Improvements in Water Closets.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1897
Improvements in Water Closets.
We, LAMBERT ASHWORTH and JOSEPH TAYLOR, trading as A. and J. Gilbert and
Company, of Wellington Fire Clay Works, Stopes, Little Lever, near Bolton, in
the County of Lancaster, Earthenware Manufacturers, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in automatic waste or slop water closets
and also in ordinary or fresh water closets and the objects of our improvements,
when applied to waste water closets, are to reduce the height of the closet and the
trap as well as to lessen the cost of construction and expense of fixing.
We prefer to place the tipper which receives waste water from the slop stone near
the closet, and the box or tank in which the tipper is mounted is preferably con-
tracted considerably at its outlet in order to flush the closet more effectually. We
also make the closet basin or pan and the trap in one piece and connect it to a
junction piece which conveys water from the tipper box to the upper part of the
basin so that the basin can be turned and set in any desired direction to suit
the drain. The interior of the basin is or may be made with a curved annular
flange which projects into the water in the trap and in the middle of the basin and
above the flange is a dish or plate formed on the top of a short pillar 'or standard
supported in a recess formed to receive it in the bottom of the basin.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings-
Fig. 1 is a side sectional elevation and Fig. 2 a plan view of a waste water closet
made according to our invention Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a side view, partly
in section, and a plan of an ordinary (fresh) water closet basin.
In the Drawings, a designates the basin, a the curved annular flange which
forms a trap and a the outlet from the trap. The basin a is connected to a junction
piece by a joint at which is circular in plan and so allows the basin to be turned
round and set at any angle to suit the drain. A tipper c is pivoted in a box d the
mouth of which is preferably contracted at where it is connected to the junction
piece band water from the slop stone or other waste water supply enters the tipping
box by a pipe e. Fitted into a recess in the bottom of the basin a is a pillar f
which is dished on its upper surface; this pillar, can if broken, be replaced with-
out removing the basin and it also prevents the passage of certain solid or foreign
inaterials which might otherwise get into the trap and so choke the drain. A
cover g on a hand hole permits access to the trap or connection with the drain
when necessary but this hand hole may be dispensed with.
When the closet is in use the soil falls on the dished top of the pillar and when
a supply of water from the tipper is admitted to the basin it is guided by the shape
and position of the outlet to wash out the shallow pan on the pillar f and flush
everything before it into the lower part of the basin a below the annular flange a¹
and through the outlet 2 into the drain.
it
In some cases instead of making the annular flange a upon the basin a we make
upon the pillar f and form the basin of any suitable shape.

page_text: The basin of the ordinary water closet shown in Figs. 3 and 4 corresponds in its
internal construction with that of the waste water closet basin already described
with reference to Figs. 1 and 2, and it may be employed in combination with any
suitable system of fresh water flush.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. In combination, the basin a and the dished pillar f substantially as herein
set forth.
2. In combination, the basin a, an annular flange such as a¹ and the dished
pillar substantially as herein set forth.
3. In combination, a tipper and box preferably provide.. with a contracted out-
let, the junction piece b, basin a and pillar f, all substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 29th day of September 1897.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.