Improvements in Privies.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Privies.
I JAMES GEORGE of 51 Saint Peter's Gate Stockport in the County of Chester,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of privies the object of the invention
being to dispense with sunken cesspools and to prevent effluvium.
For this purpose I propose to construct privies at a certain distance say six feet
or more above the floor of the yard or other place where they are required, so that
they are to be approached only by means of steps.
The privy is raised up on the top of a closed pit made of brickwork built on the
floor of the yard or other place and carried up to the height above named and
preferably well cemented on the inside.
It must be provided with a drain or drains at the bottom to carry off liquid, and
with a door or doors at the back or side or both preferably at or near the floor
level for emptying the same when required.
The seat is hinged so that the whole of it may be thrown back against the wall,
the object being to throw ashes or other refuse down into the closed pit without
soiling the seat, and such ashes covering over the excreta will act as a deodorant
and absorbent and prevent the escape of noxious effluvia.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1894.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
1 JAMES GEORGE of 51 Saint Peter's Gate Stockport, in the County of Chester,
Gentleman, 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 the construction of privies the object of the invention
being to dispense with deeply sunken cesspools and to prevent effluvium.
My invention will be readily understood on reference to the annexed drawings
of which Figs. 1 2 and 3 on Sheet 1 illustrate, in elevation vertical and horizontal
sections respectively, one method of carrying my invention into practice, and
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 on Sheet 2 similarly illustrate a modification hereafter referred to,
Figs. 2 and 5 being sections at about the lines A+, B+, and C+, D+ respectively on
Figs. 3 and 6.
For this purpose I propose to construct privies A at a certain distance say three
to six feet or more above the floor B of the yard or other place where they are
required, so that they are to be approached only by means of steps C.
The privy is raised upon the top of a closed pit D made of brickwork built on
the floor of the yard or other place, as seen on Sheet I of the drawings, and carried
up to the height above named and preferably well cemented on the inside; or the

page_text: pit D may be slightly (say a foot or two) below the level of B as seen on Sheet 2
of the drawings.
The pit D must be provided with a drain E (or drains) at the bottom to carry
off liquid, and with a door D¹ or doors at the back or side or both, preferably at or
near the floor level for emptying the same when required.
The seat a is hinged so that the whole of it may be thrown back against the
wall, (see Fig. 2) the object being to enable anyone to throw ashes or other
refuse down into the closed pit without soiling the seat, and. such ashes covering
over the excreta will act as a deodorant and absorbent and prevent the escape of
noxious effluvia.
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 privy raised above a closed pit and provided with a hinged seat so that the
said pit can be more conveniently used as an ashpit substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.