IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER CLOSETS
Year: 1884

page_text: I JAMES FAGAN of High Street, Skipton in the County of York. Plumber. do
hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER CLOSETS
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
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This invention relates to certain improvements in Water closets, and has for its
object the accomplishment of the following advantages. First, the water seal of
the trap is in sight, stands well up in tho basin or pan and is safe against either
momentum or syphonage. Second, the flushing water is of such volume as to
properly clear out the old and cleanse the basin or pan. Third the construction
of the closet is such that the emptying of slops and the like into the same is
accomplished without the inconvenience attaching to this operation by closets in
ordinary use. Fourth, my improved closet can be fixed in place of a "Bramah,” a
Jennings" or pan closet, without any additional expense with the exception of
the supply of water for flushing, which in my improvement must be of larger
dimensions than ordinary. Fifth, my improvement has the appearance of the
popular pan closet, but it is more substantial than the pan closet, and quite as
simple as the hopper.
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I accomplish the above advantages by inserting into a double bend pipe
prepared for its reception, an inverted frustrum of a cone B (see Figure 1.) with a
flushing ring C round the largest diameter, having the usual inlet branch D but of
larger dimensions than ordinary. The bottom end of the cone at B' when inserted
forms the trap I crdinarily allow eight inches of water from the bottom to the
surface of water, four inches of which is the depth of the trap. By cutting more
from the bottom or smaller end of the cone, the trap can be made shallower if
required, still I have eight inches depth of water.
To the top of the double bend I insert a ventilating pipe E for the escape of
sewer gas, if any, and the prevention of syphonage; although I have shewn in
the drawings of my improvement the pan or cone B in a separate piece from the
bend, can make it all in one piece of earthenware.
In order to allow of the escape of gases which are liable to accumulate during
the use of the closet betwixt the water and the seat, I arrange above the flushing
ring C at the top of the basin ventilating tubes F and F¹, one on each side; a
reduced detail plan of one of the ventilators is shewn by Figure. 2. The end & of

page_text: one of the ventilators is open to the underside of the seat, and the end of the other
is connected to a pipe communicating with the atmosphere thus ensuring the
carrying away of all deleterious gases.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare what I
claim is :-
The construction of water closets in which the side of the cone or pan B forms
the trap which is in sight, with large and equal outlet arcas P and P₁ and without
valve or other hinderance to quick discharge into the soil pipe, arranged
substantially in the manner described and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this first day of January 1881
WAUGH & CHAPMAN,
Agents for the said James Fagan.