Improved Water Waste Preventing Apparatus.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1886.
Complete Left, 31st Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 10th May, 1887,
Improved Water Waste Preventing Apparatus.
We, MILTON SYER, of 36 Rye Lane, Peckham Merchant, and WILLIAM RICHARD
CLARK of 3 Damby Street Peckham, Mechanician, both in the County of Surrey do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER WASTE
PREVENTING APPARATUS to be as follows:-
To a lever which is fitted in or on a cistern we provide and attach a rod to which
is hinged another rod which we shall call the balance rod. On one end of this rod we
suspend a metal cup, with a hole pierced in it, at the bottom. This cup forms a
balance weight when charged with water. The ends of these rods pass through an
eyelet formed in a wire or rod attached to the outlet valve. Now the hinged rod being
balanced at one end by the cup keeps it in a horizontal position, and on the lever being
pulled up, grips the eyelet and lifts the valve, holding it open, until the water shall
have run out of the balance cup when the weight thereby being gone the lever tilts
and falls in a vertical position thus releasing the grip on the eyelet, and allowing
outlet valve to fall and close.
This balance cup I sometimes place on the lifting rod one end of which rod is
attached to the lever. On the other end of the rod is hinged, two arms crossed
resembling a pair of scissors opening and shutting in a similar manner. The two lower
arms are passed through the eyelet arm attached to outlet valve just below or near to
the hinge, where two slight recesses are made to better hold the eyelet. The action
or purpose of the balance cup in this instance is to move between the two upper arms,
and keep them open being conical shaped acts as a wedge between them. Now the
action is as follows, the cistern being charged with water on the lever being pulled or
raised the outlet valve is opened and the conical shaped cup is raised also keeping the
scissor arms extended and thereby holding up the outlet valve, now this conical cup
having a hole in the lower part the water contained in it runs out and thus lightens
it, thereby the weight of outlet valve bearing on the lower arms of scissors by means
of the eyelet, compresses them and also the upper arms which force up the conical cup
and allow the armis to partially close, the lower arms being then closed the grip on the
eyelet is released and the valve falls closing water way.
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page_text: MILTON SYER of 36 Rye Lane Peckham Merchant, and WILLIAM RICHARD CLARK
Mechanician of Damby Street Peckham both in the County of Surrey do hereby
declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVED WATER WASTE PREVENTING
APPARATUS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The one sheet of drawings accompanying this specification shows our apparatus and
is described in three figures.
Fig. 1. shews section of cistern with lever D to which is attached the rod C on the
end of which is hinged at E the balance lever B with cup A fixed on one end. The
other end of rod B together with end of rod C are passed through eyelet F which is
attached to valve G. The hole in cup A for escape of water is marked H.
Fig. 2. shows cup A attached to balance rod B, to which is also attached the valve E.
Cis wire loop or chain connecting lever B to the operating lever D. In this Fig. F.
shows the hole in cup A for escape of water.
Fig. 3. represents cup A suspended on rod C, and working between the scissor
arms B, B, which arms are attached to rod C. The lower half of the scissor arm B, B,
are passed through eyelet in valve E. The letter F shows hole for escape of water in
cup A. The rod C) is attached to operating lever D.
The action of the apparatus as shewn in Fig. 1 is as follows. The cistern being
charged with water by means of the ball valve. On the lever D being pulled down
the valve G is raised and water is allowed to pass. The balance lever B, and cup A
are also raised, the water weight in cup A keeping the balance lever B in an horizontal
position, thus holding the valve G open. On the water escaping from cup A through
small hole H the valve G over balances the empty cup A and closes thus preventing
the escape of any more water until the lever D' shall have been released and pulled
again when the cistern has been charged with water again. The action in Fig. 2 is
the same as in Fig. 1 only here we dispense with the hinge E and eyelet F. On the
lever D being pulled down, the balance rod B, and valve E are raised and the
water weight in cup A keeps the valve E open until the water shall have escaped
through aperture F in cup A, when the valve E over balances the cup A and
closes.
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In Fig. 3 the water weighted cup A works between the upper scissor arins B, B,
and keeps them open. On the lever D being pulled the cup A and scissor arms B, B
together with valve E are raised and the water in cistern allowed to escape. Now on
the water escaping through outlet F in cup A the weight is removed and the valve E

page_text: bearing on the lowers arms B, B by means of the eyelet, the upper arms B. B are
closed and the cup A is pressed out from between them thus allowing the lower
arms B, B, to close and release the valve E which closes and cannot be opened again
until the cisterns shall have filled again and the lever D is pulled.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is
Firstly. The water weighted balance cup A arranged and actuated substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.
Secondly. Our improved water waste preventing apparatus substantially as set
forth.