Improvements in Privies or Closets.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 1st June, 1891-Accepted, 4th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Privies or Closets.
I, JOHN HAROLD BARRACLOUGH, of Thornton, near Bradford in the County
of York, Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in privies or closets, and its object is to
keep the urine apart from the soil or solid excretia and thereby, in a great measure,
prevent the rapid and continuous formation of noxious and unpleasant gases generally
prevailing under the ordinary system.
The said improvements consist of the arrangements hereinafter described in which
an independent receptacle is provided to receive the urine and prevent it mixing
with the solid excretia.
To carry out my invention I provide a suitable receptacle in front fixed the
required distance beneath the seat with the lip or rim extending far enough across
the opening in the seat to adapt it to catch the urine but allow the solid excretia to
fall past.
The urine caught in this manner may be allowed to flow into a separate tank or
be conveyed by a suitable conduit into the drain. In this way the urine from any
number of privies or closets may be independently collected and drain into a common
tank or conduit and leaves the solid excretia much more convenient to remove or
otherwise deal with.
Dated this 20th day of August. 1890
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Privies or Closets.
I, JOHN HAROLD BARRACLOUGH, of Thornton near Bradford in the County of
York, Ironmonger, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in privies or closets, and its object is to
keep the urine apart from the soil or solid excretia and thereby, in a great measure,
prevent the rapid and continuous formation of noxious and unpleasant gases
generally prevailing under the ordinary system.
The said improvements consist of the arrangements hereinafter described in which
an independent receptacle is provided to receive the urine and prevent it mixing
with the solid excretia.
To carry out my invention I provide a suitable receptacle in front fixed the
required distance beneath the seat with the lip or rim extending far enough across
the opening in the seat to adapt it to catch the urine but allow the solid excretia to
fall past.
The urine caught in this manner may be allowed to flow into a separate tank or
be conveyed by a suitable conduit into the drain. In this way the urine from any
number of privies or closets may be independently collected and drain into a common
tank or conduit leaving the solid excretia much more convenient to remove or other-
wise deal with.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1, represents a perspective view of my improved urine receptacle or

page_text: Figure 2, is a side elevation in section of a privy with said receptacle fixed in
position.
Figure 3, is a plan view of the same, and
Figure 4, is a sectional rear view of two closets placed side by side.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
The receptacle A is secured to the underside of the seat B3 by the screws D passed
through the slots C formed in the lugs E projecting from each end. The edge of
the bottom F of the receptacle extends partly across the opening G of the seat so
that it is in a position to catch the urine only. The bottom is inclined down
towards the front in which direction the urine flows and passing through the perfora-
tions J drops into the gulley e and thence by the fall pipe a, through the trap 6 into
the drain or a cistern provided to store it.
Figure 4 illustrates the method of collecting the urinal from a number of privies.
In which case the receptacles A. are arranged to drain into a continuous gulley
flowing into a trap connected to a suitable storage eistern.
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 what I
claim is:
A receptacle or separator adapted to be fixed beneath the seat of a privy or closet
and extending partly across the opening in said seat in such a manner that it is in a
position to catch the urine only, substantially as herein shown and described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of May 1891.
DRACCP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.