IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER- CLOSETS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Jones, of the North Devon Pottery Company,
Annery, near Bideford, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER-
CLOSETS."
Sealed the 14th December 1860, and dated the 23rd June 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Jones at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd June
1860.
I, HENRY JONES, of the North Devon Pottery Company, Annery, near
Bideford, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATERCLOSETS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in waterclosets. For these
purposes the basin, which it is preferred should be of a conical form, is made of
glazed pottery or earthenware, with a flange around the upper edge thereof.
The basin is set in a vessel, by preference of a cylindrical form, which is of
glazed pottery or earthenware, and made suitable at its upper end to receive
the flange of the basin, and to admit of its being cemented or luted air-tight
where they come together. The bottom of this outer vessel is closed, there
being a side outlet suitable for connecting with a glazed earthenware pipe.
Below the end of the basin there is a pan of glazed pottery or earthenware,
made with necks or axes which are received into bearings formed within the

page_text: outer vessel near the bottom. The pan is so hung on its axes that when full
of water it will stand horizontal, and the water therein will rise above the
lower end of the basin. The front part of the pan is made with a spout, so
that when tilted the water and soil will be completely emptied therefrom. At
the back of the pan a suitable connection is made to a handle on the scat of
the closet, such connection where it passes out through the seat being made
air-tight by vulcanized india-rubber, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JONES, of the North Devon Pottery Company, Annery, near Bideford, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Jones, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Jones, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Jones, 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 WATER-
CLOSETS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Jones, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their bands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 Henry Jones, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in waterclosets. For these

page_text: purposes the basin, which it is preferred should be of a conical form, is made
of glazed pottery or earthenware, with a flange around the upper edge thereof.
The basin is set in a vessel, by preference of a cylindrical form, which is of glazed
pottery or earthenware, and made suitable at its upper end to receive the
flange of the basin, to admit of its being cemented or luted air-tight where
they come together. The bottom of this outer vessel is closed, there being a
side outlet suitable for connecting with a glazed earthenware pipe. Below the
end of the basin there is a pan of glazed pottery or earthenware made with
necks or axes, which are received into bearings formed within the outer
vessel near the bottom. The pan is so hung on its axes that when full of
water it will stand horizontal, and the water therein will rise above the lower
end of the basin. The front part of the pan is made with a spout, so that
when tilted the water and soil will be completely emptied therefrom. At the
back of the pan a suitable connection is made to a handle on the seat of the
closet, such connection where it passes out through the seat being made air-
tight by vulcanized india-rubber or otherwise.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows an external elevation, and Figures 2 and 3 show two sections
of the apparatus. a is the basin, of a conical form, having a projecting flange b
all round; these are made all in one piece of glazed earthen or pottery ware.
c is a pan which is also of glazed earthen or pottery ware; it is formed with an
axis d on either side; the axes d, d, and the pan are made in one piece, and
the axes d, d, are received into bearings or recesses formed in the interior of
the outer vessel e. This vessel e with the recesses to receive the axes d, d, of
the pan are all made in one piece of glazed earthen or pottery ware. The
exterior of the outer vessel e is, by preference, made cylindrical, except where
the projecting outlet f is formed. The outer vessel e is formed with an inclined
and hollow bottom g, as shown, so that when the pan is inclined the water and
soil therein flow down through the outlet, and by reason of the inclination of
the bottom nothing can remain thercon. The back end of the pan is connected
by a wire or rod h to a suitable handle, the wire or rod passing through the
flanch of the basin as air-tight as may be by being packed or otherwise. At
the back of the basin there is formed a shield or distributer i to distribute the
water as usual.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself

page_text: to the precise shapes of the parts above described; but what I claim is, the
combination of a glazed earthen or pottery ware basin, with a glazed earthen
or pottery ware outer vessel and a glazed earthen or pottery ware pan, its axes
working in bearings, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
HENRY JONES. (L.S.)