An Improved Apparatus for Supplying Water to Houses, Workshops, and other Premises.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1899-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1899
MUITIUATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Supplying Water to Houses,
Workshops, and other Premises.
I, WALTER PAYTON, of 138, Sheen Road, Richmond, in the County of Surrey,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to supply water to consumers in a way that will
prevent its being wasted by malicious or careless persons and thereby reduce the loss
occasioned by such waste.
In giving effect to the said invention the service pipe leading from the main supply
pipe is connected to a distributer containing a valve operated by a handle on its
exterior and fixed upon the premises in any position where access to the operating
handle may be conveniently had. In any convenient place above the distributer is
placed a cistern divided vertically into two equal compartments each of which is
connected to the distributer by a pipe through which water may have access to the
compartments.
The bottom of each compartment is provided with a valve suspended from a float
in such a way that when a given quantity of water has entered the compartment the
float will lift the valve and thereby prevent more water than the required quantity
entering the compartment.
The distributer is also provided with a draw off pipe fitted with suitable cocks or
valves through which water may be obtained by the consumer in the usual way. The
distributer containing the distributing valve which may be of any approved kind is
provided with ports and passages corresponding with the kind of valve used the
arrangement being in any case such as will enable each compartment of the cistern
to be alternately put in communication with the service pipe and the draw off pipe
when the valve is operated.
When the apparatus is in use the cistern compartments are charged by operating
the distributing valve and when they are full water can be obtained from one of them
through the draw off pipe till such time as it is exhausted but no longer. The other
full compartment is then placed in communication with the draw off pipe so that it
may be emptied in its turn by changing the position of the distributing valve and
the exhausted compartment is by the same operation put in communication with
the service pipe so that it may be again filled during the time the full compartment
is being emptied.
The cistern compartments may be of any approved dimensions but should the
draw off pipe be maliciously or carelessly left open the loss of water by waste will not
be continueous but will be limited to the contents of one compartment only as no
water beyond that will pass the draw off pipe till the position of the distributing
valve has been changed.
As the quantities of the water supplied to the cistern compartments will be uniform
any convenient or approved kind of counter applied to the distributer and operated
by the handle of the valve will register the number of times the compartments

page_text: have been filled and thereby indicate the gross quantity of water that has passed the
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An Improved Apparatus for Supplying Water to Houses,
Workshops, and other Premises.
I, WALTER PAYTON, of 138, Sheen Road, Richmond, in the County of Surrey,
Engineeer, 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 :-
In carrying the invention into effect the apparatus may be constructed and
arranged in the manner shown by Fig. 1 on the annexed sheet of drawings in which A
is the service pipe connecting the apparatus with the supply main. B is the dis-
tributer and the cistern divided into the two compartiments D. and E.
The compartment D is connected to the distributer B by the pipe d and the other
compartment E is also connected to it by the similar pipe c. The distributer B
contains a slide valve in combination with the usual passages constructed so as to be
reciprocated upon its port face by the distributer handle 6 and when the handle is in
the position shown in the drawing water passes from the service pipe A through the
distributer and the pipe d into the compartment D where it lifts the float d' and
the valve 2 contained in the valve-box 3 and connected to the float by the hollow
rod d and causes the valve to close the passage through the valve-box and stop the
further flow of water into the compartment.
At the same time the previously filled compartment E is cut off from the service
pipe A by the distributer valve and put in communication with the draw-off pipe F
from which water may be obtained for use through the tap g. The compartment E
is provided with a valve-box and float similar to those of the other compartment and
when it has been entirely emptied which will be shown by water ceasing to flow from
the tap g the full compartment D is instantly put in communication with the draw-
off pipe F and water again obtained by turning the distributer handle 6 into the
position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 6, as by so doing the water in that compart-
inent will press the valve d² from its seat and pass to the tap g through the pipe d
and the distributer in the same way as the water contained in the compartment E
previously passed to it through the pipe e. The compartment E will by the same
operation be put in communication with the service pipe A and be refilled while the
compartment D is being emptied and the alternate filling of the compartments will
occur wherever the handle 6 is operated.
The cistern may be of any dimensions and be constructed of cast-iron or be built
of any suitable material in any usual or convenient manner, but when it is covered in,
it must have a passage through which air may have access to its interior, and for
greater clearness the float (1, the valve d², and the valve-box belonging to the
compartiments are depicted separately, and on a larger scale by Figs. 2 and 3. In
these Figs. the tube d³ forming a prolongation of the valve-box serves as a guide to
the float and a regulator of the motion of the valve d².
The distributer is also shown upon a larger scale by Fig. 4 which is an elevation,
Fig. 5 a plan, Fig. 6 a horizontal section, Fig. 7 a vertical section, Fig. 8 an elevation
of the body part and Figs. 9 and 10 a plan and end view of the slide valve M and its
port-face. As shown by Fig. 6 the service pipe A admits the water from the main

page_text: to the valve chest and when the slide valve M is in the position shown in the
drawing the water passes to the compartment D through the passage 62 and the water
in the compartment E passes to the draw-off pipe K through the passage b' but when
the position of the valve M is reversed the water passes to the compartment E
through the passage 63 and from the compartment D to the draw-off pipe through
the passage b
The reversal of the valve is effected by the toothed spindle N engaging in the
teeth formed on the back of the valve M and operated by the handle b.
The pipe P shown in Fig. 6 may be connected to the closet flushing cistern so as
to supply it with water that has not passed to the compartments but when it is not
required for that purpose it may be omitted or be closed by a plug.
Water for baths or other purposes may also be taken from the pipe l' or from the
pipe A or draw off pipe K as may be found most convenient.
When in use water will cease to flow from the apparatus as soon as one of its
compartments has been emptied. The waste of water caused by a tap left running
is therefore limited to the quantity contained in the compartment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The construction of an apparatus for supplying water to houses and other
premises substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 6th day of July 1899.
WALTER PAYTON.