Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Water from Wells or other Sources.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 9th Nov.. 1895
TUATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Water from Wells
or other Sources.
I, AUGUSTUS HARDING ASHDOWN of Uppington, near Wellington, in the
County of Salop, Land Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Wells for the supply of water for domestic use should, for sanitary reasons, as is
well known, he sunk at a considerable distance from the dwelling house; on the
other hand it is very inconvenient that the pump for drawing the water from the
well, should be far from the house, and exposed to the weather, and often it would
be very convenient to have it within it.
These conditions are not satisfactorily met simply by elongating the suction
pipe.
According to my invention I provide near to the pump an air tight storage
reservoir of sufficient size to store about as much water as will be required for
use at one time. With this reservoir on the one hand the pump is connected and
on the other the pipe leading to the well. The pipe to the well may be of quite
small size as its office is to fill the storage reservoir during the intervals between
the pumpings. When the pump is set to work it draws its supply promptly from
the storage reservoir leaving a vacuum which afterwards fills.
Sometimes I make one pipe from the well serve for several pumps each pump
having a storage reservoir of its own from which it draws.
1 provide non-return valves in the storage reservoirs which prevent the water
passing out except when drawn by the pump in immediate connection with such
reservoir. In order to minimise the resistance of these valves I make them of
globular form and as nearly as may be of the same specific gravity as water,
preferably make them of india rubber. By a suitable cage over the ball I cause
it to be retained very near to its seat, but still allowing a sufficient water way.
Any tendency of the water to return, such as would be caused by the drawing of
water from another storage reservoir fed from the well by the same pipe, carries
the ball valve to its seat and so the return flow is at once checked.
It will be seen that my arrangement enables the pump to be placed at the point
where it is most convenient to have the water supply.
Dated this 12th day of December 1894.
Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Water from Wells
or other Sources.
I, AUGUSTUS HARDING ASHDOWN, of Uppington, near Wellington, in the
County of Salop, Land Agent, 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 :-
Wells for the supply of water for domestic use should, for sanitary reasons, as
[Price 8d.]

page_text: is well known, be sunk at a considerable distance from the dwelling house; on the
other hand it is very inconvenient that the pump for drawing the water from the
well, should be far from the house, and exposed to the weather, and often it would
be very convenient to have it within it.
These conditions are not satisfactorily met simply by elongating the suction 5
pipe.
According to my invention I provide near to the pump an air tight storage
reservoir of sufficient size to store about as much water as will be required for use
at one time. With this reservoir on the one hand the pump is connected and on
the other the pipe leading to the well. The pipe to the well may be of quite 10
small size as its office is to fill the storage reservoir during the intervals between
the pumpings. When the pump is set to work it draws its supply promptly from
the storage reservoir leaving a vacuum which afterwards fills.
Sometimes I make one pipe from the well serve for several pumps each pump
having a storage reservoir of its own from which it draws.
I provide non-return valves to the storage reservoirs which prevent the water
passing out except when drawn by the pump in immediate connection with such
reservoir.
In carrying out my invention the reservoirs may be of any material provided
they are air tight.
The
I have been using as a reservoir an iron flanged pipe 12 inches in diameter and
six feet long closed at the ends by plates fastened on by bolts and nuts.
pumps I have used have a three-inch barrel and an inch and a half lead pipe
serves to connect the pump with its reservoir. The connection is made at the
lower part of one of the flanged plates. The pipe from the well may be similarly
I have used a three-quarter inch lead pipe for
connected with the other plate.
three pumps with reservoirs. The non-return valve for preventing the water
passing back out of the reservoir may be of any ordinary construction with a Hap
or ball valve.
In order to minimise the resistance of these valves I make them of material as
nearly as may be of the same specific gravity as water, preferably I make them of
india rubber. By a suitable cage over the ball I cause it to be retained very
near to its seat, but still allowing a sufficient water way. Any tendency of the
water to return, such as would be caused by the drawing of water from another
storage reservoir fed from the well by the same pipe, carries the ball or flap valve
to its sent and so the return flow is at once checked.
It will be seen that my arrangement enables the pump to be placed at the point
where it is most convenient to have the water supply and at a cousiderable horizontal
distance from the source. It also enables several pumps to be supplied by one
pipe and these pumps can be worked either simultaneously or otherwise without
interfering with each other.
The diagram annexed illustrates my invention.
a indicates the position of the well or source.
b represents the long and comparative small suction pipe.
c, c, c, represent three storage reservoirs each receiving a branch of the suction
pipe.
d, d, d, indicate the position of pumps; each is connected with its own storag
reservoir by a short and comparatively large pipe.
e, e, e, are the pipes connecting the pumps with the storage reservoirs.
fff, indicate the positions of non-return valves.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inver
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
claim is:
'i. In combination with a pump, the use, substantially as described, of a storag
reservoir and a non-return valve or device in such manner as to enable water to
drawn for a long distance through a pipe of small diameter.
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page_text: 2. The means whereby two or more pumps are supplied by one pipe from a well
or other source and consisting in providing for each pump a storage reservoir and
non-return valve or device as herein set forth.
Dated this 12th day of September 1895.
AUG. H. ASHDOWN.