Improvements in Flushing Apparatus for Water Closets and other places.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th May, 1892-Accepted, 25th June, 1892.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flushing Apparatus for Water Closets and
other places.
I JOSEPH BREEDEN of New Mill Works Fazeley Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to effect the flushing of water closets and other
places by a simple and inexpensive apparatus not liable to get out of order. The
apparatus constituting my invention is wholly independent of the cistern with
which it is used being connected therewith by a single screw junction. It requires
no special kind of cistern and can readily be applied to and removed from any
cistern.
In making a flushing apparatus according to my invention I form preferably of
cast iron and in a single casting a syphon the descending leg of which is of the
ordinary tubular shape. The other or ascending leg of the said syphon is much
larger in diameter than the descending leg and is of such a size and shape as to
permit of the reception and working of a hinged flap which flap is hinged in the
interior and near the bottom of the said ascending leg. A lever turning upon a
fulcrum at the top of the syphon is so connected with the said flap that when the
cord or chain attached to the said lever for working the apparatus is pulled down
the said flap is suddenly raised upwards. The apparatus is fixed to the cistern by
the bottom of the descending leg of the syphon being screwed to the delivery pipe
in the bottom of the cistern. The level of the water in the cistern which is
determined by the ball cock by which water is supplied to the cistern is below
the bend of the syphon and in the normal position of the parts the apparatus is
inoperative. When however the cord or chain for operating the apparatus is
pulled the flap is suddenly lifted and the water above it raised to the bend of
the syphon. The syphon is thereby set into action and the water of the cistern is
delivered by the descending leg of the syphon to the water closet or place to be
flushed. The cistern is slowly filled again by the ball cock but the syphon does
not come again into action so as to discharge the cistern until the operating chain
or cord is pulled.
Dated the 10th I of At 1801
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flushing Apparatus for Water Closets and
other places.
I JOSEPH BREEDEN, of New Mill Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object to effect the flushing of water closets and other
places by a simple and inexpensive apparatus not liable to get out of order. The
apparatus constituting my invention is wholly independent of the cistern with
which it is used, being connected therewith by a single screw junction. It
requires no special kind of cistern and can readily be applied to and removed from
any cistern.

page_text: In making a flushing apparatus according to my invention I form preferably of
cast iron and in a single casting, a syphon the descending leg of which is of the
ordinary tubular shape. The other or ascending leg of the said syphon is much
larger in diameter than the descending leg and is of such a size and shape as to
permit of the reception and working of a hinged flap which flap is hinged in the
interior and near the bottom of the said ascending leg. A lever turning upon
a fulcrum at the top of the syphon is so connected with the said flap that when the
cord or chain attached to the said lever for working the apparatus is pulled down the
said flap is suddenly raised upwards. The apparatus is fixed to the cistern by
the bottom of the descending leg of the syphon being screwed to the delivery pipe
in the bottom of the cistern. The level of the water in the cistern which is
determined by the ball cock by which water is supplied to the cistern, is below the
bend of the syphon and in the normal position of the parts of the apparatus
is inoperative. When however the cord or chain for operating the apparatus
is pulled, the flap is suddenly lifted and the water above it raised to the bend
of the syphon. The syphon is thereby set into action and the water of the cistern
is delivered by the descending leg of the syphon to the water closet or place to be
flushed. The cistern is slowly filled again by the ball cock, but the syphon
does not come again into action so as to discharge the cistern until the operating
cord or chain is pulled.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure represents in longitudinal section; Figure 2 in plan and Figure 3 in
transverse section, flushing apparatus for water closets and other places, the parts
of the said flushing apparatus being constructed and combined according to my
invention.
In the said Figures 1, 2 and 3 the cistern is represented filled to the proper level
by the action of the ball cock in the cistern and the apparatus is ready for the
flushing operation.
Figure 4 represents in longitudinal section and Figure 5 partly in side elevation
and partly in longitudinal section the Hushing apparatus after the syphon action has
been set up by the pulling of the operating chain or cord and the upward lifting of
the hinged or jointed flap in the ascending leg of the syphon.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
C
a is the cistern and a² the overflow pipe of the same; b, c is the syphon; being
the descending leg and c the ascending leg. The descending leg bis of the ordinary
tubular shape and is connected with the delivery pipe passing to the water closet
or place to be flushed. The ascending leg of the syphon is of much larger
diameter than the descending leg and has a rectangular figure in plan (see
Figure 3) and constitutes a small chamber open by its raised bottom to the
cistern a, the said leg c resting on the cistern by feet or projections as represented.
The ascending and descending legs e and are connected together by the bend d
which is situated much higher than the normal level of the water in the cistern.
The syphon is made in one piece by casting, and is fixed to the cistern a by a single
junction at e, that is the screwed bottom of the descending leg is secured to the
underside of the cistern by the screw nute and by means of the ordinary union
joint the delivery pipe is connected to the said descending leg. In the ascending
leg or small rectangular chamber e of the syphon, a hinged or jointed flap works
freely, the said flap not coming into contact with the sides of the said leg or
chamber as seen in Figures 1 and 3. The joint pin of the hinged or jointed flap f
is cast in one piece with the said flap and the pivoted ends of the said joint pin turn
in the sides of the ascending leg e as best seen in Figure 3. The flap is raised in
the ascending leg c of the syphon by the lever h, 2 jointed at ³ to the arm ² on
the sy phon. The end of the outer arm of the lever is acted upon by the pull
down chain and the end of the inner arm 2 of the lever is jointed to the connecting
linkk, the looped bottom end of which is engaged with the cranked end y² of the

