prove and relating to valves.
Year: 1897

page_text: prove and relating to valves.
SAMUEL HENRY ADAMS, Hydraulic Engineer, Cumbrae, l'ark Avenue, Harrogate,
Yorks, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to the mode of operating a water valve wherein I desire
so to control the opening of the same valve that this may be accompolished from a
distance or otherwise, by the transmission of air by a tube or otherwise from the
controlling apparatus to that part of the apparatus which operates the valves.
This method enables me to open a ball valve by giving the float added' buoyancy
by the transmitted air, or to actuate any other valve in a. somewhat similar manner.
Dated this 20th day of 1007
SAMUEL HENRY ADAMS, Hydraulic Engineer, Cumbrae, Park Avenue, Harrogate,
Yorks, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manuer the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement: --
I operate a valve either stop cock or slide valve or other suitable arrangement
which may be operated by the lifting or depressing of a lever or equivalent and
this I do from any desired distance by the transmission of air using a dome or
cup inverted placed in a chamber in or near the apparatus from which the operation
is governed and so arranging this dome or cup that liquid shall surround it and
displace the air contained within it and the said air by a tube shall be transmitted
to another hollow float or equivalent partially submerged in water. Now it will
be apparent that when the air is transferred from the one dome to the hollow float
the extra body of air will cause the hollow float to become more buoyant and it
will float and lift and such flotation may lift a lever or equivalent attached thereto
and may cause a valve to open. This opening is desired chiefly to effect a scouring
or flushing or filling of an apparatus by a charge of water. The chamber in which
the dome or inverted cup is placed may be an open tank or a storage receptacle for
sewage or it may be an integral portion of a closet or latrine or other sanitary
fitting for in any event it will be seen that when the said chambes receives added
liquid from any source the air will be displaced from the dome or cup therein and
air will be transmitted to the hollow float which actuates the valve or lever and
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page_text: from this suitable connections may be made by which the liquid fed from same
is employed to flush the chamber or latrine or whatever arrangement is used..
Reference to my drawing will shew this A is the chamber where the controlling
dome or inverted cup is placed, this cup is lettered D, at C is shewn a syphon which
may be used to withdraw the contents of A. At B is shewn the inflow to same E is
the air pipe feeding air to hollow float H which in this case is used to actuate the
valve J but it will be seen that valves of other form may be actuated in much the
same manner. At G is shewn a valve which may be used to fill tank to the water
level shewn by position of the floating ball attached thereto. When float H is
raised the valve Ĵ will be turned on and water will fill up cistern starting syphon K.
which will then deliver the contents of cistern F to the chamber A or to any other
desired apparatus. It will be evident that this arrangement may be applied to
closet, urinal or any other apparatus.,
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;
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1. The use of an apparatus to govern a valve whereby liquid is fed to a tank the
said apparatus consisting of a dome or inverted cup or equivalent from which the
air is transmitted by a tube to a float which governs the opening or closing of a
valve or the movement of a lever.
2. The combination of a dome as D with a float as H, and an air pipe to govern
the action of a valve supplying water to a tank or other vessel or their equivalent.
3. The use of the arrangement shewn or its equivalent whether the float H lifts
a valve as J or whether it merely lifts itself with any other desired attachment-
thereon.
4. The general arrangement and design of the parts herein described or their
equivalent though differing in conformity substantially the same and for the
same purpose.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of July 1898