US572724A - Pipe-cleaner - Google Patents

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AfP.. RUMELY'.

` PIPE GLEANER. No. 572,724. Padzenteil 1013i),8,1896.4

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NITIID STATES` PATENT ("IIIIICE.

ANDREW r. RUMELY, oF oIIIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

PIPE-C LEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,724, dated December 8, 1896.

l Application filed April 6, 1896. Serial No. 586,298. (No model.)

To all whom, t nung concern.' l

Be it known that I, ANDREW P. RUMELY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois,

. faucet where it is drawn, such pipes being commonly arranged in extended coils within a cooling-chamber, so that the liquor may be delivered at the faucet cool; and this invention belongs to the specific class of devices for this general purpose which are adapted to be permanently located in connection with the pipe system to be cleansed and which are brought into use by operating the valves which control the passage of the cleansingcurrents.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of my improved cleaner as at the line l l on Figi 4, the controlling-valve being shown in position shutting o the water, as when the deviceis out -of use. Fig. 2 is a detail section corresponding to the lower part of Fig. l., showing the valve seated in position to permit the chemical cleansing-current to pass to the pipes. Fig. .3 is a similar View showing the valve seated in position to admit a clearwater rinsing-stream. Fig. 4 is a detail section at right angles to the sections shown -in the other figures through the lower part of the chamber and valve-seat, the valve being shown in dotted lines.

A is a receptacle for aA suitable chemical adapted to cut the foul matter from the pipes and cleansethe same, sal-soda being the In aterial comm only employed and intended to be represented in the drawings. This receptacle is formed integrally with the valve-body B at the lower end and is closed by a cap C, provided with a water-tight bushing or gasket C at the top. The valve-body Bis formed and bored properly to' receive a tapering plug D, having an elbow-handle D', and provided with the usual means of securing it on its seat. The plug is cut away at opposite sides of its tapering body, leaving a symmetrical medial segment D2, as seen in Figs. l, 2, and 3, equal segments being cut off from opposite sides by parallel planes. As a matter of convenience, for reasons which will hereinafter appear, the segment D2 left standing and constituting the operative valve portion of the plug extends at an angle of forty-live degrees to the direction of the handle D'. This is a matter of great convenience,but the construction might be otherwise in special instances. From the valve-chamber or plug-seat in the body B four ports extend, opening ninety degrees apart in the circumference of the seat, these ports being oblong, as best seen in Fig. 4, so that the circumferential extent of the openin gis small compared with the capacity of the port.

In practice the circumferential extent of the seat occupiedby each port should not be more than about one-twelfth of the entire circumference, and it may be much less,as shown in the drawings. Two` of these ports, a and am, lead up through the bottom of the chamber A, and the other two, b' and Z910, lead, respectively, to the pipe-nipples B and B10. It

will be seen that when the plug stands in the i position shown in Fig. l the water is shut off entirely, whether it enters through B' or B10, and it is immaterial which way the device is connected, each nipple being adapted to serve either as the inlet or as the outlet. When, however, the plug is set as shown in Fig. 2,with its segment-web D2 extending vertically and seating at one edge between the ports af and alo and at the other between the ports b and b1", the water entering through B', for example, passes by way of the port b and the port a into the chemical-chamber A, which will be filled with water thereby, and passes out from said chamber through the ports am and Z910 to the pipe system connected with the nipple B10, said pipe system carrying the chemical elements necessary to properly cleanse the pipe. When the cleansing process has continued for a sufcient length of time, the plug being set as shown in Fig. 3, with its segmentweb D2 extending horizontally and seating at IOO be noticed that in this rinsing action the chemical-chamber is entirely cut off from the rinsing-current of water, and the Water that passes in this rinsing-c urrent is therefore certain to be absolutely free from the chemical and adapted thereby to perfectly rinse theA1 It will be noticed rthat'the water may 1 be shut on? at four positions of the valve, corresponding to the two vertical and the two pipes.

horizontal positions of the valve-handle, and that at the oblique positions -of the handle, which correspond to the vertical positions of the valve-segment D2, water may pass,"two of said oblique `positions permitting it to pass through the chemical-chamber and theother two., alternating therewith, permitting it to pass directly as a rinsing-current through the ports b and b10. v

The fmode of 4use of the device most ylikely to beadopted and least likely to involve mistake is that shown yin the drawings, wherein the valve-handle,'hanging down crosswise of thefrun of the pipe, kas indicated by the direction of `the two -nipples'B and B10, gives shutoff position. The hand-le being thrown up to the .position'shown in Fig. 2 and opening infront of the lower end-of the chemical-chamber gives the position affording the chemical current through said chamber, and being thrown dow-n tothe position shown in Fig. 3 gives the position at which the current 'takes the llower path, as indicated bythe lower positionof the handle, and lpasses `through h and b .for rinsing.

