Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 23rd Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1888
I MILTON SYER of 36 Rye Lane Peckham in the County of Surrey Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In a cistern of any desired capacity I fit my air trap made as follows. I provide a
tube which I shall call the syphon tube. One end of this tube I insert in a cup or
well holding water, and surrounding this cup and tube 1 provide a water tight
chamber with an outlet in the bottom. The other end of Syphon tube projects and
opens outside of water tight chamber. Over all I place a cap which I sometimes
lift by means of a lever and pull. Sometimes this cap is made a fixture and another
cap or air valves is placed over the first cap. The action is as follows. On the cistern
being filled with water, air is trapped under the cover, thus keeping back the
water, and on the cover being raised or the confined air allowed to escape through an
air valve, the water is allowed to flow and the Syphon is started and withdraws all
the water out of cistern. I sometimes place a float in the cup or well, to form a
greater resistance to the air pressure.

page_text: 1 MILTON SYER of 36 Rye Lane, Peckham in the County of Surrey, Merchant
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 following
statement:
In a cistern of any desired capacity I fit my air trap made as follows. I provide a
tube which I shall call the syphon tube. One end of this tube I insert in a cup or
well holding water and surrounding this cup and tube I provide a water tight
chamber with an outlet in the bottom. The other end of syphon tube projects and
opens outside of water tight chamber. Over all I place a cap which I sometimes lift
by means of a lever and pull. Sometimes this cap is made a fixture and another cap
or air valve is placed over the first cap. The action is as follows on the cistern being
filled with water air is trapped under the cover thus keeping back the water and ou
the cover being raised or the confined air allowed to escape througli an air valve, the
water is allowed to flow and the Syphon is started and withdraws all the water out of
cistern. I sometimes place a float in the cup or well to form a greater resistance to
the air pressure.
Fig. 2 on the sheet of drawings accompanying this specification shows my Syphon
as described in provisional specification. A is the cover which I sometimes move to
start the syphon B the tube dipping into cup or well C. The water tight chamber
surrounding this well is lettered D. and F. shows outlet leading to W.C. pan or
urinal.
Fig. 1 shows the same Syphon but arranged differently. Here C. is the cup and
water-tight chamber in one B the tube dipping into it and F is again the outlet, with
A as the cover over all.
Fig. 3. is another way of making this syphon. Here we have the water tight
chamber C and the pipe B. made in the shape of a letter U thus forming the pipe and
cup in one.
F is the outlet and A again the cover over all.
In Fig. 2. E. represents the float which I sometimes place in the cup or well.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
Firstly my improved Syphon as arranged in Fig. 1. 2 and 3 substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.