Improvements in and relating to Vessels for Containing, and Means for Supplying, Cold or Iced Water, or the like, in Hotels and other places.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left 12th May 1898--Accented 2nd July 1000
Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left 12th May 1898--Accented 2nd July 1900
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Improvements in and relating to Vessels for Containing, and Means
for Supplying, Cold or Iced Water, or the like, in Hotels and other
places.
I, WALTER CLAPHAM, of No. 1, Park Cross Street, in the City of Leeds,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to supply cold or iced water or other liquids in
hotels or other places.
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In carrying out my invention I employ a zinc or other suitable vessel or
chamber for holding the water, this vessel or chamber has surrounding
it a casing of zinc or the like arranged to form a cold chamber
around the inner vessel, in this chamber brine, sawdust or
other
material, may be placed so as to keep the water cold, or ice may be employed.
The said means may be fitted underneath hotel tables or otherwise arranged.
The water is withdrawn in the form of spray or otherwise by means of a tap or the
like acting on the syphon principle, which is arranged on the top of the
table, or other convenient position.
I may also embody my invention in the form of a weighted bottle or vessel
(fitted with a syphon) to be placed on the table, or other position. I may also
employ a filtering medium in connection with my invention.
Dated this 25th day of September 1897.
WALTER CLAPHAM.
Improvements in and relating to Vessels for Containing, and Means
for Supplying, Cold or Iced Water, or the like, in Hotels and other
places.
I, WALTER CLAPHAM, of No. 1, Park Cross Street, in the City of Leeds,
Gentleman, 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 invention is to supply cold or iced water or other liquids in
hotels or other places.
In carrying out my invention I employ a zinc or other suitable vessel or
chamber for holding the water, this vessel or chamber has surrounding
it a casing of zinc or the like arranged to form a cold chamber,
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around the inner vessel, in this chamber, brine, sawdust or
material, may be placed so as to keep the water cold, or ice may be employed.
The said means may be fitted underneath hotel tables or otherwise arranged.
The water is withdrawn in the form of spray or otherwise, by means of a tap or the
like acting on the syphon principle which is arranged on the top of the
table, or other convenient position.
I may also embody my invention in the form of a weighted bottle or vessel
(fitted with a syphon) to be placed on the table or other position, 1 may also
employ a filtering medium in connection with my invention.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood, I will now proceed
to more fully describe the same by the aid of the accompanying drawings in
which similar figures refer to like parts in all the views...
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a spring pump used according to my inven-
tion.
Figs. 2 and 3 are elevations party in section showing the water and cooling
chambers.
Fig. 4 being a sectional elevation of a modified apparatus, also according to
my invention.
In Figs. 2 and 3, the water chamber or vessel 1 preferably made of zinc, is
centrally placed within the cooling chamber 2, and is supplied with water by the
inlet pipe 3, as in Fig. 2, or by removing the pump A which is secured to the
upper end 4 of the water chamber 1 of the bottle, Fig. 3.
The cooling chamber 2 may be filled with brine, sawdust, ice or other cooling
substances, through the orifices 5 and 6, which are furnished with screw
stoppers 7 and 8. The lower end of the water chamber 1. sometimes passes
through the cooling chamber 2 and is provided with a screw stopper 9. The
lower part B of the pump A. in Fig. 2 passes through and is secured to the top
of the table 10 into the waterchamber 1 which along with its cooling chamber
is secured to the underside of the table 10.
This pump A consists of a barrel 11, the bottom part 12 of which is secured
thereto, and is provided with an orifice 13 furnished with a valve 14 faced with
india-rubber 15, is centrally guided by the pin 16 in the crossbar 17, secured
in the barrel 11, the upper end of the barrel is secured to the underside of the
saucer 18, the plunger 19 working in the barrel 11 has an orifice 20, communi-
cating with a chamber 21 and is furnished with a check-valve 22 which closes
the orifice 20, to the plunger 19 is secured the tubular piston rod 23, commu-
nicating with chamber 21 at its lower end, its upper end 24 being secured to the
head 25 and communicating with the spout 26, is guided in its up and down
movements by the internal tube 27 and external tube 28, and kept in its upward
position by the spiral spring 29.
To the underside of the saucer is secured one end 30, of the pipe 31, the other
end 32 being connected with a drain or otherwise.
On the head 25 of the pump A may be secured an ordinary gong-bell 33, and
above the bell a suitable receptacle 34 to hold flowers, on an arm 35 on the head
may be secured a receptacle 36 to hold matches.
In Fig. 4, the water chamber 1 is centrally placed in the cooling chamber 2,
leaving an annular space 37 for the insertion of the cooling substances through
the orifice 5 which is furnished with a screw stopper 7.
The water chamber 1 in this case is arranged to be supplied direct from the
water-main by pipe 38, to the top of this chamber is secured one end 39 of the
pipe 40 the other or top end 41 being secured to the stand 42 and chamber 43,
from this chamber 43 to the spout 44 is an orifice 45 closed by a valve 45 to
which is attached a spindle 46, secured to and operated by a button pusher 47,
and which is kept in its upper position with the orifice closed by the spiral
spring 49, said pusher being centrally guided in its movements by the inner
tubular flange 50 working on the part 51 of the upper end 52 of the spout 44.

page_text: On the end of the spout 44 is placed and secured a spraying nozzle 53
furnished with a number of fine holes 54.
Cooled water is obtained from this apparatus by pressing down the button
pusher 47, in connection with the valve 45 which opens the orifice 45 and allows
the cooled water from the chamber 1 to be forced out of the small holes 54 as
spray, by the pressure of the water from the water mains.
In Figs. 2 and 3, cooled water is obtained by pressing down the head 25 with
its piston rod 23 and plunger 19 which forces the water forward as in an ordinary
pump through the spout 26, the movement being continued until sufficient water
has been obtained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. Apparatus for cooling and supplying water, constructed, arranged and
operating substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2
and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
2. Apparatus for cooling and supplying water, constructed, arranged and
operating substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Fig. 4 of the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of May 1898.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.