AN IMPROVEMENT IN STABLE PANS SINKE. AND URINALS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Bell, of Gracechurch Street, in the City of
London; Architect, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN STABLE
PANS SINKE. AND URINALS."
Sealed the 9th August 1858, and dated the 11th February 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Bell at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th February
1858.
I, RICHARD BELL, of Gracechurch Street, in the City of London, Architect,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
STABLE PANS, SINKS, AND URINALS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in forming in or near the bottom of the pan, sink, or
urinal, a concave vessel with a plate or division made to descend into the same,
leaving space between the bottom edge of the plate and the bottom of the
vessel for the passage of liquid. When there is any liquid in the vessel it.
follows that a perfectly sealed joint or sealed trap is formed. When fitting
atable pans I form them in two, main compartments, all cast in one, the separa-
tion being formed between the two by the descending plate; I use a cover io
each compartment. The liquid enters one compartment, flows off through
the trap into the other. in which the outflow pipe is fixed. By removing one
or other of the covers, the liquid pan and the pan in which the outflow pipe is
fixed can be readily got at for the purpose of cleansing or otherwise.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Bell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th August 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I. RICHARD
BELL, of Gracechurch Street. in the City of London, Architect. send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February. in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors. give and grant unto me
the said Richard Bell. Her special licence that I, the said Richard Bell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns. or such others as I, the said Richard
Bell, 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 IMPROVEMENT IN STABLE PANS, SINKS,
AND URINALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I. the said Richard
Bell, 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 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 Richard Bell, do hereby declare. the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be, per-
formed. to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:
My Invention consists in forming in or near the bottom of the pan, sink,
or urinal, a concave vessel A, Figures 1 and 3, with a plate or division B,
made to descend into the same, leaving space between the bottom edge of the
plate and the bottom of the vessel for the passage of liquid. C is a pipe
leading to a drain or other outlet. When there is any liquid in the vessel it
follows that a perfectly sealed joint or sealed trap is formed. D. Figure 1, is
a plug fitted in the cover of the pipe C, for the purpose of access to the pipe
for cleaning it. When fitting stable pans I form them in two main com-
partments or pans D', E, all cast in one, as shewn in the elevation, Figure 2,
and section, Figure 3, the separation being formed between the two by the

page_text: descending plate B: I use two covers F. G, one to each compartment; the
liquid enters the compartment D'. flows off through the trap A, into the other
compartment E, in which the outflow pipe C is fixed. By removing one or
other of the covers the liquid pan and the pan in which the outflow pipe is
fixed can be readily got at for the purpose of cleansing or otherwise.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the improvement
in stable pans. sinks. and urinals herein-before described and represented in
the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof. I, the said Richard Bell. have hereunto sei my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of August, One thousand eight hundred
and fifiv-eight
RICHARD BELL. (L.s.)