IMPROVEMENTS IN LAVATORIES, AND IN TAPS, VALVES, AND FITTINGS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION THERE WITH FOB REGULATING THE ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE OF WATER, WHICH TAPS AND VALVES ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th April 1869. - A communication from Auguste A. Guillot,
of Marseilles, in the Empire of France, Engineer.
I, WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, the younger, of the Artizan Patent
Office, No. 19, Salisbury Street, Strand, W.C., do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LAVATORIES, AND
IN TAPS, VALVES, AND FITTINGS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION THERE WITH FOB
REGULATING THE ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE OF WATER, WHICH TAPS AND VALVES
ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES," (a communication to me from
abroad by Auguste A. Guillot, of Marseilles, in the Empire of France,
Engineer, to be as follows:-
Instead of employing a fixed basin having either a pull up plug or
valve in the bottom, and also instead of a fixed basin having a combined
admission and discharge valve fitted to the bottom thereof, I so mount
and fit the basin that by turning it partially round it is caused to rise
or fall, and either close or open the discharge or escape passages, as

page_text: herein-after described; and instead also of employing the ordinary
description of plug and shell tap or cock for regulating the admission of
water, and instead of employing the ordinary kind or form or description
of escape valve or plug, I construct and fit such apparatus for the
purpose of regulating the flow of water as herein-after described. To
the central discharge nozzle on the under side of a wash basin I fit a
socket pipe having studs or pins projecting externally therefrom at a
convenient distance from the bottom of the socket pipe, which is made to
fit into another tube having on its upper edge or end thereof a series of
inclined planes or serrations, upon which the studs or pins are caused to
travel when the wash basin is turned. The lower tube is fitted with the
disc, upon which the bottom edge of the upper tube of the basin is caused
to rest when it is lowered and so prevent the escape of the water
therefrom. The lower tube has one or several lateral openings or
apertures made in it above the disc, and also one or more openings
therein below the disc, at a convenient distance from the bottom of the
lower tube or discharpe pipe. This lower tube or socket is fitted within
and partly projecting below a basin or vessel closely fitted to the under
side of the wash stand or slab for the purpose of receiving the overflow
and discharge. The middle diaphragm or disc may have a washer or
disc of india-rubber upon its upper surface so as to make a water-tight
joint when the basin is lowered. When the basin with its socket pipe
or tube is raised the opening or openings in the lower tube above the
disc are uncovered, and the water from the basin is thereby permitted to
escape and flow into the lower basin or vessel and escape through the
opening or openings in the lower tube or socket made beneath the disc,
and so permits of its being discharged beneath the lower vessel or basin.
Instead of the inclines on the upper edge of the lower tube or socket,
the lower socket may have inclined grooves or "bayonet slots therein,
or the upper tube may have such slots and the lower tube be fitted with
studs or pins taking thereinto. The wash basin may have a rim or ring
around its bottom smaller in diameter than the opening in the marble
slab, wash stand, or board upon which it is fitted, and the lower
basin or vessel should be of larger diameter than the hole in the wash
stand or slab, to the under side of which it must be closely fitted.
Instead of the ordinary form of shell or plug tap or cock for regu-
lating the admission and flow of water to the wash basin, and instead
also of the ordinary form of "uru cock" and such like fittings,

page_text: I use or employ a "pillar cock," which I construct in the following
manner :-I form the hollow plug and pillar of a | form or shape,
the hollow plug or plugs being the lower member or members thereof,
and the shell of the cock is so formed as to surround both the lower
members of the hollow plug of the pillar, and to the back of the shell the
supply pipe is connected. The moveable portions of the cock are
maintained water-tight and in working condition by means of a washer
and nut in the usual way. The slot or passage for the admission of
water from the shell of the cock to the plug and the pillar is so arranged
that the communication between them is not effected until the "pillar,"
which stands vertical when the supply of water is shut off, is so lowered
that the mouth or upper end thereof is pulled down or lowered into the
basin. The pillar however may have its lower ends or members formed
as the shell of the cock, and the hollow plug may be fixed to the supply
pipe and be of a ✓ shape. The shell at the lower end of the pillar
being formed in two parts will work upon and around the 1 shape
plug and be held in its place by means of washers and nuts. A by-
passage may be formed in the plug or shell to allow of the passage of
a small stream of water being admitted in anticipation of the full bore
or discharge through the pillar into the basin; and the position of the
main passage or opening between the shell and the plug may be varied
to suit the particular application, and instead of the pillar being fixed
vertically and the flow of water being effected upon its being lowered,
it may be so mounted as to work or be moved horizontally and be caused
to deliver the water in the centre of the basin by moving the pillar or
delivery pipe from the right to the centre or from the left to the
centre.