Improvements in Apparatus for Supplying Disinfecting Fluid to Water used for Flushing Closets and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 21st Apr., 1891-Accepted, 23rd May, 1891
Improvements in Apparatus for Supplying Disinfecting Fluid to
Water used for Flushing Closets and the like.
I, HENRY ALBERT FLEUSS of 19 Adelaide Road, Brockley, in the County of
Kent, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
At the present time in order to avoid waste of water and to control the amount of
water used for flushing closets and such like at each flushing, small cisterns are
commonly used to hold the required quantity of water and in various ways the
whole contents of this cistern have been quickly discharged each time that the
closet has to be flushed.
According to my invention in order to discharge a measured quantity of
disinfecting fluid into the closet at each time of flushing I place within the small
cistern a bottle containing solid permanganate of potash or other solid soluble
disinfecting material. The bottle is of such a height as to be covered by the
water whenever the cistern is filled and its mouth is closed by a cork or in other
suitable ways. Two small pipes are led through the cork, one extends from just
below the underside of the cork to above the water level in the cistern the other
extends downwards within the bottle to some short distance below the underside of the
cork and outside the bottle is bent downwards nearly to the bottom of the cistern
so as to form a syphon. When the cistern is full water passes into the bottle
through this syphon pipe, and fills the bottle nearly up to the underside of the
cork. Whenever the cistern empties solution of the disinfectant is syphoned out
from the upper part of the bottle until the bottom of the short leg of the syphon
tube is left uncovered. When the cistern is again filled the bottle fills also and so
the operation goes on and each time water is discharged from the flushing cistern
a measured quantity of disinfecting solution is discharged along with it.
Dated this 21st day of July 1890.
HENRY A. FLEUSS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Supplying Disinfecting Fluid to
Water used for Flushing Closets and the like.
I HENRY ALBERT FLEUSS of 19 Adelaide Road, Brockley in the County of
Kent, Engineer 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 :-
At the present time in order to avoid waste of water and to control the amount
of water used for flushing closets and such like at each flushing small cisterns are
commonly used to hold the required quantity of water and in various ways the
whole contents of this cistern have been quickly discharged each time that the
closet has to be flushed.
According to my invention in order to discharge a measured quantity of
disinfecting fluid into the closet at each time of flushing I place within the small
cistern the apparatus hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying
drawing.
D is a bottle or other suitable vessel (which may be round or square to suit
cisterns of various shapes) containing solid permanganate of potash or other solid
soluble disinfectant material.

page_text: The bottle D is of such a height as to be covered by the water whenever the
cistern is filled and its mouth is closed by a cork or in other suitable ways. Two
small pipes A and B are led through the cork, A extends from just below the
underside of the cork to above the water level in the cistern, B extends downwards
within the bottle to some short distance below the underside of the cork, and
outside the bottle is bent downwards nearly to the bottom of the cistern so as
to form a syphon. When the cistern full, the water level being above the
bend of the syphon pipe, water passes into the bottle through the syphon pipe B
and fills the bottle nearly up to the underside of the cork. Whenever the cistern
empties, solution of the disinfectant is syphoned out from the upper part of
the bottle D until the bottom of the short leg C of the syphon pipe B is left
uncovered.
When the cistern is again filled, the bottle D fills also and so the operation goes
on and each time water is discharged from the flushing cistern, a measured quantity
of disinfecting solution is discharged along with it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. Apparatus for supplying disinfecting-fluid to water used for flushing closets
and the like, consisting of a submerged vessel containing solid permanganate of
potash or other solid soluble disinfecting material having a vent pipe communicating
between the atmosphere and the interior of the submerged vessel and a syphon
pipe fitted so that its shorter leg is inside and its longer leg outside the submerged
vessel but within the cistern in which the submerged vessel is contained.
2. In apparatus for supplying disinfecting-fluid to water used for flushing closets
and the like a syphon operating to admit into a submerged vessel measured
quantities of water and to discharge therefrom measured quantities of solution of a
disinfectant acting to admit the water to the submerged vessel when the sub-
merged vessel is covered to a certain height and to discharge the solution of a
disinfectant when the submerged vessel is relieved of superincumbent liquid to a
certain depth substantially as described.
3. The use of a bottle D charged with solid soluble disinfecting material and
provided with a syphon pipe B and vent pipe A. for supplying disinfecting fluid to
water used for flushing closets and the like substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 21st day of Anil 1801
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Patent Agents.