IMPROVEMENTS IN LAVATORIES, LAUNDRY WASHING TROUGHS, WASHING STANDS, BATHS, CATTLE TROUGHS, AND OTHER APPARATUS FOR HOLDING FLUIDS, OR VESSELS OR RECEPTACLES CONTAINING FLUIDS, AND ALSO IN APPARATUS POR SUPPLYING AND INTERCEPTING OR CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF FLUIDS TO THE SAME AND TO OTHER RECEPTACLES OR ARTICLES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Morris Johnson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th April 1869.
I, JOHN MORRIS JOHNSON, of Northwick Terrace, Maida Hill, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LAVATORIES, LAUNDRY WASHING TROUGHS,
WASHING STANDS, BATHS, CATTLE TROUGHS, AND OTHER APPARATUS FOR HOLDING
FLUIDS, OR VESSELS OR RECEPTACLES CONTAINING FLUIDS, AND ALSO IN APPARATUS
POR SUPPLYING AND INTERCEPTING OR CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF FLUIDS TO THE
SAME AND TO OTHER RECEPTACLES OR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention has principally for its object the construction of
washing apparatus for schools, workhouses, prisons, barracks, and other
places where a number of boys or other persons wash under discipline,
but it is also applicable to other purposes. A shelf or slab holding one
or more basins or vessels placed in one or more rows is mounted in a
stand or framework in such manner that it is supported in a state of
rest when the washing, drinking, or other operation for which the.

page_text: apparatus is intended is going on, and it is capable of being tilted or
swung in such manner as to discharge the contents of all the vessels
which it carries simultaneously.
This may be done by the following arrangement:-The shelf or slab
is mounted excentrically on pivots or axes in a stand or framework, and
when used it rests on a ledge, flange, or projection affixed to or in a
piece with a roller actuated by a crank, handle, or similar contrivance.
When the basins or vessels are to be emptied the roller is moved by the
crank, handle, or like appliance so as to carry the ledge, flange, or pro-
jection away from the shelf or slab, and the latter being no longer
supported thereon tilts, swings, or moves, and as it is mounted
excentrically the whole contents of all the basins or vessels which it
carries are ejected or discharged instantaneously into a gutter, drain,
or receiver below. Thus the use of plugs and chains and rings with
their concomitant disadvantages and the necessity of emptying each 1
basin separately are avoided. The shelf or slab may be restored to
position by a chain working over a pulley or by other suitable con-
trivance.
My Invention may be applied to cattle drinking troughs or other
stands for holding drinking vessels for cattle and other animals, to
domestic washing stands, to baths, sinks, and other contrivances for
holding fluids or vessels for fluids.
My improved apparatus for supplying hot and cold fluids to these and
other lavatories, washing and other apparatus, and baths is thus con-
structed. A number of pipes supplying, say, for instance, hot and cold
water, are so arranged that a rod or bar is passed into and through them
through holes formed transversely in the pipes for that purpose. This
bar or rod has in it holes communicating through and through and
corresponding in number with the pipes, the holes being arranged
alternately, vertically, and horizontally, or in different directions, say,
at right angles to each other alternately, so that the vertical holes
correspond with one set of pipes, say the cold water pipes, and the
horizontal holes with the other set, say the hot water pipes, or vice
versa. Hence by turning the rod or bar in one direction to a required
extent the apertures therein will be brought coincident with the openings
through one set of pipes, say the cold water pipes for instance, and will
permit the flow of cold water through the same while intercepting the
flow of the hot water, and by turning the rod or bar to a further extent

page_text: or in another direction the apertures therein will be presented to the
fluidway through the hot water pipes, and the solid, plain, or blank part
of the rod or bar will be presented to the fluidway or passage through
the cold water pipes, thus intercepting the passage of cold water through
the same. It may in fact be described as a continuous plug operating
on a number of fluidways simultaneously, and closing one set while
opening another. The bar or rod may be modified so as to open and
close all the pipes simultaneously by having its holes in one direction.
The passage through both sets of pipes may be stopped or intercepted
by turning the rod or bar in such manner as to present solid or blank
portions to the fluidways of the pipes, or by shifting the bar or rod
longitudinally or horizontally or with a traverse motion so as to clear
its perforated portions from the pipes and present solid or blank portions
thereto. This apparatus for supplying and intercepting fluids may be
applied to other fluids than water and to other apparatus than lavatories,
as, for instance, to beer and other supplying apparatus and other
purposes.