Year: 1886

page_text: I THOMAS PANARIO of 17 St. Philip's Street Battersea in the county of
Surrey Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
'
In water waste preventers that are emptied through and by the action of
syphons and wherein the bends of the syphons are filled and the required
syphonic action established by means of displacers or hollow bodies which are
forced down into the water an evil is experienced in that these displacers extend
sometimes considerably above the cisterns and therefore covers cannot be properly
fitted to the cisterns to keep the same and the water therein clean in addition to
which evil these displacers are not at all sightly and may oftentimes get out of
order. Now the object of this my invention is so to construct these water waste
preventers that all the parts or appliances of the same shall be or can be contained
in the cistern whereby a cover can be fitted to the same and these parts or
appliances shall be extremely effective and not at all liable to get out of order.
To carry out this object I construct a cistern of any usual or convenient size and
shape to which the water is admitted by and through any suitable ball valve and
from which the water is discharged through any usual or other syphon connected
with the flushing pipe the bend of which syphon is above the regulated water level
in the cistern. At or a little above this water level I pivot transversely and
horizontally across the cistern one edge of a plate the dimensions whereof are
nearly that of the transverse vertical area of the cistern below the line of pivotting
or may be a little deeper than the same and to this plate or to the pivot thereof is
attached a lever whereto the pull is connected which pull passes out of the cistern
in a suitable position preferably close to the top of the end thereof and which pull
may consist of a rope or a chain or a rod or otherwise. On or in the plate and
near the free end thereof is secured in any convenient manner a ball somewhat
similar to the ball of a ball valve a very suitable method being the forming of an
aperture in the plate wherein the ball can be tightly so secured that half the ball
will be on the one side of the plate and half the ball will be on the other side of
the plate or the ball may be made in two hemispheres one of which will be secured
on each side of the plate or otherwise and a suitable stop is provided if necessary
whereby the plate is prevented attaining a perpendicular or vertical position but is
retained in a position inclined away from the syphon.

page_text: When water is admitted to the cistern the ball causes the plate to float on or in
the water until when the cistern is properly full the plate is in an horizontal
position or nearly so the free end of the plate being away from the syphon. The
pull is then actuated in any usual or convenient manner and the plate is caused to
act as a displacer or propeller whereby the level of the water at that end of the
cistern towards which the water is so propelled and where is the syphon is
sufficiently raised to fill the bend of the syphon and start the syphonic action as is
required.
All these working parts can obviously be contained in the cistern without unduly
or even at all enlarging the same and thus a cover can very conveniently be fitted
to this cistern as is desired.

page_text: I THOMAS PANARIO of 17 St. Philip's Street Battersea in the county of
Surrey Clerk 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 :—
In water waste preventers that are emptied through and by the action of
syphons and wherein the bends of the syphons are filled and the required
syphonic action established by means of displacers or hollow bodies which are
forced down into the water an evil is experienced in that these displacers extend
sometimes considerably above the cisterns and therefore covers cannot be properly
fitted to the cisterns to keep the same and the water therein clean in addition to
which evil these displacers are not at all sightly and may oftentimes get out of
order.
Now the object of this my invention is so to construct and arrange these water
waste preventers that all the parts or appliances of the same shall be or can be
contained in the cistern whereby a cover can be fitted to the same and these parts
or appliances shall be extremely effective and not at all liable to get out of order.
In order the more clearly to explain my invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing in which I have shewn a
most convenient and suitable form and style of this my improved water waste
preventer.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of this water waste preventer.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same with the cover removed.
I construct a cistern A of any usual or convenient size and shape and of any
suitable material to which cistern A. the water is admitted by and through any
usual or other valve B and from which cistern A the water is discharged through
any usual or other syphon D connected with the flushing pipe the bend of which
syphon D is above the regulated water level in the cistern. At or a little above
this water level I pivot transversely and horizontally across the cistern A one edge
of a plate E the dimensions whereof are nearly those of the transverse vertical
area of the cistern A below the line of pivotting aforesaid or may be a little.
deeper than the same and to this plate E or to the pivot F thereof is attached a
lever H whereto the pull K is connected which pull K when the lever H is inside the
cistern A as is shewn in the drawing and is far preferable passes out of the cistern A
in a suitable position preferably close to the top of the end thereof as shewn and
which pull K may consist of a rope or a chain or a rod or otherwise and may be led
to the required position for use in any manner as may be desirable. On or in the
plate E and near the free end thereof is secured in any convenient manner a ball M
somewhat similar to the bail of a ball valve a very suitable method being the
forming of an aperture in the plate E wherein the ball M can be so secured very
tightly that half the ball will be on the one side of the plate and half the ball will
be on the other side of the plate or the ball may be made in and by two separate
hemispheres one of which will be secured on cach side of the plate or when it is
possible so to do one of these separate hemispheres may if desired be dispensed
with or this floating appliance may be otherwise constructed and fitted to the plate
as may be convenient. The stop N is also provided if necessary against which the
arm P secured on the plate E can engage or in other manner the plate E can be

page_text: prevented attaining a perpendicular or vertical position but is retained in a position
inclined away from the syphon.
When water is admitted to the cistern A the ball M causes the plate E to float
on or in the water until when the cistern is properly full and the supply of water
has been shut off the plate E is in an horizontal position or nearly so the free end
thereof being away from the syphon as shewn in the drawing. To govern the
valve B through which water is admitted to the cistern A I may use any ordinary
ball lever as is usual but I preferably utilize this floating plate E in manner as
shewn in the drawing. The lever R of the valve B instead of terminating with
the usual ball carries a roller T or otherwise bears on the plate E and is suitably
bent so that the valve B is opened when the plate E is not borne by the water but
when the plate E has attained the horizontal or nearly horizontal position deside-
rated as is aforesaid the supply of water is shut off by this lever R closing the
valve B. The pull K is then actuated in any usual or convenient manner and the
plate E is caused to act as a displacer or propeller whereby the level of the water
at that end of the cistern towards which the water is so propelled and where is
the syphon is sufficiently raised to fill the bend of the syphon and start the
syphonic action as is required. To assist in propelling this wave of water towards
the syphon by preventing the water escaping by the sides or the end of the plate E
I preferably form a deep. flange V on each side of this plate E and if desirable also
across the free end of the same.
A cover W can obviously be fitted on this cistern A as all these working parts
can be and are contained therein without unduly or even at all enlarging the same
and this cover W is preferably fitted for if the pull be actuated very sharply the
wave of water might be forced by the propelling plate so high as to flow over the
top edge of the cistern.
I can also fit an overflow pipe X to this cistern A which overflow pipe X may be
below the level of the bend of the syphon D in which case this overflow pipe X is
situated at the opposite end of the cistern A to the syphon D and when the wave
of water is propelled as aforesaid towards the syphon the syphonic action is so
immediately established that long before this wave of water can return to that end
of the cistern where is the overflow pipe and whence the same started the level of
the water is so lowered by the flush through the syphon that the overflow pipe will
not come into action.
I have thus described and I have shewn in the drawing a most convenient and
suitable form and style of this my water waste preventer and of the several parts
thereof but I do not limit myself exactly thereto for all the several parts of the
water waste preventer may be made of such forms and proportions and may be
fitted and actuated in such a manner as may be expedient or desirable in each
particular case.
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
1. In a cistern the combination with a syphon of a propeller plate fitted with a
ball or floating appliance substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described
and declared.
2. The water waste preventer substantially as herein before described and shewn
in the accompanying drawing.