A3 is a transversely-webbedboss or bracket extension, integral with the chamberat the rear thereof, ladapted to secure the device in upright Aposition against the wall.

/I donot limitmyself to producing the portways or water-passages by which the water traverses the plug vby cutting away the opposite lsides -of the plug, although this is the simplest method and results in the easiest remembered order of action in setting theplughandle `for the various purposes, and I therefore .claim -it specically; neither do I limit myself to making the ports which lead into the .bottom of the Vchemical-chamber vertical and the `ports which rlead 'into the water oonnections horizontal, as shown inthe dra-win gs, although 'that is the preferred construction because easiest produced in the casting, for which reason -I design to claim -it specically.

I claim- 1. -In a pipe-cleaner, a chemical-chamber and a valve-body or plug-seat adjacent -thereto, hav-ing -two pipe connections-and having two pairs of ports, both individuals of one pair leading into the chemical-'chamber and the individuals ot' the other pair lea-din g to the pipe connections respectively; a valve or plug seated and adapted to rotate in said valve-body, having portways and a seatingsurface which are relatively arranged so that the plug at one position separates the two pairs of ports from each other, and at another position separates the individuals of each pair from each other, and at the third position closes one individual of each pair.-

2. In a pipe-cleaner, a chemical-chamber and a valve-body or plug-seat adjacent thereto, having two pipe connections and having two pairs of ports, both individuals of one pair `leading into 'the chemical-chamber and the individuals of the other pair leading to the pipe connections respectively; and a rotating valve or plug seated in said valve-body and having two portways symmetrically situated with respect `to an laxial plane through the plug, and adapted in one positionlof the plug to communicate one with an individual of each pair-of ports, fand theother with the other individualof each pair, one of` said portways being adapted at another position'of the plug `to communicate with both 'individuals ofthe second pair.

v3. In a pipe-cleaner, the chemical-chamber having the val've-body'or plug-seatfadjacent thereto and rigid therewith, said valve-'body having four ports leading vfrom the seat, two of them being parallel and leading into the chemical-chamber, the other 4two being parallel and at right angles to the first two and leading to the waterconnectionsrespectively; and the lplug seated in said `body having .two portways adaptedto register one with one individual of each pair andthe other with the other-individ ual of each pair of ports, and-to be rotated to cause one of said'portways yto register with both individuals of the second pair.

4. In a pipe-cleaner, a chemical-'chamber and a valve-body or plug-seat adj acentthereto and rigid therewith, said plug-seat having two water-pipe connections aand having ytwo pairs of ports, one pair/of said ports leading into the chemical-chamber, and the indiv-iduals of the other pair leading out ato said water-pipe connections respectively; arotating valve or plug seated in said valve-bodyor plug-seat yand cut away at opposite sides to make its thickness at such reduced portion not greater than the 'distance between the'individuals of said .pairs of ports, kandfadapted at will to be seated in position to separate the ports vleading to the chemical-chamber `from the ports leading'to the waterconnectio'ns, or to be seated between the individuals 'of both said pairs of ports, or to be seated over one port of each pair.

5. In a pipe-cleaner, in 'comb'inationfwith the chemical-chamber 4and the valve-body or plug-seat at the bottom thereof, Vsaid valvebody having two ports leading from the plugseat into the bottom of the chemical-chamber, and two additional ports `leading llaterallyto *suitable water connections; a rotatable valve IOO IIO

orplug seated in the plug-seat, and cutaway In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set at opposite sides to make its thickness at the my hand, in the presence of two witnesses, at reduced portion not greater than the distance Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of March, 1896.

between the individuals of the said pairs of ANDREW P. `RUMELY. ports, said Valve having a handle oblique to Witnesses:

the planes at which said plug is cut away: CHAs. S. BURTON,

substantially as set forth. JEAN ELLIOTT.

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