IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHHAND BASINS OR LAVATORIES to be as follows, that is to say
Year: 1885

page_text: I, WILLIAM MILLER of 212, St Vincent Street Glasgow in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHHAND BASINS OR LAVATORIES to be as follows, that is
to say :-
"
My said Invention has for its object to simplify and improve the construction of
wash hand basins or lavatories, and to facilitate the separation of the parts thereof
for cleaning or other purposes.
In carrying out my Invention according, to one modification, I have the basin
made in a separate piece by preference of earthenware and I form on or fit to the
bottom of it a hollow nozzle or plug which is contrived to serve both for the
ingress of fresh water and for the egress of used water, such hollow nozzle or plug
being formed with a lateral hole or port which in one position of the basin or
plug communicates with the water supply and in another position with the
discharge or waste pipe. Or there may be separate inlet and outlet ports in the
hollow plug or nozzle. When arranged for use the basin is placed in a box or
casing which is by preference made of earthenware and which serves as a reservoir
for a considerable quantity of water. In or to the bottom of this reservoir is
fixed the shell or valve body in which the hollow nozzle or plug of the basin fits
and works, this shell being formed with ports to correspond with the port or ports
of the plug. The communications may be opened or closed either by turning the
basin when the plug is fixed to it or by turning the plug when not so fixed-a key
or other appliance being provided for turning the plug in the latter case.
basin is made with a rim or flange to fit and rest upon the edge of a circular
opening made for the purpose in the top of the reservoir; and a rubber ring may
be interposed between the parts at the joint.
The
When a supply of water by a service pipe is conveniently available, or by a pipe
from an overhead cistern, the reservoir box or casing herein before described may be
dispensed with; and the basin may be supported entirely by the valve shell or
socket piece into which the hollow nozzle or plug at the bottom of it is inserted,
such valve shell being made of suitable dimensions and strength. The supply pipe
will be connected to one side of the valve shell or socket piece and the waste pipe
to the other side; and the supply port will be provided with an internal check
valve to close by the pressure when the basin with its plug is lifted out of the
socket A projection on this check valve is acted on so as to push in the valve
by the plug when the latter is entered into the socket and turned into the position
for admitting water.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: I, WILLIAM MILLER, of 212 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to simplify and improve the construction of
wash hand basins or lavatories, and to facilitate the separation of the parts thereof
for cleaning or other purposes.
In carrying out my Invention according to one modification, I have the basin
made in a separate piece, by preference of earthenware, and I form on or fit to the
bottom of it a hollow nozzle or plug which is contrived to serve both for the ingress
of fresh water and for the egress of used water, such hollow nozzle or plug being
formed with a lateral hole or port which in one position of the basin or plug
communicates with the water supply, and in another position with the discharge
or waste pipe. Or there may be separate inlet and outlet ports in the hollow
plug or nozzle. When arranged for use, the basin is, according to one modifi-
cation, placed in a box or casing which is by preference made of earthenware and
which serves as a reservoir for a considerable quantity of water. In or to the
bottom of this reservoir is fixed the shell or valve body in which the hollow
plug or nozzle of the basin fits and works, this shell being formed with ports to
correspond with the port or ports of the plug. The communications may be
opened or closed either by turning the basin when the plug is fixed to it, or by
turning the plug when not so fixed, a key or other appliance being provided for
turning the plug in the latter case.
When a supply of water by a service pipe is conveniently available, or by a pipe
from an overhead or more or less elevated cistern, the reservoir box or casing
herein before described may be dispensed with; and the basin may be supported
entirely by the valve shell or socket piece into which the hollow nozzle or plug at
the bottom of it is inserted, such valve shell being made of suitable dimensions
and strength.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to and representing examples of apparatus made with
my improvements.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a front elevation (slightly
in perspective) of a washhand stand or lavatory; and figure, 2, is a vertical section
as taken parallel to the front; whilst figures, 3, and 4, are vertical sections as at
right angles to figures, 1, and 2. Figure, 5, is a plan of the basin and part of the
lavatory top. Figure, 6, is a horizontal section of the nozzle or plug of the basin
and the shell or socket in which it works; and figures, 7, and 8, are vertical
sections, figures 6 and 8 being on an enlarged scale. The valve details shown in
figures, 6, 7, and 8, are according to a different modification from that shown in
figures, 2, 3, and 4. The same reference numerals are used to mark the same
or like parts wherever they are repeated.

