US85879A

US85879A - Improvement in hydrants

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Publication number: US85879A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1869-01-12
Anticipated expiration: 1886-01-12

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT LOUIS IV. WERNER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN HYDRANTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 85,879, dated January l2, 1869.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS W. WERNER, of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hydrants; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part, of this speciication, in which the drawing represents a central vertical section of my improved hydrant, the middle part being broken away to bring both ends of the hydrant within the limits of the sheet. y

The object of this invention is to provide a hydrant which is simple, eective in its Opereration, and easily taken up to repair or clean out when occasion requires.A

The parts shown in red are accessory to the working of the parts claimed as new.

The barrel of the hydrant is shown at L, and may be the common-sized gas-pipe used within buildings.

The valve-chamber U is formed with a lateral chamber, D, cast on it, and communicating with the valve-chamber'by ports b b, as shown.

The valve C (having. a socket, E, for the valve-rod G) is composed of leather washers, encircling the socket E, and clamped against the socket by means of a nut, as shown.

The chamber U terminates in, a conical eX- tension, B, which is cast on the said chant ber, and which ts water-tightwithin a corresponding conical seat, Al1aving three lugs, J J. This seat is affixed te the water-pipe in the ground by any suitable means, as a screwthread. A nut, T, unites.| ,the hydrant-barrel L with the valve-chambengd, as shown.

Rods H H H, having l heads K K, pass through the lugs J J on the seat A, and also through similar lugs J J .on the head-sleeve Q, which latter is screwedfonto the upper end oi' the hydrant-barrel L, `shown.

The valve-rod G is aiiixed within the socket E of the swivel-coupling, which works on the reduced end of the screwqstem N, as shown, which latter passes through the cap l? an d work s with a thread within the head Q, as shown.

In practice, the hydrant is putin by inserting the conical end B in its seat A and screwing up the nuts M M, which clamp the hyy Ot the water left in the barrel belowr the spout I. The lower face of the valve, when the latter is seated, closes the connection with the valve B, and the side surface of the valve also closes the lower opening, b, thus doubly securing the hydrant from leakage.

Vhen the interior of the hydrant-barrel or the valve-chamber needs cleaning, or any part requires repair or readjustment, the hydrantbarrel and its attachments can be withdrawn without the labor of digging up the hydrant, as is usually the caseundersuch circumstances, for the nuts M M have only to be unscrewed, when the barrel L and chamber U can be withdrawn from the ground.

The hydrant is simple and of small cost, and is seldom out of repair.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentlhe combination and arrangement of the valve-chamber U and head Q with the conical seat A and screw-rods H, when the conical end B of the valve-chamber is adapted to t into the seat A and the valve C held above said end, whereby the water entering the latter passes around and above the Valve into the barrel L, as lierein described, for the purpose specified.

The above s1 ecification of my invention signed by me this 15th day of February.

LOUIS W. WEB-NER.

Witnesses ALEX. F. ROBERTS, J. M. COVINGTON.