Improvements in Pipes for Drainage and other Purposes, applicable also as Electric Conductors.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 10th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pipes for Drainage and other Purposes, applicable
also as Electric Conductors.
ROBERT HENELADE COURTENAY of 6 Pennsbury Terrace Wandsworth Road
Clapham in the County of Surrey Telephonic Engineer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the construction of improved pipes or tubes of
carbon which may be perforated for horticultural purposes by means of which
aeration electrification and drainage of large areas may be effected at a com-
paratively cheap rate.
In the construction of the pipes or tubes I may employ any refuse carbon dust or
material or substances capable of being carbonized and forming when finished hard
carbon.
Or coke ground into a powder and mixed with matter of a sacharine nature such
as dried refuse fruit forming together a stiff paste may be moulded under pressure
which from suitable moulds after the carbonization of the paste will be produced
hard carbon pipes or tubes for horticultural purposes which pipes or tubes may be
used for three distinct purposes aeration drainage and as conductors of electricity.
The carbon pipes may be perforated while the paste is in the moist state
preferably or after carbonization the perforations may be one or more rows of holes
of suitable size drilled in an oblique direction to prevent clogging by the earth on
both of the upper sides of the pipes or tubes.
The carbon pipes or tubes may be protected by any suitable insulating substance
with a view to strengthen the parts of juncture when laying the pipes or tubes in
the earth. The tubes may be of any size or form.
Dated this 16th day of June 1892.
ROBERT HENELADE COURTENAY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pipes for Drainage and other Purposes, applicable
also as Electric Conductors.
ROBERT HENELADE COURTENAY, Telephonic Engineer, 11 Lambourne Road,
Clapham, London, S. W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object the construction of improved pipes or tubes of
carbon, which may be perforated for horticultural purposes by means of which
aeration, electrification, and drainage of large areas may be effected at a com-
paratively cheap rate.
In the construction of the pipes or tubes I may employ any refuse carbon dust
or material or substances capable of being carbonized and forming when finished
hard carbon, or coke ground into a powder and mixed with matter of a saccharine
nature forming together a stiff paste may be moulded under pressure when from
suitable moulds after the carbonization of the paste will be produced hard carbon
pipes or tubes for horticultural purposes, which pipes or tubes may be used for
three distinct purposes, aeration, drainage, and as conductors of electricity.
The carbon pipes or tubes may be perforated while the paste is in the moist state
preferably or after carbonization. The perforations may be one or more rows of
holes of suitable size drilled in an oblique direction to prevent clogging by the
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page_text: earth on both of the upper sides of the pipes or tubes. The carbon pipes or tubes
may be protected by any suitable insulating substance with a view to strengthen
the parts of juncture when laying the pipes or tubes in the earth. The tubes may
be of any size or form. The pipes may also be made in halves for convenience of
manufacture perforated or scolloped at the edges of the upper half of the tubes and
placed one half on another and fixed by means of a small quantity of cement or
other suitable means forming a continuous line of pipes which may be used as an
electrical conductor for induced currents of electricity. The pipes may be
arranged in various ways and used for any newly planted trees, they may also be
used for annual crops grown in rows, the advantages being that the soil in which
the plants grow is well drained and also permanently aerated beneath the surface.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 shews a line of trees planted on the tubes of carbon or drain pipes.
Fig. 2 shews a plan of placing the pipes under grids as described in my
Specification No. 8305, 1892.
Fig. 3 shews a plan of a tree planted on a grid over an improved pipe, for the
purpose as herein set forth, namely, aeration, drainage, and as a conductor of
electrical currents.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Carbon pipes constructed in such a way as to drain and aerate the soil at the
same time, either in continuous rows or singly, which pipes, or carbon tubes, may
be used as conductors of electrical currents, and substantially as and for the
purposes herein set forth.
Dated this Sixteenth day of March 1893.
ROBT. H. COURTENAY.