Improvements in appliances for connecting and distributing the water supply to sanitary and other appliances, and taking the waste therefrom / [Moses James Adams].

  • Adams, Moses James.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Improvements in appliances for connecting and distributing the water supply to sanitary and other appliances, and taking the waste therefrom / [Moses James Adams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 3044 A.D. 1895 Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1895—Accepted, 15th June, 1895 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Appliances for Connecting* and Distributing the Water Supply to Sanitary and other Appliances, and taking the Waste therefrom. 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 ie particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement : My improvements relate to the mode of distributing water from water main or 5 reservoir or tank to the vessels or apparatus it is desired to flush or cleanse and in the connections I use to couple or join these pipes to the said vessel or appaiatus and their discharges. . . . Now whereas before the introduction of this improvement and where it is desued to flush or cleanse more than one vessel or apparatus as closets or urinals from one 10 tank or source of supply it has been customary to fix a tank above these closets oi urinals and to fix in this tank a syphon to discharge its contents or a valve actuated by a lever and pull chain or other contrivance with one outlet therefrom discharging to a vertical pipe having branches carried from the same to feed the diffeient vessels these branches being taken from a pipe placed horizontally which pipe is 15 fed or supplied by a single pipe from tank outlet this single pipe being a* a rule carried vertically down to give a suction or added force to the discharge or the liquid from tank it will be evident that it is somewhat difficult to ensure an equa amount and equal force of water to flush each of the several vessels seived Lorn this horizontal pipe by branches therefrom aud much trouble has been occasione 20 thereby to overcome which branches of varying size have been made to serve t e different vessels and still without effectively attaining the desired end. Now it is an essential that the water shall discharge with equal force to each vessel and 1 desire to particularly effect this equal force in flushing two oi more closets at the same time as such equal flushing adds very considerably to t eir 25 efficiency, and to do this and overcome the difficulties I have enumerated instead of the vertical down pipe horizontal branch and branches therefrom supplying t le vessels to be flushed I form a connection or shoe or spreader and attach the same at or near the outlet from tank water supply or other source and from this shoe oi spreader which has as many outlets therefrom as there are vessels to be fiushe 30 lead to each vessel a separate pipe and hence l am able to secure equal foice vO a because each flushing pipe is taken from this special connection or shoe and am able to dispense with the horizontal pipe from which the distribution has hitherto been made and from which it has been impossible without very considerable difficulty to distribute the flushing water with equal force to each vessel, and 35 further as the inlets or flushing flushing pipes of lead iron or other meial have to be connected to vessels of earthenware or unlike material I have devised tor is connection a special coupling in which by the pressure of a nut on a ru ei ung I expand the latter and cause it to fill the space between the metal of which my connection is formed and the earthenware body into which it fits thus securing a 40 tight ioint and further as the vessels in some instances require their discharge connecting to a metal or other pipe I so modify the shape and torm of the connection that it may serve for this purpose also, aud whilst in t e is ca_e e rubber ring is placed within the earthenware socket of the flushing in eto c o-g anc