IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING, CONTROLLING, AND ARRESTING THE FLOW OF LIQUIDS AND FLUIDS, AND PREVENTING WASTE
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Tylor, of No. 2, Newgate Street, in the
City of London, Brass Founder, and Francis George Fleury, of
No. 24, Merrick Square, Southwark, in the County of Surrey,
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
REGULATING, CONTROLLING, AND ARRESTING THE FLOW OF LIQUIDS AND
FLUIDS, AND PREVENTING WASTE."
Sealed the 13th August 1872, and dated the 17th February 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Tylor and
Francis George Fleury at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 17th February 1872.
We, ALFRED TYLOR, of No. 2, Newgate Street, in the City of London,
Brass Founder, and FRANCIS GEORGE FLEURY, of No. 24, Merrick
Square, Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS

page_text: piston, the two pistons descend and close the passage or way through the
apparatus.
The passage or way may be closed by a spherical valve contained
in a cylindrical shield or guide, a portion of which being formed of
wrought iron and in connection with the magnet enables the appar-
atus to be operated by moving the magnet, as described.
Our Invention for operating the valves by magnetic action as described
is applicable to bib cocks, loose valve, and equilibrium cistern valves, ball
valves, and other apparatus for regulating, controlling, and arresting the
flow of liquids and fluids.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Tylor and Francis George Fleury in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALFRED
TYLOR, of No. 2, Newgate Street, in the City of London, Brass Founder,
and FRANCIS GEORGE FLEURY, of No. 24, Merrick Square, Southwark,
in the County of Surrey, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Alfred Tylor and Francis George Fleury,
Her special licence that we, the said Alfred Tylor and Francis George
Fleury, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Alfred Tylor and Francis George Fleury, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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, CONTROLLING, AND ARRESTING THE FLOW OF LIQUIDS AND FLUIDS,
AND PREVENTING WASTE," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,

page_text: the said Alfred Tylor and Francis George Fleury, 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
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 Alfred Tylor and Francis George
Fleury, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, and the Drawings
therein referred to:-
Our Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
regulating, controlling, and arresting the flow of liquids and fluids, and
preventing waste, and relates to apparatus of that class in which a
spherical, cylindrical, or other suitably formed valve is used for closing
the passage or way by resting or bearing upon or against a seat made to
receive the same, and surrounding the orifice, tube, or passage through
which the liquid flows.
For the purpose of opening the passage or way so as to allow liquid to
flow through, we employ magnetic action for raising the moving parts
of the apparatus, the magnet being arranged in metallic contact with
the apparatus, so that on moving the magnet the magnetic action and
the pressure of the liquid against the valve operate together to raise the
latter from its seat, thus allowing liquid to flow through the exit orifice
of the apparatus until the valve is caused to return to its seat by its own
weight and the gradual accumulation of liquid above it. By these
means the employment of stuffing boxes and cup leathers is entirely
dispensed with. The poles of the magnet may bear against a casing
containing a ring piston or moveable part attached to or connected with
a moveable chamber or cylinder, within which works a smaller piston or
plunger having an extension or rod passing through a suitable plate and
carrying a small valve at its other end; this small valve serves to close
an aperture in the main valve piston of the apparatus, which may be
provided with a hollow rod or extension and an annular knife edge for
closing against the seat surrounding the passage or way through which

page_text: the liquid or fluid to be regulated, controlled, or arrested flows. Accord-
ing to this arrangement, assuming the passage or way to be closed and
the several parts of the apparatus to be in their corresponding positions,
if the magnet be now raised it draws up the ring piston or moveable
part and the moveable chamber with the small piston or plunger, thus
opening the aperture in the main valve piston, which allows the liquid
or fluid in the chamber above it to escape through the aperture, and the
pressure of the incoming liquid or fluid below the main valve piston
causes it to rise, thereby opening the passage or way through which the
liquid or fluid is to flow. The main valve piston having risen sufficiently
to close the small aperture in it by contact with the valve of the small
piston the two pistons descend and close the passage or way through the
apparatus.
The passage or way may be closed by a spherical valve contained in a
cylindrical shield or guide, a portion of which being formed of wrought
iron and in connection with the magnet enables the apparatus to be
operated by moving the magnet as described.
Our Invention for operating the valves by magnetic action as described
is applicable to bib cocks, loose valves, and equilibrium cistern valves, ball
valves, and other apparatus for regulating, controlling, and arresting the
flow of liquids and fluids.
Fig. 1 (Sheet 1) represents in vertical longitudinal section an
arrangement of waste preventing apparatus, constructed according to
our Invention; Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the bottom of the magnet, showing its two
poles.
Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the moveable chamber d on the
line A, B, of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a similar section of the moveable
chamber d on the line C, D, of Fig. 1.
Fig. 6 is a like section of the stem of the piston valve k on the
line E, F, of Fig. 1.
In this arrangement the poles a' of the magnet a bear against a copper
casing 6 containing an iron ring or moveable part c attached to or con-
nected with a moveable chamber or cylinder d, within which works a
small piston or plunger e having an extension or rod f passing through
a plate g and carrying a small valve at its other end. This small valve

