US653352A - Apparatus for distributing water. - Google Patents

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Patented Jul l0 I900. J. T. LACKEY. y

APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER.

(Application filed Nov. 27, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES T. LAOKEY, on GOSPORT, IOWA.

APPARATUS- FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,352, dated July 10, 1900. Application filed November 27, 1899. Serial No. 738 ,493. illomodel.)

To a, whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. LAoKEv,a citizen of the United States, residing at Gosport, in the county of Marion, State of Iowa,have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Distributing Water, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide simple, strong,durable,and inexpensive means in the nature of an attachment to be applied to any ordinary pump in which the pump-cylinder is submerged and whereby an operation of the pump will force water upwardly through a siphon connected with the well-tube to thereby start an automatic flow of water through the siphon and at the same time to permit water to flow upwardly through the well-tube of the pump and to permit the said automatic flow through the siphon to continue after the operation of pumping has ceased without the necessity of stopping the passage of air downwardly through the well-tube, and, further in this connection, to provide automatic means whereby the flow of water through the siphon maybe stopped when a re ceiving-tank is filledand again automatically started when the water-level in the said tank is lowered.

My invention consists, essentially, in the construction, arrangement, and combination, with an ordinary pump of the class having a submerged cylinder, of the siphon to be attached to the well-tube above the cylinder and beneath the water-level and to then pass upwardly and finally downwardly to a point of discharge at or below the waterlevel, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which a sectional view of a well is shown with my apparatus connected therewith, parts of which are also in section.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, I have used the reference-numeral 10 to indicate the well, and 11 a well-tube therein, supported on a platform 12 above the well and hav ing at its top a stuffing-box 13, a pump-handle 14:, a spout 15, and a gate-valve 16 therein. At the lower end of the well-tube, beneath the water-line in the well, is a pump-cylinder 17, of ordinary construction, having a valve 18 at its bottom, a strainer below the valve, and a plunger-valve 20, connected with a rod 21, which is attached to the handle 14. The said parts all perform the usual functions, and it is believed that their operation will be readily understood.

On the well-tube 11, a short distance above the cylinder 17 and beneath the water-line in the well, is a T-coupling 22, and a pipe 23 is attached thereto. This pipe 23 is divided into the branches 2i at its top, and obviously it may lead into any number of pipes 24: that may be found desirable. Each of the branches 24 is run underground to a point any suitable distance from the well and below the waterlevel in the well and enters a tank 25. In this tank 25 is an ordinary float-valve 26, so arranged as to out off the flow of water through the pipe 24 when the water reaches a point near the top of the tank. There is of course a tank 25 for each of the branches 24.

In practical use and assuming that the parts were arranged and combined as shown in the accompanying drawing and assuming, further, that the tanks are empty it is obvious that upon an operation of the pump water will be forced upwardly through the welltube and through the siphon-pipes until the tanks are filled. At the same time a current of water may flow upwardly through the welltube and out of the pump-spout. As soon, however, as the tanks are filled the automatic cut-offs in the tanks will prevent a further flow through the siphon-pipes, and all of the water will flow upwardly through the welltube. When the operation of pumping is discontinued, an automatic flow of water will be maintained through the siphon-pipes, and

because the siphon-pipe is connected with the well-tube below the water-level of the well the air in the well-tube cannot operate to break the siphon, as would be the case if the pumpspout were left open and the siphon and pipes connected with the well-tube above the waterlevel. It is obvious, further, that the same advantageous result could not be obtained if the siphon-pipes were connected with the welltube below the pump-cylinder, for in that case water could not be forced pwardly through the siphon-pipes to a height above that at which a column of water may be maintained by the air-pressure on the water in the wel1that is to say, it could not be forced up- I point of discharge below the water-level, and

wardly through the siphon-pipes. The advantage of this feature will be apparent when it is taken into consideration that it is frequently necessary in devices of this class to siphon water from one well to another where a hill intervenes between the wells.

I claim as my invention- An attachment for pum ps,of the submergedcylinder type, comprising a siphon-pipe arranged above the water-level and leading to a a branch pipe communicating with said siphon-pipe and also communicating with the Well-tube of the pump at a point below the water-level and above the submerged pump:

cylinder, for the purposes stated:

JAMES T. LAOKEY.

Witnesses:

S. P. LACKEY, S. L. LACKEY.

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