A METHOD OF SUPPLYING WATER OR FLUIDS FOR DOMESTIC OR OTHER PURPOSES IN A MANNER MORE EXTENSIVELY AND Econo- MICALLY THAN HAS HITHERTO BEEN USUALLY PRACTISED
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
VINEY, of Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight, Colonel in the Royal Artillery,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-four, in the fifth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His
heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Viney, His
especial licence, that I, the said James Viney, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said James Viney, my exors, admors, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His said Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, my Invention of "A METHOD OF SUPPLYING WATER OR FLUIDS
FOR DOMESTIC OR OTHER PURPOSES IN A MANNER MORE EXTENSIVELY AND Econo-
MICALLY THAN HAS HITHERTO BEEN USUALLY PRACTISED;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Viney, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Viney, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in
and by the following Specification thereof (that is to say) :-
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My said method of supplying water for domestic and other purposes consists
in availing myself of the rain water that falls on the roofs of houses, or water
raised by a force pump, or by means of the water companies in London,
which I cause to be received into a cistern or reservoir placed below the
level of the gutters of the roof, from which I cause it to pass through pipes
into a succession of cisterns or reservoirs, which may be placed in the different
stories of the dwelling, either the one below the other, or in any situation that
may be found the best for supplying baths, waterclosets, &c., and from thence
into the sewers or drains. In the annexed Outline I have placed the reser-
voirs D, D, shewn in the annexed Drawing or Outline, Fig. 1, the one below
the other, and for the introducing of rain water into them I stop the water
pipe F of the house at H, and from thence the water is received into the
reservoir D, through the small pipe E, through the wall of the building, and
any overplus above the dotted line A is drawn off by the waste pipe C into the
reservoir D below, and so on successively into others until it falls into the
sewers; and in case of violent rains, or the sudden thaw of snow, I have
caused a circular pipe G, of sufficient dimensions, to be introduced into the
pipe F about a foot above the stoppage H, and leading through the pipe
immediately under it, so as to carry off any sudden rush of water. Without this
circular or waste pipe the surplus water could not be carried off with the same
convenience and safety by pipes differently placed, as expressed by the dotted
lines a, a, a, a (since the draft of the pipe F, (so useful for drawing off any
unpleasant efluvia) would be stopped. My method is more immediately
applicable for gentlemen's seats in the country, where immense sums are
often expended for the forcing of water up to the roofs of their houses, where
nature has made so ample a provision of rain water that might be secured
by this simple method, which method might also be used to advantage in those
situations where water has to be purchased, or not to be had in sufficient
quantity. In order that the rain water might be received as pure as possiblo
into the several reservoirs, it may be filtered in the upper one by any of the
well known methods. I do not mean to claim as my Invention the method
of conveying the water by a waste pipe from one reservoir into another, but
I do claim the arrangement of the circular pipe G, by carrying off any sudden

page_text: rush of water, without which the rain water could not be conveyed into the
several reservoirs without subjecting the apartments to be overflowed with
water, and could not be effected without this circular pipe with safety.
My method of supplying hot air for heating rooms is by a portable cylinder
of iron or other suitable material cast with two pipes and two legs, which I
cause to be placed at the bottom of the grate, as represented by the Drawing
or Outline A, Fig 2. I cause to be introduced into the lower pipe B, a tube
that I place behind the skirting board D, and which leads through the wall
into the open air, by which means the cold air rushes into the heated cylinder
and passes through the upper pipe C, and from thence by another pipe can be
led into the apartment at pleasure into any convenient direction. The whole
of this apparatus might be prepared at a very trifling expence.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Viney, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
JAMES (L.B.) VINEY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of Novem-
ber, in the year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid James Viney came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped accord-
ing to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.