IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED TO INDICATE THE WASTE OR OVERFLOW OF WATER FROM CISTERNS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Hugh Hughes, of Hatton Garden, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS
EMPLOYED TO INDICATE THE WASTE OR OVERFLOW OF WATER FROM CISTERNS
AND OTHER RECEPTACLES."
Sealed the 5th December 1876, and dated the 5th October 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Hugh Hughes at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th October 1876.
RICHARD HUGH HUGHES, of Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex.
« IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED TO INDICATE THE WASTE OR
OVERFLOW OF WATER FROM CISTERNS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES."
My Invention has for its object improvements in means or apparatus employed
to indicate the waste or overflow of water from cisterns and other receptacles, and
relates to the employment of means to indicate audibly such waste or overflow.
For this purpose the waste or overflow water is conducted or directed to a water
wheel or other rotating contrivance of any suitable construction, such for instance
as a turbine or emission engine, and gives rotary motion thereto. This wheel or
rotating contrivance is provided with projections or other suitable means to sound
a bell, gong, or other audible alarm apparatus to call attention to such waste or
overflow.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Hugh Hughes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th
April 1877.
RICHARD HUGH HUGHES, of Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex.
"IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED TO INDICATE THE WASTE OR
OVERFLOW WATER FROM CISTERNS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES."
My Invention has for its object improvements in means or apparatus employed
to indicate the waste or overflow of water from cisterns and other receptacles, and
relates to the employment of means to indicate. audibly such waste or overflow.
Pasics & 1

page_text: For this purpose the waste or overflow water is conducted or directed to a water
wheel or other rotating contrivance of any suitable construction, such for instance
as a turbine or emission engine, and gives rotary motion thereto. This wheel or
rotating contrivance is provided with projections or other suitable means to sound
a bell, gong, or other audible alarm apparatus to call attention to such waste or
overflow.
And in order that my said Invention may be more clearly understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accompanying Drawings, more fully
to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents my Invention applied to the ordinary waste pipe of a cistern.
Figure 2 represents my Invention applied to a cistern from which the waste
water is carried off by an external pipe; and Figures 3 and 4 represent respectively
an elevation and sectional plan of the indicating means shown separately to an
enlarged scale.
In the above Figures, a represents the cistern, and 6 the waste or overflow pipe,
the lower end of which may be led to any convenient position, and be caused to dis-
charge itself into my improved indicating means or apparatus, which according to tho
arrangement shown at Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, consists of a small overshot water wheel
c¹ fixed to a hollow axis c mounted on a fixed stud or axis d¹, on the outer end of
which is fixed a gong or bell d. The wheel c¹ works within a chamber e, and the
waste or overflow water is conducted from such chamber by means of a tube e¹
connected thereto. On the hollow axis c is formed or fixed a ring ², or it may be
arms to which are loosely pivotted a number of hammers or strikers c³. Thus on
waste or overflow water from a cistern or receptacle a passing away by the pipe b
it is caused to discharged itself into the chambers of the wheel c¹, and thereby
communicate rotary motion to such wheel, the hammers or strikers c³ being thus
rotated strike against a projection d² formed on the inside of the bell or gong d, and
thus give an audible indication of the overflow or waste of water from the cistern a.
At figure 5 I have represented a portion of a cistern provided with an internal
waste pipe
b of larger bore than those usually adopted. In this waste pipe b is
mounted in suitable bearings a worm or screw f which nearly fits the interior of
the waste pipe. Near the upper end of the axis of the worn or screw f is fixed a
disc or arins c², to which are loosely pivotted a number of hammers or strikers c³, and
a bell or gong d is also fixed at the upper end of the axis of the screw or worm ƒ to
the bracket or standard g.
The upper part of the waste pipe b and worm or screw f with parts connected
thereto are shewn drawn to a larger scale at Figures 6 and 7. Thus on water
passing away down the waste pipe b rotary motion is communicated to the worm or
screw, and the hammers or strikers care in their rotation caused to strike against
a projection 2 on the inside of the gong or bell d, and thus give an audible
indication of the overflow or waste of water from the cistern a.
At Figure 8 I have represented part of a cistern provided with an internal waste
pipe b of U form one leg of which is longer than the other, and at Figures 9 and 10
have represented such waste pipe and fittings drawn to a larger scale. . In this
waste pipe is fitted a chain h having fixed thereon at intervals discs or blocks h¹
nearly fitting the bore of the waste pipe b. This chain h is passed over a wheel i
fixed to a hollow shaft or axis c which is mounted on a fixed stud or axis a carried
by the bracket b¹. The hollow axis c is provided with a disc or arms c³ and
hammers or strikers c³, and the fixed stud or axis d' has fixed thereon a gong or bell
d in a similar manner to the arrangements shown at Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4. Thus
as the waste water passes away down the shorter leg of the waste pipe b the
chain g is caused to traverse down such short leg and up the longer leg, and in
doing so communicates rotary motion to the wheel i and gives an audible indication
of the waste or overflow of water from the cistern in a similar manner to that
described with respect to Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4.

page_text: I would here remark that my Invention is not limited to the precise arrangements
of means or apparatus herein shown and described, as the waste or overflow water
may be caused to put in motion other forms of mechanism, and different arrange-
ments of sounding apparatus may be combined therewith, as will be readily
understood.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the modes in which
I have carried the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is
indicating the waste or overflow of water from cisterns and other receptacles by
causing the same to give motion to suitable apparatus, which shall give notice of
such waste by giving an audible indication thereof in manner substantially as
herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Hugh Hughes, have hereunto set.
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
KICH. HUGH HUGHES. (L.S.)