Improved Apparatus Applicable for Deodorizing and Disinfecting Drains, Sinks and other Outlets and the like, and for Mixing Liquids.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1888
Specification Accepted, 11th May, 1888
Improved Apparatus Applicable for Deodorizing and Disinfecting
Drains, Sinks and other Outlets and the like, and for Mixing
Liquids.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK RESTALL, of Bournemouth, in the County of Hants, Sanitary
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 improved arrangements of apparatus principally applicable
for automatically or otherwise deodorizing and disinfecting drains, gullies, urinals,
water closets, scullery, pantry, lavatory, bath and other outlets, sinks and the like, the
same being also applicable for supplying disinfecting liquids to flushing cisterns and
mixing disinfecting liquids with sewage and for mixing other liquid substances.
On the accccompanying drawings. Fig. 1. represents a sectional elevation of the
automatic delivery part of the improved apparatus, as applied to a sink outlet.
Fig. 2. represents a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3. represents a front elevation thereof,
the containing part of the apparatus being shown detached and on a reduced scale;―
and Fig. 4. is an elevation of a modified arrangement of the apparatus.
The automatic delivery apparatus consists essentially of an outlet, 5, which may be
made of any required dimensions and of any suitable material, and is at its rear end
externally threaded, as at, 6, and adapted with a coupling nut, 7, and is conically
formed at, 8, or otherwise equivalently formed at such part for facility of connection
with a lead pipe or other connection, 9, leading away the waste. The front end of
the outlet, 5, is preferably more or less inclined in the manner represented most
clearly in Fig. 1. and it is normally closed by a valve, 10, resting lightly thereon and
which is centred on or to the plug, 11, of a tap-inlet, 12, fitted in any suitable manner
to the outlet, 5, at the upper part and preferably adjacent to the front or outlet end
thereof, the plug being formed with a through passage, 13, so disposed relatively to
the through hole, 14, of the tap as not to he in line therewith or form a through
connection when the valve, 10, is closed against the mouth of the outlet, 5. The plug
is thus caused to partake of all movements of the valve, which are occasioned by the
flow or discharge of the waste through the outlet, the valve being more or less opened
in accordance with the volume of the waste passing through the outlet, and the

page_text: through passage of the plug is by such movements caused to assume different positions
relatively to the through passage of the tap, and is more or less opened in accordance
with the degree of opening movement of the valve, and as such tap is by suitable
connections, 15, placed in connection with a container or reservoir, 16, of
any suitable
deodorizing and disinfecting liquid, it follows that at each such movement of the valve
sufficient of the said liquid to deodorize and disinfect the said waste and any trap,
gulley, or other receptacle into which it may fall will be automatically supplied.
The connection of the tap, 12, with the container, 16, is preferably adapted with a
stop cock, 17, at any convenient part permitting of the connection being closed off as
desired. The container is constructed of metal or of any other suitable material, and
may be made of a cylindrical or other desired form, its bottom is preferably made of
a conical formation so as to give the greatest possible head to the contained liquid
and to cause all the latter to drain into the connection, 15, and be utilized.
Such, apparatus is also of utility for admixing hot and cold water or different
liquids in proportionate volumes and for mixing disinfecting liquid with sewage. In
a modified form it may also be adapted for supplying disinfecting liquid to flushing
cisterns, a slotted arm or lever being adapted to the plug of the tap and operated by
a pin on the lever of the ball or float so that the plug of the tap outlet supplying the
disinfecting liquid is actuated by the rise and fall of the ball or float.
In lieu of the hereinbefore described automatic delivery apparatus being attached
to the depending supply pipe of the container, 16, the latter may terminate in a drip
outlet, 18, vide. Fig. 4, for permitting of a continuous dripping of the contents of the
container, 16, so long as the stop cock, 17, is kept open, or there may be attached to
the lower depending end of the connection, 15, one or more lateral branch pipes, 19,
which or each of which may be provided with drip outlets to let the disinfecting
liquid continue dripping so long as aforesaid.
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 :-
:―
1. The improved arrangement of apparatus applicable for the purposes herein before
referred to, substantially as hercinbefore described with reference to Figs. 1, to, 3, of
the accompanying drawings.
2. The improved arrangement of apparatus applicable for the purposes hereinbefore
referred to substantially as herein before described with reference to Fig. 4. of the
accompanying drawings.