Improvements in and relating to the Buffers and Fittings of Automatic Tilting Tanks for Waste Water Closets.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1899-Accepted, 29th July, 1899
TRUVIDIONAL DIMUITIVATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Buffers and Fittings of
Automatic Tilting Tanks for Waste Water Closets.
I, CHARLES ARMSTRONG, of 1, Marl Terrace, Huncoal, in the County of
Lancaster, Pipe Setter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as.
follows:-
This invention relates to the buffers and fittings of automatic tilting tanks
used for flushing waste water closets. My invention is designed to dispense with
the usual rubber buffers and their adjuncts, and is specially adapted for three
and a half gallon tippers.
The steps fixed to the tipper-box to receive the axle of the tipper are cast
with a stud having a screw end which is secured to the tipper box by a nut.
The cross-piece or T head of the stud fits into a recess in the tipper-box or con-
tainer, and firmly seats or beds the step in its place. The step itself is Ụ shaped
in cross section. The external sides of the U shaped steps are formed convex,
and at the top and bottom thereof are projecting lips.
The stud or axle on the tipper is cast with an oval, oblong or other plate
formed with three studs projecting from its face. The central stud fits into
the seat of the step to serve as a pivot for the tipper in tilting. Each of the
remaining studs project over the convex sides of the step, and as the tipper
moves in either direction, checks the motion of the tipper by coming against
one or other of the said lips formed at the top and bottom of the U shaped step.
My invention is very sensitive, and is particularly applicable as previously
stated to tippers of small capacity.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1898.
RICHMOND & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents,
12, Standish Street, Burnley.
Improvements in and relating to the Buffers and Fittings of
Automatic Tilting Tanks for Waste Water Closets.
I, CHARLES ARMSTRONG, of 1, Marl Terrace, Huncoal, in the County of
Lancaster, Pipe Setter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the buffers and fittings of automatic tilting tanks
used for flushing waste water closets. My invention is designed to dispense with
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page_text: the usual rubber buffers and their adjuncts, and is specially adapted for three
and a half gallon tippers.
:
The steps fixed to the tipper box to receive the axle of the tipper are cast
with a T stud having a screw end, which is secured to the tipper-box by a nut
The cross piece or Thead of the stud fits into-á recess in the tipper-box or con-
tainer, and firmly seats or beds the step in its place. The step itself is U shaped
in cross section. The external sides of the U shaped step are formed convex,
and at the top and bottom thereof are projecting lips.
The stud or axle on the tipper is cast with an oval, oblong or other plate
formed with three studs projecting from its face. The central stud fits into
the seat of the step to serve as a pivot for the tipper in tilting. Each of the
remaining studs project over the convex sides of the step, and as the tipper
moves in either direction, checks the motion of the tipper by coming against
one or other of the said lips formed at the top and bottom of the U shaped step.
My invention is very sensitive, and is particularly applicable as previously
stated to tippers of small capacity.
In a modification, the position of the step and axle with respect to cach
other may be reversed, and the U shaped portion described as the step in the
preceding arrangement may be inverted, and one fixed to the tipper on each side.
The stud or pivot for the tipper is now fixed to the tipper-box. Upon the central
stud at each side, the inverted steps of the tipper are mounted, and the tipper
moves freely upon them, whilst its motion in either direction is arrested by the
aforesaid lips cast with the U shaped portion coming against the two remaining
projecting pins of the stud fixed to the tipper box, as the case may be.
My invention will be fully understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of my improved construction of the
axle and buffer fittings of tilting tanks for waste water closets. Fig. 2 is a
sectional elevation of the step and axle with projecting pins, taken through the
line ab, Fig. 1.
A is the step, B the stud or axle, placed in the slot of the step. The stud or
axle B is cast with the plate C, having also two other pins or studs D and E,
which serve for arresting the motion of the tipper in either direction. This
will be clearly seen by reference to Fig. 2, which represents the position of the
stud or axle when the tipper is in its normal position previous to tilting. The
pin 1 bears against the lip F, and the pin E rests against the lip G. When
the tipper tilts, when full of water, the pin D moves over the convex side of
the step until arrested by the lip H, whilst the pin E likewise seeks an opposite
position against the lip J.
The tipper, on its return, re-assumes its normal position.
The step A and stud B are cast with T extensions L and M, the cross portion
of the entering a recess in the tipper-box or tipper respectively, while the
stem portion is screw threaded, and passed through a hole, and firmly secured
on the reverse face of the tipper-box or tipper in either case by a nut N.
In Fig. 3, the step A is inverted, and is assumed to be fixed to the side of the
tipper, while the stud B is fixed to the side of the tipper-box. The action is
exactly the same as in the preceding arrangement, with the exception that the
step A, inverted as shewn, rocks upon the pin or pivot B. As illustrated, the
tipper is in its normal position. When tilted, the lips 0 and P of the step A
come against the stationary pins D and E, whereby it is arrested in its movement.
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 improved construction of buffer fittings for automatic tilting tanks' of
waste or slop water closets, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In buffer fittings for automatic tilting tanks of slop water closets, forming
the steps. as shewn with convex sides, and projecting lips HG FJ, and forming
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page_text: the studs or pivots with pins D E in addition to pin or pivot D, all arranged
and acting substantially as described and illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.
3. Fixing to an automatic tipper for slop water closets, the inverted step A,
having convex sides and formed with lips O P as shewn, the said step rocking
upon the pivot B fixed to the tipper box, and its lips O P, when tilting, coming
against the studs DE, substantially as and for the purpose described and illus-
trated in Fig. 3.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1890