Year: 1898

page_text: I, WILLIAM CASSELS, Royal Terrace, Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, Ironfounders'
Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is an improvement on my Patent No. 3244 13th February 1896,
its object being to simplify the supply and discharge fittings and to place them
where they will be out of the way of the hands when washing.
This is effected by making the lavatory with three open compartments; one at
the back to receive the water supply from ordinary taps, one intermediate for
washing in, receiving its supply through an opening from the back compartment;
and one, trough shaped, nearly or altogether surrounding the intermediate compart-
ment to receive and discharge the overflow from it. In this as in my former invention,
mentioned above, the water is intended to flow continuously during the washing,
thus keeping both water and basin cleaner than in other lavatories and avoiding
the loss of time involved in emptying rinsing and refilling the basin.
Dadad this Wounth day of Maal 1900
I, WILLIAM CASSELS, of Royal Terrace, Kirkintilloch, in the County of
Dumbarton, North Britain, Ironfounders' Draughtsman, 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 to improvements in lavatories and is a further development
of my prior Patent No. 3244, A.1). 1896, which had for its object, to provide for
lavatory purposes, a small pool of water, kept comparatively clean by a constant
supply and overflow while the lavatory is in use. The present improvements on
my former invention relate to lavatories in which the water supply is regulated by
the persons using them, the object of the improvements being to simplify the
supply and discharge fittings and to place them where they will not be in the
way of the hands when washing.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I will now describe my invention, reference being made to the accompanying
sheets of drawings, in which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters
of reference.

page_text: Figure 1 is a plan of lavatory, and Figure 2 is a section through centre from
front to back.
Figure 3 is a plan with a different arrangement of discharge, and Figure 4 is a
section of same.
The lavatory is formed with three open hollow compartments A, E, and F,
A being a chamber at back to receive the water supply from a tap or taps B B, E a
small basin for washing in, receiving its supply from chamber A through an
opening D, and F a larger basin forming a trough round the smaller basin E and
receiving the overflow from it. This basin or trough F is shallow at the back
and deeper at the front so that the overflowing water from basin E may run to a
grated opening G where it is discharged.
The receiving chamber A at back may have an opening in bottom with an india-
rubber ball plug C, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, to admit of emptying the inner
basin E when washing is finished, or the chamber A may be closed at bottom and a
very small hole H formed in bottom of basin E as shown in Figures 3 and 4. By
this arrangement the basin E is drained empty automatically.
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:
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The formation of a lavatory with three open hollow compartments, namely, a
chamber at back suitable for receiving a continuous water supply from ordinary
taps, and transmitting it to the basin in which the washing is performed, the latter
overflowing into an outer basin or surrounding trough from which the overflow
waste is discharged, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described
and illustrated on the accompanying sheets of drawings.
Dated this Qul dox of November 1808
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
'154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Patent Agents.