apperatus for flushing and after- flushing closet bason and water
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1887
Complete Left, 28th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 1st June, 1888
WORTHY SARGENT 31 Great College Street Camden Town London Middlesex
Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention consists of improvement of and in apperatus for flushing and after-
flushing closet bason and to prevent the waste of water.
The means I adopt for effecting the above purpose consists of an arrangement of
apperatus hereafter described whereby a certain quantity of water is drawn or dis-
charged at one time sufficient for cleansing the bason of closet and also a second
discharge is made immediately following the former for after flush and there a perfect
and definate charge of water is used preventing any waste of same.
The apperatus consists of a weighted lever actuated by means of a pull and fixed to
a cistern provided with necessary valves and connections this cistern consists of two
chambers into the first chamber the water is allowed to flow direct from the supply in
the usual way and regulated by means of the ordinary ball valve or other similar
arrangements.
Between first and second chamber there is a valve with communication which is
open when the actuating lever is at rest or in its normal position also in the second
chamber there is a flush valve or syphon with sealed after flush valve and afterflush
water regulator combined which is worked by the action of the ball on supply valve
therefore the water for flushing and sealing bason is obtained from one chamber the
afterflush water regulator is between the flush valve or syphon and afterflush valve so
that it can be regulated to give sufficient quantity of water to suit any closet bason
and seal same which is obtained as the cistern is filling without any afterflush chamber
for same.
The mode of operation is as follows as before stated when the actuating lever is at
rest in its normal position the valve between first and second chamber is open that
being so there is a free communication between first and second chamber keeping the
latter fully supplied from the former the flush valve or syphon in second chamber
cannot be open until the valve in first chamber is closed first the sealed afterflush

page_text: valve in the second chamber will close by the first chamber becomeing full and will
not open until the cistern have been in action and the contents of first chamber have
been discharged into second chamber this will allow the ball of supply valve to fall
the arm of same will keep open afterflush valve which will give the quantity of after-
flush water as the regulator is allowed to give which can be regulated to suit small or
large basons as required by my arrangement the both chambers or full of water. when
full charged and been one body of water having no empty chamber in the cistern it is
a sealed cistern as well as a sealed bason and all offensive odours are prevented from
rising from the closet through cistern as in other cisterns now in use with empty
chambers.
Now on the user actuating lever he by one opperation close as follows
First he close the communication between first and second chamber and prevent
further ingress or egress of water from chamber thus preventing waste of water during
the discharge of the contents of the second chamber into the discharge pipe in
connection with the bason and thus flushes or cleanses the same.
Secondly on the user releasing the pull it will close flush valve or syphon in the
second chamber first and open valve in first chamber and allow its contents to go
through communication in the second chamber it will releas the ball or supply valve
which will open the sealed after flush valve in second chamber thus by one action the
closet is cleansed and by means of the sealed afterflush and sealed cistern all the
offensive odours are prevented and the supply of water regulated.

page_text: The apparatus consists of a weighted lever A actuating by means of a pull J and
is fixed to the cistern and provided with the necessary valves and connections
this cistern consists of two chambers B and C into the first chamber B the water
is allowed to flow direct from supply in the usual way and regulated by means of
the ordinary supply valve D or other similar arrangements between the hydraulic
chamber B and the. flushing chamber there is a hydraulic valve E having a
communication through same which is open when the actuating lever A is at rest
or in its normal position also in chamber C there is a sealed afterflush valve and
afterflush water regulator combined which is connected to F flushing valve or syphon
action with channel air vent in inlet arm of syphon at top to make same noiseless.
The mode of operation is as follows when you pull the pull J you closet the E'hydraulic
valve in the hydraulic chamber B first before you open F flushing valve or syphon
in flushing chamber C to flush the bason of closet by my arrangements the supply
valve D is shut off by B hydraulic chamber becoming full of water the ball of same
being kept up until the pull J goes back to rest or normal position which will close
the flushing valve F in the flushing chamber C and will open the hydraulic valve E
in the hydraulic chamber B and will release the ball D of supply valve the connection
on the ball D will open the sealed afterflush valve G by the means of my afterflush
water regulator G₁ which is combined and connected to flushing valve F it can be
regulated to give any quantity of afterflush water (to suit large or small closet basons)
into bason of closet to seal same and will recharge the chamber B and C for the next
operation the both chambers B and C being one body of water and having no empty
chamber in the cistern it is a sealed cistern as well as sealed closet bason and all
offensive odours are prevented from rising from the closet bason through cistern as in
other cisterns now in use and the supply of water regulated.
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
The arrangements of my sealed afterflush valve G and afterflush water regulator
combined and parts.
First. The general arrangements and combination of parts together forming an
improved mode and apparatus for flushing and afterflushing water closet basons as
and for the purpose herein before set forth and as shewn in drawings or any mere
modification thereof.
Second. The novel arrangements of the sealed afterflush valve G. in flushing
chamber C and the apparatus in connection therewith as more particularly shewn
on drawings Figure 1 Letters A B C D E F G; L M N.
Dated Twenty eighth day of April 1888.