IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING WATER TO WATER- CLOSETS AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Warner, of Jewin Crescent, Cripplegate,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING WATER TO WATER-
CLOSETS AND OTHER VESSELS."
Sealed the 21st August 1857, and dated the 17th June 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Warner, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th June 1857.
I, FREDERICK WARNER, of Jewin Crescent, Cripplegate, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING WATER TO
WATERCLOSETS AND OTHER VESSELS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in supplying water to water-
closets and other vessels. For this purpose the stem of the valve on the
supply pipe has on it a plunger or piston with a cupped leather (or other'
material), and such plunger or piston works within a chamber or cylinder,
closed at its outer end. The stem or spindle of the valve is made hollow, so
that water may flow through it to the chamber or cylinder within which the
plunger or piston works. On the interior of the chamber is a fixed wire or
rod, which enters into the hollow stem or spindle of the valve, so that as the
valve is moved in order to open it, the stem or spindle thereof slides on the
fixed wire or rod, whilst at the same time the plunger or piston on the

page_text: spindle or stem of the valve is forced into the chamber or cylinder, the water
in such chamber or cylinder readily passing the cupped leather in one
direction but not in the other, hence the valve will only close slowly, according
to the space allowed between the hollow spindle or stem of the valve and the
fixed wire or rod on which it slides.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Warner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th December 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
WARNER, of Jewin Crescent, Cripplegate, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Frederick Warner, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick Warner,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Frederick Warner, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SUPPLYING WATER TO WATERCLOSETS AND OTHER VESSELS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Warner, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be 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 I, the said Frederick Warner, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in supplying water to water-
closets and other vessels. For this purpose the stem of the valve on the supply
pipe has on it a plunger or piston with a cupped leather (or other material),

page_text: and such plunger or piston works within a chamber or cylinder closed at its
outer end. The stem or spindle of the valve is made hollow, so that water
may flow through it to the chamber or cylinder within which the plunger or
piston works. On the interior of the chamber is a fixed wire or rod, which
enters into the hollow stem or spindle of the valve, so that as the valve is
moved in order to open it, the stem or spindle thereof slides on the fixed wire
or rod, whilst at the same time the plunger or piston on the spindle or stem
of the valve is forced into the chamber or cylinder, the water in such chamber
or cylinder readily passing the cupped leather in one direction but not in the
other, hence the valve will only close slowly, according to the space allowed
between the hollow spindle or stem of the valve and the fixed wire or rod on
which it slides..
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a vertical section of the apparatus, and Figure 2 a plan.
The apparatus is arranged for being fixed by its flange a on the top of the
container of a pan watercloset; it does not, therefore, for that purpose require
that the spindle b should pass through a stuffing box, but when used under
other circumstances the spindle passes through a stuffing box. The apparatus
is made in two parts, c and d, which are shewn screwed together at their
flanges c, d, between which a disc e of leather, gutta percha, or other suitable
material is fixed, in which there is a hole on which the end of the plunger or
piston f fixed to the spindle brests, and forms a valve to close the passage of
water through from the inlet g to the outlet h. On the plunger or piston f
is fixed a cupped leather, or other suitable material, which works in the
cylinder d, which is closed at the end, and has fixed to it a wire which enters
the tubular passage formed in the plunger or piston f, and from such hollow
or tubular passage there are branch outlets. When this apparatus is put into
action the spindle is moved inwards, which forces the piston or plunger into
the cylinder d, the cupped leather thereon admitting the waterto pass freely
when the piston or plunger f is moved in that direction; but when the spindle
is drawn in the other direction by a weight or otherwise, the movement will
be resisted and delayed in proportion to the speed at which the water can
pass through the hollow passage which moves on the wire, and this may be
adjusted by making the space between the wire and the hollow passage larger
or smaller.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to
the parts separately, and their forms may be varied; what I claim is the
combination herein described.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to
the parts separately, and their forms may be varied; what I claim is the
combination herein described.
In witness whercof, I, the said Frederick Warner, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
FREDE WARNER. (L.S.)