Improvements in or applicable to Apparatus for Flushing Waste Water Closets, Drains, and other Places where Intermittent Flushing is Required.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 29th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 21st Mar.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Apparatus for Flushing Waste
Water Closets, Drains, and other Places where Intermittent
Flushing is Required.
I THOMAS HARGREAVES of Newman Street Mill Ashton-under-Lyne, in the
County of Lancaster, Cotton Waste Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to apparatus for flushing water closets with waste water,
or for similar purposes for which an automatic "tipper" is employed, mounted in
a tipper-box or chamber having an outlet at one side thereof, or at one side of the
bottom thereof; and the principal object of my invention is to ensure a perfect
cleansing of every part of the box or chamber in which the said tipper is mounted,
and thus to prevent the said box or chamber from being silted up with sand, or
dust and other matter, thereby interfering with the action of the tipper.
Hitherto the "tipper" has been mounted in its box or chamber so as to discharge
its contents directly in the direction of the outlet from the said box or chamber;
and it is found that in many cases dust, dirt, sand and other matter accumulate in
the tipper box or chamber at the back of the tipper, and in time interfere with its
action.
According to this invention I turn the back of the tipper to that side or part of
the box or chamber in which is contained where the outlet for flushing water is
formed, and I so form this side or part of the box or chamber that there is
no possibility of dirt accumulating behind the tipper, which thus flushes first the
back part of the said tipper box or chamber, and the water then rushes through the
outlet to the closet pan, drain, or other place where it is required. The tipper of
course must be mounted so high in the box or chamber as to allow room for an
effective back wash of the flushing water. Thus every time the said tipper
discharges its contents, the water will thoroughly clear all dirt, dust, or sand from
every part of the bottom of the said box or chamber, which cannot therefore
become silted up.
In some cases, especially where the height of the tipper box is required to be
limited as much as possible, I form the back thereof with its upper part cut away
so that the inlet pipe from the sink or other source of waste or other water can pass
through the same and project over the tipper which can thus be mounted much
higher than usual in the box or chamber, because when the "tipper" acts, its rear
end can rise above the level of the inlet pipe without coming into contact
therewith.
Another advantage gained by cutting away the upper part of the back of the
tipper box is that this formation will allow the tipper and its box or chamber to be
set at any angle according to the position required with regard to the water inlet.
Dated this 29th day of May 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or applicable to Apparatus for Flushing Waste
Water Closets, Drains, and other Places where Intermittent
Flushing is Required.
I THOMAS HARGREAVES of Newman Street Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne, in the
County of Lancaster, Cotton Waste Dealer 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:―
This invention relates to apparatus for flushing water closets with waste water
or for similar purposes for which an automatic "tipper" is employed mounted in a
tipper-box or chamber having an outlet at one side thereof or at one side of the
bottom thereof; and the principal object of my invention is to ensure a perfect
cleansing of every part of the box or chamber in which the said tipper is mounted,
and thus to prevent the said box or chamber from being silted up with sand, or dust
and other matter, thereby interfering with the action of the tipper.
Hitherto the "tipper" has usually been mounted in the box or chamber so as to
discharge its contents directly in the direction of the outlet from the said box or
chamber and it is found that in many cases dust, dirt, sand and other matter
accumulate in the tipper box or chamber at the back of the tipper, and in time
interfere with its action.
My invention will be readily understood from the following description on
reference to the accompanying drawings of which Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of
my improvements shewn applied beneath a grid and supplied by a pipe, say from a
slop stone.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the tipper box and tipper only.
According to this invention I turn the back of the tipper a to that side or part
of the box or chamber in which it is contained where the outlet & for the flushing
water is formed, and I so form this side or part of the box or chamber 6 that there
is no possibility of dirt accumulating behind the tipper, which thus flushes first the
back part of the said tipper box or chamber b, and the water then rushes through
the outlet to the closet pan, drain or other place where it is required. The
tipper a of course must be mounted so high in the box or chamber 6 as to allow
room for an effective back wash of the flushing water. Thus every time the said
tipper discharges its contents, the water will thoroughly clear all dirt, dust, or sand
from every part of the bottom of the said box or chamber b which cannot therefore
become silted up.
I furthermore form the back 62 of the tipper box or chamber 6 with its upper
part cut away as seen at 6+ Fig. 1, so that the inlet pipe from the sink or other
source of waste or other water can if desired pass through the same and project over
the tipper a (as shewn dotted at c on Fig. 1) which can thus be mounted much higher
than usual in the box or chamber b, because when the "tipper" a acts, its rear end
can rise above the level of the inlet pipe c (Fig. 1) without coming into contact
therewith.
Another advantage gained by cutting away the upper part of the back b² of the
tipper box b is that this formation will allow the tipper a and its box or chamber >>
to be set at any angle (according to the position required) with regard to the water
inlet, as indicated on Fig. 2 by the dotted lines c¹³.
d d' are the stops for arresting the tipping tank in either its horizontal or tilted
position. If preferred the stop d can be placed in the position shown dotted at d+.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven.
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A tipper mounted in a box or chamber with its back to the outlet from the said
box or chamber, the back of the latter being cut away at its upper part substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 28th day of February 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.