IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER- CLOSETS.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Eskholme, of Rotherham, in the County
of York, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER-
CLOSETS.
"
Sealed the 2nd May 1871, and dated the 11th March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Eskholme
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th March 1871.
I, GEORGE ESKHOLME, of Rotherham, in the County of York,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN WATERCLOSETS," to be as follows:
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This Invention relates to a peculiar arrangement of apparatus to be
attached to ordinary pan or valve waterclosets for the purpose of
ensuring the effectual water trapping or sealing of the closet or the
delivery of the requisite quantity of water to the basin after the handle
of the closet is released and the cock shut. For this purpose it is

page_text: proposed to employ a supplementary service box situate between the
supply cock and the watercloset basin, and, by preference, placed under-
neath the seat. The water for flushing the closet fills and passes
through the said service box, which is always left full after the supply
cock has been shut, but discharges its contents into the basin of the
closet and thereby ensures the necessary quantity being delivered into
the basin after the supply has been shut off.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Eskholme in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
ESKHOLME, of Rotherham, in the County of York, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the 34th
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said George Eskholme, Her special license that I,
the said George Eskholme, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Eskholme, my executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER-
CLOSETS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Eskholme, my by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Eskholme, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the

page_text: following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :--
My said Invention relates to a peculiar arrangement of apparatus to
be attached to ordinary pan or valve waterclosets for the purpose of
insuring the effectual water trapping or sealing of the closet or the
delivery of the requisite quantity of water to the basin after the handle
of the closet is released and the cock shut. For this purpose I employ
a supplementary service box situated between the supply cock and the
water closet basin, and, by preference, placed underneath the seat. The
water for flushing the closet fills and passes through the said service
box, which is always left full after the supply cock has been shut, but
discharges its contents into the basin of the closet and thereby ensures
the necessary quantity being delivered into the basin after the supply
has been shut off.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose
shall refer to the two Figures in the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the
same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in both Figures.
Figure 1 is a general plan of the mechanism of a watercloset with
my improvement attached, and Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same
taken through the supplementary service box along the line a, b, in
Figure 1.
A represents the basin; B, the supplementary service box; C, the
handle or pull of the closet, and D the valve for admitting the water into
the supplementary service box and filling the same on its way to the
basin. After the valve D has been closed there will obviously be
sufficient water left in the supplementary service box to effectually seal
or trap the basin; E, E, is a small air or vent pipe put into the top of
the box and over the edge of the basin for allowing the water to run
more freely out of the box.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the application
and use to and in waterclosets of a supplementary service box for
ensuring the effectual trapping or sealing of the pan after the "pull"

page_text: In witness whereof, I, the said George Eskholme, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of
August, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.