IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING AND DRAWING WATER TO AND FROM CISTERNS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Getley, of 6, Ivy Street, Birkenhead, in the
County of Chester, Plumber, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SUPPLYING AND DRAWING WATER TO AND FROM CISTERNS."
Sealed the 22nd July 1856, and dated the 28th March 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Getley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
March 1856.
I, SAMUEL GETLEY, of 6, Ivy Street, Birkenhead, in the County of Chester,
Plumber, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SUPPLYING AND DRAWING WATER TO AND FROM CISTERNS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in supplying and drawing
water to and from cisterns, for which purpose a peculiar combination of
apparatus is employed, whereby the supply pipe to the cistern is used for
drawing off water from the cistern. The supply pipe leading from the main
has a valve opening with the pressure of the water from the main to the
cistern, hence the water will flow to the cistern so long as it is not filled;
there is another valve at or near the bottom of the cistern which is con-
nected to a float, the action of which is limited by spindles moving in
guides or a small piece of chain to top of float fastened to side of cistern,
and, therefore, this valve is at all times open when the float is not at its highest
position. The water is conveyed in any direction from the supply pipe by a
pipe or pipes connected intermediate of the two valves.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Getley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
GETLEY, of 6, Ivy Street, Birkenhead, in the County of Chester, Plumber,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Getley, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Getley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other's as I, the said Samuel
Getley, my exccutors, 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 SUPPLYING AND
DRAWING WATER TO AND FROM CISTERNS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Samuel Getley, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 Samuel Getley, 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, that is to say :-
'
This Invention has for its object improvements in supplying and drawing
water to and from cisterns, for which purpose a peculiar combination of
apparatus is employed, whereby the supply pipe to the cistern is used for
drawing off water from the cistern. The supply pipe leading from the main
has a valve opening with the pressure of the water from the main to the
cistern, hence the water will flow to the cistern so long as it is not filled;
there is another valve at or near the bottom of the cistern which is connected
to a float, the action of which is limited by spindles moving in guides or a
small piece of chain to top of float fastened to side of cistern, and, therefore,
this valve is at all times open when the float is not at its highest position. The

page_text: water is conveyed in any direction from the supply pipe by a pipe or pipes
connected intermediate of the two valves.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure A is a Drawing, showing arrangement of cistern, pipes, and valves
complete.
· 1 is a stop-cock, for the purpose of turning the water on or off; it is con-
nected with the valve seat above by a union joint, which joint is merely:
introduced to enable the valve seat, to be easily removed for repairs; 2 is a
valve, through which the water passes to cistern, and which acts as a check;
valve on the street supply being turned off; 3, 4, are branch pipes, supplying.
bath room, kitchens; 5 is a stop-cock, shutting off or turning on the supply to
bouse from cistern, and is only used in case of repairing or cleaning cistern ;>
6 is a valve, through which the water passes in or out of cistern, being inverted
it remains open until the water reaches the float with which it is connected;
7 is a float or ball for closing the valve 6 when the cistern is full, it is con-
nected with valve 6 by a light brass chain of sufficient length to allow of the
cistern being filled. In order that the ball may not fall down and the chain.
get entangled when the cistern is empty, it is suspended from the top of the
cistern by a similar chain, which allows it to move up and down in a space of
inches, which is sufficient to close the valve (6).
I will now describe the working of the apparatus: Supposing the cistern
to be empty, on opening the cock 1 the water passes up the pipe, lifting the
valve 2 in its progress, afterwards passing into the cistern. If the column of
water rising into cistern were allowed to act on the back of the valve 6, it
would at once close it and keep it closed as long as the pressure lasted, but by
introducing the guard shown at f, f, the pressure of the water does not affect
the valve until the ball lifts it from the guard, when it is instantly closed by
the pressure
of water. The cistern being full and the pressure in the street
supply pipe being greater than that from the cistern on opening any cock in
connection with pipes 3 and 4, the water is then drawn direct from the street,
the cistern remaining full until the street supply is taken off, on which valve 2
closes by pressure of water in pipe from cistern, and the valve 6 opening by
pressure of water in cistern, the water drawn off through pipes 3 and 4 is
now taken direct from the cistern.
I will now describe the valve 6 at the bottom of cistern, as shewn in
section, and also in separate parts at C, D, D, and E, E. C is the valve with

page_text: vulcanized india-rubber face, which is capable of being easily renewed by
means of the nut 9, 9; E, E, is is the valve seat, which screws into the casing
D, D. The guard f, f, on the casing is made a little larger in diameter than
the valve C, for the purpose of intercepting the pressure, as before described;
this shape of guard is only used for the inverted valve 6.
Figure B shews a section of apparatus applied in conjunction with the
common ball cock, the only difference between the apparatus shewn by the
Figures A and B is, that the ball cock 8 acts as an inlet, and the valve 9 is
used in place of the valve 6, the combination and mode of working being the
same in both cases.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to any
of the parts separately, nor do I confine myself to the details shewn; but what
I claim is the combing two valves with a single supply pipe to and from a
cistern or vessel, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Getley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.