An Improved Automatic Siphon for Flushing Closets.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 17th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Apr., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Automatic Siphon for Flushing Closets.
WILLIAM THOMAS ALLEN Tamworth Road Gravelly Hill in the County of
Staffordshire, Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The siphon consists of triplet pipes (cylindrical or otherwise) placed vertically
having a space between each of the outer pipes and the centre pipe and connected
across the top by a square pipe placed horizontally and of sufficient length to project
on either side of the outer vertical pipes-three apertures being formed on the
underside of this horizontal pipe immediately over the triplet pipes and the whole made
in stoneware metal or other material. The central triplet pipe is longer than the two
outer ones to allow of its insertion into a receiving-chamber below and this pipe has a
screw-thread for attachment to the receiving chamber thus providing for easy removal
& thereby dispensing with any supports. The receiving-clamber is a piece of stone-
ware metal or other material, square or otherwise in shape having a circular aperture
in the top immediately under the central triplet pipe & with a screw thread for
attachment of the same and at the end of the receiving-chamber is a circular aperture
with a flange for connection to the drain.
The water in the cistern in which the siphon is placed on reaching the level
required to overcome the resistance of the siphon passes through the same and
the receiving-chamber into the drain when by the improved form of the siphon
and its connections a quicker discharge takes place than has formerly been
obtained.

page_text: An Improved Automatic Siphon for Flushing Closets.
I WILLIAM THOMAS ALLEN of Uffington House Tamworth Road Gravelly Hill
near Birmingham in the County of Warwick 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 :—
The siphon consists of a combination of pipes and a receiver of the form and
arranged together in the manner hereinafter described namely:-Fig. 1. Triplet pipes
placed vertically having a space between each of the two outer pipes & the centre pipe
and all connected across the top by a square pipe placed horizontally and of sufficient
length to project at each end on either side of the outer vertical pipes all three of such
vertical pipes fitting into apertures formed on the underside of the horizontal pipe and
all the pipes whether vertical or horizontal being made of any material. The central
triplet pipe is longer than the two outer pipes to allow of its insertion into a receiving
chamber (Fig. 2) below and such central triplet pipe having a screw thread for
attachment (C) to the receiving chamber (Fig. 2.) thus providing for easy removal and
dispensing with any further support.
Fig. 2 The Receiving Chamber may be of any material or of any shape having a
circular aperture in the top (D) immediately under the central triplet pipe and with a
screw thread for attachment of the same and on one side of the Receiving chamber
is another circular aperture with a flange to connect same with the drain, (E).
The water in the cistern in which the siphon is placed on reaching the level required
to overcome the resistance of the siphon passes through the same and the Receiving
Chamber into the drain when by the improved form of siphons and its connections a
quicker discharge takes place than has formerly been obtained.
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 I do not claim any of
the parts of the said invention as new in themselves but that what I claim is-
An improved combination of Pipes and a receiver so as to form an Automatic
Siphon for flushing closets-(Fig. 3).
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