US135035A - Improvement in rain-water switches and reversible valves for cisterns - Google Patents

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L. GUUDBEAU.

Rain-Water-Switch and Reversible-Valves for Bisterns, &c.

Patented Jan. 21, 1873.

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LOUIS GOUDREAU, OF KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAIN-WATER SWITCHES AND REVERSIBLE VALVES FOR CISTERNS, &c. H

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,035, dated January 21,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS GOUDREAU, of the city and county of Kankakee and State of Illinois, have invented new and 'useful Improvements in Rain-Water Switch or Iteversible Valve for Gisterns and other purposes; and I do hereby declare the following description thereof to be full, clear, and exact specifications of the aforesaid-named invention and improvements, reference being hereby had to the accompanying drawing as a part of such specifications.

Like letters represent and refer to like or corresponding parts.

Figure I represents a front view or elevation of my invention and improvements. Fig. II is a vertical section on a line through the center, showing the various parts of which my improvements are constructed; and Fig. III, Sheet II, represents and shows the construction of my said rain-water switch or reversible valve, and the center-shaft to which the same is attached also, the crank by which the switch or valve is operated.

Whenever soft or bituminous coal is used for cooking or warming purposes in a house or other building, it generally soils the roof by soot or other matter, so that when rain falls thereupon the same is washed from the roof down through the eavestroughs and conduits into the water-cisterns, when such are used for the gathering and holding of rain-water for whatever purpose desired. The rain-water thus gatheredinto such cisterns is greatly soiled and injured for use. Besides all these, great quantities of dirt or other injurious sediment will be gathered into such cisterns from the roof of the building having such water-conduits. By such gathering of sediment much trouble is caused to and experienced by those havin occasion or desire to use clean or pure rain-water. To prevent the gathering of such obnoxious and injurious sediment in the cistern connectedwith the roof or roofs of any building, as aforesaid, is the main object of my aforesaid invention, by the use of which the chief advantage to be derived is the constant supply of ,clean and pure rain-water from the cistern to which the same is attached, in the manner herein provided and set forth.

Having thus stated the object and nature of my aforesaid invention and improvements,

I will here proceed to describe the construction and operation of the same, in order to enable those who may be skilled in the art to which my invention relates to make and use the same, which are substantially as follows:

A, Figs. I and II, represents a box made of tin or other suitable metal, and made watertight, and of any form or size that may be desired to accomplish the object or purpose of my invention. Upon the upper part of this box, having an inside space or chamber of any capacity that may be desired, I arrange and attach the pipe or conduit B leading from the cave-conduit by which water is conducted 1 from the roof of the building into said box A. The water from the roof passes therefrom through conduit B into the chamber of the box A. At the lower part of the box A, and leading from the chamber therein, I construct two pipes or conduits, G and D. One is for the use or purpose of conducting the rainwater from the chamber'in the box A to the cistern connected therewith. The other pipe or conduit is for the purpose of passing off or away from the cistern such water as may not be desirable to admit to the cistern; and such pipe may be called or known as the waste-water conduit, by and through which the water soiled or injured by means of the coal-soot or other injurious matter upon the roof is thrown off from the cistern, while the other pipe or conduit is for the use and purpose of conducting into the cistern the clean and pure rain-water from the roof. This result is obtained by means of the rain-water switch or reversible valve E, Figs. II and III. This switch or valve is constructed in form or shape substantially as shown at Fig. III, and

it may be of tin or any other suitable material and of strength or capacity desired. At or near the center thereof it is attached and securely fastened to the center hearing or shaft F, Figs. II and III, which is formed or shaped to correspond to the former shaft of the aforesaid rain-water switch or valve E. At one end of the shaft F I attach the crank G, by which the switch or valve is operated. This shaft has points of bearing in the box A in order to permit the same-to be operated.

The aforesaid switch or valve is moved and stationed substantially as shown at Fig. II. It will then be seen that the rainwaterfrom the roof coming into said box A by and through the conduit B isthrown or passed into the conduit D. 'When it is desirable to change the water from the conduit D into the conduit 0, the aforesaid switch or valve E will be moved or reversed by means of the shaft and crank, substantially as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. II. The crank G, Fig. I, may be used to indicate the conduit into which the water is passing. Either of the conduits G or D may be attached to the cistern.

H, Fig. II, is a partition-plate used to prevent the waste of water into any other than the desired conduit, and it may be of any material, form, or strength desired. 7

Having thus described the nature, construc tion, and operation of my invention aforesaid, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement and combination of the partition-plate H with the conduits O and D, and with the switch or reversible valve E, constructed in the manner and for the purposes herein described and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have, on this 8th day of July, 1872, hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS GOUDREAU.

Witnesses:

L. J. GOUDREAU, A. HAINES.

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