Improvements in and connected with Outside Stop Taps and Boxes for Water and Gas Service Pipes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1898
Complate Consification Loft 22nd Ann 1900 Accented 2nd June 1800
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Outside Stop Taps and Boxes
for Water and Gas Service Pipes.
I, JAMES PENNEY, of Hope Bank, Saint Paul's, Portwood, Stockport, in the
County of Chester, Chief Fittings Inspector Stockport District Water Works, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with outside stop taps
and boxes for water and gas service pipes, the object being to provide such taps
with a permanent key and prevent same from being covered with debris or being
otherwise obstructed and therefore always ready of easy access.
To this end I pin or otherwise secure to the crutch of the stop tap a rod, the
upper end of which projects into the stop tap box and is formed with a crutch or
a square for the reception of a loose key. Between the stop tap box and the soil
pipe or brick casing below the same I employ a shield plate which is formed in
the middle with an aperture through which the said rod projects. This shield
plate serves to support the upper end of the said rod and prevents the soil pipe
being filled with debris and the tap thus from being obstructed.
In order to keep the said shield plate in position I form each side with projections
adapted to enter the soil pipe or brick casing and box respectively.
Dated this 13th day of December 1898.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Outside Stop Taps and Boxes
for Water and Gas Service Pipes.
I, JAMES PENNEY, of Hope Bank, Saint Paul's, Portwood, Stockport, in the
County of Chester, Chief Fittings Inspector Stockport District Water Works, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with outside stop taps
and boxes for water and gas service pipes, the object being to provide such taps
with a permanent key and prevent same from being covered with debris or being
otherwise obstructed and therefore always ready of easy access.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference

page_text: indicating like parts in the various figures, Figs. 1 & 2 being vertical sections
of a soil pipe placed over a water or gas stop tap with my improvements applied
thereto, Fig. 3 a sectional plan at line A-A of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a detached
longitudinal section of a modification.
In carrying out my invention and referring to Figs. 1, 2 & 3, I pin or otherwise
secure to the crutch a of the stop tap b, a rod c, the upper end of which projects
into the stop tap box d and is formed with a crutch e (or a square) for the reception
of a loose key f, see dotted lines, Fig. 1. Between the stop tap box d and the
soil pipe g (or brick casing) below the same I employ a shield plate which is
formed in the middle with an aperture i through which the crutch e (or square)
of the rod e projects. This shield plate h serves to close the soil pipe g and at the
same time support the upper end of the rod c and thereby prevent the soil pipe (or
brick casing) being filled with debris and the tap obstructed.
In order to keep the shield plate laterally in position I form each side with
projections, k, adapted to enter the soil pipe g (or brick casing) and box d
respectively.
Referring to Fig. 4 according to a modification, I may form the shield plate h
with pegs on the upper side only, and with a flange m adapted to encircle the
soil pipe g (or brick casing).
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, is:-
1st. In and connected with outside stop taps and boxes for water and gas service
pipes, the shield plate h adapted to close the upper end of the soil pipe 9 (or casing)
built over the stop tap 6, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. In combination with the shield plate h, specified in the preceding claim
and the stop tap b, a rod c, the lower end of which is secured to the crutch a of the
stop tap and the upper end projects through the said shield plate and is adapted
for the reception of a loose key f, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 20th day of April 1899.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.