IMPROVEMENTS IN GUTTERS AND DOWN PIPES FOR CONDUCTING WATER FROM THE ROOFS OF Ruby Dr AWD PAR ATURE DE "
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward William Barnsley and Thomas Barnsley,
trading as John Barnsley and Sons, both of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Builders, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN GUTTERS AND DOWN PIPES FOR CONDUCTING WATER FROM THE ROOFS OF
Ruby Dr
AWD PAR ATURE DE "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward William
Barnsley and Thomas Barnsley at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 7th November 1871.
We, EDWARD WILLIAM BARNSLEY and THOMAS BARNSLEY, trading
as John Barnsley and Sons, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Builders, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GUTTERS AND DOWN PIPES FOR CONDUCTING WATER

page_text: down pipe may be built into the wall as the work proceeds. The
vertical lengths of the down pipe are held in position against the wall of
the building by means of ring-like supports, the interior of the socket
fitting the exterior of the pipe. The said sockets may be built in the
wall as the work proceeds, and the lengths of down pipe are afterwards
inserted therein.
Although gutters and down pipes constructed according to our
Invention are especially applicable to the conducting of water from
the roofs of buildings, yet they may be applied to other like purposes.
For example, where it is required to convey water from one portion of
a building to another portion on a slightly lower level, gutters made
according to our Invention may be employed without interfering with
the architectural character of the building as metal gutters do; and
down pipes made according to our Invention may be employed as drains
from waterclosets overflow pipes from cisterns and other places
outside the building. These drains and pipes are usually carried inside
buildings owing to their unsightliness, and the building is rendered.
thereby more or less unhealthy in consequence of the effluvia arising
therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward William Barnsley and Thomas Barnsley
in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 3rd May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
WILLIAM BARNSLEY and THOMAS BARNSLEY, trading as John Barnsley
and Sons, both of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Builders,
send greeting.
year
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, in the
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Edward William Barnsley and Thomas
Barnsley, Her special licence that we, the said Edward William

page_text: Barnsley and Thomas Barnsley, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward William Barnsley and
Thomas Barnsley, 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 GUTTERS AND DOWN PIPES FOR CONDUCTING WATER
FROM THE ROOPS OF BUILDINGS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Edward William Barnsley
and Thomas Barnsley, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 Edward William Barnsley and
Thomas Barnsley, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly a
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
The said gutters and down pipes are ordinarily made of cast iron,
lead, zinc, or other metal. In consequence of the expansion and
contraction by changes of temperature being greater in the said metallic
gutters and down pipes than in the brick or stone of the building to
which they are attached, the said gutters and pipes require frequent
repair and painting, and are a source of considerable trouble and
expense.
Our Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described
in constructing the said gutters and down pipes, whereby the incon-
veniences attending the use of the ordinary gutters and down pipes
arc avoided.

page_text: conveying water from the roof of a building; the said gutter, down pipe,
and parts thereof being constructed according to our Invention. The
sections of the said Figures 1 and 2 are taken at right angles to one
another. Figure 2^ represents a vertical section of the down pipe and
its head and one of the supporting rings or sockets of the down pipe.
Figure 3 is a horizontal section of the down pipe and plan of one of the
supporting rings or sockets. Figure 4 is a plan of a portion of the
gutter, illustrating the manner in which the picces or lengths are
jointed together; Figure 5 is a cross section, and Figure 6 an end
elevation of the said gutter; and Figure 7 is an elevation of the head or
upper part of the down pipe. The same letters of reference indicate the
same parts in the several Figures of the Drawings.
a is the gutter made of a series of lengths of clay, terra cotta, or
other like earthy material, the said lengths being jointed together by
the V shaped projecting edge 6 on one end of each length taking into
a V shaped depression or groove c.in the end of the next length, as will
be understood by an examination of the plan, Figure 4. The joints of
the gutta a are made tight by a thin layer of mortar or cement.
Instead of the V shaped joints represented, a tongued, or rebate, or
socket joint may be used. e is the cornice of the building upon which
the gutter a is supported. d is the projecting rib at the back of the
gutter and near its lower angle, upon which rib the brickwork is built
for fixing the said gutter upon the cornice e. The gutter a may be
supported upon brackets secured to the cornice;
in this case the rib d
is omitted. The junctions of the gutters may be covered by a socket,
either plain or ornamental. These sockets give great facility in making
the junctions. water-tight, and may also be made the means of support-
ing the gutters. The sockets are either built in the wall or attached
to the rafters or face of the cornice.
is the down pipe made of a series of vertical lengths or tubular
pieces of clay, terra cotta, or other like carthy material, the said lengths
or tubular picces being jointed together in the manner described with
respect to the lengths of the gutter a. gis. the head or top portion of
At the back
the down pipef, upon which the ends of the gutter a rest.
of the head is a block h, which is built in the wall of the building in
the manner shown in Figure 1. The vertical tubular lengths of the

page_text: down pipe fare held in position against the wall of the building by
ring-like supports or sockets. One of these sockets is represented in
Figures 1, 2, and 3, and is marked i; each support or socket i.is
furnished at back with a block. 2, which is built in the wall of the
building, and also with brackets k on either side to rest against the wall
(see Figure 1). The interior of the supports or sockets are made
to fit the exterior of the down pipe f, as seen in the horizontal section
Figure 3.
As the gutters, down pipes, and the heads or top portions of down
pipes, and also the supporting rings or sockets for the down pipes, are
made from clay, terra cotta, or other like plastic material by being
moulded and burnt in the manner commonly employed in moulding
and burning such materials for other purposes, and as the said methods
of moulding and burning constitute no part of our Invention we do not
consider it necessary to describe the same.
Although gutters and down pipes constructed according to our
Invention are especially applicable to the conducting of water from the
roofs of buildings, yet they may be applied to other like purposes. For
example, where it is required to convey water from one portion of a
building to another portion on a slightly lower level, or as gutters
between two or more roofs, or as vaileys to roofs, gutters made
according to our Invention may be employed without interfering with
the architectural character of the building as metal gutters do, and
down pipes made according to our Invention may be employed as drains
from water-closets, overflow pipes from cisterns and other places outside
the building. The drains and pipes are usually carried inside the
buildings owing to their unsightliness, and the building is rendered
thereby more or less unhealthy in consequence of the effluvia arising
therefrom.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that
we do not limit ourselves to the precise details herein described and
illustrated in the Drawings, as the same may be varied without depart-
ing from the nature of our Invention; but we claim as our Invention
the improvements in gutters and down pipes for conducting water from
the roofs of buildings, and for other like purposes herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, that is to say, making

page_text: the said gutters and down pipes of clay, terra cotta, or other earthy
material capable of being moulded and burnt after the manner of clay,
the said gutters and down pipes being made in pieces and constructed,
arranged, and jointed together, and fixed or held in position substantially'
as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward William Barnsley and
Thomas Barnsley, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
First day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two.
EDWARD WILLIAM BARNSLEY. (L.S.)
THOMAS BARNSLEY.
(L.S.)
Witness,
HENRY SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.