapo of water; this leather
is fixed on to the stem of the valvo by the piece M, so that all those
parts movo together.
And wo would here remark that the openings B and d should be
of the same diameters, and the diameter of the ring I and lower or flat
part of the valve stem H be in the same proportion as is represented
by the Drawing, so that the pressure of the water shall assist in closing
the valve as before stated.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of
this Invention for "An Improved Ball Valve or Cock," together with
the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the same intó
practical effect, we would remark in conclusion that we hereby declare
this Invention to consist in and we claim, the general combination and
arrangement of parts above described and represented by the Drawing in
the construction of ball valves or cocks.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Verrell Osborne and
Alfred James Pearless, havo hereunto set our hands and scals,
this Eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord One tliousand
aight hundred and