IMPROVEMENTS IN BALL COCKS OR VALVES USED FOR COM- .. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION USED YOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING THE SUPPLY OF WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Heaton, of Masbro', in the County of
York, Brass Founder, and William Henry Giddings, of the City of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Lead Merchant, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALL COCKS OR VALVES USED FOR COM-
..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Heaton and
William Henry Giddings at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 11th March 1873.
We, WILLIAM HEATON, of Masbro', in the County of York, Brass
Founder, and WILLIAM HENRY GIDDINGS, of the City of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Lead Merchant, (lo horoby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALL COCKS OR VALVES USED
YOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING THE SUPPLY OF WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS,”
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to those cocks or valves in which a floating
ball or vessel attached to a stem, rod, or lover is used to regulate tho
supply of water or other fluid to cisterns or other receptacles.

page_text: Our improvements consist in making the valve to a certain extent
independent of the sliding bucket or piston connected with the stem, rod,
or lever to which the float is attached. The bottom of the valve may be
flat, semi-spherical, or other desired shape, or formed as a chamber,
having in the interior a disc at the bottom of the bucket or piston, and 5
either the valve may be packed with leather, india-rubber, or other
packing material, or the packing may be placed in the seating. The
outside of the lower part of the bucket can slide up and down in the
chamber of the chamber valve, but each of the other valves has at the
top a pin fitting loosely a hole in the bottom of the bucket, or is con- 1
nected to the bucket by one or more links of a chain, and thus either
description of valve is independent of the bucket and float, except at
certain defined high and low levels of the water. When the water is
shut off from the main any intermediate rising and falling of the water
between the high and low levels has no action on the valve and seating, 1
and thus the float can rise and fall a considerable distance without any
friction being exerted on the seating.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Heaton and William Henry Giddings in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
HEATON, of Masbro', in the County of York, Brass Founder, and
WILLIAM HENRY GIDDINGS, of the City of Manchester, in tho County
of Lancaster, Lead Merchant, send greeting.
2
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 2
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in tho
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-·
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said William Heaton and William
Henry Giddings, Her special license that we, the said William Heaton 8
and William Henry Giddings, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said William Heaton and William Henry
Giddings, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
.

page_text: during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might mako, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN BALL COCKS OR VALVES USED FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING
THE SUPPLY OF WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said William Heaton and William Henry Giddings,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of our or their hands and scals, should parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to bo 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 William Heaton and William
Henry Giddings, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
; and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the Figures on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and
to the letters of reference marked thereon, that is to say :—
This Invention relates to those cocks or valves in which a floating
O ball or vessel attached to a stem, rod, or lover is used to regulate the
supply of water or other fluid to cisterns, service boxes of waterclosets,
or other receptaclos.
And our improvements consist in making tho valve to a certain extent
independent of a packed sliding piston in contact with one and of the
stem, rod, or lover to which the float is attached. The bottom of tho
5 valve may be flat, semi-spherical, or other desired shape; and tho
body of the valve may be solid or formed as a chamber, and either
the valve may be packed with leather, india-rubber, or other packing
material, or the packing may be placed in the seating. Each of the
solid valves has at the top a headed pin fitting loosely a chamber at the
O bottom of the piston, or is connected to the piston by one or more links
of a chain; but for the chamber valve the arrangement is reversed by
placing a headed pin at the bottom of the piston in the chamber of the
valve, and in all cases the packed piston is independent of the valvo, and,
the valve independent of the piston and float, except from an inter-.
5 mediato to the lowest level of the water. When the valve is close on
its scating, and shuts off the water from the main, any intermediate
rising and falling of the water between the highest and intermediate

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and fall a considerable distance without any friction being exerted on the
scating.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Fig. 1 is a longitudinal
section of a cistern, and one of our improved ball cocks or valves.
Fig. 2, a view representing the float in its lowest position; and Figs. 3,
4, and 5 are external views of various valves and pistons.
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In Fig. 1 a represents the cistern; b, c, the valve box screwed to the
cistern; d, the passage communicating with the valve box and main;
e, the valve scating screwed to the bottom of the valve box; f, the
valve; g, h, the piston; k, the float; l, m, the lever or stem to which it
is connected; n, the fulcrum of the lever fixed to ears cast to the upper
part of the valve box; and o, the bore of the waste water pipe. The
upper part of the piston works in the pipe or cylinder 6, forming the
upper part of tho valve box; and at the top of the piston there is slot p,
in which is loosely fitted the short arm m of the lever l, m, and at the
bottom of the part g of the piston thero is a washing packing 9 of leather,
india-rubber, or other material to keep the pipe or cylinder 6 and part
of the piston water-tight. The lower part of the piston is formed as a
chamber », in which is placed the headed pin s on the top of the valve,
thero being a hole at the bottom of the chamber to enable the piston and
float to move up and down independent of the valve, and as the water is
shut off from the main by its own pressure when it is above the inter-
mediate level the float can fall and rise to a great extent without any action
on the valve in consequence of the piston moving up and down on the
headed pin s. In Fig. 1 the float k is shown in its intermediate position,
but it can rise as high as the dotted circle without acting on the valve,
but when the float descends lower than the intermediate position the
arm m raises the piston and lifts the valve from its scating for enabling
the cistern to be filled, the float being shown in its lowest position, and
the valve full open in Fig. 2; and when the float has risen with the
rising wator the valvo is again closed by the pressure from the main,
and thus the supply of water is controlled or regulated in a very efficient
manner with the least amount of friction on the seating.
Fig. 3 is an external view of a packed piston, having an independent a

page_text: Fig. 4 is an external view of a chamber valve made independent of
the piston by a headed pin working loose in the chamber w; and
Fig. 5, a valve made independent of the piston by the links 2, all the
valves, levers, floats, and cisterns being of any dimensions required.
It will be seen that the main feature of our Invention consists in
making a packed sliding piston and valve to a certain extent independent
of each other for the purpose of enabling the float to move up and down
a comparatively considerable distance without acting on the valve. until
the water is below a certain defined level.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to
bo understood that in ball cocks or valves used for controlling or regu-
lating the supply of water and other fluids we claim in each case the
construction and employment of a valve and packed piston independent
of each other for enabling the float to move up and down, and also the
piston worked by it, without raising or acting on the valvo, except when
the water is becoming too low in the cistern, service box, or other
rocoptacle to which the ball cock or valvo is attached, as such improve-
ments are herein described and illustrated on the accompanying
Sheet of the Drawings, or any mero modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Heaton, for and on behalf of
myself and the said William Henry Giddings, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William Heaton,
in the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
.
WILLIAM HEATON. (L.S.)