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joint pin of the flap (see Figures 3 and 5); 1 is the ball cock by which the
level of the water in the cistern a is determined. It will be seen by an examination
of Figure 1 that when the water in the cistern is at its normal level in the cistern a
it is below the bend d of the syphon and when the parts are in the respective
positions represented in Figures 1, 2 and 3 the flushing apparatus is inoperative.
When it is required to flush the water closet or place in connection with the
descending leg b, the chain is pulled down and with it the outer arm h of the
lever,, the inner arm 2 of the said lever being correspondingly raised.
The raised arm² acting through the connecting link on the cranked end g² of
the joint pin of the flap suddenly lifts the said Hap into the position represented
in Figures 4 and 5. By the sudden lifting of the flap the water above it in the
ascending leg or small chamber c of the syphon is displaced and lifted to the
bend d of the said syphon. The syphon is thereby set into action and the water in
the cistern a is delivered by the descending leg to the pipe in connection with the
water closet or place to be flushed as represented in Figures 4 and 5. So long as
the flushing water is being delivered from the cistern a the flap f is supported by it.
in the raised position represented and offers no obstruction to the passage of the
said flushing water through the syphon, but immediately the flushing action ceases,
and the pull down chain has been released, the flap falls into the normal position
represented in Figures 1, 2 and 3 and the cistern is slowly filled by the ball cock l
but the syphon does not come again into action so as to discharge the cistern a
until the operating chain is pulled down as will be understood from the foregoing
description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.
Instead of lifting the hinged flap in the ascending leg or chamber c by the action
of the pull down lever h² and its connections for setting up the syphon action, the
hinged flap may be lifted by a weight and made to take its horizontal position near
the bottom of the ascending leg or chamber c by the action of the pull down lever
and its connections.
This modification is represented in Figure 6. On the pin of the hinged flapf is
a weighted arm m by which the said flap is raised, when at liberty to move, into the
nearly vertical position shown. The flap f is returned to the horizontal position
indicated in dotted lines near the bottom of the ascending leg or chamber c by
depressing the pull down lever h. In this modification the loop of the connecting
link works upon the pin m² on the weighted arm m of the hinged flap.
The action of this modification is as follows:-On pulling down the lever h it
raises the weighted arm m and depresses the flap into its horizontal position.
On releasing the pull down lever the flap is suddenly raised in the leg or
chamber by the weighted arm m, thereby displacing and raising the flushing water
in the said leg or chamber c to the bend of the syphon and setting up the syphon
or flushing action, as hereinbefore described.
C
In order to diminish the resistance offered to the descent of the flap in the leg or
chamber, the said flap is preferably made in halves hinged together. On the flap
descending in the leg c the outer jointed part is raised nearly at right angles to the
other part as indicated in dotted lines, the outer part of the flap falling into line
with the inner part on the flap reaching the bottom of the leg. A stop at the joint
of the two parts prevents the outer part descending below the level of the inner
part.
It will be seen that the flushing apparatus is wholly independent of the cistern
with which it is used and requires no special kind of cistern.
It is connected
to the cistern by a single screw connection and can be readily applied to and
removed from the cistern.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner of performing the same I declare that I claim as my invention of
"Improvements in flushing apparatus for water closets and other places" ;-
First The addition to or combination with the flat or chamber like ascending
leg of the syphon of a hinged or jointed flap having a rising and falling motion in the

page_text: said leg, the said flap when suddenly lifted on the pulling down or on the pulling
down and releasing of the chain or cord of the flushing apparatus displacing and
raising the flushing water in the said ascending leg to the bend of the syphon and
thereby setting up the syphon or flushing action substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
;-
Secondly Working the hinged or jointed flap referred to in the preceding
claim by means of a lever carried by an arm on the ascending leg of the syphon,
the said lever being connected with the pull down chain or cord and through a con-
necting link, with the joint pin of the said flap substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Twenty-ninth day of April 1892.
JUSETH BREEDEN