A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING WASTE OF WATER IN WATER CLOSETS, URINALS, AND OTHER PLACES WHERE AN INTERMITTENT DISCHARGE OF WATER IS REQUIRED
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Cole, of Norwood, in the County of Surrey, for an
Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING WASTE
OF WATER IN WATER CLOSETS, URINALS, AND OTHER PLACES WHERE AN
INTERMITTENT DISCHARGE OF WATER IS REQUIRED."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Cole at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th July 1880.
ALFRED COLE, of Norwood, in the County of Surrey. "A NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING WASTE OF WATER IN WATER CLOSETS, URINALS, AND
OTHER PLACES WHERE AN INTERMITTENT DISCHARGE OF WATER IS REQUIRED."
My Invention relates to a new or improved apparatus for preventing waste of
water in water closets, urinals, and other places where an intermittent discharge of
water is required.
It consists in the application and use to an ordinary supply cistern of a syphon,
one leg of which works by a sliding water-tight joint over a stand pipe fixed in
the bottom of the cistern and communicating with the water closet, urinal, or
other place where the water is required to be discharged. The other or shorter
leg of the syphon is immersed in the water of the cistern.
By means of a lever furnished at one end with a counterbalance weight and
attached at its other end to the syphon, the bend of the latter is normally kept
above the level of the water in the cistern.
When required to pass water from the cistern to the water closet, urinal, or
other place, the counterbalance lever is pulled over by an arm or lever operated
by hand so as to depress the bend of the syphon beneath the surface of the water
in the cistern, and the syphon being thereby charged the water from the cistern
passes through it and through the stand pipe to the water closet, urinal, or other
place of discharge.
On releasing the counterbalance lever the syphon is thereby raised again to its
normal position, and the water being excluded therefrom ceases to flow.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alfred Cole in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th January
1881.
"
ALFRED COLE, of Norwood, in the County of Surrey. A NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING WASTE OF WATER IN WATER CLOSETS, URINALS, AND
OTHER PLACES WHERE AN INTERMITTENT DISCHARGE OF WATER IS REQUIRED."
My Invention relates to a now or improved apparatus for preventing waste of
water in water closets, urinals, and other places where an intermittent discharge of
water is required.
It consists, as shewn on the accompanying Drawing, in the application and use
to an ordinary supply cistern A of a syphon B, one leg of which works by a sliding
water tight joint over a stand pipe C fixed in the bottom of the cistern A, and
communicating with the water closet, urinal, or other place where the water is
required to be discharged.
The other or shorter leg of the syphon is immersed in the water of the cistern A.
By means of a lever D furnished at one end with a counterbalance weight E
and attached at its other end to the syphon B, the bend of the latter is normally
kept above the level of the water in the cistern A.
Or in lieu of a lever and counterbalance weight, as shown, any other mechanical
contrivance for raising and lowering the syphon may be used.
When required to pass water from the cistern A to the water closet, urinal, or
other place, the counterbalance lever Dis-pulled-over by an arm or lever F
(arranged as shown, or otherwise, as found suitable), and operated by hand from
the water closet or other place so as to depress the bend of the syphon B beneath
the surface of the water in the cistern A, and the syphon B being thereby charged
the water from the cistern A passes through it and through the stand pipe C
to the water closet, urinal, or other place of discharge.
On releasing the arm or lever Fand counterbalance lever D, the latter thrown
over by its weight E raises the syphon B again to its normal position, and the
water being excluded from its bend consequently ceases to flow.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and
therefore claim as my Invention is,―
1. The application and use to water supply cisterns of a syphon in combination
with a stand pipe, and having its bend raised or lowered above or below the level
of the water in the cistern, substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described and illustrated by the accompanying Drawing.
2. The combination of a counterbalance weight and lever (or its equivalent)
with the syphon, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Cole, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
Witness,
E. T. HUGHES,
123, Chancery Lane,
London.
ALFRED COLE. (L.S.)