Improvements in Appliances for Supplying Disinfecting and Deodorizing Fluids to Closets, Urinals, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Supplying Disinfecting and
Deodorizing Fluids to Closets, Urinals, and the like.
I, GEORGE NOBES of 14 Rucklidge Avenue Harlesden London N.W. Sanitary
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to that class of appliances or apparatus described in the
Specifications of my former Letters Patent No. 11377 dated 16th July 1889 and
consists in improvements in such appliances whereby certain defects are overcome.
In the before mentioned Letters Patent the invention consisted of a tank or
reservoir in which the disinfecting fluid was stored and a cylinder resting on the
bottom of such tank, the cylinder being fitted with a weighted plunger for pumping
out quantities of the fluid.
According to my present invention I form the tank or reservoir with a double
bottom, the false bottom being suitably dished so that all the fluid is drained off
through holes in to the cylinder.
The delivery tube is fitted at the bottom of this cylinder and passes upward
through the false bottom and, when fitted to a water waste preventer, the end of the
This
tube is turned over, so as to discharge into the tank of the waste preventer.
arrangement of false bottom enables one to pump out all the fluid, thereby
preventing the crystallization which is usual when the fluid is left undisturbed for
a length of time, and consequent choking of the delivery tube.
In fitting the appliance to a water waste preventer, I form the fluid tank or
reservoir with hooks so arranged that the tank can be readily attached to or
detached from the waste preventer tank, in such cases I operate the plunger by
means of a lever, connected at one end with the plunger and at the other end with
the usual "pull" for flushing purposes.
In ships' closets, a similar arrangement is used to that described in the before
mentioned Letters Patent, but the tank is fitted with the false bottom hereinbefore
described with reference to the tank for use with a water waste preventer.
Dated 23rd January 1895.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
Improvements in Appliances for Supplying Disinfecting and
Deodorizing Fluids to Closets, Urinals, and the like.
I, GEORGE NOBES, of 14 Rucklidge Avenue, Harlesden, London, N.W.,
Sanitary Engineer, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in that class of apparatus in which a tank
or reservoir containing the disinfecting fluid is fitted by the side of the closet or in
some cases by the side of the waste preventer; such tanks or reservoirs being fitted
with a cylinder and pluuger for pumping out quantities of the fluid.

page_text: The chief defect of such apparatus is that the fluid corrodes or becomes
crystallised within the tank and, filling the delivery tube, prevents the flow of
disinfecting fluid through such tube to the basin or waste preventer.
The object of my invention is to remedy this defect and to enable the apparatus
to be more readily fitted to the closet, urinal or the like.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 2 a perspective view of my improved tank
for use in combination with an ordinary water waste preventer.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of my improved tank for use with the ordinary
hand lever closet.
b is
a is the tank in which the disinfecting or deodorising fluid is stored for use;
a false bottom preferably dished so that the fluid is led to the cylinder c when such
fluid sinks below the level of the top of the cylinder. d d are holes in the side of
the cylinder through which the fluid gains access to the interior of the cylinder.
The cylinder is fitted with a weighted plunger e and is of a sufficiently true fit to
cause the fluid to pass by the pipe f into the waste preventer cistern, when such
plunger is lowered.
The fluid tank is formed with or has attached thereto, hooks g g so as to enable
the tank to be readily attached to the side of the ordinary waste preventer cistern,
the chains of both levers being connected together to form but one pull handle and
chain.
Fig. 3 shows the tank a formed cylindrical the pipe f being fitted at its upper
end in connection with the ordinary flushing pipe. In this arrangement a non-
return valve is preferably fitted in the pipe f near the flushing pipe in order to
prevent the flushing water entering the fluid tank a. The weighted plunger e is
connected to the ordinary hand lever by a chain, so that when the hand lever is
returned to its normal position a portion of the disinfecting fluid is injected through
the pipe, and flushing pipe into the basin.
The use of the false bottom 6 prevents the cylinder c and pipe f becoming choked
by the sediment which usually crystallises out upon the walls of the tank, as
practically, no fluid is left in the cylinder after the weighted plunger has fallen to
the bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. An appliance or apparatus for supplying disinfecting and deodorising fluids to
closets, urinals and the like consisting of a fluid tank a fitted with a false bottom b,
cylinder c having holes d d and a weighted plunger e; the cylinder being fitted
with a delivery tube f, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
drawings.
2. In apparatus for supplying disinfecting and deodorising fluid to closets, urinals
and the like of the description aforesaid, the application and use of hooks 9 9 fitted
to the tank a as a means for readily attaching the fluid tank a to a water waste
preventer tank substantially as described and illustrated by the drawings.
3. The improvements in appliances for supplying disinfecting and deodorising
fluid to closets, urinals and the like, substantially as set forth.
Dated 22nd October 1895.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.