Improvements in Portable or Table Fountains.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable or Table Fountains.
We CHARLES HENRY KESSELL of 11 Southwark Street in the county of Surrey
Fountain Manufacturer and HENRY MORRILL of Station Buildings Tweedmouth in
the county of Northumberland Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to provide for use and ornament a portable or table
fountain that shall be very simple in construction and extremely efficient in operation
and entirely selfcontained.
To carry out this object we make a bag or receptacle for the liquid that is to be
used in the fountain which receptacle may be of any desired shape and size and can
very conveniently be made of some expansible material such for example as sheet
india rubber and to the mouth of this receptacle is connected the tube through which
the liquid can pass to any usual jet nozzle being forced out of the receptacle through
this tube by the contraction of the material of which the same is made and the passage
of the liquid through the tube can be governed by a tap or cock or the tube can be
divided into two parts one of which preferably the upper one would slide telescopically
in the other and the smaller one would have a closed end the passage being made by
a long narrow slot in the side thereof and the joint would be so constructed and fitted
that in one position as these tubes are moved telescopically this slot would he com-
pletely covered so that no liquid can pass while in other positions the slot would be
partially or completely uncovered thus regulating the quantity of liquid allowed to
pass to the jet nozzle. The receptacle is filled in any convenient manner with the
desired liquid until it has attained the required degree or amount of expansion and is
placed in any suitable vessel or container with the tube pointing upwards or otherwise
as desired and it is preferable to fit round the tube a basin or dish which may rest on
the top of the container so that when the fountain is started the liquid may fall back
into this basin whence it can if desired be conducted into the container below.
To increase the power of contraction of the receptacle we may place the bag in one
or more other and similar bags and thus get a greater ejecting force. We may also
obviously connect to the receptacle two or more tubes in a similar manner.
Instead also of making the receptacle for the liquid of an expansible material we
may make it of a flexible material and apply in any convenient manner weight or
compression to this receptacle to get the required ejecting force.
The container and the basin can obviously be formed and ornamented as desired.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable or Table Fountains.
We CHARLES HENRY KESSELL of 11 Southwark Street in the county of Surrey
Fountain Manufacturer and HENRY MORRILL of Station Buildings Tweedmouth in the
county of Northumberland Agent 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 :-
The object of this our invention is to provide for use and ornament a portable or
table fountain that shall be very simple in construction and therefore not liable to get
out of order or become useless but when repair or renewal of part of the same does
from any cause become needful this repair or renewal can easily and cheaply be
accomplished that shall also be extremely efficient in operation and therefore highly

page_text: useful and if desired ornamental and that shall also be entirely selfcontained and
therefore eminently portable.
In order the more clearly to explain this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed we refer to the accompanying drawing wherein we have shown a
vertical section of one of the most simple forms of our portable or table fountains.
We make a bag or receptacle A for the water or other liquid that is to ho used in
this fountain which receptacle A may be of any desired shape and size and can very
conveniently he and preferably is made of some expansible material such for example
as sheet indin rubber and to the mouth B of this receptacle A is tightly connected the
tube through which the liquid can pass to any usual jet nozzle D being controlled
and governed in such passage by a tap E. The tube preferably as is shown in the
drawing reaches down inside the same nearly to the bottom of the roeptacle A. and
terminates in a solid bulbs (so that this receptacle A cannot be cut or damaged by
the end of the tube (and in this case small apertures (2 would be formed in the walls
of the tube (above the bulb (leading to the passage in the tube (! for the entrance
of the liquid thereinto.
The receptacle A is filled with the desired liquid until it has attained the required
degree or amount of expansion or distension or that is to say until the liquid therein
is under the required prossure. This can be effected in any convenient manner as for
example when the jet nozzle has been removed the end of the tube can be placed in
communication with an elevated cistern or other receptacle of the liquid when the
heal or elevation of the liquid will duly distend the receptacle or an apparatus some-
what like or formed after the manner of an enema may be used to force the liquid
into the receptacle.
The receptacle A so duly filled with the desired liquid is placed in any suitable
vessel or container F with the tube Cpointing upwards or otherwise as may be desired
it may be as is shown in the drawing being suspended therein and it is most con-
venient to fit round the tube Ca basin G which as is shown in the drawing may
rest on the top of the container and in this case the tube (can very conveniently
in any suitable manner be attached and secured to the basin G whereby the
receptacle A is suspended therefrom and small aperturas I can be made it may be
near the centre theroof through this basin G.
The action of this apparatus and the method of using the same are as follows.
The receptacle A is duly filled and expanded until the liquid therein is under the
required pressure when the tap E is closed and the jet nozzle D having if necessary
been replaced and the receptacle A having been properly placed in the container
either before or after the aforesaid filling the tap can be opened and by the con-
tractibility and the contraction of the receptacle A and the pressure on the liquid
therein this liquid is forced thereont through the tube C and the jet nozzle D and
the fountain commences to play and continues playing until the tap E is again
closed or the receptacle A has contracted to its normal size and the liquid is no
longer under pressure while the liquid so ojocted through the nozzle D falls back
into the basin G and passes through the apertures Hif so constructed into the
container below.
To increase the power of contraction of the receptacle we can very conveniently
place the bag A in one or more other similar bags A' and thus obtain a greater
ojecting force and the two or more bags thus combined impart strength to each
other and decrease any liability to accident.
We have thus described and have shewn in the accompanying drawing as is afore-
said one of the most simple but at the same time a very efficient convenient and
sightly form of this our portable or table fountain but wo would have it clearly
understood that we do not limit ourselves to the exact method of construction and
arrangement thereof as so described and shown. For example two or more basins of
the same or of different sizos may be arranged one above the other in which case it is
obvious that the tubo would be proportionately lengthened and the liquid would flow
from the one basin to the one below. Again two or more similar tubes could be
connected to the one receptacle in a similar manner or two or more branches each

page_text: terminating with a jet nozzle could be connected to the one tube and thus two or
more jets of the liquid would be produced which jets might be directed differently.
Again instead of using a tap to open and close the passage in the tube this tube could
be divided into two parts sliding telescopically which two parts would be so fitted in
the usual or other manner that the elevation or depression of the sliding part would
open or close the passage. Again instead of using the contractibility or contractive
force of the receptacle to expel the liquid therefrom or in supplement thereof we may
place the receptacle on the bottom of the container or elsewhere and apply thereto
in any convenient manner a weight or weights and thus produce or increase the
required ejecting force.
It is sufficiently obvious that the container and the basin or basins may be made
any suitable material and may be formed and decorated and ornamented as may
be desired.
of
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
The improved portable or table fountain substantially as herein before describod and