Improved Disinfecting Apparatus for Water-closets
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th. Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 28th June, 1895-Accepted, 21st Sent., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Disinfecting Apparatus for Water-closets:
CONYNGHAM OGILVIE WILLIAMS Hill House School, Epping Schoolmaster
and, JOHN STOTTER Folly Lane, Walthamstow Brick Merchant do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
Improved disinfecting apparatus for water closets. A metal box or cylinder
containing a disinfectant in a solidified form to be placed in a cistern of a water
closet & then it gradually dissolves & disinfects the water closet. The metal box
or cylinder is perforated.
Dated this 26th day of September 1894.
We CONYNGHAM OGILVIE WILLIAMS, Hill House School, Epping, School-
master, and JOHN STOTTER, Folly Lane, Walthamstow, Brick 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved disinfecting apparatus for water closets,
and consists of a box or cylinder containing a disinfectant, in a solidified form, to
be placed in the cistern of a water closet, when it gradually dissolves and disinfects
the water closet.
The aforesaid box or cylinder is perforated.
And in order that our said invention may be more clearly understood, we will now
proceed to describe the same with reference to the sheet of drawings accompanying
this Specification, in which
Fig. 1 shews elevation of an apparatus, constructed according to our invention,
Fig. 2 shews an elevation of one of the sides or ends, both of which are similar.
a shews a receptacle, made of metal or other suitable material. This we have
shewn formed with a hinge b, although the cover may be made simply to fit on.
The ends c are perforated with one or more holes, as shown in Fig. 2.
The perforations may be placed at any other suitable part of the receptacle,
but we have found in practice that if the two sides or ends are perforated, as shewn,
the apparatus answers well. dsbews a piece of string, attached to one end of the
apparatus, which string is furnished with a hook e at the other end.
The apparatus is charged with a suitable disinfectant, in a solidified form.
In order to use the apparatus constructed as above, it is placed in the flushing
cistern of a water closet, and the book e hooked on to the top of the cistern, or to
any other convenient part thereof. The disinfectant diffuses gradually into the
water until it is exhausted, when the apparatus is taken out of the cistern, by
means of the string, and a fresh apparatus substituted.

page_text: It will be found in practice that the solidified disinfectant dissolves very
gradually, and keeps the water charged with disinfectant, which entering the pan
at each flushing, is discharged down the waste pipe and into the drains, thus
keeping the whole disinfected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
It will be found in practice that the solidified disinfectant dissolves very
gradually, and keeps the water charged with disinfectant, which entering the pan
at ench flushing, is discharged down the waste pipe and into the drains, thus
keeping the whole disinfected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The improved apparatus to be placed in the flushing cistern of a water closet,
for the purpose set forth.
2. The apparatus containing a disinfectant in a solidified form, to be placed in
the flushing cistern of a water closet, so that the water therein may be charged
gradually with such disinfectant, for the purpose set forth.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of June 1895.
BROWNE & Co.,
9 Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.