US2032973A

US2032973A - Water cistern

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Publication number: US2032973A
Application number: US13365A
Authority: US
Inventors: Blake Joseph
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1935-03-27
Filing date: 1935-03-27
Publication date: 1936-03-03
Anticipated expiration: 1953-03-03

Description

March 3, 1936. J BLAKE 2,032,973

WATER CISTERN Filed March 27, 1935 Jase 2% 51a Zn? INVENTOR ATTORN EY Patented Mar. 3, 1936 1 Claim.

The invention relates to a water cistern and more especially to a water diverting system for cisterns.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character, wherein rain water initially falling upon a roof will be caught in a trap and thereafter automatically diverted for fiow into a cistern, in that the initial rain water may be impure or dirty due to contact with the roof of a building and thus in this manner the water flowing into the cistern will be clean and pure.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character, wherein a valve is located in a down pipe from the gutter of a roof of a building and is automatically controlled by the flow of rain water so that such rain water initially falling upon the roof can be operated from the continued flow of rain Water and the latter diverted into a cistern, the apparatus being novel in construction and is entirely automatic in the working thereof.

A further object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character, which is extremely simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efiicient in its operation, possessing but few parts, durable, and inexpensive to manufacture and install.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which discloses the preferred embodiment of the invention and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l is a front elevation partly broken away of the apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation partly in section.

Figure 3 is a top plan view.

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical sectional view through the valve.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates a portion of a down pipe from the gutter for a roof of a building and is of conventional kind while at the lower end of this pipe is a two-way elbow, the ways being indicated at I0 and II, respectively, and the way Ill opens into a tank l2 through the top thereof while the way II communicates with a lead pipe I3 opening into a cistern beneath ground (not shown).

Fitted within the pipe A at the communication of the ways II! and II therewith is a swinging valve I4 which when in one position directs the flow through the pipe A into the tank I2 and in the other position the fiow is through 6 the lead I3 into the cistern. The turning pivot or axle l5 for the valve I4 externally of the pipe A has fixed thereto a lever or arm IS with which is connected a coiled retractile or tensioning spring H the same being suspended from a bracket I8 fitted with the pipe A above the valve It. This spring I! normally holds the valve in a position to direct the fiow ofwater within the pipe A into the tank I2.

Connected with the lever I6 by a suspension 15 link I9 is a water bucket 20 and this bucket is adapted to be filled with water from a discharge spout 2| leading from the tank I2 at one side thereof near its top so that when the tank I2 is filled with water at a predetermined level therein the overflow of such water will be discharged through the spout 2| to be caught in the bucket 20. When the bucket 20 contains water of a determined quantity it causes the lever It to be lowered for the automatic shifting of 25 the valve It to the position to shut off the way Ill and thus stop the fiow of water into the tank and diverting such flow through the lead l3 into the cistern.

The lever I6 also has connected therewith a 30 link 22 operating a cut-off valve 23 within the spout 2| and this valve 23 is closed when the valve I I is moved to a position to shut off the flow to the tank l2 for the closing of the spout 2| for preventing further fiow of water from the 35 tank I2 into the bucket 20. The valves I4 and 23 operate simultaneously with each other.

The rain water initially falling upon a roof will flow from pipe A directly into the tank I2 until the bucket 20 shifts by the How of water 40 from the tank I2 thereinto whence the rain water flowing in the pipe A will be diverted from the said tank I2 into the cistern through the lead I3 thereto.

The bucket 2|] is readily detachable from the 45 link I9 for the emptying of the contents thereof at the will of the user of the apparatus.

The tank has fitted therewith at its lower end a drain faucet or spigot 24.

What is claimed is:

The combination with a down pipe from a roof gutter, of a two-way elbow communicating with said pipe, a tank having one way of said elbow opening through the top thereof, a lead pipe opening into a cistern and communicating with 55 the other way of said elbow, a swinging valve within the elbow for diverting liquid to either way thereof, a lever operating said valve and arranged exteriorly of the elbow, a coiled tensioning spring connected with the down pipe above the lever and also connected with the latter, a suspension link connected with the lever, a bucket removably carried by said link, an overflow spout leading from the tank for communication with the said bucket, and a cutoff valve arranged within the spout and having connection with the lever for the automatic closing of said spout when the valve in the elbow will shut 5 ofi flow to the tank.

JOSEPH BLAKE.