US1063468A - Automatic cellar-drainer. - Google Patents

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A. R. PRIBIL.

AUTOMATIC CEIJLAR DRAINEB.. I APPLIQATION P11/BD SEPT. 1s, 1911.

1,063,468, Patented June 3, 1913.

UNITED- sTATEs PATENT oEErcE.

ALEXIS R. PRIBIL, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T0 PENBERTHY INJECTDB CO.,

. 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION 0F' MICHIGAN.

Specification of lLetters Patent.

Patented June 3, 1913.

v Application led September 13, 1911. SexialNo.` 649,141.

T o all whom it may concern:

therein to the accompanying drawings.

ing devices, and it has for one of its objects the provision' of a float-operated ejectorp mechanism which will become operative under a full head of water pressure irrespec-g tive of how slow the water level rises in the i cellar or in a special'well therein.

changed in accordance with different waterpressures prevailing 'in different localities and is proof against tampering or accidental y disarrangement.

\ Further objects of the inventionwill hereinafter appear and be defined in the claims. The invention has been clearly illustrated s in the accompanying drawing which represents in vert-ical cross-section a cellar-drainwell equipped with my improved, .device which is primarily intended for discharging the drainage 'of cellars or sub-basements the floors of which are below the levelof the sewers,.so that consequently force must be applied to extract the cellar-water, in contradistinction to systems in the water drains gravitatively.

. In the drawingthe well or basin W is sunk below the floor of the cellar which is to be drained, and a high-pressure water service-pipe P enters the well and has at its lower end a strained-casing S connected with a valve casing 10 provided with a seat 11 the aperture of which is adapted to be opened or closed by a superposed valvedisk 12. The organization of the valve is such that the water pressure tends to close the valve-disk, and the latter has a stem 13 guided in a packed sleeve 14 which is removable from the casing so that a smaller or larger stem may be substituted for the one in use, according to the effective toppressure which it is desiredto obtain against y the upper area of the disk 12. An ear 15 on E lated to a lever 17 pivoted to the valve stem Be it known that I, ALEXIS R. PRiBIL, af

cit-izenof the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county' of Wayne and State o1c Michigan, have invented cer-l tain new and useful Improvements i'n Automatic C'ellar-Drainers, o-which the ollowing is a specification, rererencebeing had and having its free end connected (by links 18) wit-h a float 19 which is guided for free vertical movement on a pipe 20. This pipe constitutes a 'suction pipe which has a strainer 21 at its lower .end and vthrough which the wellwater may be drawn .upward by a streamissuing throughy an ejectornozzle 22when the valve disk 12 is opened. This invention relates to automatic drain l In the preferred construction sho-wn, the ejector-nozzle is screwed into a casing 23 having its discharge-end connected with a waste pipe 24, which leads to a sewer or other convenient discharge-conduit.

The operation is 'as follows: As the Water rises in the well, it will have a tendency The invention has, furthermore, for itsf object the provision of an improved fluid' controlling device which may be varied or" normally to raise the float at the level shown. However, inasmuch as high-pressure water is holding the valve disk closed, the float. cannot at first rise with the well water until the latter has att'ained a level substantiallyV quickly throw the valve wide open thereby allowing a full stream of high pressure water to pass through the Iejector nozzle and thus begin to draw-up the well water through the `suction pipe and discharge the same through the discharge pipe. As the well-water level falls, so will the float descend until the high pressure again becomes effective on the top-surface of the valve disk and quickly close the same.-

As'will be readily understood, the location of the float 19 on the pipe 20 below the plane of theinjector nozzle`22, causes the inlet end of `the discharge element (the pipe 20, casing 23, and pipe 24 vconstituting such element) to act as a guide for the movements of the float to prevent placing any lateral strains on the valve or its stem; furthermore, this particular location of the loat enables the device t0 be installed in a well of comparatively small area in horizontal section, the well being of a size sufficient to receive the necessary parts in compact form and at the same time permit of the use of a float of considerable size. It should also be noted that substantially all of the operating parts (excepting the' iioat itself) are posi.- tioned entirely above the Water level so that rusting, etc., of these parts is practically eliminated, since no actual contact of drainage iuid and parts is had.

Any leakage around the valve disk and its seat., as Well as at the other connections Will gravitate in the Well and form a part of the liquid .to be automatically ejected therefrom by the operation of the ioat.

I claim l l. In a device of the character described and in combination, a fluid-pressure supply, a Waste de'scharge element having a permanently open inlet, injecting means adapted to be operated bysuch supply and extending into said discharge element above its inlet end, and means foi` controlling the passage of the supply to the inject-ing means, Said controlling means including a lioat carried by and movable longitudinally of said element below the plane of the injecting means, said element acting as a guide for the float.

2. In a device of the character described and in combination', a Waste discharge ele- A ment having its inlet end adapted to extend into a collecting basin, said element including a pipe leadmg upwardly from the inlet end,` Waste iuid ejecting mechanism, and means for controlling said' mechanism, said means including a float movable longitudinally o-f and guided by said pipe, said mechanism beinv operative in said element above the float, the movements of the float controlling the operation of the mechanism.

3. In a device of the character described and in combination, a fluid-pressure supply, a Waste discharge element, an injector nozzle ext-ending into the discharge element at a point above and removed from its inlet end, a valve between said supply and nozzle, a float movable longitudinally of and guided by said element below the plane of the nozzle, and connections between said float and the valve to cause the upward movement of the float to open the valve When the flotation pressure reaches the pressure of the supply on the valve.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALEXIS R. PRIBIL.

W itnesses I". E. ERNST, G. E. MGGRANN.

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