IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATERCLOSETS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Kennedy Geyelin, Civil Engineer, 17, King
Street, Cheapside, City, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATERCLOSETS."
Sealed the 23rd February 1864, and dated the 13th November 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Kennedy Geyelin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th November 1863.
I, GEORGE KENNEDY GEYELIN, Civil Engineer, 17, King St., Cheapside, City,
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATERCLOSETS," to be as follows:-
The back part of the closet pan is made at right angle, or to recede from
the top to the bottom, which prevents the soil falling on it. A steep inclined
plane forms the bottom of the valve or syphon watercloset, down which
incline the soil slides and can only rise again to the surface of the water on
the outside of the pan where it is hidden from sight.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Kennedy Geyelin in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th May 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
KENNEDY GEYELIN, Civil Engineer, 17, King Street, Cheapside, City,
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh
year of her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Kennedy Geyelin, Her special licence that I, the
said George Kennedy Geyelin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Kennedy Geyelin, my executors, adminis-
trators, and 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 THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATERCLOSETS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Kennedy
Geyelin, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, 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 Kennedy Geyelin, 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
following statement :-
The back part of the closet pan is made at right angle or to recede from
the top to the bottom, which prevents the soil falling on it. A steep inclined
plane forms the bottom of the valve or syphon watercloset, down which
incline the soil slides and can only rise again to the surface of the water on
the outside of the pan, where it is hidden from sight.

page_text: 2nd, the construction of syphons with an incline plane adapted for the
oblique or common pans.
3rd, the construction of oblique valves adapted to the oblique common
pans.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Kennedy Geyelin, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
GEO. K. GEYELIN, C.E. (L.S.)