Improvements in Automatic Flushing Apparatus.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Flushing Apparatus.
I MOSES JAMES ADAMS Engineer Peasholme Green York 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 :-
or
In my former Patents I have shewn certain syphon's used for the intermittent
discharge of liquid and for these appliances and also for various syphons manu--
factured by others trapping boxes into which the longer limb of the syphon dips
other arrangement for holding water in this long limb for the purpose of confining
the air within the syphon; now whereas in use it is imperative that water should
remain in this trapping box or long limb for the purpose of closing it against the
the exit of air and also for the supplying of liquid to the small bend which serves.
as a water valve for escape of air when the liquid shall have risen to the level
over syphon bend or lip at which point its action commences, and there is frequently
considerable danger to the efficient action of the syphon by reason of suction of the
discharge pipe which is attached to the outlet of syphon or trapping box. I now
so form my apparatus that a reserve supply of liquid shall be retained in another
vessel or in a part or recess in the trapping box or syphon leg and such retained
liquid will serve to refill the trapping box or syphon leg and will replace the
liquid which has been withdrawn by the suction on syphon leg. The connection.
between the reserve chamber or after charge is by a small hole or other means,.
reference to my drawings will explain this. The tank or chamber in which the
syphon apparatus is placed is represented by A the syphon is shewn by B in one of
its forms with dome or cover C the long limb D of syphon dips into the water of
trapping box F with outlet G or the syphon may be made by a tube bent somewhat
in the form of an or other style at E 1 shew the small water valve H is the
after charge chamber with hole at I feeding the reserve liquid to Fat the time
of discharge from tank or chamber liquid will enter H which is slightly higher
than the water level F after the discharge of tank A the liquid from H will find
its way through the hole I and will replenish the trapping box or bend at foot of
syphon leg represented by F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1st. The combination of a syphou with after charge or chamber arranged to.
replenish the trapping box or long limb of a syphon with liquid.
2nd. The use of an after charge of liquid with a syphon used to recharge the
trapping box or long limb thereof.
3rd. The combination of a bent pipe or water valve as shewn or its equivalent-
with a reserve or after charge chamber.
4th. The general arrangement and design of the syphon and its parts herein
shewn and described or their equivalent-though differing in conformity-substan-
tially the same.
Dated this 4th day of March 1894.
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
Peasholme Green, York, Engineer.