Improvements in Ball Taps.
Year: 1884

page_text: Improvements in Ball Taps.
I, HENRY SUTCLIFFE, of the firm of Messieurs Wright Sutcliffe and Son;
Sanitary Engineers and Brass Founders, of Adelaide Street Works, Halifax,
in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN BALL TAPS to be as follows:-
My said invention relates to Cistern Ball Taps for the supply of water;-to
improve the construction and to render them silent when in action.
In the manufacture of Ball Taps according to my invention the body of the Tap
is formed with an extended circular or other chainber. Into the said chamber is
fitted a hollow cylinder for the reception of the plug, which is hollow, and at the
end where the washer is fixed is provided with an opening on each side of the
plug, these openings which lead into the hollow chamber of the plug which forms
the water way, is afterwards divided and continued down each side of, the lever
with a separate waterway through which the said lever which actuates the plug
passes so as to close the Tap; each of the separate waterways having passed
around the lever join again in one passage, to which is connected a tube, preferably
Brass or India Rubber, if India Rubber, the tube is weighted at one end, so that .
the water is conveyed to the bottom of the Cistern, thereby rendering the supply
of Water Closet or other Cisterns silent when in use.
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page_text: Improvements in Dan laps
I, HENRY SUTCLIFFE of the firm of Messieurs Wright Sutcliffe and Son
Sanitary Engineers and Brass Founders of Adelaide Street Works, Halifax
in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BALL TAPS," and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement—
My said invention relates to Cistern Ball Taps for the supply of water, to
improve the construction and to render them silent when in action.
Such being the nature and object of my invention I will now proceed to
describe the same more fully and for that purpose have annexed the accompanying
sheet of drawings illustrative thereof. Figure 1 is sectional elevation of taps
constructed according to my invention. a is the outer shell of a tap having
circular or other form of chamber b and C is an opening through which the water
enters. d is a hollow plug having also openings e in the side thereof for purposes
hereinafter explained. f forms the valve which is kept up to its seating by the
weighted lever g which passes through the divided pipe h, the upper side of the
said lever abutting under the divided pipe as shewn in the drawings, but instead
of the divided pipe being made with the valve it may be separate as shewn in
Figure 3 and soldered to the elbow p.
When the water in the cistern gets low, the ball. A descends in the usual
manner, whereby the valve is opened allowing the water to pass as shewn by
arrows into the chamber b, and afterwards through the openings i down the
divided pipe into the cistern, a tube j being attached to the bottom of the divided
pipe so that the water enters the cistern at the bottom, consequently the noise
occasioned by water dropping from the top direct into the cistern is avoided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim as my invention is
Firstly. In ball taps the hollow cylinder d made in one piece so formed as to
comprise the water way, the seating and cleansing plug, in manner substantially as
herein set forth.
Secondly. The extended hollow chamber b for the reception of the hollow
valve and divided pipe h with water ways as shewn and described.
Thirdly. The use and employment of a divided outlet water pipe / between
which the weighted lever arm g is arranged to pass as shewn in Figs 1 and 3.
Fourthly. In connection with ball taps as herein set forth, I claim the means of
making the water closet cistern silent by admitting water therein at a point near
the bottom thereof as shewn in Figure 1.
Dated this 16th day of Santambor 188