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F. STILES,
FILTER AND WATER PURIFIER,
No. 415,927. Patented Nov. 26, 1889,

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 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
FREDERICK STILES, OF BURNET, TEXAS.
FILTER AND WATER-PURI FER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,927, dated November 26, 1889.
Application filed April 11, 1889, Serial No. 306,609. (No model.)
To all, Luhon, it inctly conce77. inner cylinder there pass the two pump
Be it known that I, FREDERICK STILES, of tubes E and F. The tube E of the lift-pump
Burnet, in the county of Burnet and State of terminates in this cylinder and opens into it, 40
Texas, have invented a new and useful Im while the tube F of the air-pump passes en
5 provement in Combined Filter and Water tirely through the bottom end of the cylinder
Purifier, of which the following is a specifica and opens into the water of the wellor cis
tion. w. tern below. At the points where the tubes E
My invention is in the nature of a combined and F pass through the heads of the inner 45
filter and purifier for water, designed to be cylinder the joints are soldered or otherwise
I. ? placed in the bottom of the well or cistern, so rendered tight. Between the inner and outer
as to filter the water before it is pumped up, perforated cylinders there are packed verti
and also to purify the Water in the well by cal layers of charcoal and gravel or other fil
forcing air into the same. tering material, so that the water in the well 5 ??
It consists in the combination of the pump, or cistern, in passing through the outer cylin
a filter, and an air-pump, as will be hereinaf der to the interior of the inner cylinder, will
ter fully described. be filtered by the interposed filtering mate
Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation, rial. When, therefore, the lever-handle of the
and Fig. 2 is a side view. pump is operated, pure filtered water is drawn 55
In the drawings, A represents the cylinder from the interior of the inner cylinder, and
of an ordinary lift-pump, and A' is that of an fresh air is forced down at the same time into
air-pump. These are both held in the same the water in the well to aerate and purify it.
frame-work B in parallel position, and are Having thus described my invention, what
provided with piston-rods C C', which are con I claim as new is- -
nected to and worked by the same hand-lever The combination of a water-pump having
D simultaneously. The lift - pump has its upwardly-opening valves, an air-pump hav
Valves opening upwardly, as usual, for rais ing downwardly-opening valves, and two per
ing water through its tube E, while the air forated cylinders surrounding the pump-tubes
pump has its valves opening downwardly for and provided with a packing of filtering ma
the purpose of forcing air down its tube F. terial, the water-pump tube opening into the
At the lower ends of these pump-tubes is ar inner cylinder, and the pump-tube passing
ranged the filter. This consists of a perfo entirely through both heads of the same, Sub
rated cylinder G, of galvanized iron, about stantially as and for the purpose described.
eighteen inches in diameter and three feet
six inches long. Concentrically within the FREDERICK STILES,
35 same there is another perforated cylinder H, WWitnesses:
about six inches in diameter and about the EALY J. MosEs,
same length as the outer cylinder. Into this JNO. H. STAPP.