Improvements in the Construction of Taps or Valves for Water or other Fluids.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 30th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1887.
Improvements in the Construction of Taps or Valves for Water
or other Fluids.
I, JAMES FAGAN of Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, Plumber, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in the construction of taps or valves for
employed for
water or other fluids whereby the pressure of the said water, etc.,
closing the apertures or openings in the said taps or valves, in this manner stopping
its own course, so that any waste of water or other fluid that would have occurred had
the old or common style of tap being used, by the user neglecting or forgetting to
close same, is entirely avoided.
To accomplish this, instead of the opening for the flow of the water, etc., being
straight or almost straight through the tap, a partition, having an aperture, is placed
or formed horizontally, or in any other suitable position, therein, so that the water in
flowing passes beneath and rises up through this aperture.
Below this partition is placed a suitably shaped valve having an appropriately shaped
pendant projection which fits an opening made in the nut or screwed block beneath
it (the same being used for covering or closing the opening necessary for the insertion
of the said valve) in this manner holding the valve in position or guiding it to cover
the aperture in the partition and so accomplishing that which is desired.
In order to open the said aperture the common and well known thumb-and-finger
piece is employed, which when turned, by a suitably shaped coarse spiral or screwed
thread being formed on its stem, presses its outer end downwards against the said
valve. Again the said thumb-and-finger piece, when left free by the user assumes its
original position by the pressure of the water overcoming the slight amount of friction
caused by the coarse spiral or screwed thread, raising it along with the valve.
At the several joints, necessary in the construction of a tap as above described, are
employed the usual packings or seatings as will be well understood.
1h: 10th day of Dctober 1886.
JAMES FAGAN.
By his Agents,
Moorhouse & Hey.

page_text: I, JAMES FAGAN of Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, Plumber 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, that is
to say :-
It consists of an improvement in the construction of taps or valves for water or
other fluids, whereby the pressure of said water, etc., is employed for closing the
apertures or openings in said taps or valves, in this manner stopping its own course,
so that any waste of water or other fluid that would have occurred had the old or
common style of tap been used, by the user neglecting or forgetting to close same, is
entirely avoided.
And in order that this said invention might be more readily under-
stood I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof wherein fig. 1
is a part-sectional side elevation of a tap, while fig. 2 is a sectional view of a tap, on
line A B as seen from above.
The object of this invention is accomplished by making a partition a in tap b, and
having an opening or aperture e formed therein, said opening being arranged as shewn
so that the water or other fluid, instead of flowing straight or almost straight through
said tap b, will be required to rise in order to pass through said aperture c.
Below the partition a is placed a suitably shaped valve d, having an appropriately
shaped pendant projection e which fits an opening made in the nut or screwed block f
(said nut e being used for covering or closing the opening necessary for the insertion
of said valve d) in this manner holding said valve d in position, or guiding it to cover
the aperture or opening c and so accomplishing that which is desired.
In order to open said aperture e the common and well known thumb-and-finger
piece g is employed, which when turned, by a suitably shaped coarse spiral or screw
threadh being formed on its stem, presses its outer end i downwards against said
valve d. Again said thumb-and-finger piece g when left free by the user, assumes its
original position by the pressure of water overcoming the slight amount of friction
caused by the coarse spiral or screwed thread h operating in connection with the
parts k, raising said piece g along with the valve d.
To insure proper fitting of the valve d, a washer / of suitable material is placed thereon
to come in contact with the rim m surrounding the aperture c.

page_text: At the several joints, as at n n¹ necessary in the construction of a tap as above
described, are employed the usual packings or seatings as will be well understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The combination of the tap 6 having a partition a in which is made an aperture c,
with the valve d having a projecting piece e, and the thumb-and-finger piece g having
the coarse thread h and the end i substantially as and for the purposes specified.