page_text: The lavatory shown in figures, 1, to 4, is portable and unconnected with any
fixed piping. It is constructed with parts for supplying cold water only, such
water being contained in a small cistern or box, 10, placed at the back of the
lavatory top and just above it. A pail, 12, is provided for receiving the used water
and can be introduced and removed through a door, 13, in the front of the lavatory.
The basin, 14, has fixed in the bottom of it a conical nozzle or plug, 15, which fits
and can turn in a socket or shell, 16, which is fixed down to a horizontal parti-
tion, 17, in the interior of the lavatory casing. A pipe, 18, from the cistern, 10, is
connected to one side of the valve shell, 16, and to the other side there is connected
a discharge pipe, 19, leading down to the pail, 12; and these two pipes communicate
with ports in the valve shell. The nozzle or plug, 15, is made hollow and with
a port which when turned to the discharge port in the valve shell, 16, will allow
the water in the basin to flow off by the discharge pipe, 19, The same port in the
plug, 15, might serve for admitting the fresh water into the basin, but the fresh
water is by preference admitted by a separate port in the plug, which port has
a covered passage in connection with it formed in the plug and communicating
with a passage, 20, formed in the side of the basin, 14, and leading up to an inlet
nozzle, 21. The basin, 14, is shown as formed with an overflow passage, 22, which
communicates with a covered passage in the plug, 15, which passage is always in
communication with the discharge pipe, 19. A projection, 23, which in this
example covers the overflow outlet of the basin, 14, serves for turning the basin
by, so as to put its plug in the position for admitting water, or that for discharging
water, or that for closing both inlet and outlet.
The
The arrangements shown in figures, 5, to 8, are such as can be used with any
desired external casing in cases in which the apparatus can have connected to it
service pipes, 24, 25, for hot and cold water, and a discharge or waste pipe, 26.
In this example the nozzle or plug, 15, fixed to the bottom of the basin, 14, and.
fitted to work in a conical socket, 16, is formed with one internal covered passage, 27,
the upper end of which communicates with the passage, 20, formed in the side of the
basin and leading up to the supply nozzle, 21. A port at the lower end of the
covered passage, 27, can be put in communication with either the hot or the cold
supply ports in the shell, 16, by turning the basin into a suitable position as
indicated by the words shown in figure, 5, as marked on the lavatory top, 11.
main passage down through the plug, 15, communicates with a port in the side of
the plug which can be turned to communicate with a branch pipe, 28, leading
to the discharge pipe, 26. The bottom of the plug, 15, is open and the bottom of
the socket, 16, has connected to it an overflow pipe, 29, which is led into the
discharge pipe, 26, and extends up that pipe as high as the intended overflow level.
The plug, 15, is prevented from being lifted out of its socket, 16, in the ordinary
working of the apparatus by a screw coupling ring, 30. Within the ports in the
valve shell, 16, through which the hot and cold water is supplied, check valves, 31,
are fitted for the purpose of closing and shutting the ports when the plug, 15, is
removed, and so as thereby to prevent waste of water. These check valves, 31, are
made with stems or projections having rounded ends which when the valves are
closed project into the interior of the valve shell, 16, and whenever the plug, 15, is
entered into its place it encounters these projections and pushing them outwards
opens the valves.
The plug, 15, may be made with recessed parts placed so that
the check valves, 31, will close even when the plug is in its place excepting when
the plug is turned so as to make a non-recessed or raised part act on their stems or
projections.
Instead of enclosing the basin in an external casing it may be arranged in the
form of a vase upon a pedestal the lower part with the valve and pipe details being
enclosed in the pedestal whilst the basin, made externally ornamental is not
enclosed.
The plug or nozzle of the basin may be used exclusively for discharging used
water the passage being opened and closed by turning the basin and the fresh
water being supplied by ordinary taps. Or ordinary taps for supplying hot or cold

page_text: water may bave their handles or levers connected to the basin so as to be opened
and closed by turning the basin. A spring or weighted cord may be applied to
the basin to move it back to the "shut" position whenever it has been moved for
admitting or discharging water and then let go.
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
The making of a washhand or lavatory basin and parts connected therewith
with a plug or nozzle at the bottom of the basin working in a fixed socket made
with one or more ports or passages arranged to be put in communication and to be
closed by turning the basin substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.