Improvements in Apparatus for the Removal of Human Excreta from the Receptacles therefor in Closets or Privies.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 16th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 1st Apr., 1887.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Removal of Human Excreta
from the Receptacles therefor in Closets or Privies.
WILLIAM HADFIELD BOWERS of The Brookfield Chemical Works West Gorton
in the Parish of Manchester Chemical Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE REMOVAL OF HUMAN
EXCRETA FROM THE RECEPTACLES THEREFOR IN CLOSETS OR PRIVIES to be as follows:-
I construct a box or chest or chests the ends and top of which are formed of hinged
or sliding doors and of a size suitable to run up the passages behind the rows of
cottage closets or privies to be emptied.
Before filling the doors at the ends are fastened and when filled the doors at the top
are closed and the box run on a cart which is so constructed as to hold four or more
of these boxes a moveable platform is provided which serves as a tip so constructed as
to fit the wheels of the boxes. The boxes are emptied by being run on the platform
and when each box reaches the tip the hinged ends are opened and discharge the
contents with slight labour by tipping up.
Dated this Third day of May 1886.
WILLIAM HADFIELD BOWERS.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Removal of Human Excreta
from the Receptacles therefor in Closets or Privies.
I, WILLIAM HADFIELD BOWERS of The Brookfield Chemical Works, West Gorton
in the Parish of Manchester Chemical Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to he performed to ho particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statements:-
The objects of this invention is the construction of apparatus to facilitate the
removal of human excreta from the receptacles therefor in closets or privies particularly
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page_text: in towns or cities where the passages through which such excreta must be removed are
necessarily small.
I construct boxes or chests of a size suitable to run up the passages behind the rows
of cottage closets or privies to be emptied. The ends and covers of these boxes are
made to open as hinged or sliding doors. Before filling a box the doors at its ends
are closed and when it is filled the doors at its top are closed. The filled box is run
on to a cart or truck which is so consiructed as to hold four or more of these boxes.
The boxes are emptied by opening their end doors and tipping them either on the
truck or on a
platform on which they can be run from the truck or cart.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a part side elevation and part longitudinal
section of a box according to my invention for removal of excreta. Fig. 2 is a part
end view and part transverse section and Fig. 3 is a plan partly in section. The box
as shown is made of iron preferably galvanized: it might however be of other material
such as wood coated with plates or with paint or varnish to prevent it from absorbing
the moisture of the excreta. The box is mounted on two side wheels W W and has
two smaller central wheels we on either of which it can run according as it is tilted
a little the one way or the other. The top of the box is covered by two doors A
hinged at the middle. The ends of the box are also covered by doors which are.
hinged at the top at B and are secured by fastenings D. Handles E are provided for
moving the box and its several doors. Fig. 4 is a side view parily in section and
Fig. 5 is an end view partly in section and Fig. 6 a plan of a truck on which the
boxes can be conveyed, these being placed on the truck either longitudinally or
transversely so that they can he tipped to discharge their contents either over the end
of the truck as indicated at F in Fig. 4 or over the side of the truck as indicated at
(in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a side view and Fig. 8 is a plan of a waggon suitable for
conveying four of the boxes which can be run on to the waggon or off from it on a
rail frame H that may be jointed to the waggon as shown in Fig. 8.
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 :-
The construction and use of hoxes or receptacles for removal of excreta, these boxes
or receptacles being provided with doors for filling and for emptying by tipping and
with wheels for facilitating their movement substantially as described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of December 1886.