US353723A - Force and drain faucet - Google Patents

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A. J. 8:; E. H. WEATHERHBAD.

FORGE AND DRAIN FAUGET.

N0. 353,723. Patented. Deal], 1886.

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FORGE AND DRAIN FAUOET.

No. 353,723. Patented Diao. 7,1333.

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FORCE AND DRAIN FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,723, dated December 7,1886.

Application filed August 19, 1886. Serial No. 211,233. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ALBERT J. \VEATHER- HEAD and EDWARD H. WEATHERHEAD, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Force and Drain Faucets; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to force and drain faucets, and is an improvement 011 the construction shown ,in patents to Glass and Veatherhead, No. 328,651, October 20, 1885, and Glass, \Veatherhead, and Collins, No. 328,877, October 20, 1885.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of the complete apparatus with a vertical section of the wall of the refrigerator. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a view of another form of faucet or drain tube. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the inner portion-of the tube and the yoke loose thereon, and Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the yoke. Fig. 6 is a perspective showing pump-handle detached from the valve.

A represents the faucet with the usual duct, a, and spigot and valve to. At theinner end the faucet is provided with an annular enlargement to form a shoulder, a and has a screw-threaded projection, a, beyond the shoulder and a nut, a, for securing the yoke.

B is the pump-cylinder, which is socketed and firmly fastened in yoke O, which connects the pump and faucet. The socket c in the yoke O, for receiving the pump-cylinder, does not extend entirely through the yoke, which leaves the uncut portion on the back of the yoke to form the end or head of the pump. This head is provided with an inductionvalve, 0, while an eduction valve or projection, 0 is formed, preferably, in the top of the yoke. Theair-supply is thus drawn from the refrigerator and pumped cold into the barrel. The yoke O is further provided with an opening, 0 which fits snugly on the faucettube against the shoulder a the nut a serving to hold the yoke firmly on the tube.

Obviously, the means for locking the yoke on the tube or faucet might be somewhat varied from the precise construction shown without departing from the spirit of the invention, but we prefer to use the nut, as shown.

Dis the piston-rod, and E the operatinglever. The rod D is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as having twobends, d d,and straight part d, and in Fig. 3 with a single bend, d, at its inner end. Either form may be used, according to the point at which the operating-lever is pivoted on the faucet, the object in either and any case being to obviate the necessity of the extra slot through the wall F of the refrig-' erator, rendered necessary under the patents hereinbefore referred to. This is accomplished, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by so bending the rod D at d d as to throw the straight part of the rod where it passes through the wall of the refrigerator down to or upon the faucet, thus enabling us to make connection between the lever and the pump-piston through the opening formed for the said tube and utilizing the said opening for both tube and rod. Another method of accomplishing the same result is by locating the valve or supports on which the lever D is pivoted down on the neck of the spout to such an extent that the point of attachment between the lever and piston-rod will be about on a plane with the top of the tube or faucet. This obviates the necessity of bending the piston-rod at the outer end, although, if desired, a slight bend may also be formed there. In this manner and by either construction the connectingrod is brought into such close proximity to the fancet during the operation of the pump that the single openingf in the wall F serves admirably for both purposes. If found necessary, the opening may be enlarged a little to give easy play to the rod.

In Fig. 6 we show the lever which operates the pump-piston separate and apart from the valve, so that both may be operated independently.

\Ve are aware of the following patents, viz:

First, N 0. 214,531, in which the valve is adapted to be held open to produce a continuous flow of liquid by the use of an outside bent rod with a lever connected to the valve; second, of Patent N 0. 337,210, having a faucetbody and pump-cylinder integral therewith, a tubular piston-rod extending through the faucet and pump and adapted to convey the fluid to the spigot, and apiston thereon inside the faucet-body and pump-cylinder; thirdly, of Patent No. 339,295, in which is described a combined beer pump and faucet to be usedin connection with an ice-box, the faucet being enlarged in its body and provided with a tube longitudinally through the same for the passage and operation of the pump connectingrod.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

In beer apparatus, a faucet constructed substantially as described, and bored simply for the passage of'fluid, in combination with an air-pump side by side with the faucet, a pis-' ton-rod bent inward toward the faucet, as at d, and having a straight body portion, as at d, practically in contact with the outer surface of the faucet, and a lever to operate said passage of the faucet and piston-rod side by side, substantially as shown and described.

ALBERT .l. WEATHERHEAD. EDWARD H. WEATHERHEAD. Vifitnesses:

H. T. FISHER, WM. M. MONROE.

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