Improved Drainage, Sewerage, and Water-supply System.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 14th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Drainage, Sewerage, and Water-supply System.
I JOHN PITT BAYLY of 18 Fulham Place Paddington, in the County of London
Patent Agent, (a communication to me from abroad by William Hallock of
Middletown in the County of Orange and State of New York U.S.A. Inventor) do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a system of drainage, sewerage, or water-supply in
which pipes, reservoirs, and man-holes are employed, the latter being arranged on
levels, or a system of levels, and connected so as to seal the pipes to prevent
emptying, except as to the surplus entering the reservoir or man-holes, thus forming
a system wherein the flow may be maintained on level ground or successfully carried
over elevations higher than the source, which may intervene between the supply
and point of discharge.
To drain low flat lands where there is no appreciable fall, or to drain lands flowed
by tide-water. I first confine the tide-water to the main inlet stream or body of
water by means of embankments, dikes, spiles, or the like.
Then at a proper distance back from the river or other body of water, I construct
a small reservoir to receive any remaining tide-water, and all water from ditches,
small streams, and storm-water. From this reservoir leads a pipe to a man-hole, to
be constructed deeper than the reservoir and nearer to the river or other body of
water. From the man-hole I lay another pipe, reaching from a point below the
pipe first named in the man-hole to the said river or body of water, the point of
discharge being submerged below low-water mark. In the pipe firstnamed is fitted
a cut-off gate, which should be closed during the inflow of the tide and open after
the tide has receded below the level of the water standing in the man-hole. This
should be repeated with each tide until the drainage is complete.
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The shut-off gate should be closed until necessary to drain again. necessary
to drain a long distance from the low lands to the river, a succession of man-holes
should be constructed between the reservoir and river with sections of pipe con-
necting the man-holes, and the discharge from the last man-hole must be above the
entrance thereto of the inflow pipe.
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J. P. .BAYLY,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Drainage, Sewerage, and Water-supply System.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communi-
cation to me from abroad by William Hallock, of Middletown, New York, U.S.A.
Inventor,) to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a system of drainage, sewerage, or water supply in
which pipes, reservoirs, and man-holes are employed, the latter being arranged on
levels, or a system of levels, and connected so as to seal the pipes to prevent
emptying, except as to the surplus entering the reservoir or man-holes, thus forming
a system wherein the flow may be maintained on level ground or successfully carried
over'elevations higher than the source, which may intervene between the supply
and point of discharge.
Reference is to be had' to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this

page_text: ION IN WHICn simmar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in
all the figures.
Figure 1 represents a drainage system for low level lands or lands flowed by tide-
water, where no fall can be obtained.
Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate a sewerage system wherein the flow is carried as high or
higher than the source.
To drain low flat lands, where there is no appreciable fall, or to drain lands
flowed by tide-water, as in Fig. 1, which represents a system applicable to either
case, I first confine the tide-water to the main inlet stream or body of water by
means of embankments, dikes, spiles, or the like. Then at a proper distance back
from the river or other body of water, I construct a small reservoir A to receive
any remaining tide-water, and all water from ditches, small streams, and storm-
water. From this reservoir leads a pipe G to the man-hole C, to be constructed
deeper than the reservoir and nearer to the river or other body of water S. From
the man-hole C, I lay pipe F, reaching from a point below the pipe G in the man-
hole to the said river or body of water, the point of discharge being submerged
below low-water mark. In the pipe F is fitted a cut-off gate H¹, which should be
closed during the inflow of the tide and open after the tide has receded below the
level of the water standing in the man-hole. This should be repeated with each
tide until the drainage is complete. The shut-off gate should be closed until
necessary to drain again. If necessary to drain a long distance from the low
lands to the river, a succession of man-holes should be constructed between the
reservoir and river with sections of pipe connecting the man-holes, and the discharge
from the last man-hole must be above the entrance thereto of the inflow pipe, as
shown plainly in Fig. 3.
In Fig. 2, A represents a reservoir or cesspool located on a rise of ground B,
and into which the surface-water is led, and also the sewage and drainage of a
building or buildings may be led through pipes a b. C and D are man-holes set in
the ground on a level with each other and on a lower level than the reservoir A,
the former not far distant from the reservoir A, the latter near the point of dis-
charge or main sewer E. Between the man-holes is a rise of ground B', over which
the flow from the reservoir is carried through the main pipe F, which is but slightly
buried in the ground and follows the outline of the hill. This pipe F connects at
one end with the man-hole C at or near its bottom, and at the other at or near the
bottom of the man-hole D. A pipe G leads from the reservoir A to the man-hole C and
connects with the latter at a point above the connection therewith of the pipe F,
and a pipe H leads from the man-hole D to the point of discharge or main sewer E,
and this pipe H connects with the said man-hole D at a point above the connection
therewith of the pipe F, and is provided with a cut-off gate H', by which it may be
closed, if desired.
The plan shown in Fig. 3 is designed for draining low lands to a river or other
body of water from which there practically no fall. I construct a reservoir A to
receive the drainage, and storm-water, and from this the water flows through pipe G
to a man-hole C on a lower level. than the reservoir. From the man-hole Ĉ leads
the pipe F to the man-hole C', which in turn is connected to man-hole C² by
pipe C. The man-hole C2 is connected by curved pipe C to man-hole C
Pipe C extends along a rise of ground higher than the reservoir A. C is the
discharge-pipe which connects with the man-hole C above the pipe C*.
In action or operation the flow must first be started throughout the whole system
by pumps or other means, to fill all of the man-holes and pipes, the man-holes being
filled above the entrance of the pipes to seal them and at all times keep the pipes
full, forming a perpetual siphon of the whole system. Now, when water enters the
reservoir A, or any of the man-holes, in excess of the natural level which the water
will seek in the man-holes, according to the locality of the discharge-pipe in the
last man-hole, the excess will pass through the pipes from man-hole to man-hole
and will be discharged at the final discharge of the system. In Figs. 2 and 3 the
water will find its level always in man-holes C C1 and C2 C³, so that the pipes F C+

page_text: may rise between them thirty-three feet or thereabout. In Fig. 1 the pipe F may
curve above the reservoir A and will discharge the contents of the reservoir and
man-hole down to low-water mark.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
The drainage, sewerage, or water-supply system herein described, the same con-
sisting of a succession of man-holes whose bottoms are on the same level, with
connecting pipes placed on the same level grade, the whole system being trapped
by a single trap, which is formed by placing the discharge-pipe of the last man-hole
above the level grade of the connecting pipes, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 15th day of November 1890.
J. P. BAYLI,
18, Fulham Place, W., Applicant.