US1101363A - Water-feeding device. - Google Patents

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J. A. & G.'W. WALKUP.

WATER FEEDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20, 1912.

Patented June 23, 1914.

relatively UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WALKU'P AND CHARLES W. WALKUP, 0F WACO, TEXAS.

WATER-FEEDING DEVICE.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Original application 'filed May 10, 1911, Serial No. 626,171. Divided and this application filed June 20, 1912. Serial navo r'sas.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOHN A. WALKUP and CHARLES W. VVALKUP, citizens of the United States, residingin l/Vaco, Texas, have invented certain Improvements in VVater- Feeding Devices, (being a division of application filed May 10,1911, Serial No. 626,171, now Patent No. 1,030,693, dated June 25, 1912,) of which the-following is a specification.

One object of our invention is. to provide a novel form of container or reservoir which shall include conveniently operative means whereby it shall be possible to adjust the rate of discharge of liquid; the arrangement of parts being such that the device shall be inexpensive to manufacture, compact in form and convenient to use.

We also desire to provide a novel and simple adjustable barometrlc liquid feeding device whose adjusting means shall be capable of accurate regulatlon to vary the amount of liquid discharged in a given time.

These objects we attain as hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of our liquld feeding device, and, Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the feeding device taken on the line a-a Fig. 1.

In the above drawings, 1 represents a tray or other form of container or body to which it is desired that liquid shall be gradually fed, and in this is mounted the barometric liquid feeding container 2, consisting of a metallic or other vessel having the lower half of one of its sides bent or extended inwardly as indicated at 3, and cut off so as to terminate a short distance from and substantially parallel with its lower side or bottom in a sealing edge. Adjacent the front edge of the bottom 1, we mount an adjustable set screw 5 whereby the container 2 may, within certain limits, be t1lted on its rear edge or corner 6, so that 1ts front or liquid discharging edge 7 may be raised to a level immediately adjacent or, if desired, above a horizontal plane through the sealing edge 8 of the inwardly bent side 3.

Under conditions of use the container 2 may be filled with the desired liquid, for example, water, and after the set screw 5 has been sufficiently extended, said container is placed in the tray 1 in the position shown in the drawing. The outflow of liquid is then prevented since the line of the sealing edge Sis below the horizontal plane extendingthrough the liquid discharging edge 7, and the entrance of air to the container is effectually prevented. Thereafter by turning the set screw 5, the liquid discharging edge 7 may be lowered until finally it is slightly below the horizontal plane of the sealing edge 8, whereupon a small quantity of air is permitted to pass below said edge. A corresponding quantity of liquid in the container 2 is thus permitted to flow out over the edge 7 into the tray or other receptacle and this flow is substantially continuous, the amount discharged depending upon the adjustment of the set screw.

It will be noted that with the arrangement of parts shown, there is always a body of liquid exposed between the sealing and water discharging edges so that if desired, the device may be used as a fountain independently of the tray.

Ve claim:

1. The combination of a container having an inwardly extended side terminating in an edge spaced away from the adjacent bottom portion thereof; said bottom portion having an edge extending to a level above that of said edge of the side; with a screw mounted in said bottom portion for adjusting the height of the former edge relatively to that of the latter edge.

2. A liquid feeding device consisting of a liquid containing vessel having a straight discharging edge and also having a rigidly connected portion terminating in a sealing edge; with means for adjusting the position of the container to vary the distance of the liquid discharging edge from a horizontal plane passing through the sealing edge.

3. A barometric liquid feeding device consisting of a reservoir having an internal edge normally sealed against the admission of air; and a screw mounted to partially support said reservoir, the same being adjustable to vary the rate of discharge of liquid therefrom.

4. A liquid feeding device consisting of a container in the form of a box having an in- 5. The combination of a barometric feeding device in the form of a reservoir havinga water discharging edge and a sealing edge; with means for adjusting said reservoir to simultaneously vary the relative levels of said two edges and thereby vary the rate of discharge of liquid therefrom.

6. The combination in a liquid feeding.

tially support the reservoir; the side of said reservoir adjacent the liquid discharging edge being extended inwardly and terminating in a sealing edge spaced away from said bottom portion.

'In testimony whereof, We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses JOHN AJWALKUP. CHARLES w. WALKUP.

WVitnesses:

RQM. PATTERSON, GEO. F. MUNNERLYN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained, for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

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