Improvements in Attachments for Sinks, Drains, Watercourses, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachments for Sinks, Drains, Watercourses, and
the like.
I HENRY HOWSE, of Ancona House Inderwick Road, Hornsey, in the County
of London, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention for improvements in attachments for sinks drains watercourses
and the like has for its object to provide an appliance to be placed over the outlet
from the sink or the like to prevent solid particles from passing down the outlet
pipe and also to disinfect the liquid passing down the said pipe; and consists
essentially in a hollow strainer of perforated metal, stoneware, or other suitable
material adapted to be placed and secured over the sink outlet and provided with
means for suspending or holding inside the strainer a solid disinfectant over which
the liquids pass and are disinfected and which disinfects any gases passing up the
outlet pipe.
The perforated strainer is preferably cup shaped and is provided with a central
pin adapted to pass through a hole in the usual grid of the sink or the like and
retain the perforated cup in place and the solid disinfectant can be threaded on the
pin inside the cup and if necessary retained by a nut. If a small recess is made in
the sink the edges of the strainer will fit in the recess and the disinfectant can be
suspended by a loop and eye from the top of the strainer. In designing a new sink
the cup or strainer can be arranged to fit in a recess in the sink the hollow or
concave surface being towards the outlet.
Dated this 27th day of November 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Attachments for Sinks, Drains, Watercourses, and
the like.
I HENRY Howse, of Ancona House, Inderwick Road, Hornsey, in the County
of London, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
This invention for improvements in attachments for sinks, drains, watercourses
and the like has for its object to provide an appliance to be placed over the outlet
from the sink or the like to prevent solid particles from passing down the outlet pipe
and also to disinfect the liquid passing down the said pipe; and consists essentially
in a hollow strainer of perforated metal, stoneware, or other suitable material
adapted to be placed and secured over the sink outlet and provided with means for
suspending or holding inside the strainer a solid disinfectant over which the liquids
pass and are disinfected and which disinfects any gases passing up the outlet pipe.
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page_text: The perforated strainer is preferably cup shaped and is provided with a central
pin adapted to pass through a hole in the usual grid of the sink or the like
and retain the perforated cup in place and the solid disinfectant can be threaded
on the pin inside the cup and if necessary retained by a nut. If a small recess
is made in the sink the edges of the strainer will fit in the recess and the dis-
infectant can be suspended by a loop and eye from the top of the strainer.
In designing a new sink the cup or strainer can be arranged to fit in a recess
in the sink the hollow or concave surface being towards the outlet.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a sink attachment constructed according to this
invention, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a street drain cover fitted with a disinfecting
appliance according to this invention and Fig. 4 is a cross section of the same.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the cup shaped strainer a is provided with a central
pin adapted to pass through the central hole in a sink grid so as to retain
the strainer a over the grid. The solid disinfectant block c is perforated with
a central hole and is retained in place by the metal or insoluble disc d and
spring clamp ε. The top of the strainer is flat so that a utensil can be placed
upon it if desired.
In a modification the insoluble disc d retaining the solid disinfectant within
the cup and preventing pieces of the disinfectant falling away is embedded
in the disinfectant during manufacture.
Referring to Figs. 3 and 4, the solid disinfectant c is supported by the metal
plate e embedded in the disinfectant and fixed to a rod f. One end of the
rod is received in a hole on one side of the gulley frame and the other end
in a slot on the other side the hole and slot being so placed that the block c
hangs under a bar of the grid i. The cover is shown with two blocks c.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. An attachment for sinks and the like consisting of a hollow perforated
strainer and a solid disinfectant supported within the strainer, substantially as
described.
2. A disinfecting appliance for street gulleys and the like consisting of a
grid or stramer, and a solid disinfectant suspended under the said grid or strainer,
substantially as described.
3. A disinfecting appliance for sinks street gulleys and the like consisting
of strainer or grid, a solid disinfectant, and an insoluble disc or plate supporting
the said disinfectant within or underneath the strainer or grid substantially as
described.
4. The improvements in attachments for sinks drains, watercourses and the like,
substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of September 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.