CERTAIN NEW In- PROVEMENTS IN AND UPON WATER-CLOSETS
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
LAW, late of the Parish of Saint Ann's, Soho, but now of the Parish of Sain
James, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirty-first day of May, in the thirty-sixth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said William Law, His special licence
that I, the said William Law, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN NEW In-
PROVEMENTS IN AND UPON WATER-CLOSETS;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso, obliging me, tho said William Law, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and scal, to 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 His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same
(relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Law, do hereby declare that my said Invention of certain improvements
in and upon water-closets is described in the plan and description thereof
hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Law, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
W LAW. (L.S.)

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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-fifth day of June,
in the year above written, the aforesaid William Law came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of Juno, in the year abovo written.

page_text: A.
The Spring Lever that acts the valves. B The Wires that communicate the Valves to the laver. C. The Cistern.
D).
the water
The Valve that passes the water from the Cistern to the Box, E. The Box that receives a sufficient quantity of water from the Cistern for one · charge of the bason by
sitting down on the seat, the Valve Dopens the aperture and shuts the valve I and on riseing frame seat I shuts and opens. F. G. the service pipe that conveys
from the Box to the bason. It the lever when pressed by the seat conveys the action by cranks and wire to the lever A that acts the valves. I. the hooks that lift
the batch K from the wheel or lever L. the weight of the water in the pan S falls vertical and discharges its contents in the Receiver Q, the weight I on the axes of S
and I turns back Is to the catch K that holds fast I to bear the water for the next action of the closet. M. is a lever that carries the end of the lever H. V the loop for
the tie of the communication wire to the laver A that acts the Cistern Valves . N the handle that acts as in a common water closet. - P is a hook that hangs onf
the side of the handle that lifts the Catch from I. same as the hook I on the lever H.
W the Step that ack by the foot as the
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Is a stub on the hook when drawn up into Pocket that guides the handle disengages the hook P from the catch K.-
Seat on laver H. R the frame of Wood, that the apparatuves is fixed on.
The apparatus may be made of what may be found most convenient, to answer the purpose according to my drawing, all that is yellow is Brass the black is Iron.
The apparatus that I have constructed and so situated as to produce the Improvements in my Water Closet and which have not been made before on the same
Many Mechanical Gentlemen asert that there are several Improvements in the construction of this Water Closet, and convenient Motions, that have not
been produced before, in any self acting Water Closet, or any other Water Closet, the apparatuses is so situated as to accommodate the wishes of people in different situations an
to constructed as not to be liable to be out of order.
This Water Closet is principally intended to rict by Riseing from the seat but may be acted by the handle the same as a common Water Closet.
The principle intention of this handle is to put the self-acting part to rights, if by want of water it might be out of order, and to act it with warm water
in extraordinary frost. This handle is a new adaption to a ·self acting water closet, and may be found very usefull at some time another accommodation is a lever
conveniently situated to act by the foot for different purposes and by moveing a slide on the seat the Closet may be used without water in the Bason and
leaving the Seat, the water will wash the bason.
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These Motions act seperately, and by a toutch of the finger may be put in a
put in a position most suitable to the wishes of those that use it.