IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING WATER AND FOR CLEANSING DRAINS AND SEWERS
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HOSMER, of New Cross, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of March,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the eleventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Hosmer, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Hosmer, my exors,
admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Hosmer, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING WATER AND FOR CLEANSING DRAINS AND SEWERS;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John
Hosmer, should cause a particular description of the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after

page_text: the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance. with the said proviso, I, the said
John Hosmer, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and 5
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:―
My Invention consists,
First, of combining a cistern in two parts, with means of supply of water 1
thereto, in such manner that the contents of one compartment of the cistern
shall be emptied suddenly to flush and cleanse the drains and sewers of the
house or premises where the cistern is situated.
Secondly, my Invention consists of so arranging the supply of water to a
cistern that when it becomes sufficiently full a part of the water shall be let
out suddenly to flush and thereby cleanse drains or sewers of the house or pre-
mises where the premises is situated, and part retained for the supply of such
house and premises. And,
Thirdly, my Invention consists of so arranging the supply of water to
a cistern after another manner that when it becomes sufficiently full a part of
its contents shall be discharged suddenly to flush and thereby cleanse the
drains or sewers of the house and premises where the premises is situated, and
part retained for the supply of such house and premises.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a section, and Figure 2 a plan, of a cistern divided into two
parts, or may be two separate cisterns supplied by means of the supply
pipe a. On this pipe is fixed the ball cock b, there being two branches 6¹ b³ to
the cock b, the branch b' supplying the cistern c for the supply of the house
or premises, and the branch 63 supplying the cistern d for flushing the drains
and sewers. To the arm of the ball cock is attached the chain e in such
manner as to lift the plug fas the ball rises to its highest position, and the
water in the cistern above will flow out and flush the drains and sewers to
which the pipe g leads, and it will be understood that such drains and sewers
will be flushed as often as the cistern c is filled with water.
I would remark, in respect to this part of my Invention, that I do not
confine myself to the construction of cock and supply branches shewn, as

page_text: the same may be varied so long as similar means are employed to supply two
parts of a cistern or two cisterns, one being used for periodical flushing
of the drains and sewers, and the other for the supply of a house or premises.
Figure 3 shews a section of another cistern, which is intended to be used
for flushing drains and sewers to cleanse the same, and for the supply of the
house and premises. In this arrangement the supply cock has two floats,
one of them not coming into action till the water has raised the other, and
by so raising it drags the other float into a position to be able to rise by
its buoyancy, by which the valve will be raised suddenly, and a part of the
contents discharged to flush the drains and sewers, the other part retained
for the supply of the house and premises. a is the supply pipe, 6 the ball
cock, c and d two floats fixed to the plug of the cock. The water will first
act on the float c and raise it, and when it has raised it a distance it will
bring the area of the other float beyond the perpendicular, when it will
immediately rise, and in doing so will carry up the rod e and raise the valve,
as will be readily understood on examining the Drawing.
Figure 4 shews a section of another cistern, with the common usual ball-
cock apparatus, with this addition, that the bottom of the cistern is fitted with
a valve a covering a pipe 6 of large diameter, which valve a is attached to
the arm or lever of the ball cock by the chain c. The ball rising lifts the
valve a, and a part of the water flows through the pipe 6 to flush the drains
or sewers of the house or premises where the cistern may be situated, and
a part is retained for the use of such house or premises, as will be readily
understood on examining the Drawing.
I would remark, in respect to these second and third parts of my Invention,
that the arrangement of cock and float may be varied, so long as the
arrangement with a cistern is such as to produce the result shewn.
And I would have it understood that what I claim is, the combining a
cistern in two parts, with means of supplying water thereto in such manner
that the contents of one compartment of the cistern or cisterns shall be
emptied suddenly to flush drains or sewers..
Secondly, and thirdly, I claim the arranging the supply of water to a
cistern in such manner that, when it becomes sufficiently full, a part of the
water shall be let out suddenly to flush drains and sewers.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hosmer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, One thousand
eight hundred and forty-eight.
JOHN (L.s.) HOSMER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1848, the aforesaid John Hosmer came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according!
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.