An Automatic Disinfecting and Deodorizing Vessel for use in Flushing Cisterns of Water Closets, Urinals, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 13th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Automatic Disinfecting and Deodorizing Vessel for use in
Flushing Cisterns of Water Closets, Urinals, and the like.
I GEORGE HENRY KING of 101, Ashmore Road, St. Peter's Park, Paddington Tin
Plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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A metal vessel filled with disinfecting crystals soluble in water, and suspended in
the water of flushing cisterns. It may be made cylindrical, or any other convenient.
shape. At the lower end, a disc or plate of perforated metal is fixed. The bottom
has one or more small holes formed in it, it may be conical, convex, or any other
convenient shape, and it is fixed on the lower end of the vessel. On the upper end
a moveable cap is placed, which is held by a bayonet or other catch. In the top
of the cap
vent hole is formed, and a wire loop connected with a strip of metal is
fixed on the top of the cap, by means of which the vessel is attached to the flushing
cistern, and held suspended in the water a little below its surface. Through the hole
or holes in the bottom of the vessel, the water is brought into contact with the
disinfecting crystals (through the perforated plate) which dissolves them, and the
solution thus formed returns in the form of disinfecting fluid, which mixes with
the water and converts the whole into dilute disinfecting Huid through the agitation
of drawing the water.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Automatic Disinfecting and Deodorizing Vessel for
use in
Flushing Cisterns of Water Closets, Urinals, and the like.
GEORGE HENRY KING, 101, Ashmore Road, St. Peter's Park, Paddington, Tin Plate
Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
A vessel, made of brass, copper, zinc, tin, or other metal, or suitable material, to
hold permanganate of potash, or any other disinfecting and deodorizing substance
soluble in water. It may be made cylindrical and any and all other convenient
shapes. It may also be made in various sizes. At the lower end of the vessel a
bottom is fixed, from the centre of which a nipple, (bereafter called reservoir) extends
downwards. This reservoir may be conical, convex, or any other convenient shape;
it may be formed out of, and be part of the bottom itself, or it may be fixed over a hole in
the bottom. In this reservoir one or more small holes are formned. Over the bottom,
and inside the vessel, a plate or disc of metal, or other suitable material, is placed.
This plate may either be perforated with two or more small holes, or it may be
slightly punctured round its edge in about three places, the small points being
downwards, and resting on the surface of the bottom, thus keeping the main surface
of the plate from actual contact with the bottom, and allowing a free passage
for air to escape, and for the water to come into contact with the disinfecting
substance contained in the body of the vessel.
And that the vessel may be readily cleaned, and any obstruction to the free
discharge of the disinfectant guarded against, the plate or disc is made removable,
and as a means to remove the plate, a stem of wire or other suitable material is
fixed to its centre extending upwards to the top edge of the vessel. On the upper
end a movable cap is placed, which is held on to the body by a "bayonet" or other
catch. In the top of the cap, a vent hole is formed, and a loop connected with a
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page_text: fiexible strip of metal or other suitable material, or merely a flexible strip without
the loop, is fastened either to the top or side of the cap, by means of which the vessel
is attached to the flushing cistern, and held suspended in the latter so that the lower
part of the body of the vessel is a little below the surface of the water.
In order that the foregoing description may be better understood, I will now
explain the drawings accompanying this statement. Each part is lettered the same
respectively in each figure. Fig. 1. represents the vessel closed ready for use, it also
shews reservoir c, with small hole d. Fig. 2 is an open view of the vessel, shewing
movable cap, with vent hole J, and loop K connected with flexible strip L.
It also shews a, body of vessel; with plate placed in position ready to be filled with
the disinfecting substance.
Fig. 3 is the plate or disc e, with stem f, and punctures g. The manner of working
is as follows: being filled with permanganate of potash, or other disinfecting
substance soluble in water, and closed Fig. 1. the vessel is placed in the flushing
cistern so that the lower part of a, is a little below the surface of the water, the
flexible strip L is then bent over the side of the cistern, and the vessel is held in that
position.
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The water entering the reservoir c, at d, and thence through the holes, or round
the edge of the plate e. Fig. 3. comes into contact with the disinfecting substance
contained in a, a portion of which is dissolved, and runs down into the reservoir c in
the form of a saturated solution.
While the water in the flushing cistern is at rest, the saturated solution issues from
the reservoir at d. in a small threadlike stream, but when the water is drawn
the sucking action set up empties the reservoir of the saturated solution it
always has in reserve, which mixing with the water, through the agitation the whole
is converted into dilute disinfecting fluid and discharged from the cistern.
It will be obvious from the above description that the vessel practically consists of
two chambers and also that the disinfectant is discharged in measured quantities
each time the water is drawn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. An automatic vessel for use in flushing cisterns, which produces and discharges
disinfecting and deodorizing fluid in measured quantities.
2. An automatic vessel, having two chambers, which admitting but little water into
contact with the disinfecting substance greatly retards its solution, and economises its
use.
3. An automatic vessel, being portable, can be used in any vessel containing water,
for producing disinfecting and deodorizing fluid.
Dated this 13th day of Novambar 1889