US541676A

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Publication number: US541676A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-06-25
Anticipated expiration: 1912-06-25

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(No Model.)

A H. PESOHGES.

CLEARING AND PURIFYING APPARATUS;

.No. 5 1L676. A Patented June 25, 1895.

A @WVMY/ U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMANN PESCHGES, OF POTSDAM, GERMANY. I

CLEARING AND PURIFYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,676, dated June 25, 1895.

Application filed September 9, 1893. Serial No. 485,201. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, HERMANN PEsCHGEs, engineer, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, and a resident of Potsdam, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Clearing and Purifying Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention consists of a clear-' ing and purifying apparatus, founded on the principle of the siphon, viz., that if the ends of two communicating tubes are immersed in liquids having differing water levels, the liquid having the higher level will flow to the lower level, the air being excluded from the tubes, through any quantity of intermediate liquid on account of the slight cohesion of its particles.

The apparatus is so constructed that itm ay be employed on a large scale withoutan air pump and that the scum or impurities deposited in the lower cistern may be removed without the aid of a scum pump, by opening the said cistern.

In order to make the present specification more easily intelligible, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout.

The apparatus consists of the cistern a,the uppercistern bhavinga filter arranged therein and the air chamber 0, the two cisterns being connected by means of pipes ddand the cistern b with the air chamber 0 by the pipe e. The air chamberc is provided with an inletf. The apparatus has further an inlet pipegand an outlet pipe hcommunicating with the pipee. The inlet pipe g has avalve it, while the pipes d d are provided with valves 2' and t", the outlet pipe h having valve Z. The inlet to the air chamber a has a cock m and the connection 6 a cook 41. The cistern a is provided with an outlet cock 0 and an air cock the cistern b and the air chamber 0 having air cocks q and r.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: In starting work the valves is and Z and the cock 0 are closed, the other cocks and valves remaining opened. The apparatus may be filled through the funnel above the filterf, either direct from the water supply or by .means of a hand pump, in the case of the smaller kinds of apparatus. After this has taken place the valves 70 and Z are opened and all the other valves and cooks, with the exception of i and 2" closed. Thus the water or any other liquid entering the apparatus at s will continue to flow out at 25 While the air contained in the same will pass into the air chamber 0 and all other impurities will be deposited in the cistern a. As soon as the chamber 0 is filled with air, the valve 0% should be closed and the cocks, 'm and 0" opened, the chamber may then be refilled and the apparatus continue working.

I claim as my invention The combination of the lower cistern a havinginlet pipe g with valve k and outlet pipe 0, the upper cistern 1) with superposed air chamber 0, pipe connection 6 with cock at from said upper cistern to said air chamber,

suitable inlet funnel filler and cook m to the latter, and outlet pipe h to said upper cham her having valve 6 and connecting with the said pipe e pipe connections 01 and d between wand 12 having valves t' and v1 and air cocks p, qand r to the cisterns a and b and air chamber 0 respectively substantially as described. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

HERMANN PESOl-IGES. Witnesses:

W. BAUTZ, H. SoHLoRF.