IMPROVEMENTS IN DEODORIZING Appa- RATUS."
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Millington Henry Synge, of the United Service
Club, Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex, Colonel Royal En-
gineers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DEODORIZING Appa-
RATUS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Millington Henry
Synge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 22nd August 1872.
I, MILLINGTON HENRY SYNGE, of the United Service Club, Pall Mall,
in the County of Middlesex, Colonel Royal Engineers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DEODORIZING
APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for deodorizing
focal matters, and discharging them into a receptacle where they may
be allowed to accumulate without detriment to health, or creating any
inconvenience. To this end I provide a series of intercepting pans,
wherein the fecal matters, and the dry pulverized deodorant of whatever
kind, are combined and discharged therefrom into a shute or conductor

page_text: Icading to a large receptacle below. In-about the position with respect.
to the seat of the pan of the ordinary watercloset I mount horizontally,
say, a four-sided rotating drum, the sides of the drum being made con-
cave, and the ends of the drum being fitted with discs. Thus a series
of four pans, or less or more, is constructed to receive in succession a
charge of foecal and deodorant matters. The spindle of the drum I fit
at one end with a ratchet wheel, the teeth of which correspond in number
with the number of the pans; and at the opposite end of the drum
spindle I fix a cam wheel, which is intended as the drum rotates to lift
the valve of the-box containing the powdered charcoal or other deodorant,
and discharge a suitable proportion thereof into the uppermost pan.
Mounted loosely on the drum spindle, and adjacent to the ratchet wheel,
is a bar which carries a catch that takes into the teeth of the ratchet
wheel. This bar is connected loosely to the rod of the pull-up handle of
the apparatus, which rod is weighted to bring down the handle when the
latter is released, and force forward the catch, which will thereby impart
a quarter revolution to the drum, and tip the materials delivered into
the uppermost pan out of that pan into a shute or adjacent trunk. . The
material, in falling from the trunk into the receptacle below, would (if
no special provision were made) be liable to accumulate in a heap imme-
diately under the trunk. In order, however, to distribute it over the
bottom of the receptacle, I cause it to fall on to a distributor consisting
of a cone with a broad base and concave sides. If this distributor is
made with a smooth (by preference) glazed surface, the falling materials
will be shot towards the extremities of the receptacle.
I would remark that rotary motion may be communicated to the
drum by means of weights adjusted like a clock by pressure on the
and hinaning a door on in and similar mannen
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
-----filed-by-the-said-Millington Henry Synge in the Great Seal Patent_30
-Office on the 22nd February 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MILLINGTON
HENRY SYNGE, of the United-Service Club, Pall Mall, in the County of
Middlesex, Colonel Royal Engineers, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
5 give and grant unto me, the said Millington Henry Synge, Her special
licence that I, the said Millington Henry Synge, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Millington Henry Synge,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
O the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN DEODORIZING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Millington Henry Synge, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing, under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Millington Henry Synge, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing here.
unto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say) :-
This Invention relates to a novel construction of apparatus for receiving
focal matters and a dry deodorant, and discharging the same into a shute
or conductor leading to a large receptacle where the same may accu-
mulate for a time without detriment to health, or without creating any
other inconvenience.
The Invention consists mainly in the use in combination with a self-
acting deodorant discharge apparatus of a series of intersecting pans
applied to a closet, and capable of receiving an intermittent axial motions,
by means of which empty pans are brought in succession into position,
and when filled are caused to discharge their contents into a receptacle
below.

page_text: In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 shews my improved apparatus
in transverse vertical section; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the right hand
side of the apparatus; Fig. 3 is an elevation of the left hand side; and
Fig. 4 is a cross section of the same.
In these Figures A is the closet seat, and B a chamber at the back
thereof containing granulated charcoal or other suitable dry deodorant.
Leading down from this chamber is a shuto B', which is closed at bottom
by a swing valve C.
. It will be seen that in about the position of the pan of the ordinary
watercloset with respect to the seat A, a four-sided rotating drum D is ]
mounted horizontally. The perimeter of this drum is formed with
concaves, and the ends of the drum are fitted with discs, and thus a series
of four pans (or less or more) is constructed, which pans are intended to
receive in succession a, charge of deodorant and focal matters. The
spindle of this drum DIfit at one end with a ratchet wheel D', Fig. 3, the 1
teeth of which correspond in number with the number of the pans; and
at the opposite end of the drum spindle I fit a cam or tappet wheel D³,
which is intended, as the drum rotates, to lift the valve C of the
chamber B containing the powdered charcoal or other deodorant, and
discharge a suitable proportion thereof into the uppermost pan. Mounted 2
loosely on the drum spindle and adjacent to the ratchet wheel is a bar E
which carries a pawle or catch F that takes into the teeth of the ratchet
wheel D'. This bar is connected loosely to the rod G of the pull-up
handle of the apparatus, which rod is weighted to bring down the handle
when the latter is released, and force forward the catch, which will thereby 2
impart a quarter revolution to the drum, and tip the materials deposited
upon the uppermost pan off that pan down an adjacent shaft or trunk H
leading to a receptacle I. The material in falling from the shaft into
the receptacle I below, might, if no special provision were made, be
liable to accumulate in a heap immediately under the shaft. In order, 3
however, to distribute it over the bottom of the receptacle I cause it to
fall on to a distributor consisting of a cone K with a broad base and
concave sides. If this distributor is made with a smooth (by preference,
glazed) surface the falling materials will be shot towards the extremitics
of the receptacle. Keyed to the axle of the valve C is an arm L which 3
hangs in the path of the rotating cams D³, and fitted to the same axle is
a weighted arm M, which serves to close the valve O as the arm L is

page_text: Secondly. The means above described, or any mere mechanical equi-
valent therefor, whereby intercepting pans may be automatically charged
with a dry deodorant.
In witness whereof, I, the said Millington Henry Synge, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.