AN IMPROVED APPARATUS POR PREVENTING WASTE OF WATER IN DWELLING-HOUSES BUILDINGS WHERE WATER IS SUPPLIED BY PIPES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Pinn, of Friars' Green, in the Parish of
Holy Trinity, and of Queen Street, in the Parish of St. David's, in
the City of Exeter, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
POR PREVENTING WASTE OF WATER IN DWELLING-HOUSES
BUILDINGS WHERE WATER IS SUPPLIED BY PIPES."
AND OTHER
Sealed the 15th March 1872, and dated the 19th September 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Pinn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th September 1871.
I, CHARLES PINN, of Friars' Green, in the Parish of Holy Trinity, and
5 of Queen Street, in the Parish of St. David's, in the City of Exeter, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED

page_text: APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING WASTE OF WATER IN DWELLING-HOUSES AND OTHER
BUILDINGS WHERE WATER IS SUPPLIED BY PIPES," to be as follows :―
My Invention consists of applying to the water supply pipe of every
house, building, or premises, or to every water pipe leading to the supply
cock, a valve having a lever and vessel attached to same, which would
close by the waste water flowing into the said vessel, and would re-open
by overturning the vessel and discharging its load by means of a lever.
The annexed Drawings shew the Invention (with the valve D open)
fitted up in a case, the top forming a trough fixed on the level of the
floor, and the working of the apparatus is as follows:-From the
cock A the water would flow into any vessel that might be placed to
receive it, but should the vessel be allowed to overflow or the cock
allowed to remain open the water wasted would flow down the waste
pipe into the vessel B. The lever on which this vessel is fixed has a
counterbalance weight C, which can be regulated. When the waste
water enters the vessel B it gradually descends and closes the valve D,
which stops the supply to cock A. The vessel B must be discharged by
the lever E being raised against the lever F (fixed on axle of vessel B),
and immediately the load is discharged the vessel would rise and the
valve D would reopen. To throw the vessel B back into its proper
position it would be hung out of centre. When a trough is not fixed it
can be placed under the level of the floor. A part of this Invention
consists in not allowing the consumer to keep the apparatus open by
means of tieing up the lever E, and when the vessel B is empty the lever
Fon the side of vessel B will be out of gear and the lever E will not
touch it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Pinn in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th March 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES 3
PINN, of Friars' Green, in the Parish of Holy Trinity, and of Queen
Street, in the Parish of St. David's, in the City of Exeter, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her

page_text: year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Pinn, Her special licence
that I, the said Charles Pinn, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Pinn, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR PREVENTING WASTE OF WATER IN DWELLING-HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS
WHERE WATER IS SUPPLIED BY PIPES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Pinn, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Pinn, do hereby declare
the nature of my said 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 consists in applying to the water supply pipe of a
house, building, or other premises, or to a pipe or pipes conveying
water to the supply taps of a house, building, or other premises, a valve
having a lever or vessel attached thereto, which will close by the waste
water flowing into it, and be re-opened by overturning the said vessel
and discharging its load by means of a lever; and in order to make my
Invention clear and intelligible I will refer to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, in which the apparatus is shewn with the valve D open, fitted
in a case, the top forming a trough, and which apparatus works in the
following manner:-The consumer having, it may be supposed, drawn
any quantity of water from taps attached to pipes from the union A,
wilfully or by accident allows the taps to remain open (or leak), either
allowing the bucket, can, or other vessel used to overflow, or allowing
the water to run direct into the trough; this water directly enters the

page_text: vessel B. The lever on which this vessel is fixed has a' counterbalance
weight C, which can be regulated. This weight is made hollow so that
at any time if the case chokes and gets full of water the weight will
become lighter and will cause the valve to close without any water being
in the vessel B. When the waste water enter the vessel B, the vessel
will gradually descend and close the valve D, which stops the supply to
pipes attached to union A. The vessel B must be discharged by the
lever E being raised against the lever F fixed on axle of vessel B, and
immediately the load is discharged the vessel would rise and the valve D
would reopen.
To throw the vessel back into its proper position it
would be hung out of centre, having a regulating weight attached at the
back of bucket, as shown at H.

page_text: Having particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and how the same is to be performed, I claim the apparatus
herein-before described and shown for the preventing of waste of
water in dwelling-houses and other buildings.
In witness whereof T. the said Charles Pinn, have hereunto set my
Having particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and how the same is to be performed, I claim the apparatus
herein-before described and shown for the preventing of waste of
water in dwelling-houses and other buildings.
In witness whereof I, the said Charles Pinn, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of March One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two.