AN IMPROVED LID FOR EXCRETA RECEPTACLES TO FACILITATE THE REMOVAL OF THE SAME
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Haresceugh, of Rochdale, in the County of Lan-
caster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED LID FOR EXCRETA RECEPTACLES
TO FACILITATE THE REMOVAL OF THE SAME."
Sealed the 26th January 1877, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor,
Sealed the 26th January 1877, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor,
and dated the 29th June 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Harescough at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th June 1876.
JOSEPH HARESCEUGH, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED
LID FOR EXCRETA RECEPTACLES TO FACILITATE THE REMOVAL OF THE SAME."
The object of my Invention is to provide a suitable lid to enable the receptacle
to be removed without inconvenience or offence either by day or night.
The receptacle may be of ordinary construction, and composed of wood or metal.
The lid is by preference made of galvanized iron, but other suitable metal may be
used. It is constructed and arranged as follows:-The projecting flange of the lid
is made to fit into the top of the receptacle, and the top plate of the lid is made.
sufficiently large to cover the top of the receptacle. Between the top plate and the
top of the receptacle I place a packing of india-rubber or other suitable material.
In order to keep the lid down, and thus render the vessel or receptacle water-
tight, I provide a spiral or other convenient form of spring. The spring, when
preferred, may be a flat one, and secured on a stud at its centre. The extremities
of the flat spring may be passed into loops or links provided on the receptacle. By
this arrangement a sufficient amount of pressure may be given to the lid equally all,
over its surface, thus preserving the same secure and water-tight, and capable of
being removed when full of excreta without any offence or inconvenience.
0 SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and
of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Joseph Haresceugh in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th January 1877.
JOSEPH HARESCEUGH, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster.
"AN IMPROVED.
LID FOR EXCRETA RECEPTACLES TO FACILITATE THE REMOVAL OF THE SAME.'
Prine Edl
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page_text: The object of my Invention is to provide a suitable lid to enable the receptacle to
be removed without inconvenience or offence either by day or night.
The receptacle may be of ordinary construction, and composed of wood or metal.
The lid is by preference made of galvanized iron, but other suitable metal may be
used. It is constructed and arranged as follows:-The projecting flange of the lid
is made to fit into the top of the receptacle, and the top plate of the lid is made
sufficiently large to cover the top of the receptacle. Between the top plate and the
top of the receptacle I place a packing of india-rubber or other suitable material.
In order to keep the lid down, and thus render the vessel or receptacle water-
tight, I provide a spiral or other convenient form of spring. The spring, when
preferred, may be a flat one, and secured on a stud at its centre. The extremities
of the flat spring may be passed into loops or links provided on the receptacle. By
this arrangement a sufficient amount of pressure may be given to the lid equally all
over its surface, thus preserving the same secure and water-tight, and capable of
being removed when full of excreta without any offence or inconvenience.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings illustrates one convenient method of
carrying my Invention into effect, and which I have found to answer well in
practice; Figure 2 is a transverse section, and Figure 3 is a top plan of the same.
Similar letters of reference refer to like parts in all the Figures.
a is the receptacle or vessel; c is the projecting top flange of the lid, preferably
made of angle iron, as before stated; b, the top plate of lid attached to flange c by
bolts or rivets; d, packing or packings of india-rubber secured between the top
plate band the angle iron flange c; e is the spring for securing the lid; f, bolt in
centre of lid for securing spring to same, but other equivalent means may be used
for securing spring to lid. The extremities of this spring may be passed into slots,
or hooks g, g, may be secured to the side of the receptacle a, and loops or links g¹, g²,
applied to the extremities of the spring e.
To secure the lid the operation is as follows:-Place the same, vizt., the lid in
position on the receptacle a, press the spring e down at those points marked i in
Figure 2, and at the same time pass the loops or links g¹ over the hooks g on the
receptacle; this done the fastening is secure, while a sufficient amount of pressure
is imparted all over the surface of the lid by means of the spring e, so as to preserve
the same secure and watertight in such manner that receptacles or vessels con-
taining excreta thus secured can be removed when full without inconvenience or
offence. When the lid is pressed down by means of the spring, the packing or
packings & being tight upon the receptacle or vessel a, assist in rendering it air and
water tight.
d
As before stated the arrangement just particularly described is that which I
prefer, where the loops or links g¹, g¹, are loosely connected to the ends of the
spring. I do not however limit myself to this arrangement, as various mechanical
devices may be adopted for accomplishing the purpose of securing the ends of the
spring without in any way departing from my Invention; for example, the whole
loop g may be elongated, so that the ends even of the spring could be slipped under
the said loops g.
Another way of securing the spring would be by bayonet joint or other equivalent
device, but it is not however necessary for the purposes of my Invention to illus-
trate other means.
Instead of the loops or links shewn at Figures 1, 2, and 3, fixed hooks may be
employed rivetted or bolted to the receptacle or vessel, as shewn at Figures 4, 5,
and 6.
In order to keep the lid down, and thus render the receptacle perfectly water-
tight, a spiral spring may if desired be employed, which is made to press against
the bar passing under the fixed hooks. The spiral spring and bar are attached to
the lid by means of a bolt or stud, as shewn.
When preferred two spiral springs may be employed, as shewn at Figure 5. When
this is the case the end of each spring is made to pass through the bar, and retained
in position by means of the check nuts..

page_text: The retaining bolt or stud also serves as a pivot for the bar during the operation
of releasing the bar from the fixed hooks (the springs have been previously com-
pressed) when the lid is required to be moved.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I am aware that loops or links at or near
the tops of sanitary tubs or receptacles for use in combination with a bar in con-
nection with the cover for securing the same are not new, as the same are described
in the Specification of Benjamin Shaw, No. 314 of 1876; I therefore wish it to be
distinctly understood that I lay no claim to such "loops or links" when so applied
or when taken separately or alone, but I claim, the construction and application of
spring fastenings to lids for excreta receptacles, substantially as shewn and described
with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Haresceugh, have hereunto set my hand
and scal, this Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight- hundred and seventy-seven.
JOSEPH HARESCEUGH. (L.S.)