IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAIN PIPES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Taylor, of Longfleet, Poole, in the County of
Dorset, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAIN PIPES."
aled the 28th March 1877, and dated the 6th October 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Taylor at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th October 1870.
ALBERT TAYLOR, of Longfleet, Poole, in the County of Dorset.
IN DRAIN PIPES."
"IMPROVEMENTS
My Invention has reference to the manufacture of drain pipes, and is such that it
provides for rapidity, economy, and ease in laying drain pipes, inasmuch as, inter
alia, it is unnecessary to use cement in connecting them. It also provides for
rapidity, economy, and ease in taking up pipes so laid for the purposes of
examination, connection, or otherwise, and this I propose to effect as follows:--To
each end of ordinary butt pipes, in lieu of the ordinary flanges, I add plain bands or
rims, flush with the ends of the pipe, such bands or rims being intended to fit into
the groove herein-after described.
Instead of fitting the end of one pipe into the flange of another as is ordinarily
done in laying drain pipes, I provide chairs with grooves in the centre for the
reception of the ends of pipes so made with rims as above described, the rimmed
butt ends of the pipes being covered with saddles having within them grooves
similar to those in the chairs above mentioned. The pipes are thus supported and
locked together and a continuous tube is formed.
Bends, junctions, taper pipes, and other ordinary drainage appliances are
similarly finished with rims, and locked together with chairs and saddles as above
described.
In the event of a connection being required for a side drain, a pipe is taken out
of the main drain and a junction is inserted in its place, the junction being rimmed
at each end and at the end of the branch or inlet, and the branch is also provided
with a chair or saddle as an ordinary pipe.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Albert Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th April
1877.
ALBERT TAYLOR, of Longfleet, Poole, in the County of Dorset.
IN DRAIN PIPES."
"IMPROVEMENTS
The nature of my Invention is such that it provides for rapidity, economy, and
ease in laying drain pipes, inasmuch as, inter alia, it is unnecessary to use cement in
connecting them. It also provides for rapidity, economy, and ease in taking up
pipes so laid for the purposes of examination, connection, or otherwise.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood, I now describe
the same more particularly, reference being had to the annexed Drawings, of which
Figure 1 is a vertical section showing the mode of joining two pipes together
according to my Invention; Figure 2 being a cross section of the same at the joint.
To the ends of ordinary butt pipes A I add plain bands, flanges, or rims B flush
with the ends of the pipes A, such bands, flanges, or rims being bevelled, as shewn,
like the rim of an ordinary cotton reel, and intended to fit into a similarly formed
groove in the herein-after described chair and saddle C and D. The said chairs and
saddles C and D are provided with a groove in the centre, as shewn, to support and
lock the different lengths of tubes A together, so as to form a continuous tube or
drain. The upper member C I term a saddle, the lower one D a chair, and it will
be observed that when placed together they form an octagon (or it may be any
other suitable polygonal figure), the nethermost side resting upon the bottom of the
excavation for a drain and keeping the drain pipes in position. The whole of the
eight sides of the united chairs and saddles as well as the ends present surfaces to
the earth to prevent any shifting after the drain is laid.
Bends, junctions, taper pipes, and other ordinary drainage appliances are
similarly finished with rims and locked together with chairs and saddles as above
described.
In the event of a connection being required for a side drain a pipe is taken out
of the main drain, and a junction is inserted in its place, the junction being rimmed
at each end and at the end of the branch or inlet, and the branch as well as the
ends is also provided with a chair and saddle.
In laying a main drain no provision need be made for connections, as at any
timo junctions can be inserted as above described.
Having now described my said Invention and particularly ascertained the mode
of carrying the same into practical effect, what I claim as my Invention is, con-
structing and effecting the junction of drain pipes without the aid of cement in the
manner herein-before described, and also the employment of polygonal sided saddles
and chairs with centre grooves, substantially as herein-before described and shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Taylor, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.
ALBERT TAYLOR. (L.S.)