Improvements in Fittings for Baths, Lavatories, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1888
. Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fittings for Baths, Lavatories, and the like.
I, HUGH STEVEN of the firm of McDowall, Stoven & Co. Ironfounders, Milton
Iron Works, Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to fittings for use in connection with the supply of water to
and its discharge from baths, lavatories and the like, and under one improvement the
hot and cold water inlet orifices are placed in the end and near to the bottom of the
bath and are covered with hinged flaps, which by their own gravity close said orifices so
that whilst the hot water inlet in particular may be quickly covered in filling the bath
and prevent the emission of great volumes of vapour the flaps by closing the orifices
when the water is discharged after use may prevent the ingress of soap and scum into
the inlet pipes and thus avoid soiling the valves. The admission valve may be of
the ordinary construction but by a further improvement, which is applicable to water
taps and valves for lavatories, sinks and the like the actuating screw spindle has
formed on it a V-shaped or double conical collar one cone or inclined face bearing on
a conical seat in the guide way casing of the valve or tap and the other bearing on a
corresponding seat formed in the screwed cap or cover which serves to retain the
spindle in place.
The conical collar and seats are ground or turned and constitute water tight joints
which freely permit of turning the valve spindle and enable the use of a stuffing box
to be dispensed with.
The waste pipe is cast on the bath and at its lower end is formed a trap composed
of a hollow globular casting into which dips a conical tube formed at the lower end of
the waste pipe the said tube constituting a seat for the discharge valve which consists
of a rubber ring fixed in a recess at or near the lower end of a vertically removable
overflow pipe fitted within the waste pipe. The trap stands over the floor level or it
may be formed by one or more of the feet or supports of the bath so that the bath is
self fixing.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of September.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint. Vincent Street,-Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fittings for Baths, Lavatories, and the like.
I, HUGH STEVEN of the firm of McDowall, Steven & Co., Ironfounders, Milton Iron
Works, Glasgow, 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 relates to fittings for use in connection with the supply of water to
and its discharge from baths lavatories and the like.
As represented in cross section at figure 1 and in longitudinal vertical section at
figures and 3 of the accompanying drawings, which represent a bath with my
improvements adapted thereto, the hot and cold water inlet orifices A and B are
placed in the end and near to the bottom of the bath C and are covered with hinged
Haps a and b which by their own gravity close said orifices so that whilst the hot
water inlet in particular may be quickly covered in filling the bath and prevent the
emission of great volumes of vapour the flaps a, b, by closing the orifices A, B, when
the water is discharged after use may prevent the ingress of soap and scum into the
inlet pipes D and thus avoid soiling of the valves. The admission valve may be of

page_text: construction but by a further improvement which
taps and valves for lavatories, sinks and the like the actuating screw spindle F ha
applicable to wate
formed on it a V shaped or double conical collar fone cone or inclined face bearing
on a conical seat in the guide way casing of the valve or tap and the other
bearing on a corresponding seat f2 formed in the screwed cap or cover F which
serves to retain the spindle in place.
The conical collar and seats f, f³, are ground or turned and constitute water
tight joints which freely permit of turning the valve spindle F and enable the use of
a stuffing box to be dispensed with. Figure 4 shows the improvement in the valve
spindle F to a larger scale, figure 5 shows its application to an ordinary water tap
and figures 6 and 7 to a stop valve in a water way.
The waste pipe G is cast on the bath and at its lower end is formed a trap
composed of a hollow globular casting H into which dips a conical tube I formed at
the lower end of the waste pipe the said tube constituting a seat for the discharge
valve which consists of a rubber ring j. fixed in a recess at or near the lower end of
a vertically removable overflow pipe fitted within the waste pipe G. The trap H
stands over the floor level or it may be formed as indicated in the drawing by one
or more of the feet or supports of the bath so that the bath is self fixing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. In baths lavatories and the like providing the water inlet orifices with self closing
ids or covers substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In a water tap or valve an actuating spindle formed with a duplex conical
collar in combination with seats in the casing and cover substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
3. In baths lavatories and the like a trap formed by the lower end of the waste
pipe dipping in a globular casting constituting one of the feet or supports of the
bath or other vessel substantially as described.
4. In baths lavatories and the like the combination with the waste pipe and trap
of the overflow pipe and discharge valve seated in the waste pipe substantially as set
forth.
Dated this Twenty second day of
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CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.