IMPROVED WATER WASTE PREVENTING APPARATUS FOR WATER CLOSETS AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, JOHN SMEATON of Imperial Buildings in the City of London Sanitary
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVED WATER
WASTE PREVENTING APPARATUS FOR WATER CLOSETS AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in improvements adapted to water closets and the mode
of supply to said closets. Also to effect and to control and prevent the waste of
water to said closet or other receptacle.
In carrying out my Invention I proceed mainly as follows
To the water closet I fix a double valve on the supply pipe with spindles and
cup leathers to said valves.
To prevent waterwaste I prefer to fix two of the said valves on the supply pipe
to the closet. When one of the valves is lifted it allows the flush to the closet and
when released the other valve regulates the after flush so that only a given quantity
of water can pass at each operation.
Between the valves which are twin valves is a lever fixed on a centre between
the two valves free to move, and on the lever being actuated it pushes up one
valve by coming in contact with the spindle and releases the other valve which
gradually shuts off.
Where the lever drops again it pushes up the other valve and the first mentioned
valve gradually drops. The lever at one end is actuated by the handle of the
closet which has a weight either upon the lever or the handle to bring it back
again.
The closet I prefer to use is the valve closet shown in my Patent No 1 with the
eclipse trap shown above the floor line so that the trap and valve box are in one.
Dated the 25th day of February 1884.

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I JOHN SMEATON of Imperial Buildings in the City of London Sanitary
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my .Invention for IMPROVED WATER
WASTE PREVENTING APPARATUS FOR WATER CLOSETS AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My Invention consists in improvements adapted to water closets and the mode
of supply to said closets-Also to effect and to control and prevent the waste of
water to said closets or other receptacles.
In carrying out my Invention I proceed as follows
To a water closet I fix a double valve on the supply pipe with spindle and cup
leathers to said valves. To prevent water waste I prefer to connect the said valves
on the supply pipe to the closet. When one of the valves is lifted it allows the
flush to the closet and when released the other valve regulates the after flush so
that only a given quantity of water can pass at each operation.
Between the valves which are twin valves is a lever fixed on a centre between
the two valves free to move and on the lever being actuated it pushes up one valve
by coming in contact with the spindle of it and releases the other valve which
gradually shuts off. When the lever drops again it pushes up the other valve and
the first mentioned valve gradually drops.
The lever at one end is actuated by the handle of the closet which has a weight
upon the lever or the handle to bring it back again. The closet I prefer to use is
the valve closet shewn in my Patent N° 2355 in the year of our Lord 1880 but
with the eclipse trap as shewn on the accompanying Drawing above the floor line
so formed that the trap and valve box are in onc.
The valves may be actuated by two levers or in other ways.
Having thus far described my Invention, the accompanying Drawing will show
the manner in which same is carried into effect and the operation of the same.
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is the body of the valve