US994747A - Drinking-faucet. - Google Patents

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J. P. HEBNEY. DRINKING FAUGET. A'PPLICATION FILED DEG. 9, 1910.

WITNEssEs:

UNITED sTATns PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH I. HEENEY, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO M. H. FOUNDRY- AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OE BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

DRINKING-FAUCET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1911.

Application filed December 9, 1910. Serial No. 596,493.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a middle vertical section taken through the faucet', parts being in elevation; Fig. 2 is a top plan of the faucet; Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section Von the line 3-3 vof Fig. 1, looking up; and Fig. 4 is an elevation of the faucet.

The present inventionl is an improvement `on the hygienic drinking-faucet forming the subject-matter of my pending application, Serial Number 574,940; and While having the same objects in view and possessing the same advantages as the faucet of said pending al'iplication, the present improvement contemplates certain additional advantages, notalily that of preventing the possibility ofaliuse of the faucet by children and mischievous persons. Such abuse consists in sealing up with the fingers the main discharge openinpr of the faucet, and driving the water through the small openings so as lo produce forcible streams of water which they play over other children and persons, thereby diverting the faucet from its legitimate purpose. This handling of the faucet too is liable to deposit disease germs on the surface of the cup and thus introduce them into the stream intended for drinking.

The means by which the advantages just referred to are obtained will be fully apparent from adetailed description of the, invention, which is as follows-- Referring to the lrawings, 1 represents a pipe fitting through which water under sutlicient hea-d is supplied to the faucet. The faucet irroper comprises a hollow member or cup 2 having a bottom inlet passage-way o communicating 'with the passage-way of the pipe. lt'y-Screwed into the inlet rr within the cup 2 `a holow post 4 on which formed an annular nge 5 spaced from the inner wall of the cup, said fiange being provided with a series of relief water-discharge ports S for a purpose presently to appear. The flange 7' is provided with a rim or wall 9 which is beaded over the edge of a porcelain or equivalent hood or bonnet 10, the latter forming with the screw-cap 7, a chamber 11 across which the water is projected in` its discharge from the -cup 2, the relief ports 8 leading from said chamber. The screw-cap 7 is provided with a cent-ral relatively large openiqg 12 bounded by a series of smaller or constricted ports or opening 13, the hood 10 being provided With a. similar series of large and small. discharge openings 1.2', 13', posi- .tioned directly -over and in the path of discharge from the openings 12, 13. as show'n by the plain arrows in Fig. 1. The objecb of the small openings 13' is to preserve'the integrity ofthe stream as a whole, discharged from thehood 10. the same as in my pending application aforesaid. there being practically no spreading of the streams issuing from the openings 1Q. 13. the water shooting across thechamber directly from the openings 12. 13. into and through the openings 12', 13'; What little may lodge within the chamber'11. (if any) will trickle out through the relief ports 8.

In Fig-dattie cup or faucet is shown as it appears in act-ual operation when not molested. Should a mischievous person close the central discharge port 12' (and a partof the ports 13') with his finger in an eudea vor to secure a squirting stream through the remaining open port or ports 13. his purpose will bc frustratedhy the present improvement. because the increased arcas of the relief ports 8 will allowthe Water choked off atthe ports 152'. 13', to run out through said relief ports and no squirting stream can be obtained.

'l-lhis forth of drinking faucet. is admirable tori:-iustitutions such as factories, schools, :md5 the like where the factory hands and punlijls might seek amusementl in squirting streams of water upon their companions. l low member, the outer wall of the cap-piece ha ving acentral large opening surrounded by The faucet here shown `would not respond to such abuse, and the practice would thus heet once stopped, since a closing of the discharge ports 12', 13, would-divert the water downward 'or toward the inlet end to the cup as shown by the feathered arrows inFig. l.

' Hating described'my invention, what I claim is2-ff.

1. A drinking faucet comprising a hollow member having an inlet or intake opening at one end, va chamber at the opposite en provided with an inner central large o en- .iiig and :i series of small openings encirc ing the large opening for establishing c0minunication with the hollow member, and provided with a corresponding outer series'of .large and small discharge openings in the path ofthe streams passing through the innerI openings, said discharge openings d1- recting the water 1n e direction fronti the .intake to the holloiv'm'einber, the chamber being provided with relief openings out of range oi the path of t-he streams passing through the inner` openings into the chambei', said relief openings discharging toward the intake to the hollow member. f

2. A drinking faucet comprising a hollow member having an inlet or intake at one end for the Wateiga hollow cap-pieceat the op" A posite end overlfipping the walls of the hol- Gopies of this petent maybe obtained smaller openings, and the -inner wall having :i corresponding series of openings opposite to the openings in the outer wall for directing the streams from .the hollow' member 'through vthe chamberand into and through the outer opeiiingsLthe portions of the inner wall or' the hollow cap-piece overlapping the hollow member being provided with lrelief 'ports discharging toward the inlet tol the hollow member.

3. A drinking faucet comprising a cup provided with an intake for the water, a

hollow sciew-capfopposite the intake intoy the chamber of which the water from the 4cup initiallyr discharges, the outer wall' of. tlie'scrcw-cap being provided with discharge openings formingr a stream to be deliyered to Itheinoii'th of the drinken-'the inner wall being provided with relief ports for delivering the streams in a direction opposite to Athe direction of discharge of the drink supplying openings,'upon the total or partial sealing of ,the last named openings.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature, in presence o f twowitnesses.

' JOSEPH P. HEENEY.V

lvitnesses: 5

EMIL STAREK A. W. POWELL.

for ve oentsleaoh, 'by addressing the Commissioner of Zyllaten'tsi,v

' Washington, D. U. l

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