IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER- CLOSETS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Phillips, of Sheffield, in the County of
York, Plumber, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER-
CLOSETS."
Sealed the 11th May 1875, and dated the 17th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Phillips at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th March 1875.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Plumber,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATERCLOSETS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to produce a more effectual flushing
and cleansing of the basin or pan of closets, and for this purpose I form
a pipe or channel all round the top of the basin, and I fit a fan or
distributor at the front as well as at the back as usual, and I form
openings in the portions between the two fans.

page_text: The pipe from the cistern communicates with the top of the basin
immediately behind the back fan. When the water is admitted a con-
siderable proportion thereof enters the basin behind, and is distributed
by the back fan; the remainder rushes round the two sides of the
channel, and while some portions pass through the intermediate openings
before named and wash the sides of the basin, the rest escapes behind
the front fan and is distributed thereby.
The dimensions of the intermediate openings will vary according to
the description of closet to which my Invention is applied. For instance,
in what is known as a servant's closet, there should be a few small
openings at cach side, while in a pan closet the openings at the right.
hand side should be larger, so that enough water may pass through them
to thoroughly wash out the contents of the copper pan.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Phillips in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PHILLIPS, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Plumber, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Phillips, Her special licence that I, the
said William Phillips, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Phillips, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERCLOSETS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Phillips,
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
"

page_text: commonly the case with hopper closets. The traps allow the hopper to
trap about two inches, so that no stench can arise.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
"Improvements in Waterclosets,"-
First. Forming waterclosets with two distributors or fans, substan-
tially as herein-before described.
Second. Forming waterclosets with a pipe or channel round the upper
edge of the basin when such pipe or channel has two distributors or
fans and openings in the portions between them, substantially as herein-
before described.
Third. Constructing pan closets as herein-before described and repre-
sented in Figures 1 to 4 of the annexed Drawings.
Fourth, Constructing servant's or hopper closets as herein-before
described and represented in Figures 5 to 8 of the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Phillips, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Fourteenth day of September, One
thousand cight hundred and seventy-five.