Improvements in Apparatus for Disinfecting and Deodorising Closets, Urinals, and the like.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Disinfecting and Deodorising
Closets, Urinals, and the like.
I BENJAMIN HAIGH of 70 Glengall Road Cubitt Town London E Plumber
Coppersmith &c do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It consists of a container of suitable material, size, or shape, say 4 inches deep
by 2 inches diameter preferred. On the top of the container, I fix a tube or neck
of suitable size, say 11 ins deep by 1 ins diar and attach it to the container top by
means of a screwed joint, soldering the female part to the container top, and the
male part to the lower end of the neck or tube, or otherwise. On the top end of
the neck or tube, I fix a feeder screw of suitable size to admit of the apparatus
being readily charged with disinfectant. In the male thread of this feeder screw I
provide 4 holes or slots, less or more, or otherwise. By partly unscrewing the
feeder, these holes or slots are opened to admit water when the apparatus is to be
used in water waste preventer cisterns. The holes or slots can be readily closed by
screwing the feeder cap down when the apparatus is required for any other fittings,
such as on a discharge pipe of closet or urinal, or suspended on any draw off cock
or any stream of water. The apparatus is suspended in a cistern or on a bib-cock,
by a chain, which is attached to proper fittings on the apparatus for that purpose.
In one side of the before-mentioned neck or tube, and about the middle of the
same, I insert the tail end of a nipple union of any suitable length or size, the
nipple being the outer end. Through this union I pass 2 D shaped tubes of
sufficient length to admit of being bent to a suitable angle for the inner ends to
project from the inside of the neck or tube, downwards into the internal part of
the container to a given depth. Near to the top of the bends I pierce a small hole
in each tube, the ends of the tubes standing a convenient distance apart. The
outer or nipple end of the D shaped tubes project about inch past the end of the
nipple, and appear to form one tube. On the extreme ends of the tubes, I fix
2 flaps or valves, which can be opened or closed so as to regulate the supply or flow
of disinfectant discharge into the water. On the nipple I screw or otherwise
secure, a plate of sufficient size and strength, and provided with holes, so as to bolt
or screw, or otherwise fix the same to any pipe of whatever length or size.
The nipple and ends of the D pipes project into the interior of any supply pipe or
tube, about inch, more or less, so that when a current of water passes through
this supply pipe or tube, one of the before-named flaps or valves acts as an injector into
the disinfectant, and the other as an ejector of the same into the water or discharge.

page_text: When the apparatus is suspended in a water waste preventer cistern, and immersed
about 1 inch more or less below the surface of the water, and the feeder screw
partly unscrewed, thus opening the holes or slots in it, then, when the cistern is in
action to discharge, that portion of water above the D tubes in the neck or tube is
locked in, and immediately begins to gravitate and discharge an equivalent quantity
of disinfectant through the tubes into the water of the cistern, and thus effectually
disinfecting every discharge. The apparatus can also be suspended by its chain,
on any draw off cock, or can be fixed on any closet, urinal, hosepipe, water cart,
or in any current of water, which current creates a rotary motion in the interior of
the apparatus, and forces a regulated quantity of disinfectant through the tubes
into the water. This apparatus having no working parts, cannot get out of order,
and when the disinfectant is spent, the feeder screw can be opened, and the
apparatus recharged and replaced ready again for action. Any suitable disinfectant
can be used.
Improvements in Apparatus for Disinfecting and Deodorizing
Closets, Urinals, and the like.
BENJAMIN HAIGH 70 Glengall Road Cubitt Town, London, E. Plumber do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DIS-
ENFECTING AND DEODERIZING, CLOSETS, URINALS, AND THE LIKE" and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This Invention is designed as a further Improvement upon Letters Patent
granted to me A.D. 1884 No. 10,442, the object of which was the construction of
an apparatus which would automatically impregnate water drawn from cisterns
for flushing water closets, urinals or the like with a disinfecting fluid.
The present invention is designed with the object of making the said deoderizing
apparatus more perfect in its action, and more generally servicable, and as an
article of domestic utility.
In order that the Invention may be well understood and explained in detail, I
have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings on which letters of reference are
marked on corresponding parts on all the Figa alike.

