AN IMPROVED NON- CORODING WATERCLOSET APPARATUS, WATER WASTE PREVENTER, AND OVER- FLOW ALARM
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Spencer, of No. 23, John Street
North, Marylebone Road, Middlesex, and No. 9, Tranquill Terrace,
Chancellor's Road, Fulham Road, Hammersmith, in the County of.
Middlesex, Builder, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED NON-
CORODING WATERCLOSET APPARATUS, WATER WASTE PREVENTER, AND OVER-
FLOW ALARM."
Sealed the 13th June 1873, and dated the 16th December 1872..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Spencer
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 16th December 1872.
I, JOHN HENRY SPENCER, of No. 23, John Street North, Marylebone
Road, Middlesex, and of No. 9, Tranquile Terrace, Ohancellor's Road,
Fulham Road, Hammersmith, Middlesex, Builder, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED NON-CORODING WATER-
CLOSET APPARATUS, WATER WASTE PREVENTER, AND OVERFLOW ALARM," to be as
follows:-
This Invention is a method of and apparatus for preventing gases
and unpleasant smells arising from waterclosets, and preventing the
waste of water and giving an alarm when the water overflows, and
consists in A, watercloset basin; B, lead trap; C, outgoing;
D, india-rubber valve for preventing gases and unpleasant smells
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page_text: arising; D, india-rubber valve open; D³, india-rubber valve closed;
E and E, end view of lever; E³, front view of lever; F, end view
of container and outgoing, shewing entrance of trap and connection of
india-rubber to brass work; G, standard to container and outgoing;
Y, balance lever to valve; ✗, floor line; H, water supply to closet;
J, syphon; K, valve; L, guage cistern; M, air pipe;. N, store cistern;
O, warning pipe; P, signal bell; Q, crank; R, small cog wheel;
S, large cog wheel; T, screwdown stop-cock; U, supply pipe to cistern;
V, water wheel; W, warning pipe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Henry Spencer in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th June 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HENRY SPENCER, of No. 23, John Street North, Marylebone Road,
Middlesex, and of No. 9, Tranquill Terrace, Chancellor's Road, Fulham
Road, Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex, Builder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said John Henry Spencer, Her special licence that
I, the said John Henry Spencer, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Henry Spencer, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
NON-CORODING WATERCLOSET APPARATUS, WATER WASTE PREVENTER, AND OVER-
FLOW ALARM," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Henry Spencer, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the

page_text: same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Henry Spencer, do hereby
declare the nature of said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, and by reference to the Drawing hereunto
annexed:-
My Invention is a method of and apparatus for preventing gases and
unpleasant smells arising from waterclosets, and preventing the waste
of water and giving an alarm when the water overflows, and consists
in A, watercloset basin; B, lead trap; C, outgoing; D, india-rubber
valve for preventing gases and unpleasant smells arising; D³, india-
rubber valve open; D³ india-rubber valve closed; E and E³, end view
of lever; E³, front view of lever; F, end view of container and out-
going, shewing entrance of trap and connection of india-rubber to
brass work; G, standard to container and outgoing; Y, balance lever
to valve; ✗, floor line; H, water supply to closet; J, syphon;
K, valve; L, guage cistern; M, air pipe; N, store cistern; O, warning
pipe; P, signal bell; Q, crank; R, small cog wheel; S, large cog
wheel; T, screw down stop-cock; U, supply pipe to cistern; V, water
wheel; W, warning pipe.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Spencer, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the thirteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three
JOHN HENRY SPENCER. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above-named John Henry Spencer,
in the presence of
WALTER MORRIS,
38, High Street,
Marylebone,
W.