IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING AND REGULATING THE SUPPLY OF WATER BY MEANS OF A SELF-ACTING APPARATUS FOR URINALS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Charles Jones, of 174, Blackfriars
Road, in the County of Surrey, Doctor of Medicine, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING AND REGULATING THE SUPPLY OF
WATER BY MEANS OF A SELF-ACTING APPARATUS FOR URINALS AND OTHER
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 2nd November 1875, and dated the 28th May 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Charles
Jones at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 28th May 1875.
I, FREDERICK CHARLES JONES, of 174, Blackfriars Road, in the
County of Surrey, Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING AND REGULATING THE
SUPPLY OF WATER BY MEANS OF A SELF-ACTING APPARATUS FOR URINALS AND
OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows :—
The apparatus constituting the Invention is for the supply of water
(regulated in quantity by the size of the syphon or ball valve) for
urinals and other purposes, after certain quantities of liquid have passed

page_text: down the waste pipe, or after certain intervals (determined by the size
of the supply valve).
The apparatus consists of a vessel of suitable form and material, to
one side of which is fastened a ball valve for the supply of water or other
liquid; also a connection from the ball valve outlet, through which the
fluid is discharged to the urinal, or for the purpose to which the
apparatus is applied. In another side is an inlet for connection with
the waste pipe from the urinal. In the bottom of the vessel is placed
by means of a hollow plug and washer a syphon and overflow pipe made
of pottery or other suitable material, with a socket to connect same with
the drain pipe. The lid or upper part (which is provided with a lock)
is moveable. On its under side is a projection fitting into a gutter round
the top of the vessel, in which water or other material is placed for the
purpose of trapping.
This apparatus can be made either with or without the inlet waste
pipe, ball valve, and overflow pipe.
A vessel containing disinfectants (for the purpose of mixing with the
water or other liquid) may be connected with the ball valve outlet; but
this is optional.
I claim for my Invention greater utility at less cost than attaches to
any other system.
The apparatus is self acting, caused by the urine passing by the drain
from the urinal into the tank. When it reaches a certain regulated
height the ball begins to float, and in so doing opens a valve, allowing
the water from the supply pipe of the water company to rush up into 1
the urinal and wash down its contents. This waste water then returns
by the waste pipe from the urinal, through which the urine has already
passed, increasing the fluid in the tank; when this reaches a certain
height (regulated by the height of the syphon from the bottom of the
tank) the syphon immediately acts, the ball descends, shutting off the
supply of water from the company's main, and the syphon empties the
tank, which is now ready to receive a fresh supply of urine, and repeats,
ad infinitum, the operation described above.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Charles Jones in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
CHARLES JONES, of 174, Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey,
Doctor of Medicine, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Hor reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Charles Jones, Her special
licence that I, the said Frederick Charles Jones, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick Charles
Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time.
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING AND REGULATING THE SUPPLY OF WATER
BY MEANS OF A SELF-ACTING APPARATUS FOR URINALS and other PURPOSES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Charles Jones,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 I, the said Frederick Charles Jones, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The apparatus to which this Invention relates consists of a tank of
suitable form and material, having a low partition. To one side of the
larger semi-chamber formed by the arrangement of the low partition
are fastened a ball valve (the ball of which hangs in the smaller
chamber) for the supply of water or other liquid, and a connection with

page_text: the ball valve outlet, through which the liquid is discharged into the
urinal or other construction for the purpose to which the Invention is
applied. In another side is an inlet for connection with the waste pipe.
In the bottom of the cistern are placed by means of a hollow plug and
washer an overflow pipe and double syphon, the syphon ends being one
on either side of the partition, and having a socket communicating with
the drain. In the partition also is placed a syphon. The syphons are
made of lead, pottery, or other suitable material. The lid or cover,
which is provided with a lock, is moveable. On its under side is a pro-
jection, which fits into a gutter round the top of the tank for the
reception of water or other material for the purpose of trapping.
A vessel containing disinfectants for the purpose of mixing with the
water or other fluid may be connected with the ball valve outlet.
The apparatus can be made either with or without the inlet waste
pipe, ball valve, and overflow pipe.
The regulation of the water supply is effected by variations in the
size of the syphon, or by raising or lowering the ball of the ball valve,
after certain quantities of liquid have passed down the waste pipe, or
after certain intervals governed by the size of the supply valve. The
urine passes down the gutter into and gradually fills the larger chamber.
When it arrives at the top of the syphon placed in the partition -the
smaller chamber is quickly filled, which raises the ball, thus opening
the valve. The water from the main then passes into the flushing pipe,
and having cleansed and washed the sides of the urinal passes down the
gutter into the cistern. When the level of the water reaches the top of
the double syphon (which is connected with the drain) both arms of the
syphon immediately come into action and rapidly draw off the contents
of both chambers, emptying the smaller one first; thus allowing the
ball to descend and shut off the valve quickly.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Charles Jones, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
FREDERICK CHARLES JONES. (L.S.)