Improvements in or applicable to Pedestal Water-closets.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1890-Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Pedestal Water-closets.
I Charles DarrAH of Miller Street, Manchester Manufacturer do hereby declare
the nature of my said invention to be as follows:―
The object of this invention is to provide a simple and yet efficient seat for this
class of closet. Instead of constructing the seat to be hinged to a back piece and
which has had to be secured to the wall as heretofore I form the seat of wood of the
same form as the top of the earthenware or other pedestal water closet basin and by
preference shewing an equal margin all round.
I secure this seat upon the rim or upper edge of the earthenware basin by forming
lugs thereon and in which suitable holes are arranged to receive corresponding studs,
screws or other fasteners depending from or screwing into the under surface of the
seat or by an overhanging mould surrounding the bottom edge of the seat.
In this manner I construct a self-contained pedestal water closet and seat which
is entirely disconnected from the wall and which if required may be closed by a
hinged cover or lid.
Dated this 5th day of March 1890.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Pedestal Water-closets.
I CHARLES DARRAH of Miller Street, Manchester, Manufacturer, 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:
The object of this invention is to provide a simple and yet efficient seat for this
class of closet. Instead of constructing the seat to be hinged to a back piece and
which has had to be secured to the wall as heretofore I form the seat of wood or
other suitable material of the same form as the top of the earthenware or other
pedestal water closet basin and by preference shewing an equal margin all round.
On the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 represents a side view and Fig. 2 a plan view of a pedestal water closet,
having my improvements shewn applied thereto.
In both views a designates the basin or earthenware portion of my improved closet,
provided on either side thereof with lugs or projections b, b. Through these lugs b, b
holes are formed, as illustrated more clearly in Fig. 2, to allow of screws or
studs d, d being passed through them and so screwed into the overhanging portion
of the wooden or other seat (shewn dotted in Fig. 2) and thereby securing the seat
to the basin. In place of screws it will be obvious that other fastenings might be
substituted whilst the projections b, b may assume the form of a flange surrounding
the basin. In this manner I construct a self contained pedestal water closet and seat
which is entirely disconnected from the wall and which if required may be closed by
a hinged cover or lid.
In the case of an overhanging mould surrounding the bottom edge of the wooden
seat I arrange the lugs or projections b, b proportionately lower down on the outside
of the basin.
I am aware that wooden frames have been used surrounding the basin of iron
water closets but these form no part of my present application.

page_text: Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
1st. In an earthenware pedestal closet the employment of lugs or projections for
securing the wooden or other seat to the top of the basin substantially as and for the
purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
2nd. In earthenware pedestal closets the employment of an improved wooden or
other seat entirely supported by and secured to the basin substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 1st day of December 1890.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for Applicant.