IMPROVEMENTS IN URINAL UTENSILS
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BROWNE, of New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourteenth day of March, in the seventh year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Browne, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said John Browne, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Browne, my exors, adññors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN URINAL UTENSILS;" in which said Letters.
Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said John Browne, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Browne, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereunto annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):
:
My Invention relates to applying apparatus to chamber and similar urinal
utensils, for silencing the fall of water when such utensils are used, and the
apparatus so applied also serves as a cover to close the contents from sight.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a plan of a chamber urinal utensil, and Figure 2 shews a
vertical section thereof, having apparatus applied thereto according to my
Invention; Figure 3 shews a plan, and Figure 4 a vertical section, of another
shaped urinal utensil. And I would remark that my Invention does not
depend on the shape of the urinal utensil, and the same may be varied.
Figure 5 shews a stand for the urinal utensil, shewn at Figures 3 and 4, the
stand being capable of adjustment as to height by means of the screw, as shewn.
In constructing chamber and other similar urinal utensils for having apparatus
applied thereto according to my Invention, I prefer that there should be a ledge
or projection a, to receive the silencing plate 6, as is shewn. The silencing plate
6 being so formed that as the water falls thereon it will flow down the convex
surface thereof, and will descend on the ledge or projection a around the
interior of the utensil, and thus silently flow into the utensil; the under
surface and edges of the silencing plate 6 being so formed that the water will
readily pass from the plate b, and between it and the ledge or projection a, as
will readily be understood on examining the Drawing. And I would remark
that, although I believe that the mode of arranging the ledge a and of forming
the edges and under surface of the silencing plate will be found the best and
most convenient for the purpose, I do not confine myself thereto so long as
the application of a plate suitably constructed and upheld within a chamber
or other similar urinal utensil, as herein explained, be retained. It will
be evident, from the above description, that in using chamber and other
similar urinal utensils, when arranged according to my Invention, that persons
of delicate nerves and sensitive feelings will not be liable to be shocked by
imagining that other persons hear them, as no sound will be emitted.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best means I
am acquainted with for performing the same, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the mode herein described of applying apparatus to chamber