page_text: Fig. 2 represents the saine apparatus in elevation shewing the cap on the neck
partly unscrewed.
Fig. 3 represents in elevation the apparatus constructed as a deodoriser for
domestic purposes, and
Fig. 4 represents a form of clamp ring or coupling which can be employed for
fixing the deoderising apparatus to any pipe of whatever length or size.
In these Figs. a is the receptacle for containing the disinfectant which may be
permanganate of potash or other deoderising salt or fluid.
The receptacle a is charged with the disinfectant through the neck a¹ which is
closed in with a screw cap b. The said neck may be either permanently secured to
and form part of the container a as shewn at Fig. 3 or may be screwed thereto as
shewn at Fig. 1.
From this neck a¹ a tube c projects, this tube is provided with a coupling or
union d by which it is connected with the pipe e such connection being made by
preference with the form of clamp ring f shewn at Fig. 4. Inside the tube c
I pass two pipes of any suitable section or arrangement which will admit of two
distinct thoroughfares for the passage of fluid, for example one central pipe
surrounded by a larger pipe in which one passage for fluid will be the annular
space formed between the central and larger pipe, and the other passage the
central pipe, or the separate passages may be formed by pipes g and g¹ having a
D section.
The ends of these pipes terminating in the water pipe e project a distance therein
and are provided by preference with flaps or valves h. h¹ which are designed for
increasing or diminishing the openings of the pipes g and g², or in lieu of valves
or flaps, slots or holes may be formed therein.
The other ends of these pipes g. g¹ after passing through the pipe c, enter the
neck a¹ of the container and are then bent downwards and separated so as to
terminate, and be immersed in the fluid contained in the chamber or receptacle a,
the said pipes are provided with holes inside the neck which prevent any
tendency there otherwise would be for the formation of a vacuum. It will thus
be seen that when water from a cistern, reservoir, or other capacity containing
water is drawn therefrom through and down the pipe e for the cleansing of closets,
urinals or for other purposes, the currant or flow of such water will cause the
valve and pipe g to act as an injector into the disinfectant contained in the
receptacle a, and the other valve and pipe g¹ as an ejector therefrom into the water
flowing down the pipe e, the amount of water thus passing into the chamber a
is equivalent to the amount of disinfectant discharged therefrom. The amount
of opening given to the end of the pipes g and g¹ by the valves or flaps h and h¹
will regulate the flow of disinfectant discharged through the pipe g' into the water
flowing down the pipe e when passing the end of such pipe g¹.
When the apparatus is suspended by the chain k or its equivalent in a water
waste preventer cistern, and immersed therein below the surface thereof the cap b
as seen at Fig. 2 is unscrewed a distance which will allow the openings b¹ formed
in such cap to admit water from the cistern into the container a, but when the
water in the cistern has been drawn off to a level with or below the pipes g and g¹,
the container a still being full will then slowly gravitate downwards with each
discharge down the pipe e until it is lowered to a level with the pipes g and g¹ at
which time the container is then supplied with a quantity of water through the
pipe g equivalent to the quantity of disinfectant discharged therefrom through the
pipe g thus effectually disinfecting every discharge of water passing the ends of
the pipes g and gl in and down the pipe e.
In Fig. 3 the apparatus is shewn as adapted for domestic purposes, according to
this arrangement the pipes g and g¹ from the disinfectant container a terminate
in a funnel m, Water poured from a vessel through the funnel causes in its
passage a quantity of the disinfectant fluid in the container to be discharged
through the pipe g' into the water as it flows from the funnel thus deoderising
the same.
The supply of water to the container and the discharge of disinfectant

page_text: therefrom being in equivalent quantities each time a current of water is passed
through the funnel.
It will be evident that the apparatus can be suspended by its chain to any draw
off cock, or can be fixed or connected to any water pipe discharging water from a
reservoir or receptacle, whether such pipes be from a cistern for cleansing closets,
urinals or the like or through a hose pipe, or the discharge pipe of a water cart,
or any current of water which will create a rotary motion inside the container a
and cause a regulated quantity of disinfectant to be discharged from such container
into the water passing through the discharge pipe e in the manner hereinbefore
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is,
1. The novel arrangement, construction and adaptation of the cap 6 and neck a¹,
also the regulating valves or flaps h. h¹ together with the other improvements
described and shown herein, when employed in connection with the disinfecting
apparatus described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me on the
22nd day of July 1884 No. 10,442 to be used in the manner and for the purpose as
herein substantially described, set forth and illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
2. The novel arrangement and construction of the disinfecting apparatus as
shewn at Fig. 3 of the drawings or any modification thereof when employed as an
article of domestic utility.