An Improved Intercepting Sewer Trap with Portable Frame and Grating.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Intercepting Sewer Trap with Portable Frame
and Grating.
I, CHARLES OAKS, of 4 Vaughan Parade, Torquay, in the County of Devonshire,
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:—
My invention relates to an improved intercepting sewer trap with portable frame
and grating, which consists of a metallic grating and frame fitted to the top of a
sewer trap of any suitable pattern, the said trap being provided with a hole or holes
on the top for ventilation or inspection. The trap may be placed in any position
to suit a sewer and connected to a junction by means of glazed stone ware pipes.
The portable frame and grating may be composed of either glazed earthenware or
galvanized iron of any suitable shape and placed in any required position.
Dated this 9th day of June 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Intercepting Sewer Trap with Portable Frame
and Grating.
I, CHARLES OAKS, of 4 Vaughan Parade, Torquay, in the County of Devonshire,
Builder, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved intercepting sewer trap with portable frame
and grating.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a view of the trap with portable frame and grating.
Fig. 2, is a section of the frame and grating.
Like letters refer to like parts in each of the figures.
This invention consists of a metallic grating a and frame b fitted to the top or
socketed in the flange of a sewer trape of any suitable pattern, the said trap e
being provided with a hole for holes on the top for ventilation or inspection.
The trap e may be placed in any position to suit a sewer and connected to a junction
by means of glazed stone ware pipes.
The portable frame b is constructed at its base with a socket g, and adjoining
each corner of the said frame b are provided with lugs c or other suitable projections
for fixing into brick work or the like. At the top of the frame 6 I provide a
suitable stepped opening to which I place a corresponding perforated grating a.
The perforated grating and portable frame may be composed of either glazed
earthenware or galvanized iron of any suitable shape and placed in any required
position.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration and that
the shapes materials and parts may be varied in many ways within the scope of my
invention.

page_text: 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. In a sewer trap, the combination of a stepped frame b with a socket g and
lugs c, with the perforated grating a, substantially as herein described and according
to the accompanying drawing.
2. In a sewer trap, a stepped frame 6 with a socket and lugs c, substantially as
herein described and according to the accompanying drawing.
3. In a sewer trap, a frame b with a perforated grating, substantially as herein
described and according to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 15th day of February 1894.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.