Improvements in Flushing Closets.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th Mar., 1833-Accepted, 13th May, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flushing Closets.
I, MOSES JAMES ADAMS, Engineer, Park Lane Sanitary Works, Leeds, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows.
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My improvements consist in the use of a flushing apparatus which is practically
equivalent to one tank placed on the top of another, the lower one has an outlet
which is connected to closet and a tipping or revolving receiver placed within it
and so arranged that when sufficiently full it shall over balance and discharge its
contents to the closet or other apparatus The upper portion of my apparatus
has a syphon or valve in it either of which are actuated by hand or seat It is
evident that if the syphon or valve is set in operation discharging the liquid from
top portion it will take a certain time to fill the tipper into which it empties This
space of time I desire particularly to delay the flusli until the user of the closet 19
ready certain aangements of seat action I may use and I prefer to use a special
coupling to closet forming it as a socket of lead or other phable metal which
material I cause to become tight around the closet nozzle by special clamp around
it I sometimes arrange the apparatus that before use a small amount of water
shall discharge to wet the closet and prevent soiling thereof
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
Engineer, Paik Lane Sanitary Works, Leeds.
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
Engineer, Paik Lane Sanitary Works, Leeds.
I, MOSES JAMES ADAMS, Engineer, Park Lane, Sanitary Works, Leeds, do hereby,
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement.-
It will be seen from the accompanying diawing that Fig. 1 shews a longitudinal
section of a cistern or vessel A with a lower portion H, a syphon B with plunger C,
and lever D working on fulcrum E, a lift up valve or other water discharge
arrangement may replace the syphon A ball cock F, with ball G, 18 provided
to fill the top portion sufficiently full of water and when the lever D and
plunger C are raised the syphon B sets up action and delivers the water through
outlet P to the lower part of the apparatus H; within this lower portion a
tipper J works on pivots K K, and this tipper when filled by the discharge from P,
overbalances because of its form and the water contained therem passes out
It will be
through L to closet N, by flushing nozzle M; O is the closet seat

page_text: noticed that a certain interval of time will elapse between the starting of syphon
and the tipping of J, and when the lever D is actuated automatically by the
closet seat, or otherwise, a certain period of time is allowed to pass between the
setting up of syphonic action and the discharge of the tipper to the closet
This
I find helpful in use rather than discharge the tipper instantly on the lifting of
lever. In place of the syphon I may use a valve or other contrivance, my special
feature being the use of a tippel which when filled discharges its contents with
force to the closet pan-the said tipper being in a different chamber from that
occupied by the ball valve.
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 18.
1st The use of 2 cisterns or one cistern with an upper and lower portion, in
the lower of which a tipper is placed fed from the discharge of a syphon or valve
in the upper portion
2nd. The combination of cistern as described with a water closet for the purposes
shewn
31d. The use of a cistern having a tipper in its lower portion and in its upper
portion, a valve or syphon supplying the said tippel in combination with a water
closet
4th The use of the appliances shewn herein and described, or their equivalent
though differing in conformity, substantially the same.
Dated this 8th day of March 1899
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
Engineer, Park Lane Sanitary Works, Leeds
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
Engineer, Park Lane Sanitary Works, Leeds