IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING RAIN WATER AND OTHER PIPES IN POSITION
Year: 1884

page_text: We GEORGE POTTER Gentleman of 3 Willow Road and GEORGE WILLIAM
POTTER Surveyor of 22 High Street both in Hampstead in the county of
Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN SECURING RAIN WATER AND OTHER PIPES IN POSITION to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to secure rain water and other pipes in position in
such a manner that one or more lengths thereof can easily and quickly be removed
for purposes of cleaning or clearing away any obstruction therein and also that the
pipes can easily be turned round or partially revolved to allow the inner side of the
pipe that is to say the side of the pipe against the wall or structure to which it is
secured to be painted or otherwise treated. Thus our invention obviates and does
away with the injury caused to the wall or structure and the great amount of
labour required in removing the pipe or a part thereof for the purpose of cleaning
or clearing away any dirt or other cause of obstruction that may be deposited in
the same and also preserves the said pipe and prevents the same being injured by.
rust or oxidation as it allows the whole of the said pipe to be painted or otherwise
treated when required which cannot easily be done in the usual type of pipes.
We carry out this object by making the pipes in suitable lengths in the usual
manner but without the customary lugs by which they are usually secured to the
wall or structure and these pipes may be of rectilinear or circular or other cross
section. To secure these pipes in position we make seatings or brackets therefor of
cast metal or other suitable material each being in the form of a flat plate from
which two lugs project and which said seatings or brackets are secured to the wall
or structure in suitable positions and at proper distances apart by bolts or spikes
or other fastenings through the said flat plates and the projecting lugs thereof fit
and embrace part of the pipes which said pipes are secured in between the lugs by
bands of the proper shape and preferably formed of wrought metal which surround
the said pipes and the ends whereof are secured to the said logs in any convenient
manner such as by screw bolts or other fastenings or one of the ends of the said
bands may be hinged to one of the said lugs while the other end can be secured to
the other lug by staples and pins or otherwise. Thus by loosening or slackening
the fastenings of the bands sufficient play can be given to the pipes to allow them
to be turned round or partially revolved for painting or other purposes and on
removing the bands the pipes are free and can be taken out for cleaning or clearing
or other purposes.
It is obvious that this method of securing pipes in position can be used not only
for rain water pipes outside a house or building but also for every other kind of
pipe that may be secured against a wall or other structure.

page_text: We GEORGE POTTER Gentleman of 3 Willow Road and GEORGE WILLIAM
POTTER Surveyer of 22 High Street both in Hampstead in the county of
Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN SECURING RAIN WATER AND OTHER PIPES IN POSITION 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 our invention is to secure rain water and other pipes in position in
such a manner and by such a method that one or more lengths of the said pipes
can easily and quickly be removed for purposes of cleaning or clearing away any
obstruction therein and also that the said pipes can readily be. turned round or
partially revolved to allow the inner sides of the said pipes that is to say those
sides of the said pipes that are against or nearest to the wall or structure to which
they are secured to be painted or otherwise treated. Thus our invention obviates
and does away with the injury that is at the present time and with the usual pipes
caused to the wall or structure when the said pipes have to be removed and also
the great amount of labour required in so removing the said pipes or lengths
thereof for the purpose of cleaning or clearing away any dirt or other cause of
obstruction that may be deposited in the said pipe. At the same time our
invention preserves these pipes and prevents the same being injured by rust or
oxidation as it allows all parts of the said pipes to be painted or otherwise treated
when required which cannot easily be done in the usual type of pipes. Our
invention is especially applicable to rain water and other pipes outside a house or
building but it can also in a similar manner be applied to and used with every
other kinds of pipes that may be or that ought to be secured against a wall or
other surface.
We carry out our object as aforesaid by making the pipes in suitable lengths in
the usual or other convenient manner but without the customary lugs by which
the said pipes are usually secured to the wall or structure and these pipes may be
of circular or rectilinear or other cross section. To secure the pipes in position we
make chairs or seatings or brackets therefor of cast metal or other suitable material
in the form of flat plates from each of which two lugs project and the said chairs
or seatings or brackets are secured to the wall or structure in suitable positions
and at proper distances apart by bolts or spikes or other fastenings through the
said flat plates or elsewhere and the said projecting lugs thereof fit and embrace
parts of the said pipes preferably halves thereof or thereabouts and the said pipes
are held in between the said lugs by bands or clamps formed of the proper shapes
.to fit the said pipes and preferably made of wrought metal which bands or clamps
surround the said pipes and the ends whereof are attached or secured to the said
lugs in any convenient manner such for example as by keys screw bolts or bolts
and staples or other fastenings or one of the ends of the said bands or clamps may
be hinged to one of the said lugs or otherwise as may be, desired. We may also
if and when we should so desire dispense with the projecting lugs that fit the pipes
herein before described and instead thereof secure on the aforesaid flat plates two
small lugs in any convenient position which lugs may also be formed in the same
piece with the said flat plates and the ends of the bands or clamps would be
attached or secured to these small lugs in manner as berein before described or the
ends of the said bands or clamps may be attached or secured in a similar manner
directly to the aforesaid flat plates as may be convenient or desirable in each

page_text: particular case. Thus according to this our invention by loosening or slackening
the fastenings of the bands or clamps sufficient play can be given to the pipes to
allow of their being turned round or partially revolved for painting or other
purposes and when the said bands or clamps are removed the said pipes are free
and can be taken out for cleaning or clearing or other purposes.
In the accompanying drawing illustrative of this our invention we have shewn
our said invention as applied to and used with two kinds of pipes.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a circular pipe secured in position against a wall or
structure according to this our invention as herein before described. Figure 2 is an
elevation of a rectilinear pipe also so secured as aforesaid. Figure 3 is an horizontal
section on an enlarged scale taken at a. b. in Figure 1. Figure 4 is an horizontal
section also on an enlarged scale taken at c. d. in Figure 2.
A is a circular pipe and A¹ is a rectilinear pipe. B and B' are the chairs or
seatings or brackets the projecting lugs C and C₁ of which fit and embrace parts of
the pipes A and A¹ and D and D are the bands or clamps which hold the said
pipes A and A' in between the said lugs C and C. We have shewn the band or
clamp D hinged to one of the lugs C and secured to the other lug C by a screw
bolt while the band or clamp D is secured to the lugs C¹ by bolts and staples but
any, other method of securing the said bands or clamps to the said lugs may
be used.
It is sufficiently obvious from these examples as herein before described and
shewn in the accompanying drawing that pipes of all other shapes can be secured
in position in the same manner in every case the chairs or seatings or brackets and
the bands or clamps thereof being made to fit the particular pipes with and for
which the said chairs or seatings or brackets and bands or clamps are to be used
and the said chairs or seatings or brackets also can be so formed as to be capable
of being secured to the wall or structure or surface in any position whether in a
corner or on a curved or irregular part of the said wall or structure or surface or
otherwise and no further description is or can be needed.
We would also have it clearly understood that we do in no wise limit ourselves
to the shapes or details of construction or attachment of the chairs or seatings or
brackets and of the bands or clamps thereof as shewn in the drawing for the said
chairs or seatings or brackets and the said bands or clamps thereof can be made
of any shape and in any manner to fit and embrace or to be used with the
required pipes and the said chairs or seatings or brackets can be secured to the
wall or structure or on the surface and the said bands or clamps can be attached or
secured to the said chairs or seatings or brackets or to the lugs thereof in any
manner that may be convenient or desirable in each case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
The method or manner of securing rain water and other pipes in position
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbéfore described and declared.
Dated this 10th day of October 1884.
HART & Co.