USRE753E - Improvement in faucets - Google Patents

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-accompanying drawings, making part of this JAMES POWELL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

l IMPROVEMENT lN FAUCETS.

Specification forming part of Letters-Patent No. 23,310', dated March 22, 1859; Reissue No. 753, dated l July 5, 1859.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern: is less liable to deraugerncnt, and is easily re- Be it known that I, JAMES` POWELL, of paired without detaching the supply-pipe. Cincinnati, in the county ot' Hamilton and The valve is operated with great facility, the State of Ohio, have invented a new and usecam having no'stop-pins or other restriction ful Improvement in Faucets; and'I hereby deto its sweep,nor any one arbitrary pointit clare thefollowing to be a full and exact de- Vm-ust assume in order to close or open the scription thereof, reference Abeing had to the passage, the cock being effectually closed at any point ot' one-third of the rotation of the specification.. cam-stem, and as effectually, opened at any The said invention relates chieiiy to a pepoint ol' the other two-thirds ot' its circuit. euliar arrangement of mechanism for openi The peculiar arrangement of the operative ing, closing, and guiding the valve. parts dispenses with the necessity ot' spring` In the accompanying drawings, Figure l, is 4connecting screws or pins to hold the valve an axial section ofthe valve-chamber, parallel stein in position. The cam being confined at with the operating-stem. Fig. 2 is a detached its periphery only by the yoke, whiehit touches viewofthe two stems. at two opposite points only, can be easily A is the valve-chamber. withdrawn for inspection, cleansing, or repair C is the operating stein, which stem is conofthe cock. It works with the least possible fined by a suitable guide-cap, l), and termifriction, and the dimensions of the yoke are nates in a pivot, c, which occupies a socket, l such as not .to involve any unsightly swelling E, in the chamber B. ot' the chamber at this part. rIhe adjustable F is a cam or eccentric on the stem C, Jfor shoulders M AM enable the valve to be set up operating the valve-stem H, 'as hereinafter as it wears, so as to dispense with thenecetexplained. i sily of' a new plug, and fthe parts do not re- Cr is a collar on the stem C, which acts in l quire to be made with themechanical precisconnection with a cushion, Q, to coniine the ion which is necessary when one shoulder ot pivot c within its socket. The valve-stcmH the plug or valve is a iixture. It will be evihas a liattened head, I, which tlattened pordent that this arrangement is equally applition is slotted longitudinally, i, so as to rccable to valves closing either in -thc direction ceive the pivot c ot' thc stem C, which is thus oi' the current or againstv it, and in either case made etieelive to prevent the displacement of the closing ot' the valve is so gradual as to the head I in two directions, while it is held avoid injurious concussion and reaction in the other two directions by heilig confined, It is not absolutely essential that the-spurs as shown,between the socket E and cam F. K shouldA be attached to the valve-stem E.

The longitudinal motion necessary to open If preferred, they may constitute a bridge atand close the valve is imparted to the valvetached tothe sides ofthevalve-chamber A, and stem through the medium of two flanges, J adapted for the valve-stein toslide through it. and J', on its head I, engaging on each side'i I claim as new and ot' my invention and with the cam F. desire to secure by Letters Patent- K K K are spurs or projections on the The described arrangement of the cam F, valve-stem H', which serve to confine it to an flanges J and J', longitudinal slot i, and spurs accurately central position within the cham- K, combined and operatingin the manner and ber, A, and guide the valve to its seat in the for the purposes set forth. Y act of closing.` The valvepL is of india-rub- In testimony ot' which invention I hereunto ber, and is adjustable on its stem by means of set my hand.

a pair of screw nuts or collars, M M', which JAMES POWELL. supply the place of the customary nut and "Witnesses: i fast collar. This valve-cock can be madek GEO. H. KNIGHT,

at a much less expense than those now in use, HENRY POWELL.

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