IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAMBER VESSELS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Sullivan, of the Village of Thornton, in the
County of Simcoe, in the Province of Ontario, and Dominion of
Canada, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAMBER
VESSELS."
Sealed the 23rd April 1872, and dated the 2nd March 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Sullivan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd March 1872.
I, JOHN SULLIVAN, of the Village of Thornton, in the County of
Simcoe, in the Province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CHAMBER VESSELS," to be as follows:-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device applied to a chamber pot,
and Figure 2 is a cross section of the same on the line x, x, in
Figure 1; Figures 3 and 4 are cross sections of the same specially
designed. Like letters refer to like parts in each Figure.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Sullivan in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SULLIVAN, of the Village of Thornton, in the County of Simcoe, in the
Province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Sullivan, Her special license that
I, the said John Sullivan, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Sullivan, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 CHAMBER
VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Sullivan, 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
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I; the said John Sullivan, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device applied to a chamber pot,
and Figure 2 is a cross section of the same on the line X, X, in Figure 1;
Figures 3 and 4 are cross sections of the same, specially designed. Like
letters refer to like parts in each Figure.
The nature of this Invention relates to a device to be attached to an
ordinary chamber pot, which will serve as a cover and render the
implement less objectionable in use. The Invention consists in the
peculiar device herein-after described, forming a noiseless micturating or
urinating attachment to chamber pots.
In the Drawing A represents an ordinary chamber pot with my
improvement attached.
The said Invention consists essentially of an annular rim or flange (a)
which rests on the flange of the pot. From the inner edge of the rim
(a) depends a pit (b), of the general form of an inverted cone, and
provided with a sloping or inclined bottom (c). From the deepest part
of the pit a spout (d), broad and shallow, projects laterally, so that when
the device is in place the end of this spout will be very near the wall of
the pot. At that part of the rim which is opposite the spout I form a
handle (e), which may be curved down under the flange of the pot,
first, to afford a convenient means of lifting the attachment of the pot
without risk of breaking the end of the spout, and second, to keep the
end of the spout from actual contact with the wall of the pot. The
flange of the attachment may be provided with one or two pendant
guides (f) at right angles with the location of the spout and handle,
either of which guides may embrace the handle A¹ of the pot, and thus
prevent lateral displacement.
The attachment may be made of sheet metal, china, brown or white
earthenware, or any other suitable material, and may be varied in shape
to fit the various forms of chamber pots in market; or if the latter be
specially designed to receive the attachment, they may be provided with
an internal flange and guide stops to receive the pit, in which case the
flange (a) of the latter may be dispensed with. Figure 3 is an illustra-
tion of this design.

page_text: JOHN SULLIVAN. (L.S.)