IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS For MEASURING AND DELIVERING WATER INTO WATERCLOSET PANS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Duty, of Mansfield, in the County of
Nottingham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS For
MEASURING AND DELIVERING WATER INTO WATERCLOSET PANS AND OTHER
RECEPTACLES.'
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Sealed the 17th February 1874, and dated the 16th December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Duty at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th December 1873.
I, GEORGE DUTY, of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND DELIVERING WATER INTO WATERCLOSET PANS AND
OTHER RECEPTACLES," to be as follows:-
Instead of a fixed cistern I employ a cistern constructed of any
suitable material; said cistern is suspended in bearings by an axle on
each side; the cistern is divided on the inside into two or more com-
partments, one of which is supplied with water by means of a ball-cock
in the usual way; the compartments have each an inclined bottom, and.

page_text: one of them is provided with an outlet pipe at the lower end; this pipe
and the end of the cistern from which it projects is depressed each time
the closet is used, the water from one compartment passing into the next
and out through the outlet pipe into a funnel-shaped top of the supply
pipe for flushing the pan.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Duty in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DUTY, of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Duty, Her special
licence that I, the said George Duty, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Duty, my executors,
administrators, 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
APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND DELIVERING WATER INTO WATERCLOSET PANS
AND OTHER RECEPTACLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Duty, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Duty, 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

page_text: 1011owing statement, reference being nad to the accompanying Drawing
forming a part of this Specification :-
Instead of a fixed cistern I employ a cistern constructed of any
suitable material; said cistern is suspended in bearings by an axle on
each side; the cistern is divided on the inside into two or more com-
partments, one of which is supplied with water by means of a ball-cock
in the usual way; the compartments have each an inclined bottom, and
one of them is provided with an outlet pipe at the lower end; this pipe
and the end of the cistern. from which it projects is depressed each
time the closet is used, the water from one compartment passing into
the next and out through the outlet pipe into a funnel-shaped top of the.
supply pipe for flushing the pan.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
In carrying out my Invention I employ a cistern shewn in side view
at Figure 1, and end view at Figure 2, and in section at Figure 3 for a
pull closet or for a pan closet; and Figure 4 is a sectional view of a
cistern I employ for a self-acting closet.
For a pull or pan closet A is the cistern of cast iron or other suitable
material; the bottom has an axle on each side which lie and rock in.
bearings B; the cistern is divided into two or more compartments, each
of which may have an inclined bottom, as shewn by the dotted lines in
Figures 2, 3, and 4; one of the compartments is supplied with water by
means of a ball and cock C in the usual way; another compartment is
provided with an outlet pipe D; this pipe and the end of the cistern
from which it projects is depressed each time the closet is used or a
supply of water is required, by a chain, rod, or cord F attached to either
end of the cistern, the water passing from one compartment into the
next and out through the outlet pipe into a funnel-shaped top E of the
supply pipe. The ball-cock may be placed in such position within the
cistern that when the end of the cistern furthest from the outlet pipe
is raised it shuts off the water cock until the chain, rod, or cord is
slackened, and the cistern by its own weight falls into an horizontal
position.
When applying my improved apparatus to self-acting closets I
employ a cistern constructed as shewn in section at Figure 4, the cistern
being of such weight at the outlet end that it holds the seat raised until
it is sat upon; when the cistern is thrown into a position for charging it

page_text: with a fresh quantity of water which is passed through the outlet
pipe D into the supply pipe upon the seat being released, the con-
nections between the seat and cistern may be attached to either end
or side of the cistern.
.
It is evident that the above described apparatus is equally as applicable
for supplying a given quantity of water where required for other
purposes as for supplying waterclosets.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the
improved apparatus as herein-before described and illustrated in the 1
Drawings annexed.
of our
In witness whereof, I, the said George Duty, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Nottingham.
GEORGE DUTY. (L.S.)