Improvements in Filtering Faucets.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 28th May, 1892
Improvements in Filtering Faucets.
I HENRY HEATON LUSE, of No. 18 Essex Place, in the City and County of
San Francisco, State of California United States of America, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention consists, essentially, in chambering the cock or plug of the faucet
and permanently fixing the filtering material therein, the object being to produce
a cheap and rapid means of collecting and discharging the impurities contained in
water and other fluids. I accomplish this object by the means illustrated in the
accompanying drawings, forming part of this Specification, in which:
Figure 1 is a side view of my filtering-faucet, partly broken away.
Figure 2 is a side view of the plug or cock.
The faucet which I employ is of the ordinary construction, having the usual
conical or tapering plug and ground to its seat in the barrel thereof. The plug or
cock A, however, is cast with a rectangular opening or chamber C, extending
through the plug. Intersecting slots D communicate with this chamber, dividing
the sides of it lengthwise, a core being employed in casting the plug to form a slot
of suitable thickness to receive when removed a thin sheet of fine woven meshed
wire or perforated plate E, and this meshed wire or perforated plate constitutes the
filtering medium which I employ, and the edges thereof should be of sufficient
thickness to fit the slots closely and butt against the ends of the chamber, so that
no leakage will take place above or below the meshed plate or through the sides
of the plug after the latter is ground to its seat in the faucet. It will thus be
seen that when the filtering medium is in position the chamber C is divided
centrally, and a chamber upon each side of the plate is formed to receive and
retain the collected impurities which are expelled or carried off and out of the
faucet by reversing the cock or plug before drawing the liquid from the source of
supply. For instance, when the lever of the cock is at the right hand reverse or
turn it to the left or until the position is at a right angle with the faucet-barrel,
when the force of water will carry off the debris which has been collected in the
chamber when this lever was in a reverse position.
In order to provide for free discharge of the fluid through the faucet, rectangular
openings F Fare made in the faucet-barrel above and below the plug to correspond
in size with the chamber C of the plug when the latter is in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a filtering-faucet, the combination with a plug formed of one integral piece
having a chamber C extending directly through it in line with the opening in the
faucet and a narrow transverse slit D cut through it at right angles to the chamber,
of a filter-piece E, fitted into said slit, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 19th day of April 1892.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.