Improvement in Channel and other Interceptors, Traps, Gullies Syphons, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after Amend-
ment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883) as required by the
decision of the Comptroller General of the 23rd day of December 1898.
Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 20th July, 1898-Accepted, 10th Sept., 1898
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Improvement in Channel and other Interceptors, Traps, Gullies
Syphons, and the like.
1, CHARLES HERBERT SANKEY, Firebrick, Cement, Lime, Brick, Tile and Sanitary
Goods Merchant, of Iron Bridge and Essex Wharves, Canning Town, in the County
of London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to do away with the difficulty often experienced in
placing gullies, traps, channel and other interceptors, and syphons level or true
when fixing them in position.
In carrying my invention into practical effect I construct channel or other inter-
ceptors, syphons, gullies, traps and the like of any required shape, and I form out-
side such appliances, where possible in the angle or curve formed by the bend
thereof, a ledge having a horizontal upper surface. In this ledge I countersink or
otherwise permanently fix thereto a spirit or other liquid level.
Where the shape of the trap, channel interceptor or the like does not permit this
horizontal ledge to be placed in the angle or curve formed by the bend thereof, or
where thought more convenient, I form in any convenient way a flat horizontal
surface at that part of the trap, interceptor or the like, forming the entrance to, or
exit therefrom, or in any other convenient position thereon, and similarly attach to
or fix therein a suitable spirit or other liquid level. This level is so placed as to
indicate precisely when the trap or channel interceptor to which it is fixed, is truly
laid.
Improvement in Channel and other Interceptors, Traps, Gullies,
Syphons, and the like.
I, CHARLES HERBERT SANKEY, Firebrick, Cement, Lime, Brick, Tile and Sanitary
Goods Merchant, of Iron Bridge and Essex Wharves, Canning Town, in the
County of London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
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The object of my invention is to do away with the difficulty often experienced
in placing gullies, traps, channel and other interceptors, and syphons, level or true
when fixing them in position.
by countersinking or otherwise.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I construct channel, or other inter-
ceptors, syphons, gullies, traps, and the like, of any required shape, and I form
outside such appliances, where possible in the angle or curve formed by the bend
thereof, a flat surface, and to this surface I permanently fix a spirit or other level
Where the shape of the trap, channel interceptor or the like does not permit this
surface being formed in the angle or curve formed by the bend thereof, or where
thought more convenient, I form in any convenient way a flat surface at that part
of the trap, interceptor, or the like forming, the 'entrance to, or exit therefrom, or
in any other convenient position thereon, and similarly attach to or fix therein a
suitable spirit.or other level. This level is so placed as to indicate precisely when
the trap, or channel interceptor to which it is fixed, is truly laid.
Interceptor traps so provided with levels are shown in the accompanying
drawings.
In these drawings all the figures shew the levels A secured to or in a recess in a
flat surface B formed on the bend of the interceptor, whilst in Figs. 2 and 3 other
positions are shewn where levels A may be permanently fixed. It will, however,
be perfectly understood that the position of the levels may be varied as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood
that I am aware that it has been proposed to place horizontal lines and supports
upon the outside of intercepting traps and the like to indicate the water-level in the
interior in the working-position of the trap, and to facilitate the application of a
spirit level for the purpose of setting the trap, and I make no claim to any such
arrangement, but I declare that what I claim is :-
Channel and other interceptors, gullies, syphons, and the like provided with
permanently fixed spirit or other levels substantially as described.
Dated this 90th of II. 1900
CASTLE SMITH,
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'Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.