Improvements in apparatus employed for the purpose of casting orting of ashes, charcoal,, sood or other deodorizing or absorbent substance ors in closets or com
Year: 1885

page_text: JAMES GREEN of 17 Argyle Terrace Pursers Cross Road, Fulham, Middlesex
Clerk, do bereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improvements in apparatus employed for the purpose of casting or distributing
a regulated charge of ashes, charcoal, lime, sood or other deodorizing or absorbent
substance or substances of a powdery nature in dry closets or commodes.
I construct an apparatus consisting of an outer case and an inner vessel or
receptacle provided with handles the outer case having in its upper or top side an
orifice similar to the ordinary water closet and two or more slots or crevices at
proper distances running parallel from the orifice and hinged on its upper and front
sides. Through the slots or crevices run bars or rods of a sufficient length to which
is attached at the under or lower end and underneath the seat and orifice a cage or
box of wire gauze of a sufficient guage and of properly prepared material the lower
part of which is hinged or otherwise mounted to permit the charging of the cage.
with the deodorizing or absorbent substance or substances. At the top end of the
bars or rods and over the seat and orifice is attached a lid; or cover of suitable
material and supplied with handles.
A person using the closet pulls or pushes the lid or cover away from the orifice
this movement at the same time carrying the attached cage or box and permitting
a discharge of the deodorizing or absorbent substance or substances to fall into the
inner vessel or receptacle. A like motion on the lid or cover being pulled over
the orifice permits a like discharge over the excrement.
This arrangement allows of a fresh supply of the deodorizing substances in the
cage or box to protrude through the wire gauze and catch the gases at the time of
and after the using of the closet or commode the material that falls from the cage
deordorizing the focal matter and urine.
No part of the deodorizing substance or substances can collect or fall upon
the seat nor is the cage or box .any inconvenience whatever to the person using
the closet or commoda.

page_text: When the inner vessel or receptacle requires emptying the front of the outer
case is opened and the inner vessel removed.
When the cage or box requires charging the upper side of the outer case is
lifted up.
The wire cage or box and the lid or cover can be fixed to any domestic closet,
commode, privy or vessel for the reception of putrescible matter by simply cutting
the slots or crevices in the seat hinging the top and front sides and connecting the
lid or cover by the bars or rods to the cage or box.
The apparatus described is simple in its construction and has no mechanical
arrangement to get out of order and is readily portable.

page_text: I
I, JAMES GREEN late of 17 Argyle Terrace Fulham Middlesex but now of
19 Lower Parkfields, Putney, Surrey, Clerk do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRY CLOSETS AND COMMODES" and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus employed for the
purpose of casting or distributing a regulated charge of ashes, charcoal, lime, soot
or other deodorizing or absorbent substance or substances of a powdery nature in
dry closets or commodes.
In applying my invention for the purposes described I construct an apparatus
consisting of a vessel or receptacle with or without an outer case provided with
handles the vessel having in its upper or top side an orifice similar to the ordinary
water closet and two or more slots or crevices at proper distances, running parallel
from the orifice.-Through the slots or crevices run bars or rods of a sufficient
length to which is attached at the under or lower end and underneath the seat and
orifice a cage or box of wire gauze of a sufficient guage and of properly prepared
material the lower part of which is hinged or otherwise mounted to permit the
charging of the cage with the deodorizing or absorbent substance or substances-
At the top end of the bars or rods and over the seat and orifice is attached a lid or
cover of suitable material and supplied with a handle.
A person using the closet pulls or pushes the lid or cover away from the orifice,
this movement at the same time carrying the attached cage or box and permitting
a discharge of the deodorizing or absorbent substance or substances to fall into the
vessel or receptacle-A like motion on the lid or cover being pulled over the orifice
permits a like discharge over the excrement.
This arrangement allows of a fresh supply of the deodorizing substances in the
cage or box to protrude through the wire gauze and catch the gases at the time of
and after the using of the closet or commode, the material that falls from the cage
deodorizing the fecal matter and urine.
No part of the deodorizing or absorbent substance or substances can collect or
fall upon the seat nor is the cage or box any inconvenience whatever to the person
using the closet or commode.
When the vessel or receptacle requires emptying the top is lifted off and the
vessel removed.
When the cage or box requires charging the upper side of the vessel is lifted up.
The wire cage or box and the lid or cover can be fixed.to any domestic closet,
commode, privy or vessel for the reception of putrescible matter by simply cutting
the slots or crevices in the seat, hingeing the top and front sides, and connecting
the lid or cover by the bars or rods to the cage or box.
The apparatus described is simple in its construction and has no mechanical
arrangement to get out of order and is readily portable.

page_text: Figure 1 shows a commode constructed on this principle to be used in lieu of a
watercloset.
It consists of a box with a wire cage or box A under the seat, as shewn on
Figure 2, to contain the deodorizing powder as before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First. The apparatus for deodorizing or treating excreta or other matter and
arresting the gases passing therefrom particularly as described the apparatus
consisting of a vessel having affixed thereto a moveable lid and cage particularly
as described.
Second. The slotted seat and lid and cage suitable for the application to the seat
of any closet or privy or otherwise for deodorizing the contents of any vessel
employed as a receptacle for putrescent matter.