Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1887 -
Specification Accepted, 16th Dec., 1887
1, HERMANN REINICKE, of 112 Luckauer Strasse Berlin, in the Kingdom of
Prussia and German Empire Slater, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This Invention relates to the application to closets of ventilating arrangements of
the nature hereinafter described.
The Invention consists essentially in the application to closet covers of the means
hereinafter described, such means being adapted to hermetically close off the funnel
or pan of the closet (when the closet is not in use) from connection with the air in
the room in which the closet is, and to place the funnel or pan in connection with a
ventilating shaft adapted at such time to extract any foul or vitiated air arising from
any matter in the funnel or pan, or from the use of the closet, or which may obtain
access to the closet funnel or pan; such means being also provided with means for
ventilating the closet room.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the application of the presont improvements.
Fig. 1. represents a vertical section of a closet and ventilating attachments, in
the direction of the hinge of the cover: Fig. 2. represents an under plan
view of the cover and its ventilating attachments: Fig. 3. represents a
section thereof transversely of the hinge Fig. 4, represents a top plan view
thereof. Fig. 5, represents a side elevation, partly in section, of the apparatus
illustrated in Fig. 1, and at a plane at right angles thereto, the cover being shown as
closed; and Fig. 6. represents a section in the same plane as Fig. 5, representing the
closet in position for use, the cover being shown as opened.
a, represents the cover, in the underside of which is inserted an india rubber or
elastic ring, b, which when the lid is closed down surrounds the top opening in the
seat-board, o, and effects an air tight closure between the cover and seat board.
d, represents the shaft of the closet cover, which is hinge like jointed to the seat-
board, o at. e, and is of tubular formation, its one end being closed, and its other end
communicating by a knee or elbow pipe or joint with a ventilating tube,, which
leads into a ventilation shaft, the intermediate part of the shaft, d, being connected to
a branch pipe, k, passing through the cover and opening at its under side within the
area enclosed by the said elastic ring, 6; and the shaft is also provided with a stuffing

page_text: box or analagous contrivance which allows of the necessary movements; and by
such means when the lid is closed down onto the seat-board by means of the liandle, i,
connection is established between the closet funnel or pan, l, and the ventilating shaft
through the connection, k, shaft, d, and tube, f, and all contained vitiated air is led
off. The closet room is ventilated by means of an outlet funnel, h, situated at the
upper part thereof or in the ceiling, 9, and leading into the ventilating tubo, f.
It will thus be seen that the improved ventilating arrangements are simple in
construction, effective in operation, and capable of being applied to all existing
systems of closets.
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. The application to and in connection with closet covers of the hereinbefore
described means of ventilating the funnels or pans of closets when the covers are
closed down on to the seat board thereof, alone, or in combination with the means
described for ventilating the closet room.
2. The application to the closet cover, a, of the tubular shaft, d, provided. with a
tubular branch leading through to the underside of the cover, and with a tubular
olbow or like connection leading to a ventilating pipo in connection with a ventilating
shaft, substantially as horeinbefore described.
3. The application to the closet cover, a, of the tubular shaft, d, provided with a
tubular branch leading through to the underside of the cover, and with a tubular
elbow or like connection leading to a ventilating pipe, in connection with a ventilating
shaft, in combination with the means described or ineans analagous thereto for
effecting an air tight closure between the cover and seat board when the former is
closed down onto the latter, substantially as hereinbefore described.
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