REPERTORY

OF

PATENT INVENTIONS,

AND OTHER

Discoveries and Improvements

IN

ARTS, MANUFACTURES,

AND

AGRICULTURE;

BEING A CONTINUATION, ON AN ENLARGED PLAN,

OF THE

Repertory of Arts and Manufactures:

A WORK ORIGINALLY UNDERTAKEN IN THE YEAR 1794, AND STILL CARRIED ON, WITH
A VIEW TO COLLECT, RECORD, AND BRING INTO PUBLIC NOTICE, THE
USEFUL INVENTIONS OF ALL NATIONS.

ENLARGED SERIES-VOL. XXV.
January-June, 1855.

LONDON:

Published FOR THE PROPRIETOR,

BY ALEXANDER MACINTOSH, GREAT NEW-STREET;
AND SOLD BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS'
HALL COURT; J. WEALE, HIGH HOLBORN; AND

G. HEBERT, CHEAPSIDE.

THE

REPERTORY

PATENT

INVENTIONS.

No. 1. VOL. XXV. ENLARGED SERIES.-JANUARY, 1855.

Specification of the Patent granted to JOSIAH GEORGE JENNINGS, of Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars, for Improvements in Apparatus for Regulating and Supplying Water for Water Closets, and other Purposes.-Dated May 6, 1854.

WITH AN ENGRAVING.

To all to whom these presents shall come, &c., &c.This invention has, for its object, improvements in apparatus for supplying and regulating the supply of water for waterclosets and other purposes, in such manner, that a regulated supply of water may, at any time, be made to a watercloset, or for any other use. And the apparatus consists of a cistern, which is supplied from a water-main or other source, and the supply regulated by a ball-cock or float, as is well understood; from this cistern the longer leg of a syphon descends to a water-closet, or otherwise; the shorter leg of the syphon being in the cistern, and the bend of the syphon comes just above the ordinary level of the water in the cistern. In order to cause water to descend from the cistern, the level of the water is raised, and this, by preferNo. 1.-VOL. XXV.

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