Improvements in or connected with Regulating Valves for Water Inlets.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Regulating Valves for Water
Inlets.
A communication by PETER ERIichsen, of Lunden, in the Island of Alsen and
Empire of Germany.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to enable a vessel, basin, or tub to be filled with liquid
from a reservoir and to enable the liquid in such vessel to be maintained at one
constant height.
In carrying the invention into effect, I provide a regulating valve operated by
means of a floating ball and rod. In the reservoir is placed a small cistern for the
valve with its ball and rod, and this cistern is in communication with the vessel or
basin to be filled. It is also in communication with the atmosphere by a pipe.
The liquid therefore in the vessel to be filled and in cistern will remain at the
same level.
As soon, therefore, as water is drawn from the basin or tub, and the level is
falling in both vessels, the valve in the bottom of the cistern which is joined by a
rod to the floating ball is opened, and a fresh supply of water enters from the
reservoir into the cistern until the floating ball is lifted to its former height. Thus
the bottom valve is closed again when the level has reached in both vessels the
same height as before.
Modifications of this construction can be made according to the purpose to which
the invention is applied.
DAL! 101 1
1 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Regulating Valves for Water
Inlets.
A communication by PETER ERICHSEN, of Lunden, in the Island of Alsen and
Empire of Germany.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 relates to valves arranged in a conduit under pressure, or in a
tank or reservoir, from which a number of vessels are fed, such as cattle watering
troughs for instance; and the valves have for their object to close the feed as soon
as the liquid has reached a determined level.
In the accompanying drawings:
:-
Figure 1 is a vertical section through the device, having the valve placed inside
the reservoir. from which the flow is to be regulated.

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Figure 2 snows, on a larger scale, a vertical section through the lower part of the
valve case with the valve.
A, is a tank or reservoir holding the supply of liquid. E is a vessel placed inside
the said tank upside down, and communicating with the outer atmosphere by a
pipe p.
The bottom of this vessel is provided with a valve k which is connected to a
float S.
This valve, when closed, will prevent the liquid passing from A into the vessel E,
but, when open, will allow it to flow; the bottom part under the valve being open
and being supported by studs u.
The inner space of the vessel E is, by means of the short pipe n, in free com-
munication with the conduit o, through which the trough Z, etcetera, are fed. The
level in the same will be evidently of the same height as the level in E, wherein
the float is so arranged that the valve k is lifted against its seat and closed
when the level is at the desired height. If the liquid in one of the troughs Z is
decreased, the level in E sinks correspondingly, the Hoat S opens the valve k so
that a new supply from tank A can flow in till the normal height is reached again,
when the ascending float will intercept the flow. The normal height of liquid can
easily be predetermined by screwing the float S more or less down on its rod.
Access to the inner parts is obtained by unscrewing the top of the vessel E. This
vessel is besides inserted into tank A in such a way that it can easily be withdrawn
for the purpose of cleaning.
If it should be required, the float and its vessel may also be placed outside the
tank A. and connected with the latter by a pipe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination of a fluid reservoir, an inverted vessel within the same, a
receptacle outside the reservoir, communicating with said inverted vessel, an
automatically operating valve in said inverted vessel, whereby the fluid supplied
to the outer vessel is automatically regulated.
2. The combination of a fluid reservoir, an inverted vessel within the same, a
receptacle outside the reservoir, communicating with said inverted vessel, a float
valve in said inverted vessel, whereby the fluid supplied to the outer vessel is
automatically regulated.
3. An inverted or closed vessel provided with a suitable fluid supply and a
receptacle to receive fluid from the said vessel, in combination with an automatically
operating valve within said vessel, whereby the discharge of liquid therefrom is
regulated.
Dand thin 19th
Daha 1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.