Improvements in Flushing Cisterns.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Apr., 1900--Accepted, 26th May, 1900
Improvements in Flushing Cisterns.
I, JAMES CHARLES GETTING, of 4, Corbet Court, Gracechurch Street, London,
England, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved cistern for flushing ater closets or the
like and it has for its object to provide a simple, cheap and fective device for
this purpose. In carrying the invention into effect I construct a metal tank pre-
ferably cylindrical in form and enamelled so as to nrevent any corrosive action
by the water upon the metal of which the tank is formed. The cylinder is
Attached
of two diameters the upper portion being the larger and shallower.
to the upper portion is the usual inlet valve the admission of water thereby
being regulated by a suitable float operating the valve in the present well known
manner. An overflow is also provided. Rivetted or otherwise secured to the
side of the lower portion of the tank is an approximately U shaped bracket
having eyes formed at the ends of the limbs thereof which serve as guides for a
vertical rod or bar the upper end of which is connected by a suitable link to a
lever or handle by which the said rod may be raised. At the lower end of the
rod aforesaid is pivotally attached a weighted valve adapted, when the water
enters the cistern, to close the discharge orifice.. The rod has formed at or near
the centre of its length a ball, such ball being formed by reducing the metal at
that part so as to leave a shoulder on each side of the ball with which engages
the upper end of a pivotted upwardly inclined plate to support which suitable
eyes are formed at the end of the lower limb of the bracket aforesaid.
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The plate forms part of a lever having at its outer end a float which when
the water begins to rise within the cistern causes the plate aforesaid to bear
against the plain portion of the rod until same is raised by the lever when it
engages with the shoulder thereon keeping the discharge valve open until the
cistern is empty. The rod is so constructed that it may be readily turned end
for end to compensate for any wear thereon.
Dated the 4th day of Acc1900
THEO. MCKENNA,
1718, Basinghall Street, London, E.C.,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flushing Cisterns.
I, JAMES CHARLES GETTING, of 4, Corbet Court, Gracechurch Street, London,
England, Merchant, 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:-
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tion valator to an improved cistern for Aushing water closets or the

page_text: the valve open so long as the float is kept in suspension by the water and falling
of its own weight on the emptying of the cistern and thereby closing the dis-
charge valve substantially as described and shewn in the drawings.
2. A flushing cistern having means for opening and keeping open the dis-
charge valve while the cistern is being emptied and closing the same substan-
tially as shewn in the drawings.
THEO.
MCKENNA,
17 & 18, Basinghall Street, London, E.C.,
Applicant's Agent.