IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE RAIN WATER PIPES OF BUILDINGS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Taylor, junior, of Parliament Street, West-
minster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND
ARRANGEMENT OF THE RAIN WATER PIPES OF BUILDINGS."
Sealed the 18th September 1863, and dated the 27th March 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
March 1863.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, junior, of Parliament Street, Westminster, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUC-
TION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE RAIN WATER PIPES OF BUILDINGS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object the so constructing and arranging the rain
water pipes of buildings that they and also the traps usually placed at their
bottom ends may be readily cleansed of any matters that may accumulate in
them.
For this purpose I form the lowest length of the number of lengths of pipe,
which together compose a rain water pipe, and the bottom end of which
descends into the trap, of greater diameter than the other pipes, in order that
if there be any obstruction in the trap or in the pipe this lowest length may
be slid upwards over the length of pipe above it, and thus leave a space
between the trap and the lower end of the rain water pipe; any matter that

page_text: had accumulated in the trap can then be readily removed from it, or any
obstruction in the pipe can be pushed out at its end. The moveable length of
pipe is formed with lugs or projections upon it, by which the pipe when raised
can be held up, and by which also it is carried when in its lowest position.
The rain water pipes of buildings may also in a similar manner be made with
one of the intermediate lengths of the pipe moveable, and this is a convenient
arrangement when no trap is employed. For this purpose the length of pipe
which is to be moveable is made of greater diameter than the other pipes, so
that it may be slid over the pipe above it, but at its lower end it is contracted,
so that it may there enter into the socket of the pipe below it; the moveablo
length of pipe is, as in the former case, made with projections upon it by which
the pipe when raised can be retained up.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th September 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TAYLOR, junior, of Parliament Street, Westminster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said John Taylor,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Taylor, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE RAIN WATER PIPES OF BUILDINGS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Taylor, my
éxecutors 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 per-
formed, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:―
This Invention has for its object the so constructing and arranging the rain
water pipes of buildings that they and also the traps usually placed at their
bottom ends may be readily cleansed of any matters that may accumulate in
them.
For this purpose I form the lowest length of the number of lengths of pipe,
which together compose a rain water pipe, and the bottom end of which
descends into the trap, of greater diameter than the other pipes, in order that
if there be any obstruction in the trap or in the pipe this lowest length may
be slid upwards over the length of pipe above it, and thus leave a space
between the trap and the lower end of the rain water pipe; any matter that
had accumulated in the trap can then be readily removed from it, or any
obstruction in the pipe can be pushed out at its end. The moveable length
of pipe is formed with lugs or projections upon it, by which the pipe when
raised can be held up, and by which also it is carried when in its lowest
position. The rain water pipes of buildings may also in a similar manner be
made with one of the intermediate lengths of the pipe moveable, and this is
a convenient arrangement when no trap is employed. For this purpose the
length of pipe which is to be moveable is made of greater diameter than the
other pipes, so that it may be slid over the pipe above it, but at its lower end
it is contracted, so that it may there enter into the socket of the pipe below
it; the moveable length of pipe is, as in the former case, made with projec-
tions upon it, by which the pipe when raised can be retained up.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows two views (a side view and a front view) of the lower
part of a rain pipe in connection with a trap at the bottom. One of the views
shewn in this Figure is in section. The lowest length of pipe a in this com-
bination is of larger. diameter than the lengths of pipe above, so that the lower
length may when required be raised up and slid telescopically over the length
of pipe 6 next above it. The upper part of the length of pipe a is formed
with projecting hooked lugs or cars a', shewn on a larger scale in section at
Figure 3. The upper lengths of pipe b are supported and fixed to the wall by
nails in the usual manner, and nails are fixed in the wall at c, c, Figure 1, in

page_text: order to receive the hooked lugs or ears a¹ when the lower length of pipe is
slid upwards over the next length, the lower end of such upper length of pipe
admitting of being moved away from the wall a sufficient distance to allow of
the ears or lugs a' on the pipe a passing above the nails at c, c, in order that
such lugs or ears may then be brought down so as to rest on the nails at c, c.
Figure 2 shews the lower length of pipe a in its raised position. Figure 4
shews two views (a side section and front view) of another combination wherein
the length of pipe a of the larger diameter is placed intermediate of the
length of the rain pipe. In this case the lower end of the pipe a is formed of
a less diameter than the other parts, in order that its lower end may enter the
socket at the upper end of the length of pipe below and in order to get at the
trap when this combination is used, the lowest length of pipe is made to lift
up with or separate from the pipe a of larger diameter, and provision is made
for suspending such lower length of pipe by projecting lugs or ears a³, as above
described in respect to the pipe a of larger diameter. Figure 5 shows this
arrangement when the length of pipe a has been raised. When thero is no
trap employed then the lower length of pipe may be fixed in the ordinary
manner, and the length of pipe a of larger diameter is arranged similarly
to what is shown and described in respect to Figures 4 and 5, and as is
shewn at Figure 6, where three views of such a combination are shewn, a side
section, a front view with the length of pipe a when down, and a front view
when the length of pipe a is raised. Figure 7 shews threo views of the cover
used to the trap.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I claim the combined
arrangements of rain pipes shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.