An Improved Connecting Device for Liquid-conducting Pipes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1899-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Connecting Device for Liquid-conducting Pipes.
I, JAMES BACKHOUSE, of Daleside, Harrogate, in the County of York, Managing
Director of J. Backhouse & Son, Limited, York, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
From a cock or other source of supply adapted to deliver a stream of liquid
of given cross-sectional area, it is often convenient to be able to deliver in a
continuous manner, through flexible piping, a stream or streams of small area
or areas, and my invention has reference to a simple device whereby this result
may be readily attained.
This device is a hollow body made with three or more branches of tubular form,
and each of a diameter differing from that of the other branches, and each branch
is formed with an external male screw thread or threads, or equivalent, adapted
to receive and hold a cap or cover formed internally with a corresponding female
screw thread or threads or equivalent. Or, in lieu of forming branches externally
with male screw threads or equivalents, and providing them with caps, I may
sometimes modify the construction by forming internal female screw threads or
their equivalents within the branches, and providing them with closures in the
form of plugs formed with external screw threads or equivalents.
A device such as described is adapted for being readily connected, by means
of a flexible pipe from one of its branches, to a cock or other liquid-supplying
source, whilst to another branch, or other branches of connecting device, there is
or are applied another flexible pipe or pipes, through which a reduced stream or
streams is or are delivered, according to requirement, it being of course under-
stood that, preparatory to the application of a flexible pipe to any branch, the
cap or equivalent is removed from such branch, but that when the device is in
use, that or those of its branches not for the time being required to deliver liquid,
is or are to be closed by means of its proper closure.
My improved connecting device for liquid-conducting pipes as above described,
may be used with advantage for various purposes.
Dated this 16th day of January 1899.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
An Improved Connecting Device for Liquid-conducting Pipes.
I, JAMES BACKHOUSE, of Daleside, Harrogate, in the County of York, Managing
Director of J. Backhouse & Son, Limited, York, 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:-
From a cock or other source of supply adapted to deliver a stream of liquid of a
given cross-sectional area, it is often convenient to be able to deliver in a con-

page_text: tinuous manner, through flexible piping, a stream or streams of smaller cross
sectional area or areas and this invention has reference to a simple device whereby
this result may be readily attained, as I shall now describe with reference to the
accompanying illustrative drawings wherein Fig. 1 shows partly in elevation, and
partly in section, a connecting device according to this invention. Fig. 2 shows
in section part of a modified construction of such device. Fig. 3 shows the
improved connecting device applied to a tap or cock by means of flexible tubing.
The improved connecting device comprises a hollow body 1 made with three
or more branches 2 of tubular form, spaced apart and extending in different
directions, each branch being of a diameter differing from that of the other
branches. In the example shown in Figs. 1 and 3, there are three tubular
branches arranged about 120° apart, the bores of the three branches preferably
leading gradually from one to the other so as to avoid all shoulders or abutments
within the device. Each branch is formed with a plain external surface that
extends from the central hollow body, without any sharp shoulders or abutments,
to the free end portion so as to admit of india rubber tubing being readily forced
over it, its end portion being formed with an external screw thread, or its
equivalent, to receive and hold a close cap or cover 4 that is formed internally
with a corresponding screw thread or its equivalent and by which the branch can
be effectually closed when desired. Or instead of the branches 2 being formed
with external screw threads provided with caps, they may be formed with internal
screw threads or equivalent and be provided with closures in the form of plugs 5
formed with external screw threads or equivalent as shown in Fig. 2.
Each cap or closure may be provided at its outer end with a packing piece 6 of
soft material so as to prevent escape of liquid from the branch to which it is
screwed.
A connecting device such as described is adapted, as shown in Fig. 3, for
being readily connected by means of a flexible pipe 7 from one of its branches 2,
to a cock 8 or other liquid-supplying source, whilst to another branch 2, or other
branches of the said connecting device, there is or are applied another flexible
pipe 9, or pipes, through which a reduced stream or streams is or are delivered,
according to requirement, it being of course understood that, preparatory to the
application of a flexible pipe to any branch, the cap 4 or equivalent is removed
from such branch, but that when the device is in use, that or those of its branches
not for the time being required to deliver liquid, is or are to be closed by means
of its proper closure."
The improved connecting device for liquid-conducting pipes as above described,
may be used with advantage for various purposes.
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:
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1. A pipe connecting device, comprising a hollow body having three or more
branches of tubular form and each of an internal diameter differing from that of
the other branches, each branch being formed at its free end with a screw
thread and provided with a screw threaded closure whereby it can be closed
when not required for use, substantially as described with reference to the
drawings.
2. The improved pipe connecting device hereinbefore described with reference
to and shown in Fig. 1, or modified according to Fig. 2 of the drawings annexed.
Data 11 0011 1
T 1
1000