Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 29th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1888
I, JOHN SHANKS, of Tubal Foundry, Barrhead, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows, that is to say:-
My said Invention has for its object to improve cortain parts of private and public
urinals; and relates principally to the water-supply and ventilating arrangements
thereof.
In carrying out my Invention in the case of a private urinal I arrange the water-
supply tap or valve in an enclosed part above the urinal basin, and I connect the
spindle of the tap or valve to an inclined cover which may be ornamental externally
and which when closed down completely conceals the basin and shuts the tap or valve.
When the cover is opened by being turned up it by the same movement opens the tap
or valve. A ventilating pipe may be connected to the upper enclosed part.
I apply my improvements to public urinals of the kind in which each compartment
is in the form of an approximately semicircular vertical recess.
I make the upper
and lower parts of the shell of each recess in separate pieces the lower part being by
preference of glazed earthenware and the upper part of metal, both parts may however
be made of earthenware or metal if preferred. Instead of making the upper part
continuous with the lower part I make and fix it so as to extend down a short distance
in front of the lower part and so as to leave a narrow space between the two. This
space between the two parts promotes ventilation vapors and exhalations passing
through it to the back of the upper part. And I place in the same space the perforated
pipe by which the water is distributed over the lower part thus concealing that pipe
and protecting it from injury.
Dated this Second day of 1007
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Urinals.
I, JOHN SHANKS, of Tubal Foundry, Barrhead, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, Sanitary Engineer, 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, that is to say :—
My said Invention has for its object to improve certain parts of private and public
urinals, and relates principally to the water supply and ventilating arrangements
thereof.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append two sheets of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and representing private and public urinals as provided with
my improvements.
Figure, 1, on sheet, 1, of the drawings is a front elevation of a private urinal.
Figure, 2, is a vertical section as at right angles to figure, 1, and figure, 3, is a sectional
back elevation. Figures, 4, and 5, on sheet, 2, are a plan and vertical section of a
public urinal; and figures, 6, and 7, are a plan and perspective elevation of another
form of public urinal, figure, S, being a section showing the form of bottom slab.
Figure, 9, is a horizontal section of a third form of public urinal. In these drawings
the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they
are repeated.
In my improved private urinal shown in figures, 1, 2, and 3, I arrange the water-
supply tap or valve, 10, in an enclosed part, 11, above the urinal basin, 12; and I
arrange the tap or valve, 10, in connection with an inclined cover, 13, which may be
ornamental externally, and which when closed down, as shown in figure, 1, completely
conceals the basin, 12, and shuts the tap or valve. When the cover, 13, is opened by
being turned up into the position in which it is partly shown in figure, 2, it by the
same movement opens the tap or valve, 10. The tap or valve may be of any con-
venient kind, but the one shown is opened by pushing in a horizontal spindle, 14,
which is done by an inclined upper side of a notch on a vertically moving bar, 15,
made with a rod having its lower part, 16, in a curved horizontal form. Jointed to
the door, 13, there is a cam piece, 17, with a deep inner end and which when it is
drawn out by opening the door, pushes down the part, 16, of the rod and bar, 15, and opens
the valve, the top of the inner end of the cam piece bearing up against the top, 18, of
the basin piece, 12. When the door, 13, is closed a spring, 19, lifts up the bar, 15,
and allows the valve to close it being of a kind closing with the pressure. The water
enters the top, 18, of the basin piece, 12, which is made of earthenware and is formed
with passages to lead the water round the top and round the front open part, the water
issuing from such passages by a number of small holes so as to wash the entire inner
surface of the basin.
I apply my improvements to public urinals of the kind in which, as shown on
sheet, 2, of the drawings, each compartment, 20, is in the form of an approximately

page_text: semicircular vertical recess. I make the upper and lower parts, 21, 22, of the shell
of each recess in separate pieces, the lower part, 22, being by preference of glazed
earthenware, and the upper part, 21, of metal, the parts may however, be both made
of one material, earthenware or metal, if preferred. Instead of making the upper
part, 21, continuous with the lower part, 22, I make and fix it so as to extend down a
short distance in front of the lower part and so as to leave a narrow space between
the two. This space between the two parts, 21, 22, promotes ventilation, vapors and
exhalations passing through it to the back of the upper part, and ascending between
it and the outer shell or wall, 23, of the structure in the case of urinals of the kinds
shown in figures, 4, 5, and 9, or ascending up through a central space, 24, when the
compartments are placed back to back as shown in figures, 6, and 7. In the space
between the upper and lower parts, 21, 22, of each compartment I place the perforated
pipe, 25, by which the water is distributed over the lower part, 22, thus concealing
that pipe and protecting it from injury.
In a urinal of the kind shown in figures, 6, and 7, I make the bottom stone slab, 26,
in which the pillars are fixed, with a sunk central part having at its centre the
grating, 27, leading by a trap bend, 28, to a drain pipe. This sunk part allows liquid
to flow directly to the grating and at the same time gives access for cleaning, and for
communication with the central vertical space, 24, between the compartments and thus
promotes ventilation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1-The combination of parts constituting my improved private urinal substantially
as hereinbefore described and as shown in figures, 1, 2, and 3, of the accompanying
drawings.
2-The improved construction of public urinals, as shown in figures, 4, to 9, of the
accompanying drawings, the essential features of such construction being the forming
of the upper and lower parts of each compartment in separate pieces with the upper
part projecting down in front of the lower part and with a space for ventilation
between the two parts as herein before described.
3-In public urinals placing the perforated water supply pipe in a space between
the lower part of each compartment and the bottom of the upper part substantially as
herein before described.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of December 1887.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.