Improvements in Taps or Valves for Controlling the Flow of Liquids.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 29th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 1st June, 1889
Improvements in Taps or Valves for Controlling the Flow of
Liquids.
1 ARTHUR PAGET Mechanical Engineer of "Radmoor Loughborough in the County
of Leicester do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is the production of a screw down tap or valve specially
useful for hot water and other fluids which shall be simple, durable, and free from
many of the defects cominon to taps or valves hitherto in. use.
The first part of my invention consists of the construction and use of valves faced
with or made of Lignum vitæ, or other similar suitable hard wood. The said wood
facing may be fitted into a suitable recess in the metal valve and held there by a pin,
screw, or rivet or a suitable cement.
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valve-
The second part of my invention consists of the construction and use of a
seating "made of Lignum vitae or other similar suitable hard wood, the said wood
seat" may be fitted into a suitable recess in the metal valve casing and held there
by a pin, screw or rivet or a suitable cement. The said wood "seating" may be used
in combination with a metal valve.or a valve with wood facing or entirely of wood as
above described.
The third part of my invention consists of the construction and use of wood valves ;
valve-facings or valve-seatings (as referred to in the first and second part of this
invention) impregnated with boiled, or raw, or oxidised linseed oil, or other similar
suitable material whereby the wear resisting power of the said wood valve, valve-
facing, or valve-seating is materially increased.
Dated this 27th day of Inl 1888

page_text: Liquids.
I ARTHUR PAGET Mechanical Engineer of Radmoor Loughborough in the County
of Leicester 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 the production of a screw down tap or valve specially
useful for hot water-and-other-fluids which shall be simple, durable, and.free.from
many of the defects common to taps or valves hitherto in use.
The first part of iny invention which I will describe consists of the construction and
use of valves faced with or made of Lignum Vite or other similar suitable hard wood.
The said wood facing may be fitted into a suitable recess in the metal valve and held
there by a pin, screw or rivet or a suitable cement.
The accompanying drawing is a section through a tap or valve such as above
referred to. A is an ordinary screw-down plug by turning which (by means of the
handle A) the valve is opened or closed. B is the valve casing which may be made
of brass or other suitable material. In this casing BI fit a plug C of Lignum Vita
or other similar suitable hard wood and I fix it in the said casing B by a pin, scrow,
rivet, cement or other suitable means. The face of this wood plug is made to fit
accurately on to the flat seating D when the said screw plug A is screwed down and
the valve is closed as shown. The said seating lettered D is shown in this drawing as
a part, separate from the body of the tap. Where the valve has a wood face C. the
seating on which the valve C is pressed inay be solid with (or a part of) the body of
the tap, or may be separate as shown and of brass or any other suitable material.
The second part of my invention which I will describe consists of the construction
and use of a valve-seating "made of Lignum Vitæ or other similar suitable hard
wood, the said wood "scat" may be fitted into a suitable recess in the metal valve
casing and held there by a pin, screw or rivet or a suitable cement. The said wood
"seating" may he used in combination with a metal valve or a valve with wood
facing or entirely of wood as above described.
A valve seating such as above referred to is shown at D in the accompanying
drawing. This wood seating may be simply driven into its place as shown, or it may
(if necessary in some cases) be fastened there by screws, rivets cement or other
suitable means.
The third part of my invention which I will describe consists of the construction
and use of wood valves, valve-facings or valve-seatings (as referred to in the first and
second part of this invention) impregnated with boiled, or raw, or oxidised linseed oil
or other similar suitable material whereby the wear resisting power of the said wood
valve, valve-facing or valve-seating is materially increased.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I desire it to be understood
that I do not confine myself to the exact details herein set forth as such may be
varied or modified without departing from the principle thereof but what I claim as
my improvements in taps or valves for controlling the flow of liquids are:-
First. The construction and use of valves faced with Lignum vita or other similar
suitable hard wood. The said wood facing being fitted into a suitable recess in the
metal valve and held there by a pin, screw or rivet or a suitable cement, substantially
as herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Second. The construction and use of a "valve-seating" made of Lignum Vitæ or
other similar suitable hard wood, the said wood "seat" may be fitted into a suitable
recess in the metal valve casing and held there by a pin, screw or rivet or a suitable
cement. The said wood "senting" may be used in combination with a metal valve or
a valve with wood facing as above described substantially as herein before described
with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Third. The construction and use of wood valve-facings or valve-seatings (as referred
to in the first and second part of this invention) impregnated with boiled, or raw, or
oxidised linseed oil, or other similar suitable material whereby the wear resisting
power of the said wood valve-facing or valve-seating is materially increased sub-
stantially as herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 27th day of Anril 1889