Improvements relating to Water Closets.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 31st Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Water Closets.
We, WILLIAM OATES and JOHN JOHNSTON GREEN, of the Firm of
Oates & Green, Limited, Claremount, Halifax, in the County of York, Sanitary
Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that description of water closet where a pedestal is
fixed on the top of a vertical pipe in communication with a horizontal drain pipe
and where the excreta and other matter is removed by water from a tipper caused
to be upset at intervals as it becomes filled with water from any inconvenient
source. Hitherto a trap has been used immediately under the pedestal to the use
of which trap in that particular place there are many objections, because it gets
made up with solid material and articles which from time to time are inadvertently
or mischievously dropped in.
According to our invention we remove the trap from underneath the pedestal
and place it in a suitable position beyond the pedestal where it can be got at for
the purpose of being cleaned when necessary, and underneath the pedestal in lieu
of the trap we employ a pipe dished at the bottom for the purpose of receiving and
holding a given quantity of water so that when excreta is deposited therein the
tilting or upsetting of the tipper will flush the dish or basin and so clear out the
matter contained therein.
The studs upon which the tipper oscillates are made adjustable by screws and
lock nuts so as to adapt the tipper to fit tipping boxes of varying sizes.
Dated this 24th day of May 1893.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
Improvements relating to Water Closets.
We, WILLIAM OATES and JOHN JOHNSTON GREEN, of the Firm of
Oates & Green, Limited, Claremount, Halifax, in the County of York, Sanitary
Engineers, 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 :-
This invention relates to that description of water closet where a pedestal is
fixed on the top of a vertical pipe in communication with a horizontal drain pipe,
and where the excreta and other matter is removed by water from a tipper caused
to be upset at intervals as it becomes filled with water from any convenient source.
Hitherto a trap has been used immediately under the pedestal, to the use of which
trap in that particular place there are many objections, because it gets made up
with solid material and articles which from time to time are inadvertently or
mischievously droppd in.
According to our invention we remove the trap from underneath the pedestal
and place it in a suitable position beyond the pedestal where it can be got at for
the purpose of being cleaned when necessary, and underneath the pedestal in lieu
of the trap we employ a pipe dished at the bottom for the purpose of receiving and
holding a given quantity of water so that when excreta is deposited therein the

page_text: tilting or upsetting of the tipper will flush the dish or basin and so clear out the
matter contained therein.
In order that our invention may be more fully understood, reference is made to
the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrative thereof, where A represents an
open-top pedestal or water closet seat, connected by one or more pipes B, to the
horizontal sewer D. The pipe D immediately underneath the pede-tal is dished,
so as to contain water which facilitates the removal of excreta when the pipe D is
flushed by the upsetting of the hinged pan or tipper E. The tipper is supplied
with water principally from the slopstone or sink F from which water is conveyed
by pipe G to a trap or gully H placed near the sink. Water from the trap H
gravitates to the tipper E which when full oscillates upon its stud I as indicated in
dotted lines, the upsetting of which as already explained, flushes the sewer D and
so removes excreta and other matter lodging therein into the main drain. In
combination with pedestal A and dished pipe D we employ a trap or gully J
placed some little distance beyond the pedestal. The trap is placed in such a
position that it can be casily got at for repairs or for being cleaned out, and by
removing the lid or cap K a rod can be introduced down the pipe L to remove any
obstruction lodging therein. By constructing and arranging water closets as shewn
and described herein, they will be found of great advantage when several of them
are arranged side by side, and as they are automatically flushed, cleanliness and
freshness is insured without attention on the part of those using them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
An automatic water closet wherein are employed a tipper E dished pipe D
pedestal A in combination with gully J all arranged as shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1894.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.