Improvements in or connected with Earth Closets and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1897--Accepted, 2nd Oct., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Earth Closets and the like.
I, Christian AlBERT JENSEN of No. 77 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
a communication to me from abroad by Sigurd Gustav Gulbrandsen of
10 Kongensgade, Christiania in the Kingdom of Norway, Merchant, and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascetrained
in and by the following statement.
This invention relates to earth closets and the like and it consists of a cover
constructed so as to form an automatic distributor for earth ashes, peat mould or
any other suitable disinfecting substance. A preferred form of the cover is shown
on the accompanying sheet of drawings of which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation
and Figure 2 a plan section on the line 2, 2, Figure 1. The interior of the hinged
closet cover is divided into two chambers the larger of which forms a reservoir for
the earth, ashes, peat, mould or other disinfecting substances, the other smaller
chamber serving as a distributing channel. The bottom of the earth reservoir
slopes from the lower edge in front of the cover to the upper edge of the back of
same where there is formed an opening a through which the peat mould will enter
into the other chamber e, whenever the cover is opened. The bottom of the reser-
voir is furnished with a number of prominent knives or pegs b, which are placed
at suitable intervals, for the purpose of partly keeping back the earth so as to
prevent the filling up of the opening a, when the cover is turned up. For the
regulating of the opening a an adjustable or removable board f may be used. The
opening a may extend along the whole back of the cover.
In order to shoot or drop the earth in the middle of the closet opening, the
delivery opening d is placed so as to come right above the closet opening. Tho
small chamber c which serves to receive the necessary quantity of earth, peat,.
mould or other disinfecting substance intended for one portion, is therefore shaped
rectangular at the top and circular oval or of any suitable form at the bottom.
The delivery opening dought to be as large or larger than the opening or slot a
in order to prevent the filling up of the delivery channel. There may also be a
grating before the opening a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim as the invention communicated to me is: -
1. A closet cover constructed so as to form a reservoir for a disinfecting sub-
stance such as earth, ashes peat mould and the like which substance is strewn
out by portions whenever the said closet cover is closed.
2. A closet cover divided into two chambers the larger of which forms a reservoir
for a disinfecting substance, and the smaller of which serves as a distributing
channel, the bottom of the reservoir being made sloping from the lower edge in
ront of the cover to the upper edge of the back of same, where there is an
opening (a) communicating with the smaller chamber (c) so that an automatic
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page_text: issue of the disinfecting substance can take place substantially as described and
shown.
3. In a closet cover the arrangement of a suitable number of knives or pegs (b)
on the bottom of the reservoir as secondly claimed for the purpose of partly keeping
back the disinfecting substance, and regulating the issue of the same substantially
as described and shown.
4. In a closet cover the delivery opening (d) the bottom of which is of a circular,
oval or other suitable form and so placed, that it corresponds to the closet opening
substantially as described and shown.
5. The combination with a closet cover of a removable board (f) for regulating
the issue of the disinfecting substance from the reservoir to the smaller chamber,
substantially as described and shown.
6. The construction of closet cover shown on the drawing.
y of March 1897.
JENSEN & SON,
1722
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.