IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STANDS AND RECEIVERS OF TIPPING BASINS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Paget, of Loughborough, in the County of Leicester,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STANDS AND RECEIVERS OF
TIPPING BASINS."
Scaled the 16th September 1876, and dated the 30th March 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Paget at the Oflice
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th March 1876.
ARTHUR PAGET, of Loughborough, in the County of Leicester.
IN THE STANDS AND RECEIVERS OF TIPPING BASINS."
"IMPROVEMENTS
My Invention relates to the construction of stands or supports, and shoots or
receivers for tipping basins, or such basins as are emptied by tipping, tilting, or
canting them.
Basins, as ordinarily constructed for tipping, are made with trunnions, axes,
or bearings, by which they are mounted in the stand, and when so constructed
they are not readily removable to be used apart from the stand, or to give
access to the shoot or receiver below for cleansing. Now the object of my
Invention is to provide for the mounting of the basin without such trunnions,.
axes, or bearings, so that it can be used as a tipping basin, and can be readily
removed and replaced, and also so to construct the shoot or receiver below the
basin, that when the latter is tipped the contents shall not splash over the lip of
the receiver and so wet the operator or the top of the stand.
For this purpose,
I support the basin at or near its rim, round more than half its circumference,
leaving the posterior portion unsupported, so that the basin can be tipped, tilted,
or canted on the two posterior points of its support, as on fulcra. As basins are
not perfectly true in their form I prefer to provide the supports only at three points
of its periphery, so that it may in all cases rest steadily thereon, and to make the
middle or front point of support of cork, caoutchouc, or other elastic or yielding
inaterial which acts as a buffer when the basin is let drop back to its horizontal
position. In order to prevent the upward splash of the water when the basin is
tipped I provide in the ordinary shoot or receiver a diaphragmn placed vertically,
or nearly so, and parallel to the axis on which the basin is tipped, so that the
contents of the basin discharged into the posterior space of the receiver are
prevented by the diaphragm from running up the inclined front of the receiver.
The diaphragm may be inade removeable to give facility for cleansing.
Povice 417
In

page_text: constructing a shoot or receiver for a tipping basin I form its back, front, and sides
without any such concave curvatures as tend to guide the water discharged from
the basin in an upward direction, and I thereby prevent the water from splashing
upwards so as to wet the operator or the top of the basin stand.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the
said Arthur Paget in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th September
1876.
ARTHUR PAGET, of Loughborough, in the County of Leicester.
IN THE STANDS AND RECEIVERS OF TIPPING BASINS."
"IMPROVEMENTS
My Invention relates to the construction of stands or supports, and shoots or
receivers for tipping basins, or such basins as are emptied by tipping, tilting, or
canting them.
Basins, as ordinarily constructed for tipping, are made with trunnions, axes,
or bearings, by which they are mounted in the stand, and when so constructed
they are not readily removable to be used, apart from the stand, or to give access
to the shoot or receiver below for cleansing. Now the object of my Invention is to
provide for the mounting of a basin without such trunnions, axes, or bearings, so
that it can be used as a tipping basin, and can be readily removed and replaced,
and also so to construct the shoot or receiver below the basin that when the latter
is tipped the contents shall not splash over the lip of the receiver and so wet
the operator or the top of the stand. For this purpose I support the basin at or
near its rim, round more than half its circumference, leaving the posterior portion
unsupported, so that the basin can be tipped, tilted, or canted on the two posterior
points of its support, as on fulcra. As basins are not perfectly true in their form,
I prefer to provide the supports only at three points of its periphery, so that it
may in all cases rest steadily thereon, and to make the middle or front point
of support of cork, caoutchouc, or other clastic or yielding material, which acts as
a buffer when the basin is allowed to drop back to its horizontal position. In
order to prevent the upward splash of the water when the basin is tipped I provide
in the ordinary shoot or receiver a diaphragm placed vertically, or nearly so, and
parallel to the axis on which the basin is tipped, so that the contents of the
basin discharged into the posterior space of the receiver are prevented by the
diaphragm from running up the inclined front of the receiver. The diaphragm
may be made removeable to give facility for cleansing. In constructing a shoot
or receiver for a tipping basin, I form its back, front, and sides, without any such
concave curvatures as tend to guide the water discharged from the basin in an
upward direction, and I thereby prevent the water from splashing upwards so as to
wet the operator or the top of the basin stand.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figs. 1 to 3 of the Drawings shew one arrangement of my before described
improved tipping basin and receiver. Fig. 1 shews a section on line X, X, Fig. 3.
Fig. 2 shews a section on line Y, Y, and Fig. 3 shews a plan with the basin
removed. The basin A rests with its rim upon three supports B, B1, B', projecting
from the periphery of the hole in the top Ċ of the stand, the support B being at
the middle of the front of the stand, and, as it were, divided into two, to allow the
thumb or fingers to be inserted for lifting the basin, while the supports B' are at
points somewhat beyond half the circumference of the hole in the rear. The back
part of the basin being thus unsupported it can be tilted on its two rear supports, as
shewn in dotted lines at Fig. 2, so as to discharge its contents into the receiver D.
These supports at the same time serve as stops to prevent the basin when tilted
from slipping forward in the hole. At the front support B a notch G is formed

page_text: underneath the rim of the basin for the insertion of the thumb or fingers for
lifting the basin, and on each side of the notch a block B of caoutchouc, cork, or
leather, or any other soft material, is fixed as a support on which the rim of the
basin rests. It will be seen from the above described arrangement that the basin
can readily be lifted off its supports and removed when required for using the
basin in any way apart from the receiver or for gaining access to the receiver.
The receiver I may be formed with a straight back D¹, and is provided with a
diaphragm E parallel to the axis on which the basin is tipped, the contents of the
basin being discharged into the space between the diaphragm and the back of
the shoot. The diaphragm may either be held in guides F, F, on the sides of the
receiver so that it can be slid out if required, or it may, if preferred, be permanently
fixed to the receiver. Fig. 4 shews a sectional elevation, and Fig. 5 shews a plan,
with basin removed, of another arrangement in which the front part of the receiver
at D is formed straight, as well as the back, for the purpose before mentioned.
The top of the stand may be also made with two notclies G, G, under the rim of
the basin to enable the thumb or finger to be inserted for lifting, the support B of
caoutchouc or other material being between the notches G, G. B¹, B¹, are the rear
supports as before.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I claim in respect of stands and receivers for tipping
basins
First. Supporting the basin at or near its rim, the posterior part being left
unsupported so that it can be tipped, tilted, or canted on the posterior points of
its support as on fulcra, substantially as herein described.
Second. Providing in the shoot or receiver of a tipping basin a diaphragm
parallel to the tipping axis of the basin, and vertical, or nearly so, in order to
prevent the upward splash of the discharged water, substantially as herein
described.
Third. Constructing the shoot or receiver of a tipping basin in such a manner
that the part into which the water falls shall have no concave curvatures such
as would tend to guide the discharged water in an upward direction, substantially
as herein set forth.
And lastly I claim each of these improvements separately or in combination
with each or all of the other improvements.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Paget, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
זזזז!
ARTHUR PAGET.
(L.D.)