Improvements in Water and other Closets and Urinals.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water and other Closets and Urinals.
We, SIDNEY JENNINGS and JOHN MORLEY, of Palace Wharf, Stangate, Lambeth,
in the County of Surrey, Sanitary Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows;-
This invention relates to closets and urinals (such as are described in our
Specification No. 1378294) having a U shaped seat and a back forming an upward
extension of the back of the basin.
We now provide a sliding back of wood or other suitable material which when
the seat is turned down descends and covers the earthenware back but rises so as
to uncover it when the seat is turned up.
Preferably the rear end of the seat is weighted and is connected to the sliding
back in any suitable manner such as by cords or chains passing over pulleys or
by levers pivotted to two slides working in guides at right angles to each other.
Dated this 4th day of March 1898.
SIDNEY JENNINGS,
JOHN MORYEY.
We, SIDNEY JENNINGS and JOHN MORLEY, both of Palace Wharf, Stangate,
Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, 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 closets and urinals (such as are described in our
Specification No. 1378294) having a U shaped seat and a back forming an upward
extension of the back of the basin.
We now provide a sliding back of wood or other suitable material which when
the seat is turned down descends and covers the earthenware back but rises so as
to uncover it when the seat is turned up.
Preferably the rear end of the seat is weighted and is connected to the sliding
back in any suitable manner such as by cords or chains passing over pulleys or
by levers pivotted to two slides working in guides at right angles to each other.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a water closet constructed according to this
invention. a is the basin and b the back made in one piece with it. c is the
f is a
U shaped seat pivotted at c¹. d is the sliding back working in guides e.
cord (there is one on each side) having one end fixed at f¹ to a rearward extension
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page_text: of the side of the seat and the other end fixed at få to the back d. 9 is a pulley
over which the cord f passes.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of a modification.
In this case the back d is fixed at each side to a slide working in a guide h. j is
a lever pivotted at one end to the slide in the guide h, at the middle to a slide in
the guide k, and at its other end to one end of the rod 7 whose other end is pivotted
to the rearward extension of the side of the seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is;-
1. The combination with closets and urinals of the class referred to of a back
which covers the fixed back when the seat is turned down but uncovers it when
the seat is turned up.
2. Closets and urinals substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings.
DL:
1 1
1000
SIDNEY JENNINGS.
JOHN MORLEY.