US192152A - Improvement in fountains - Google Patents

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w. J. & W. H. CLARK. FOUNTAIN.

16.192,152. Patented :une 19.1877.

w. J, & W. H. GLARK.

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UNITEI) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. CLARK AND WILLIAM nj. CLARK, OE sALEM, oHIo.

IMPROVEMENT lN FOUNTAINS.

Specification forming part of Letters'PatentNo. 192,152, dated June 19, 1877; application filed `December 16, 1876.

State of Ohio, have invcntcdnew and useful Improvements in Fountains, of which the following is a full and complete description, reference being had to the accompanying draw lng, making a part of this specification, in which-- Figure l is a side view of the fountain. Fig. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are detached sections.v

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views presented.

This invention is a fountain' 'theconstruction and operation of which are substantially as follows: The fountain referred to consists of a basin, A, supported on a standard, B, and base C. The holding capacity of the basin may be more or less, as the size of the fountain may require. Within the standard is secured a cylinder, D, Fig. 2, made water-tight at the bottom. The upper end thereof extends above the bottom of the basin, and is covered with a cap, E, fitting closely on over the outside, as shown in the drawing. In said cylinder is a piston, F, which, as will be seen, does not till the diameter of the cylinder, there being a space between it and the sides thereof for a water-passage. Around the upper end of the piston is an elastic band or valve, G, having a peripheral projection, b, at its upper end, which holds in place a wire, a, wrapped immediately below it around the band or valve, to secure a water-tight attachment of the valve to the piston. The upper end of the valve is gained into the piston so as not to obstruct the water-passage between it and the sides of the cylinder, the lower end being loose to spread out laterally to the sides of the cylinder, or to contract around the piston, constituting a valve to open and close the waterpassagc. H is a jet-pipe passing vertically through the piston and cylindei, and through the cap to the outside, and terminates in a nozzle, I, within and at the center of the basin. -Thelower end ofthe pipe terminates in anopen foot or rest, J, whereby the end of the pipe is prevented from being drawn through the bore in the piston, and is also raised from the bottom of the cylinder for the admission of water into the pipe through the openings in the foot or rest.

A sponge, h, or similar porous substance, is placed within the nozzle I, (in a removable `manner to facilitate cleaning or reuewal,)

whereby particles of dirt that would otherwise clog the jet-opening are arrested without retarding the iiow of water to the jet-opening. rEhe sponge or its equivalent may be placed within the jet-pipe or at its lowerend with a similar good result for convenient acl cess. However, its location within the nozzle` is preferred. It will be seen, on examination of Fig. 2, that the pipe does not wholly fit the borein the piston, but is 'loose therein, so that it may slide freely through, but which, however, is made water-tight in the piston by a packing, c, fitting around the pipe .and secured in a stuffing-box, K, of which L is the screw-follower for compressing the packing in the box and around the pipe, as shown in Fig. 2, wherein it will be seen that the inner edge of the packing is beveled from each side to the center, thereby presenting an annular projection or rib to the pipe 5. hence, the contact ot' the packing with the pipe is but a line of surface, and, therefore, the packing offers but little frictional resistance to the movement of the pipe in the piston. The packing may be rounded or beveled on one side only. The shape shown in Fig. 2 is preferable, however.

Thepractical loperation of the above-described apparatus is as follows: The piston is adjusted in the cylinder, as shown in` Fig. 2, with the jet-pipe projecting through the cap andthe nozzle attached thereto, as seen in said Fig. 2. Water is now poured into the basin until it and the cylinder are both iilled. The water flows into the cylinder through an opening in the cover around the jet-pipe. The piston is then pulled upward by the jetpipe until it is felt to touch the cap ot" the cylinder. The jet-pipe is then pushed down to its former positionthat is, with the foot J standing on the bottom of the cylinder. The piston, being made of lead, will descend in the cylinder of its own gravity, and in so doing forces the water below in the cylinder into the pipe, up through which it passes into the basin above. The piston is followed'in its descent by the water in the basin, and thus a uniform height of water is maintained in the basin at all times. The piston, having descended to the bottom of the cylinder, is again drawn up as before, and will again descend, forcing the Water below it up the pipe into the basin. While the pistoni is descending, the water below it forces the valve G outward to the sides of the cylinder in such a manner as to prevent the passage of water from below up around the piston, it being forced through the jet-pipe. On the ascent ofthe piston the valve G will contract around it and allow the piston to be lifted through the water above. Water.- passages through the piston, and valves to open and close the same, are thereby dispensed with, the boreA in the piston being solelyto accommodate the passage of the jetpipethrough the piston, the passage of water through the bore being prevented entirely by the packing c.

The arrangement of the jet-pipe makes it a convenient means of lifting the piston to start the fountain, and dispenses with the necessity of special devices for that purpose. It also enables us to deliver the jet within and at the center ofthe basin,and yet avoid bends or angles in the pipe, which retard the ow of water through it, rendering it difficult to clean, and making it necessary to provide slip-joints or couplings in the pipe to accommodate the removal of the piston from the cylinder. These slip-joints or couplings in pipe are obpurpose specified.

and thereby diminish the running-time 0f the fountain.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The piston F and expansive valve G, secured thereto in the manner as described, in combination with the' cylinder D, substantially as herein set forth, and for the purpose specified.

2. The movable jetpipe H, constructed and arranged to operate in combination with the piston F and cylinder D, substantially in the manner described, and for the purpose herein specified.

3. 'lheA packing c or its equivalent, in combination with the jet-pipe H and piston F, substantially as herein set' forth, and for the 4. In combination with the jet-pipe H, the foot J or its equivalent, substantially as herein described, and for the purpose specified.

5. The combination of the' piston F, the valve G, the packing c, the jet-pipe H, the cylinder D, and basin A, substantially as herein described, and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: v L. M. BAUN, LUoIEN L. GILBERT.

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