IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATER WASTE PREVENTERS FOR WATER CLOSETS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, GEORGE HOMEWOOD of Court House Ockenden Lane, Cuckfield in the County
of Sussex, Plumber do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATER WASTE PREVENTERS FOR
WATER CLOSETS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to provide for the more rapid filling and
discharge of the Cistern than in any of the methods hitherto introduced.
To this effect I employ a new description of Valve and Syphon, the two being
connected, thus allowing, upon the raising of the valve from its seat, an immediate
flow of water which exhausts the air in the syphon and thus causes a continuous
flow through the Syphon until the Cistern is emptied and by a provision for
admitting air by means of a small hole and also a notch in the short leg of the
syphon the action is cut off, thus, the water running into the Cistern through the
Ball Valve is prevented from flowing through the Syphon until the Valve connected
with the Syphon is again raised.
The new valve is in one piece instead of being screwed together in pieces, as is
generally the case and the valve can be readily removed by simply unscrewing one
small nut at the top which will allow of a new leather seating being fitted in.
By my Invention a Waste Preventing Cistern containing three gallons of water
supplied from a cistern standing only two feet above the other, through a 3/8 in.
Ball Valve and discharged through 11% in. Valve can be emptied and refilled in one
minute.
The novelty of this Invention consists in the construction, general arrangement,
and application of syphon, discharge valve and short arm of Ball Valve for the
purposes herein before enumerated and described.
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page_text: I, GEORGE HOMEWOOD, of Court House, Ockenden Lane, Cuckfield, in the
County of Sussex, Plumber, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATER WASTE PREVENTERS FOR
WATER-CLOSETS;" 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 accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked
thereon, that is to say :-
This invention has for its object, to provide for the more rapid filling and
discharge of the cistern, than in any of the methods hitherto introduced.
By my Invention a Waste Preventing Cistern containing three gallons of water,
supplied from a cistern standing only two feet above the other, through a
"Ball Valve; and discharged through 1/" valve, can be emptied and refilled in
one minute.
To this effect, I employ a new description of valve a, and syphon b, (See Figure 1)
the two being connected; thus allowing upon the raising of the valve a from its seat,
an immediate flow of water, which exhausts the air in the syphon b, and thus causes
à continuous flow through said syphon, until the cistern is emptied ; and by a
provision for admitting air, by means of a small aperture c, and also a notch a in
the short leg of the syphon b, the action is cut off; by which means the water
running into the cistern, through the ball valve e, is prevented from flowing
The valve a I make in one
through syphon b, until the valve a is again raised.
piece, instead of being screwed together in pieces as is generally the case and it can
be readily removed by simply unscrewing a small nut at the top, which will allow
of a new leather seating being fitted on. An elevation of this valve is represented
in Figure 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The general arrangement, construction, and application, in Water Waste
Preventing Cisterns, of discharge valve a; and syphon b, with air admitting
aperture c, and notch d, in leg of said syphon b, substantially as, and for the
purposes, herein before set forth and described.
Dated this Third day of October 1884.