Improvements in Sanitary Closets and Culinary Drainage.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sanitary Closets and Culinary Drainage.
I, ABRAHAM HENTHORN STOTT, of The Elms, The Vale, Bowdon, in the County.
of Chester, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for consumption of urina
and excrement and vaporising culinary water from the slop stone or sink. The
apparatus is composed of three 10 inch burners and oil cistern, over which is the
spiral flue marked D, into which piping of a larger diameter will be attached to
convey any vapour above the roofs at or near.
The drawings illustrating the improvements are marked from letter A to G.
A Foundation plate.
B Corner pillars.
C Plan of spiral flue.
D Section of spiral flue.
E Perforated plate.
F Cistern and burners.
G Closet seat, pan, and valves.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, I will now proceed to
describe in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, and in order that the same may be clearly understood,
I have annexed hereunto two sheets of drawings illustrative thereof and have
marked the same with letters of reference corresponding with those in the follow-
ing explanation thereof. At A is foundation plate, to which are fixed four
pillars B, which pillars carry the perforated plate E, through which will pass the
heat from the burners at letters G. At C is plan of spiral flue. D. section of
spiral flue. F cistern with burners. G closet seat and valves
The urine will be vaporised, and the excreta dried so that it will absorb a
quantity of oil, then ignited. The burners will be lighted by cast iron balls
trimmed with cotton web steeped in oil, passed into the spiral flue at the top or
about the level of closet seat, will roll down the spiral incline to the top of the
perforated plate and there ignited by the burners under and through the per-
forated plate.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1897.

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for consumption of urine
and excrement, and vaporising culinary water from the slop-stone. The apparatus
is composed of three 10 inch burners and oil cistern, over which is fixed a spiral
flue to the top of which will be fixed pipes over to convey any vapour over the
roofs at, or near. The drawings illustrating the improvements are marked from
letter A to G. At or near the top of the spiral flue will be placed the closet seat
with pan and valves, to deliver the excreta and urine into the spiral flue; the
urine will be vaporised and the excreta dried, so that it will absorb a quantity of
oil, then ignited, burned and pass up the spiral flue to nothing.
The oil for saturating the dried excreta in spiral flue will be delivered through
a 3 inch pipe of such a length that it will hold one gallon of oil, with a valve at
each end, one to turn the oil in, out of the cistern, the other to let it off into the
said spiral flue to saturate the said excreta. The burners under the perforated
plate will be lighted by cast iron balls trimmed with cotton web steeped in oil,
passed into the spiral flue at the top, or about the level of the closet seat, will roll
down spiral incline to the top of the perforated plate and there ignited by the
burners, under and through the perforated plate at C.
A Foundation plate.
D
G Closet seat & valves.
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 arrangement of getting without the urine and excreta, by vaporising the
urine and burning the excreta through and by the spiral flue arrangement.
2. The igniting of the saturated excreta by means of cast iron or other metal
balls, trimmed with cotton or other combustible material.
3. The arrangement and uniting the spiral flue with an ordinary flue composed
of metal.
4. Measuring the oil in a 3/4 inch pipe with a valve at each end, one for receiving
the oil from the cistern, and one for delivering the oil into the spiral flue.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of June One thousand eight hundred and
ninety eight.
ABRAHAM HENTHORN STOTT.