Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left. 17th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1896
I, HARRY WILLIAM PLEWS, of 14 Basinghall Street, in the City of London,
Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to provide for the disinfection of water and other
closets.
For this purpose I employ in combination with the water or other closet a
capsule, box or other vessel or receptacle of any convenient form, such for instance
as flat, round, oval, square or annular, for containing a disinfectant or disinfectants,
which vessel or receptacle I fix in a convenient position just above or at one side
of the closet-pan or similar receptacle. This vessel or receptacle is suitably
perforated or is provided with a perforated lid of suitable construction; it is also
provided with lugs or the like, whereby it is secured by screws or otherwise to
the under surface of the lid of the closet or, if desired, to the under side of the
Beat near to or around the aperture above the pan or other fecal receptacle.
I find it advantageous to use in my improved disinfector a cake of disinfecting
material, containing or consisting of naphthaline, chloride of lime phenol or the
like. The said disinfectant or disinfectants, being placed in close proximity to the
said pan or other receptacle, and evaporating slowly through the perforated lid of
the said disinfector, act very efficiently upon and render innocuous any sewer or
other deleterious gases arising from the said pan or receptacle. A very simple,
efficient and inexpensive apparatus is thus provided for such purpose.
My improved disinfector is made of any suitable material which is capable of
resisting the vapours or gases which are liable to come into contact with it.
L 17th do of December 1895
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, HARRY WILLIAM PLEWS, of 14, Basinghall Street, in the City of London,
Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
Bame is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention has for its object to provide means whereby the disinfection of
water and other closets is carried out in a more simple, efficient and inexpensive
manner than has heretofore been attainable.
In order that my invention may the better be understood I have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 represents a plan view of my
improved device and Figure 2 a side view of same.
Now in accordance with my invention I employ in combination with the water
closet, a box, capsule or other vessel or receptacle a of any convenient form, such

page_text: for instance as flat, round, oval square or annular, for containing a disinfectant or
disinfectants, which vessel or receptacle I fix in a convenient position just above
or at one side of the closet pan or similar receptacle. This vessel or receptacle is
suitably perforated or is provided with a perforated lid 6 of suitable construction ;
it is also provided at its base with a circumferential flange c or the like, whereby
it is secured by means of screws or otherwise to the under surface of the lid of the
closet; or, if desired to the under side of the seat near to or around the aperture
above the pan or other fecal receptacle.
I find it advantageous to use in my improved disinfector a cake. of disinfecting
material, containing or consisting of naphthaline, chloride of lime phenol or the
like. The said disinfectant or disinfectants, being placed in close proximity to the
said pan or other receptacle, and evaporating slowly through the perforated lid of
the said disinfector, acts very efficiently upon, and render innocuous any sewer or
other deleterious gases arising from the said pan or receptacle.
My improved disinfector is made of any suitable material which is capable of
resisting the vapours or gases which are liable to come into contact with it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved means for disinfecting water and other closets substantially as
herein set forth and shown in the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 17th day of September 1896.
V. LAZARUS,
1, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.