IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER CLOSET AND OTHER VALVES, AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING, CONTROLLING, REGULATING, SUPPLYING, AND WITHDRAWING OF WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND PREVENTING WASTE AND OVERFLOW
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph James Day at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th August 1880.
JOSEPH JAMES DAY, of 76, Leighton Road, Kentish Town, in the County of
Middlesex, Gas and Water Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER CLOSET AND
OTHER VALVES, AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING, CONTROLLING, REGULATING,
SUPPLYING, AND WITHDRAWING OF WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND PREVENTING
WASTE AND OVERFLOW."
My Invention especially relates to the improvements in water closet and other
valves, and apparatus employed in the use of flushing, supplying, cleansing,
regulating, drawing, controlling, and measuring the flow or discharge of water to
or from cisterns, baths, water closets, urinals, or other sources of supply or service,
and has for its objects the opening and closing of valve or valves by a novel
compound action or actions of leverage, and the simple and novel mode of working,
opening, closing, and keeping closed to avoid any waste of water or other fluids,
and loss of time in waiting for the after flush or flushes so much needed in sanitary
arrangements, consisting of a loose quadrant working lever or lever disc valve
working or moving from any angle, by which means I can control or limit the
supply or discharge of water or other liquids; this particular and novel arrangement
of compound leverage renders this first part of my Invention available against high
and low pressure, and entirely prevents water waste; it is also simple in its con-
struction, cheap in its manufacture, and effectual in its action, and opens sufficiently
in a slanting position to carry off any grit or other obstructions that it may weet in
seating. It consists partly of certain novel arrangements and improvements of the
valve patented by me, No. 202+, of 1877; this I effect by employing a loose
quadrant working lever or lever disc valve (of any shape or design, or composed of
any metal or other materials formed to work from a bearing or bearings on the
outside of the valve or cock body or boss to the rose or sunk seating on the inside
of the valve body or cock or boss. I can also obtain a sufficient amount of leverage
by arranging the shape of the valve body or cock to receive such required leverage
from the inside of the nozzle or other part or parts. In order to direct this
quadrant working lever disc valve or lever, to control a drop valve or feather
valve to meet the seating for the closing of the orifice or shutting off the.
water or other liquids, I employ the float lever with the eccentric or cam as used in
my before mentioned Patent, this lever is guided to direct the smaller lever disc
valve or lever to control a drop valve by means of a bearing or bearings arranged
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page_text: to form a joint or joints or hinge for the eccentric or cam at any angle for the
resistance of various pressures of water or other fluids. I do not only employ the
bearing or bearings set at an angle or angles for the sole use of the float lever, but
to act as a guide or guides to the quadrant working lever.
The second part of my Invention relates to various novel arrangements in
the mode of raising, opening, or moving flat, flexible, or other valves which
control, outlets and inlets under suction, and known as waste nots or waste
preventers for sanitary arrangements in water closets, cisterns, and other vessels, as
Imentioned in P. I. Davies Patent, No. 1179, of 1876, instead of employing a flat
flexible valve or piston, or rising or sliding cup, or any other valve for the purpose
of forming suction in lifting or raising drop valves, to control outlets or inlets used
as water waste preventers, &c.
I intend useing a rising and falling or moveable diaphragm seat or telescopic
action or bellows with one or more folds to act in conjunction with a fixed cup, and
carrying up with each action a sliding drop valve to interior of cup or chamber, or
an improved flexible washer valve, to the top side of which I employ a half ball
shaped lead weight with spindle, guide, or pin working through the top of fixed cup
into a stopped end, hollow spindle, or rising guide in connection with seating for
the purposes of raising, opening, and moving any description of valve against
suction; this flexible washer valve seats itself perfect in a concave form caused by
the half ball shaped weight.
I wish it to be understood that I do not intend dispensing entirely with the
suction action of various valves, but by adding the use of my seating in the before-
mentioned manner I create a new combination of action.
The first part part of this Invention I claim upon relates to a compound action
or actions of leverage of the loose quadrant working lever or lever disc valve;
with the compound leverage it enables it to act and control or limit the supply or
discharge of water or other fluids from or to cisterns, baths, urinals, water closet
aparatus, and any other vessel used in sanitary and other purposes.
On the second part of my Invention I claim upon the rising and falling or
diaphragm seat or bellows seat of one or more partitions or bellows folds or
telescopic action for the use and purpose of raising any description of valve against
suction, in conjunction with a fixed cup or chamber, shewing on the surface edge
one or more vent notches arranged with a flexible flat washer and half ball shaped
weight,
I also modify, improve, and simplyfy the action of the valve patented by
P. I. Davies, No. 1179, 1876, by removing the casing and bottom guide rod and
bridge in seating, also forming on the top side of Hexible washer with half ball
shaped weight with guide or pin passing through the same, remaining steady in the
hollow spindle formed for the purpose of raising a cup, and seats itself secure through
the concave shape of the flexible washer caused by the half ball shaped weight.
I release my flexible washer by means of the self cleaning vent or vents heretofore
mentioned; by this combination the required quantity of water can be obtained in
after flush by releasing the flexible washer valve, and inserting one or more small
notches on the surface edge of cup or chamber; by these arrangements I avoid any
corrosion that now takes place with this class of valve at present in use, and renders
my releasing vent or vents self cleansing.