Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 12th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 14th Dec., 1888
I, HEINRICH WIEN of I Stadiongasse 4, Vienna, Austria Gentleman do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:—
This invention relates to water closet and privy seats and has for its object to avoid
more especially, where one closet or privy is used by many persons, the contact of the
bodies of different persons with the same seat.
According to my invention, each closet or privy in barracks, hospitals, offices, schools
and the like, is provided with a number of detachable seats, each of which is kept
separately under key by its owner in a common suitable box.
In order to prevent the under surface of these detachable seats being moistened or
polluted in consequence of its contact with the fixed frame or part of the closet or
privy, distance pieces or feet are provided on the detachable seat which correspond
with sockets, grooves, or cavities, on the fixed part or vice versa.
The detachable seats may also be provided with a guard plate, hinged to its front
edge and provided with distance pieces or feet intended to bear against the front side
of the casing or fixed part of the closet or privy seat for the purpose of preventing
contact of the clothes with the said front side.
If so desired, the detachable seats may be formed of several pieces connected by
hinge joints, so as to allow of their being folded together.
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H. WEIN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: I HEINRICH WIEN of I Stadiongasse 4, Vienna, Austria, Gentleman, 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 water closet and privy seats and has for its object to avoid,
more especially where one closet or privy is used in common, the contact of the bodies
of different persons with the same seat.
According to my invention each closet or privy in barracks, hospitals, offices, schools,
and the like, is provided with a number of detachable seats, each of which is kept
separately under key by its owner in a common suitable box.
In order to prevent the under surface of these detachable seats being moistened or
polluted in consequence, of its contact with the fixed frame or part of the closet or
privy, distance pieces or feet are provided on the detachable seat which correspond
with sockets, grooves, or cavities, on the fixed part or vice versa.
The detachable scat may also be provided with a guard plate hinged to its front edge.
and having distance pieces or feet intended to bear against the front of the casing or
fixed part of the closet or privy seat for the purpose of preventing contact of the
clothes with the said front.
If so desired, the detachable seats may be formed in parts connected by hinge
joints, so as to allow of their being folded together for the use of travellers
and others, the distance pieces or feet being suitably arranged or replaced by
flanges.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification in which figure 1 is a perspective view of a closet or privy seat frame
adapted to receive a detachable seat. Figure 2 is a perspective view of the detachable
seat. Figures 3 and 4 are perspective views of folding detachable closet or privy seats
in the open and closed positions. Figure 5 is a perspective view of a detachable seat
fitted in position upon a closet or privy and provided with a guard plate hinged thereto.
Figures 6 and 7 are a plan view and cross section of a folding detachable closet or
privy seat, stamped out of sheet metal.
As shown in figure 1 the top of the casing of the privy has sockets or grooves c
as in figure 5 to receive the distance pieces or feet d' attached to the underside of the
detachable seat e.
The detachable seats may be made either of wood or sheet metal
and in figures 3 and 4 they are made in balves e¹ e hinged together at f, so that the
distance pieces or feet d either project outwards as shown in figure 4 or inwards
in which case they are so arranged as not to abut directly against each other when the
seat is folded.
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In figures 6 and 7 the seat is shown.as stamped up. from sheet metal in two parts e³
hinged together, each half having a downwardly extending flange eat the side and
rear edges forming a substitute for the distance pieces a and also a deeper flange e

page_text: along its front edge which overlaps and covers the front upper edge of the closet
seat frame. For the sake of lightness the rear portion of the detachable seat may be
removed as shown in dotted lines at e' in figure 6 and the seat be supported at this
point by means of downwardly projecting lugs.
In figure 5 is shown a guard plate hinged to the front edge of the detachable seate
and provided with distance pieces resting against the front of the closet seat frame
for the purpose of preventing contact of the garments therewith.
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
1. A detachable privy seat constructed of wood or sheet metal provided with pins,
feet, flanges, or distance pieces on its underside substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
2. The combination of a detachable privy seat as herein described with a privy seat
frame having sockets or grooves to receive the pins, flanges or distance pieces of the
detachable seats substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. A folding detachable privy seat of the kind herein described made in parts
hinged together substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
4. The combination with a detachable privy seat of the kind herein described
of a guard plate hinged to its front edge, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
Dated this 19th day of November 1888
H. WIEN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.