Improvements in Water-closets and Apparatus connected therewith.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water-closets and Apparatus connected
therewith.
I, HENRY SUTCLIFFE, of the Firm of Messieurs Wright Sutcliffe and Son,
Sanitary Engineers and Brassfounders, of Globe Sanitary Works, Halifax, in
the County of York do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to water closets and apparatus for flushing the same.
The essential features are a water closet basin constructed with a flushing rim of
sufficient water capacity and with a sufficiently large inlet to receive a "swelling
wave "of water which is pressed, raised, forced or pumped up from, or out of, a
cistern or other receptacle by a plunger, bucket or lifter actuated by a pull,
chain, lever, or levers. The water may also be displaced in a somewhat similar
manner by air pressure.
To flush a closet automatically I use a weighted plunger (preferably made of
lead and actuated by a lever, levers, or other suitable means, connected with the
closet seat) which when released, after the closet has been in use, presses or
forces forward a wave of water sufficient to thoroughly cleanse the water
closet basin.
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This apparatus is applicable for use with all existing forms of water-closet
basins by making a separate or independent flushing rim of sufficient water capacity
and with a sufficiently large inlet to receive a "swelling wave" of water as
aforesaid.
By this apparatus a given quantity of water can instantly be pressed, raised,
forced, or pumped up from, or out of, the cistern or other receptacle aforesaid into
the water-closet basin thereby eliminating the use of costly overhead cisterns,
valves, flush pipes, or other appliances, and obviating the unpleasant noises incident
to such contrivances or appliances.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1802
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water-closets and Apparatus connected
therewith.
I, HENRY SUTCLIFFE, of the Firm of Wright Sutcliffe & Son, Sanitary
Engineers and Brassfounders, Adelaide Street, Halifax in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
In order that my invention may be better and more fully understood I herein
give reference to the accompanying sheets of drawings.
Fig. 1. Sheet 1. is a sectional side view with the working parts exposed and
showing the apparatus ready for flushing.
Fig. 2. Sheet 2. is a front view of the apparatus.
Fig. 3. Sheet 3. is a side view showing the same at rest.
Fig. 4. Sheet 4. is a plan view of Sheet 2.
Fig. 5. Sheet 5. is a plan view of Sheet 3.
In accordance with my invention, 1 is the closet basin; 2 the water inlet to the
basin; 3 the water cistern; 4 the water displacer or plunger; 5 the closet seat;

page_text: 5 the levers which work or rock on the shaft 6, actuating the chains 7, which lift
the displacer or plunger 4; the supply pipe; and 9 the ball tap which controls
the water supply.
Figs. 3 and 5 show my improved apparatus ready for operation, and in order
to work the same, the seat 5 is pulled down into the position shown in
Figs. 1, 2, and 4.
The action is as follows:-
Immediately on the seat 5 being brought down into the position herein before
mentioned, the ball tap 9 falls, and opens the supply tap 8, which gradually fills
the cistern 3 to the required height, viz.; to the level of the bottom of the displacer
or plunger 4. After the seat 5 is released, the displacer or plunger 4 and the
seat 5 resume their original positions, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, and in doing so
the displacer or plunger 4 instantaneously displaces or forces forward the
water in the cistern 3 which passes through the outlet 2 into the basin 1, whereby
the same is flushed or cleansed.
I also make my improved apparatus to operate by means of a hand lever in which
case the displacer or plunger is made in the form of a hollow air vessel or float
which, when the lever is depressed, is submerged and the water forced into the
basin in the manner described above.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
First. The apparatus, substantially as herein described and set forth, for the
purpose of supplying water or other liquids by displacement.
Second. The apparatus, substantially as herein described and set forth, for the
purpose of supplying water or other liquids by displacement, in combination with
the closet basin.
Dated this Second day of November 1893.
HENRY SUTCLIFFE.