Improvements in the Manufacture of Combination Water Closets.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1895-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Combination Water Closets.
I, SAMUEL HUNT ROWLEY of Swadlincote in the County of Derby, Sanitary
Earthenware Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
1
The object of this invention is to effect economy in the manufacture of what
are known as combination water closets that is to say closets in which the basin
and trap are in one piece of earthenware.
According to my invention I mould the basin with a shoulder or flange around
the outside of the outgo at a short distance from the end of same so as to leave a
dipping piece to fit inside the trap. 1 mould the trap in the ordinary form. I then
unite the basin and the trap together preferably while the clay is still soft, in the
manner usually followed in uniting soft moulded parts together, with the shoulder
of the basin bearing upon the top of the trap and the dipping piece extending
into the trap so as to cover the joint. The combination closet thus formed is then
dried, fired, and finished in the ordinary way.
Instead of uniting the basin and trap when the clay is in the moist condition as
above described, I can unite them when in the "biscuit" stage by using a suitable
joining material; a material which I have found to answer well is composed of
ground clay and the substance known as "fluoite in such proportions as to form
a paste of about the consistency of mortar.
Dated this 21st day of November 1894.
"
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Combination Water Closets.
I, SAMUEL HUNT ROWLEY of Swadlincote in the County of Derby, Sanitary
Earthenware Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to effect economy in the manufacture of what are
known as combination water closets, that is to say closets in which the basin and
trap are in one piece of earthenware.
According to my invention I mould the basin with a shoulder or flange around
the outside of the outgo at a short distance from the end of same, so as to leave a
dipping piece to fit inside the trap. I mould the trap in the ordinary form. I then
unite the basin and the trap together, preferably while the clay is still soft, in the
manner usually followed in uniting soft moulded parts together, with the shoulder
of the basin bearing upon the top of the trap and the dipping piece extending
into the trap so as to cover the joint. The combination closet thus formed is then
dried, fired and finished in the ordinary way.

page_text: The accompanying drawing will serve to illustrate my invention. a is the basin,
the shoulder or flange moulded around the outside of the outgo at such a distance
from the end of same as to leave a dipping piece c to fit inside the trap. d is the
trap moulded of ordinary form. The basin and trap, while the clay is still soft
are fitted together as shown and united in the manner usually followed in uniting
soft moulded parts together, the shoulder b bearing upon the top of the trap d
and the dipping piece c extending into the trap, so as to cover the joint. The
closet is then dried, fired and finished in the ordinary way as has been already
above stated.
Instead of uniting the basin and trap when the clay is in the moist condition as
above described I can unite them when in the biscuit" stage by using a suitable
joining material; a material which I have found to answer well is composed of
ground clay and the substance known as "fluoite" in such proportions as to form
a paste of about the consistency of mortar. The combination closet is then fired
and finished as usual.
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 :-
1. In the manufacture of combination water closets, moulding the basin with a
shoulder or flange around the outside of the outgo, moulding the trap in the ordinary
form, then uniting the basin and the trap together while the clay is still soft, and
then drying, firing and finishing in the ordinary way, substantially as bereinbefore
described.
2. In the manufacture of combination water closets, moulding the basin with
a shoulder or flange around the outside of the outgo, moulding the trap in the
ordinary form, then bringing the basin and trap to the biscuit stage, then uniting
them by means of a suitable joining material and then firing and finishing in the
ordinary way, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 21st day of August 1895.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.