Improvements in Flushing Cistern Apparatus and Fittings.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1897
101L Ch
4007
40th Ane 1807
Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 10th Feb., 1907 Accepted, 10th Apr., 1807
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flushing Cistern Apparatus and Fittings.
ERNEST RICHARDS LOUIS RICHARDS Marsh Foundry Victoria Road St. Philip's
Bristol Ironfounders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
These improvements are in connection with the apparatus used in discharging water
from flushing cisterns, and have for their object the avoidance of the necessity of
taking out and changing the position of the central air pipe, when the lever which
operates the flushing valve has to have the direction of its projecting part changed;
and in simplyfying the usual methods of obtaining the adjustable pull needed by the
leverage apparatus.
By referring to the accompanying drawings our invention will be fully understood.
Similiar letters indicate similiar parts in all the drawings.
To effect our invention a cistern with its usual fittings for supplying and discharging
the water, such as air pipe, self feeding ballcock, overflow pipe, lever and counterpoise
weights upper and lower valve seatings, has fitted to it an additional valve seating A¹
Figs. 1 and 2, being placed in a position opposite and relatively corresponding to the
one already fitted shown at A. Figs. 1 and 2. A brass cap C is then constructed, the
interior of which and the upper part of the two seatings being screwed alike, it will
be seen that to change direction of pull from right to left or vice-versa the lever and
counterpoise ST with valve rod and weight B has simply to be taken out of the pair
of bearings it is affixed in, its direction then reversed and finally fixed in the adjacent
pair of bearings thus bringing the other seating into action, the cap having meanwhile
been taken off it and screwed on the fellow seating. Thus avoiding the necessity
hitherto of taking the entire cistern apart to effect the desired change or reversal.
Or we construct a square or oblong frame E G H F Figs. 3 and 4 being section
and plan respectively of cistern, each side of it having a perforation in the centre
mid way along its extreme length as M and N in Fig. 4. This frame is attached to
the side of the cistern by means of a shoulder K. A fulcrum P is then placed, on
either side directly over its hole and fastened by means of a nut and bolt passing
through both. The lever T S working in this fulcrum may of course be directed to
either side back or front of cistern as desired corresponding relatively to the position
its fulcrum takes up on the frame.
In another modification the same advantage is obtained by having four projecting
shoulders E G H F on the cistern as shown in section and plan by Figs. 5 and 6, each
having a perforation as M and N equa-distant from centre of counterpoise T of
lever S, either of these sides being competent to form a bearing for fulcrum P as
ocassion necessitates. This modification is adapted for cisterns with a longtitudinal
division running through entire length of cistern as W Fig. 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tions and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
The construction and fixing of screwed valve seatings and caps in flushing
cisterns.
The construction of square or oblong frames for attachment to flushing cisterns to
enable the attached lever to project in any one of four directions. The construction of
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page_text: substantially as and for the purpose herein described and set forth in the accompanying
drawings.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flushing Cistern Apparatus and Fittings.
ERNEST RICHARDS, LOUIS RICHARDS Ironfounders Marsh Foundry Victoria Road
St. Philip's Bristol, 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 :-
These improvements are in connection with the apparatus used in discharging water
from flushing cisterns, and have for their object the avoidance of the necessity of
taking out and changing the position of the central air pipe, when the lever which
operates the flushing valve has to have the direction of its projecting part changed;
and in simplyfying the usual methods of obtaining the adjustable pull needed by the
leverage apparatus.
By referring to the drawings left with our Provisional Specification, our invention
will be fully understood.
Similiar parts are indicated by similiar letters in all the drawings.
To effect our invention a cistern with its usual fittings for supplying and discharging
the water such as air pipe, self feeding ball cock, overflow pipe, lever, counterpoise
weights, upper and lower valve seatings, has fitted to it an additional upper valve
seating A 1 Fig. 1 and 2, being placed in a position opposite and relatively
corresponding to the one already fitted shown at A Fig. 1 and 2. A brass cap C Fig. 1
and 2. is then constructed the interior of which and the upper part of the exterior of
the two seatings being screwed alike, it will be seen that to change direction of lever
pull from right to left or vice-versa, the lever and counterpoise S T with valve rod and
weight B has simply to be taken out of the pair of bearings it is affixed in, its direction
then reversed, and finally fixed in the adjacent pair of bearings thus bringing the
other seating into action, the cap having meanwhile been taken off it and screwed on
the fellow seating. Thus avoiding the necessity hitherto of taking the entire cistern
apart to effect the desired change or reversal.
Or we construct a square or oblong frame E G H F as shown in Fig. 3 and 4
section and plan of cistern respectively, each side of it having a perforation in the
centre midway along its extreme length, as m. n. in Fig. 4. This frame is attached to
the side of the cistern by means of a shoulder K. A fulcrum is then placed on either
side directly over its hole and fastened by means of a bolt and nut passing through
both. The lever T S working in this fulcrum may of course be directed to either side,
back or front of cistern as desired corresponding relatively to the position its fulcrum
takes upon the frame.
In another modification the same advantage is obtained by having four projecting
shoulders E G H F on the cistern as shown in section and plan by Figs. 5 and 6,
each having a perforation as in and n, equa-distant from the centre of counterpoise T
of lever S, either of these sides being competent to form a bearing for fulcrum Pas
occasion necessitates. This modification is adapted for cisterns with a longtitudinal
division running through entire length of cistern as W Fig. 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The construction and fixing of screwed valve seatings and caps in flushing
cisterns.

page_text: 2. The construction of square or oblong frames for attachment to flushing cisterns
to enable the attached lever to project in any one of four directions.
3. The construction of shoulders on flushing cisterns for enabling the attached lever
to project in required direction substantially as and for the purpose herein described
and set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of February 1897.
ERNEST RICHARDS.
LOUIS RICHARDS.