page_text: serves to close an aperture i in the main valve piston k of the apparatus,
which valve piston k closes against the seat surrounding the passage or
way through which the liquid or fluid to be regulated, controlled, or
arrested flows.
The Drawings show the several parts in the positions which obtain
when the passage or way / is closed. The action of this apparatus is as
follows: On turning the handle A, which is provided with an inclined
groove to receive a pin projecting from the casing 6, as in the arrange-
ment shewn in Fig. 11, the magnet a is caused to rise by the inclined
surface of the groove bearing against the pin, and draws up the ring or
moveable part c and the moveable chamber d with the small piston or
plunger e, thus opening the aperture i in the main valve piston k, which
allows the liquid or fluid in the chamber above it to escape through the
aperture 1, and the pressure of the incoming liquid or fluid below the
main valve piston k causes it to rise, thereby opening the passage or
way through which the liquid or fluid is to flow. The main valve
piston k having risen sufficiently to close the small aperture i in it by
contact with the valve h of the small piston e the two pistons descend
and close the passage or way through the apparatus until the handle A
is turned so as to lower the magnet for again actuating the parts, as
before.
Fig. 7 represents.in vertical longitudinal section another arrangement
of waste preventing apparatus. Fig. 8 is an end view of the apparatus.
Fig. 9 is a sectional plan of the body in the line G, H, of Fig. 7 with the
valve h removed.
Fig. 10 is a plan of the apparatus. Fig. 11 is a vertical section of the
cap and magnet. Fig. 12 is a sectional plan of the cap in the line J, K,
of Fig. 11.
In this arrangement the passage or way 7 is closed by a spherical
valve h contained in a cylindrical chamber d, a portion c of which being
formed of wrought iron, and in connection with the magnet a, enables
the apparatus to be operated by turning the handle A so as to raise the
magnet, as described with reference to the foregoing arrangement. The
force of the inflowing liquid or fluid against the under part of the
spherical valve h causes it to rise when the chamber d is raised by the
magnet, thereby opening the passage or way through which the liquid
or fluid is to flow.

page_text: The magnet a and moveable chamber d having been completely raised,
the spherical valve h forthwith commences its descent, which takes place
slowly until it reaches its seat, and thereby again closes the passage or
way 7. Thereupon the handle is turned so as to lower the magnet in
readiness for again opening the passage or way.

page_text: In this arrangement the magnet a is actuated by means of a lever n
having its fulcrum at n', and provided with a ball float n³, as usual.
It will be seen that as the ball falls the magnet will be raised, thereby
opening the passage or way through the apparatus for allowing liquid to
pass into the cistern. As the cistern fills the ball will rise, thereby
gradually lowering the magnet until the passage or way is again.
closed.
Fig. 19 illustrates in longitudinal vertical section an application of
our Invention to an ordinary sluice valve. The valve chamber o is
made circular in cross section and fitted with a piston p working freely
within it. This piston is attached to the sluice valve q.
The mode of opening and closing the sluice valve by the operation of
the magnet is as follows:-On raising the magnet a the small valve his
raised, thereby opening the orifice in the piston valve k. The liquid
above the piston p is allowed to escape down the passage r, as that
piston is raised by the pressure of the inflowing liquid below it. On
lowering the magnet the aperture i in the piston valve k is closed, and
that valve closes the passage r. The piston p, and with it the sluice
valve q, fall gradually as liquid accumulates above the piston p by
forcing its way up between the periphery of that piston and the inner
surface of the valve chamber o until the passage or ways is closed.
In the various arrangements above described, we use by preference
compound magnets, and in all cases it is absolutely necessary that the
magnet should be shielded from the liquid or fluid in the apparatus.
When a cylindrical magnet is used, we do this by means of a plate t, a
shewn in the Drawings.
Having described our said Invention of "Improvements in Apparatus
for Regulating, Controlling, and Arresting the Flow of Liquids and
Fluids, and Preventing Waste," and the manner of performing the
same, we hereby declare that we do not claim as of our Invention, or 3
the exclusive use of the several parts herein-before described or referred
to, except when the same are used in conjunction with a magnet or
magnets for opening a passage or way through which liquid or fluid is
to flow. We claim as the Invention secured to us by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent,―
First. The construction of apparatus for regulating, controlling, and
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page_text: arresting the flow of liquids and fluids, and preventing waste, in which
the opening of the passage or way is effected by magnetic action pro-
duced by a magnet (or magnets) forming part of the apparatus.
Secondly. The construction of apparatus shewn in and described with
reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly. The construction of apparatus shewn in and described with
reference to Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of the accompanying Drawings.
Fourthly. The construction of apparatus shewn in and described with
reference to Figs. 13 and 14 of the accompanying Drawings.
Fifthly. The construction of apparatus shewn in and described with
reference to Fig. 15 of the accompanying Drawings.
Sixthly. The construction of apparatus shewn in and described with
reference to Fig. 16 of the accompanying Drawings.
Seventhly. The construction of apparatus shewn in and described with
reference to Fig. 17 of the accompanying Drawings.
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Eighthly. The construction of apparatus shewn in and described with
eference to Fig. 18 of the accompanying Drawings.
Lastly. The construction of apparatus shewn in and described with
reference to Fig. 19 of the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alfred Tylor and Francis George
Fleury, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixteenth day
of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two.
ALFRED TYLOR.
(L.S.)
FRANCIS G. FLEURY. (L.S.)