IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING DISINFECTANTS TO WATER CLOSETS, URINALS AND DRAINS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Couch Kent, of Bedfont in the County of
Middlesex for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING
DISINFECTANTS TO WATER CLOSETS, URINALS AND DRAINS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Couch Kent at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th August 1883.
JOSEPH COUCH KENT, of Bedfont in the County of Middlesex. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING DISINFECTANTS TO WATER CLOSETS, URINALS,
AND DRAINS
و"
My Invention relates to improved apparatus to be applied to water closets,
urinals, and drains for automatically supplying a disinfectant thereto in regulated
quantities. each time the closet urinal or drain is used, whereby to ensure the
neutralisation and destruction of foul gases and the deodorization of all objec-
tionable matter.
The object of the Invention is to increase the efficiency and at same time to
simplify and cheapen the construction of the apparatus used for this purpose and
to provide a means whereby the apparatus may be readily adapted to the
circumstances of the situation in which it may be placed, and whereby the supply
of the disinfectant may be readily renewed as required.
The apparatus consists of a globular or other vessel to contain the disinfecting
compound or material into which leads a pipe branched into the pipe supplying
the flushing water to the closet, urinal, or drain in such a manner as to ensure the
passage of a sufficient quantity of water through the branch pipe to the vessel,
however small may be the head or pressure above the point of junction of the two
pipes. This pipe leads into the vessel and is directed down towards the disinfectant
compound which lies at the bottom of the vessel. The outlet pipe for the water
after it has dissolved and taken up the disinfectant, is situated at the opposite side
of the vessel and is led directly over the edge of the basin of the closet or urinal,
or turned back into the flushing pipe so as to come into the pan, with the water
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page_text: and is provided with a stop cock to regulate the supply. In order to prevent the
crystals of disinfectant material being stirred up by the inrush of water and
choking the outlet pipe, the vessel is provided with a perforated diaphragm or false
bottom beneath which the crystals are placed.
This diaphragm is fixed in the vessel which is moreover provided with a charging
tube leading down from the mouth of the vessel through the diaphragm through
which the crystals are introduced, the mouth of the vessel being closed by a
screw cap.
The vessel is mounted directly beneath the closet seat to which it is brought up
as close as possible by means of an adjustable telescopic foot upon which it is
supported and whereby its height may be adjusted according to requirements.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said Joseph Couch Kent in the
Patent Office on the 15th March 1884.
JOSEPH COUCH KENT of Bedfont in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING DISINFECTANTS TO WATER-CLOSETS, URINALS
AND DRAINS
".
My Invention relates to improved apparatus to be applied to water closets,
urinals and drains for automatically supplying a disinfectant thereto in regulated
quantities each time the closet urinal or drain is used, whereby to ensure the
neutralisation and destruction of foul gases and the deodorization of all objec-
tionable matter.
The object of the Invention is to increase the efficiency and at same time to
simplify and cheapen the construction of the apparatus used for this purpose and
to provide a means whereby the apparatus may be readily adapted to the
circumstances of the situation in which it may be placed, and whereby the supply
of the disinfectant may be readily renewed as required.
The accompanying drawing represents a vertical section of the improved
apparatus which is supposed to be used in connection with.a water closet.
The apparatus consists of a globular or other vessel A of metal earthenware or
glass to contain the disinfecting compound or material, into which vessel leads a
pipe B branched into the pipe C supplying the flushing water to the closet, in such
a manner as to ensure the passage of a sufficient quantity of water through the
branch pipe B to the vessel A. however small may be the head or pressure above
the point of junction of the two pipes.
For this purpose the branch pipe B projects into the pipe C and has its end
bevelled as shown at b and presented towards the flow of water through pipe C to
ensure a due proportion of the water passing through branch pipe B. This pipe B
leads into the vessel A and is directed down towards the disinfectant compound
which lies at the bottom of the vessel. The outlet pipe D for the water after it
has dissolved and taken up the disinfectant, is situated at the opposite side of the
vessel and is led directly over the edge of the basin of the closet or urinal or
turned back into the flushing pipe C, so as to come into the pan with the water
and is provided with a stop cock to regulate the supply.
In order to prevent the crystals of disinfectant material being stirred up by the
inrush of water and choking the outlet pipe, the vessel A is provided with a
perforated diaphragm E beneath which the crystals are placed. Both the pipes B
and D terminate immediately above the diaphragm E as shown. This diaphragm
is permanently fixed in the vessel and in order to enable the disinfectant to be
placed beneath the diaphragm the vessel is provided with a charging tube F
leading down through the diaphragm through which tube the crystals are introduced.
This charging tube F slides through a gland and stuffing box at G and is closed at
top by a screw cap H. This cap rises through a hole made in the closet seat.
The vessel A is mounted directly beneath the closet seat to which it is brought
up as close as possible by means of a telescopic sliding foot K upon which it is
supported and whereby its height may be adjusted according to requirements. By
the sliding motion of this telescopic foot and of the charging pipe F the vessel A
may be raised or lowered whilst keeping the cap H at the level of the seat to
make the apparatus easily accessible. The disinfectant I prefer to employ is the
permanganate of potash.
.

page_text: Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is:
1 In an apparatus for impregnating water with disinfectant the combination of
the vessel A, diaphragm E inlet and outlet tubes B, D, and charging tube F
substantially as shown and described for the purpose specified.
2 In an apparatus for impregnating water witli disinfectant the combination
of the vessel A provided with inlet and outlet pipes B, D, with a telescopic
supporting foot K and adjustably sliding charging tube F for varying the height
of the vessel independently of said charging tube substantially as described.
3 In an apparatus for impregnating a part of the water supply of a closet
urinal or drain with disinfectant material, the mode of branching the pipe leading
from the flushing pipe to the said apparatus by causing its bovelled end to project
within the flushing pipe substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof I the said Joseph Couch Kent have hereunto set my hand
and scal this thirteenth day of March AD. 1884.
JOSEPH CONCHT WENT 101