Improvements in Appliances for Flushing or Cleansing Water Closet, Urinal, Wash or other Basins, and for Supplying Water thereto.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Flushing or Cleansing Water Closet,
Urinal, Wash or other Basins, and for Supplying Water thereto.
I, DANIEL THOMAS BOSTEL, of 73, Ebury Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates more particularly to water closets such as are known to the
trade and generally as the "Bostel" patent closet and which improved water
closet is protected by Letters Patent granted to me sealed the 6th day of
October 1877 and dated the 11th day of April 1877 numbered 1412.
By my present invention I seek to provide an appliance for flushing closets (and
also wash basins urinals and other receptacles to which such means may be suitable)
the appliance being loose and independent of the closet, basin, pan or receptacle
and may be attached thereto or removed at will. In the Specification attached to
my former Letters Patent I described a hollow rim running round the interior of
the upper part of the basin which being perforated conducted the water or other
cleansing agent to all parts of the basin.
For use with my present invention I prefer a basin or pan that has a simple
lipped or open rim and instead of the inlets for fluid I may employ the special
arrangement or appliance hereafter described.
I provide a duplex, twin or double horned or bifurcated nozzle one arm of which
extends partially around the rim on one side of the basin and the other on the
other side the arms of this nozzle decrease in diameter towards the orifice at each
of the points and the underside of the main portion or rear or base where the horns
are joined together is perforated so as to cleanse the back or rear of the basin or
closet centrally or thereabouts I fix in any well known manner a vertical delivery
pipe or connection passing through the lip or rim and having my special appliance
suspended thereto and bearing against the lip or rim.
Dated this 9th day of May 1890
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Flushing or Cleansing Water-closet,
Urinal, Wash or other Basins, and for Supplying Water thereto.
I, DANIEL THOMAS BOSTEL, of 73, Ebury Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:—
My invention relates more particularly to water closets such as are known to the
trade and generally as the "Bostel" patent closet, and which improved water
closet is protected by Letters Patent granted to me sealed the 6th day of
October 1877 and dated the 11th day of April 1877 and numbered 1412.
By my present invention I seek to provide an appliance for flushing closets (and
also wash basins, urinals and other receptacles to which such means may be
suitable) the appliance being loose and independent of the closet, basin, pan or
receptacle and may be attached thereto or removed at will. In the Specification
attached to my former Letters Patent I described a hollow rim running round the
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page_text: interior of the upper part of the basin which being perforated conducted the water
or other cleansing agent to all parts of the basin.
For use with my present invention I prefer a basin or pan that has a simple
lipped or open rim and instead of the inlets for fluid I may employ the special
arrangement or appliance hereafter described.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings and to the figures and letters
of reference marked thereon,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my flushing appliance having a vertical inlet
pipe or tube.
Figure 2 is a horizontal or plan section of a similar appliance but with the inlet
pipe or tube horizontally arranged and at the rear.
Figure 3 is a part sectional elevation of part of a closet shewing the appliance
in position and ready for attaching to the usual fittings for water supply.
In carrying out my invention I form of suitable metal a duplex, twin or double
horned or bifurcated nozzle such as A one arm of which extends partially around
and under the open rim B of a closet or other basin and the other arm along the
opposite side. The arms decrease in sectional area towards the orifices CC whence
the main stream of the flushing liquid is discharged.
At or near the base or junction of the two horns 1 form or attach either at the
top or at the rear a trunk or inlet pipe D to which the ordinary attachments for
water supply may be fixed. The bottom of the appliance is perforated as at E EE
to allow of a downward flush at the rear of the pan or basin.
The whole appliance is thus loose in one piece and capable of being sprung
under the open lip or rim B of a closet pan or basin and retained in position by
attachment to the usual fittings on the inlet pipe D which passes through a hole as
at F in the rim or through one at the rear when the fitting is horizontal.
Thus the appliance is suspended and held against the underside of the rim or in
the case of the horizontal fitting against the side or back thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The appliance for flushing and supplying liquid to water closet, urinal,
wash or other like basins or pans substantially as hereinbefore described and as
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of February 1891.
POPPLEWELL & Co.