IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING DISINFECTANTS TO WATER CLOSETS, URINALS AND, DRAINS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I GEORGE SHUDDER of Longley Villa Thorburn Square London in the county
of Surrey, Millfurnisher do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING DISINFECTANTS TO WATER CLOSETS,
URINALS AND, DRAINS to be as follows:-
Whereas, certain methods which are now used for disinfecting are imperfect in
their form and action: In order to overcome these disadvantages I have invented
an apparatus which works automatically and is more simple than others now in use;
and by which a more perfect supply of the disinfectants is obtained, by passing the
flush water through the disinfectant.
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To obtain these objects I provide a small tube which I connect to the main
supply pipe at one end; the other end of which I fill with small perforations; this
perforated end I enclose within a second and larger tube which is also perforated;
and is filled with the disinfectant to be made use of; outside this I fix a third tube
which forms a watertight case and this I connect to the pan or drain.
The small tube which I fix to the main supply pipe draws off part of the water
used for flushing and this passing through the perforations at the end of the tube
must pass directly through the disinfectant before flowing into the outer case and
tlience to the pan or drain which is to be disinfected:

page_text: I GEORGE SHUDDER of Longley Villa Thorburn Square London, in the county
of Surrey Millfurnisher do hereby declare the nature of my invention. for
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING DISINFECTANTS TO WATER CLOSETS,
URINALS AND DRAINS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement reference
being had to the accompanying drawing:-
The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus which shall work
automatically shall be more simple in construction, and shall give more perfect
results than any now in use.
The chief feature of my invention consists in the arrangement of tubes and case,
by means of which I pass a portion of the flushing water directly through the
disinfecting material used.
In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a vertical section of my apparatus, and
Figure 2 is a sectional plan on the line A B.
Similar letters indicate similar parts throughout.
It consists of a watertight cylinder or case C, of brass or other suitable material,
fitted with a stand D and cover E as shown. In the cover I fix a smaller cylinder F
which is made with a solid bottom and is provided with a few small perforations f
in its sides at the lower end (below the cover E): this cylinder may be made of
any convenient length to suit circumstances, above the cylinder C; a cap G is
screwed on at the top-Inside C a small bent pipe H is secured, one end of
which projects into F through a hole in the bottom piece, the other end being fixed
to the water supply pipe I where it enters the cylinder C; this pipe H is perforated
with small holes h, and the end is fastened up--The supply pipe I is fitted with
suitable couplings or connections J-A small delivery pipe K is fixed to the side of
case C near the top and is fitted with any connections that may be required to suit
circumstances.
In fixing the apparatus the supply pipe I is screwed or otherwise secured to the
flush water supply main or pipe, and the delivery pipe K is arranged so as to enter
the water closet or urinal pan; or is suitably connected to the drain.
To charge the apparatus the cap G must be unscrewed and the disinfectant placed
in the tube F..
The action of the apparatus is as follows-when the water for flushing is turned
on in the flush water supply main or pipe, part of it rushes through the supply
pipe I into H from which it passes through the small perforations h into the
cylinder F which contains the disinfectant (thus before it can pass to the case C it
must pass directly through the disinfectant used) and thence through the holes f to
the outer case or chamber C. From C it flows to the water closet, urinal, or drain,
after being thoroughly charged with the disinfectant.
As a small quantity of the disinfectant, may pass through the small perforations
in the cylinder F and settle at the bottom of C, I make a few small perforations in
the bent tube H at or near its lower end, and thus the water which has been
standing in case C is stirred up, by the rush of the flushing water and any
disinfectant contained therein made use of.
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 is―
1 An apparatus for supplying disinfectants to water closets, urinals and drains,
consisting of three concentric cylinders or tubes together with necessary
connections substantially as shown and described.

page_text: 2 In an apparatus for supplying disinfectants to water closets, urinals and drains,
the use of a fixed perforated disinfectant chamber substantially as shown
and described.
3 In an apparatus for supplying disinfectants to water closets, urinals and drains,
the use of an internal perforated water supply pipe, which passes into the
disinfectant chamber substantially as and for the purposes shown and
described.