IMPROVEMENTS IN FLUSHING APPARATUS to be as follows:- FOR WATER CLOSETS AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
We JOSEPH JAMES DAY and THOMAS ISAAC DAY of No 76 Leighton Road
Kentish Town in the County of Middlesex Sanitary Engineers do hereby
declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLUSHING APPARATUS
to be as follows:-
FOR WATER CLOSETS AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES,
"
The object of our invention is to ensure two distinct Hushes or an after flush (so
much needed for sanitary purposes) by means of our improved arrangement of the
case or box and consists in making the case in three compartments or divisions
instead of two only as ordinarily in use.
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The upper portion of the case or box we divide by a partition or division (fixed
to the sides at some distance from the top) placed in an oblique or slanting position
so that the water entering into the box or case flows over the top of this partition
or division and causes both these compartments to be equally filled.
Our improvement also consists of an additional bottom compartment or division
which is so arranged that the whole of the divisions are in communication by
means of any of the waste preventing valves now in use, one of. which valves is
fixed in the bottom of each of the upper divisions so that when the lever is actuated
it releases the first valve from its seating and discharges the first flush froin the
division in which it is fixed and when the lever is released the same or similar
action takes place with the valve in the other compartiment or division and by this
means supplies the bottom compartment or division by which the additional or
after flush is given.

page_text: JOSEPH JAMES DAY and THOMAS ISAAC DAY of N° 76 Leighton Road in the
County of Middlesex Sanitary Engineers do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN FLUSHING APPARATUS FOR WATER CLOSETS AND
OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:- A
The object of our invention is to ensure two distinct flushes or an after flush (so
much needed for sanitary purposes) by means of our improved arrangement of the
case or box, and consists in making the case in three compartments instead of only
two as ordinarily in use.
The upper portion of the case or box we divide by a partition or division (fixed
to the sides and at some distance from the top) placed in an oblique or upright
position so that the water entering into the box or case flows over the top of this
partition or division and causes both compartments to be equally filled, Or in case
the ball valve should not be fixed to cause overflow we make a provision by means
of a small hole at the bottom of the partition to cause an equal result.
Our improvements also consist of an additional bottom compartment or division
which is so made that the whole of the divisions are in communication by means of
any of the waste preventing valves now in use, one of which valves is fixed in the
bottom of each of the upper divisions so that when the lever is actuated it releases
the first valve from its seating and discharges the first flush from the division in
'which it is fixed and when this lever is released the same or similar action takes
"place with the valve in the other division or compartment and by this means
supplies the bottom compartment or division and by which the additional or after
flush is given.
:
The accompanying drawing is a section of our invention shewing the internal
arrangement of our improved case, the oblique or upright division with the hole
near the bottom, the various compartments and the double bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim as our invention is-The combination of the case and valves with the hole
connecting the communication from one compartment to the other as described and
set forth in the above Specification.
Dated this 1st day of December 1901