US404542A - hubert - Google Patents

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PHILIP G. IIUBERT, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

TIME-VALVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,542 dated June 4,, 1889.

Application filed December 31, 1888- Serial No. 295,046. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP G. HUBERT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Time-Valves, of which the following is a specification. I

I have illustrated a valve embodyingmy improvement as co-operating with a tilting water-closet bowl.

I will describe in detail a time-valve embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan or top view of a tilting water-closet bowl embodying my improvement coacting therewith. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof, taken on the plane of the line or :0, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view, on an enlarged scale, of a valve embodying my improvement, a part being broken away to save space.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a water-closet bowl of the tilting kind, shown as provided with trunnions a upon its sides, which trunnions are journaled in bearings a, formed upon legs or supports b, extending upward from a base I), which may be secured to-a floor or other support.

B designates a soil-receptacle formed with the bowl, and O a receptacle for clear water, also formed with the bowl, and from which the soil-receptacle is flushed when the bowl is tilted or rocked forward upon its trunnions. The bowl may be tilted by any suitable means, (not shown,) and the soil-receptacle may discharge into a soil-pipe in the usual manner.

D designates a partition dividing the soilreceptacle from the clear-water receptacle. This partition is loosely hung near its upper end in the sides of the bowl, so that when the latter is tilted the water may pass freely from the clean-water receptacle to the soil-receptacle. The bowl is flushed from a pipe, E, extending across the bowl above the partition D and supported in upwardly-extendin g portions (1 of the legs 1). Water is supplied to the pipe E through a pipe 6 in communication near its other end with a valve F.

The valve F, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3, consists of a shell f provided with an ingress-port f and an egress-port f Within the valve-shell is a valve-disk f The interior of the shell is provided with a seat f for the valve f I have shown the valve as provided upon its upper side with a guide-spinmy improvement an arm g extending out-- wardly and over the edge of the bowl. WVhen the bowl-istilted and the clean-water receptacle is raised to discharge its contents into the soil-receptacle, the edge of the bowl will come in contact with the arm g of the trip and raise it, thus rocking the arm upwardly upon its pivot. The spindle f being directly above the trip, is by this movement elevated, carrying with it the valve f and thus admitting water from above the valve to beneath the same, whence it will pass outwardly to the pipe E to again flush the bowl.

H designates a ball-float of ordinary construction. This float is adjustably secured in a lever 1, near one end of the latter. The lever I is fulcrumed upon a lug or projection h upon the valve-chest, and is bifurcated, so as to extend about the lug or projection g, the spindle f, and the lug or projection h. The

short arm h of the lever, which is also bifurcated, extends downwardly and at approximately right angles to the main portion or other arm of the lever. The lower end of the short arm h is, however, closed by a crosspiece h The trip G extends between the side portions of the arm h of the lever and normally rests upon the cross-piece b at the lower end ofsaid arm. When the bowl has been tilted, as described, and the trip G raised, water, of course, flows out of the clean-water receptacle. This causes the ball-float to drop and the lever I consequently to rock upon its fulcrum. The. raising of the trip G has brought it into such a position that a toe or projection j, with which it is provided upon its under side, will be opposite the opening between the side portion of the arm h of the lever, and the rocking of the lever will bring the toe within said opening. The toe and the cross-piece 7L2 Will thus be brought into contact, as shown more clearly in dotted outline in Fig. 3, and the lever Will then act as a lock to maintain the trip in such position as to keep the valve open. Vhen by the flow of Water the ball-float II is raised to a proper height, the lever will be moved. out of engagement with the trip, the latter will fall, and the valve Will return to its seat, thus cutting off the supply of Water.

I have shown a supply-pipe J for supplying water to the valve.

Although I have illustrated and described my improvement as applied to a water-closet bowl, I Wish it understood that I do not limit myself to such use, as it may obviously be applied to other uses, and the trip G may be operated in any suitable manner.

My improved valve is very positive in its action, contains few parts, is not liable to get out of order, and is manufactured at small cost.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a time-valve, the combination, with a valve-chest, of a valve arranged therein, a trip supported from said valve-chest and adapted to come in contact with the valve or a part thereof to move the valve from its seat, a lever also supported from the valve-chest and operating to automatically lock said trip in a position to hold the valve open, and a float acting on said lever to release the trip, substantially as specified.

PHILIP G. 'I'IUBER'I.

\Vitnesses:

FRED'K. HAYNES, ARTHUR H. GAMBLTN.

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