IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE DRAWING OFF AND THE SUPPLY OF WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Quick, junior, and Alexander Fraser, both of
Sumner Street, Southwark, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE DRAWING OFF AND THE SUPPLY OF WATER
AND OTHER FLUIDS."
Sealed the 30th June 1857, and dated the 16th February 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Quick and
Alexander Fraser at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 16th February 1857.
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We, JOSEPH QUICK, junior, and ALEXANDER FRASER, both of Sumner Street,
Southwark, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE DRAWING OFF AND THE SUPPLY OF WATER AND
OTHER FLUIDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for regulating
the drawing off and the supply of water and other fluids. For these purposes
a vessel, of a size suitable for containing the largest quantity of fluid which
may be required to be drawn off or supplied at one time, is connected to the
main or source of supply. This vessel has a valve at its upper part opening
inwards, which is closed by the water or fluid rising in the vessel, and it
is preferred to employ a spherical floating valve for the purpose. The vessel
has an outlet, which is connected with the inlet or supply pipe in order that

page_text: the same plug may be used to admit the fluid into and out of the vessel. For
this purpose the plug has a passage through it which can be made to com-
municate between the supply pipe and the interior of the vessel at one time,
and at another time between the interior of the vessel and the outlet passage;
but the plug is prevented being turned in such manner as to cause to passage
in it to communicate between the inlet and the outlet passages, by which
arrangement the fluid can only be drawn off or supplied from the vessel, and
not direct from the supply pipe or main.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Quick and Alexander Fraser in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 15th August 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
QUICK, junior, and ALEXANDER FRASER, both of Sumner Street, Southwark,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Joseph Quick and Alexander Fraser, Her special licence that we,
the said Joseph Quick and Alexander Fraser, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Quick, and Alexander
Fraser, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR REGULATING THE DRAWING OFF AND THE SUPPLY OF WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS,'
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Quick and
Alexander Fraser, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Joseph Quick and Alexander Fraser,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for regulating
the drawing off and the supply of water and other fluids. For these purposes a
vessel, of size suitable for containing the largest quantity of fluid which may
be required to be drawn off or supplied at one time, is connected to the main
or source of supply. This vessel has a valve at its upper part opening inwards,
which is closed by the water or fluid rising in the vessel, and it is preferred to
employ a spherical floating valve for the purpose.
The vessel has an outlet,
which is connected with the inlet or supply pipe in order that the same plug
may be used to admit the fluid into and out of the vessel. For this purpose
the plug has a passage through it which can be made to communicate between
the supply pipe and the interior of the vessel at one time, and at another time
between the interior of the vessel and the outlet passage; but the plug
is prevented being turned in such manner as to cause the passage in it to com-
municate between the inlet and the outlet passage; by which a
arrangement the
fluid can only be drawn off or supplied from the vessel, and not direct from
the supply pipe or main.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same; and we would state that
the shape or form of the apparatus may be greatly varied, and the arrange-
ment or construction of the cock or valves used in each apparatus may also bo
greatly varied.
In the Drawing we have shewn apparatus combined according to our
Invention according to two modifications, which we believe will be found the
most convenient for the purpose.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a section of an apparatus constructed or combined according
to our Invention.
A is the vessel, into which the supply at the inlet C from the main first
enters before it can be delivered at the outlet D; and in order that the water
may enter and fill the vessel A there is an air vent at E, with a valve which
closes with the pressure of the water or other fluid. The plug or valve B is
made with two ways F and G. In the Drawing the way F is open between
the inlet C and the vessel A, and on turning the plug or valve B the passage
F will become closed before the commencement of the opening of the passage
C, by which there can be no continuity of passage at any time between the
inlet and outlet way.

page_text: In Figure 2, in place of the air escaping at the upper part of the vessel A
there is a descending air tube F, which is either to pass out at one-side of the
vessel or to open into the space below the bottom, as shewn.
a is a light air valve, used when the air tube does not pass out through the side
of the vessel; B is a flexible valve, held by its circumference, as shewn. The
valve B has an opening through the centre thereof to receive a valve G, which
when closed covers the opening through the valve B: In this arrangement C
is the inlet from the main, and D is the outlet; J is the lever for opening the
valve G by the rod H. When the vessel A is full, on depressing the lever J
the valves B, G, will be depressed, and the water will pass off at D; when the
lever is released, the valve B will be pressed up against the under surface of K
and stop the flow towards D, the valve G will be lifted, and the vessel A will:
be filled.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it understood that we do not claim
any of the parts separately, nor do we confine ourselves to the details as
variations may be made, so long as there is a combination of an inlet C,.
a vessel A, and an outlet D, with valves and passages combined therewith in.
such manner that the flow of fluid from the inlet cannot take place to the
outlet, as herein explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Quick and Alexander Fraser,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth day of August,
in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
TOSEDIL QUICK T
Witness,
JAMES RESTLER.
JOSEPH QUICK, JUNIOR. (L.S.)
ALEXANDER FRASER.
(L.S.)