IMPROVE- MENTS IN WATER CLOSET APPARATUS OR FITTINGS
Year: 1885

page_text: I, ANDREW AINSLIE COMMON, of N° 63 Eaton Rise Ealing in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN WATER CLOSET APPARATUS OR FITTINGS to be as follows:-
"
My Invention relates to apparatus whereby I determine the height at which the
water shall stand in the basin of a Water-Closet, while leaving the basin intact,
my arrangements being particularly applicable to the apparatus known as the
Bramah."
"
I propose to attach to the upper part of the fitting carrying the valve and into
which the lower part of the basin fits, a tube or pipe rising from above the valve
outside the basin to such height as it may be desired to keep the water at within
the basin, and bent over and brought back to the fitting beneath the aforesaid
valve.
I may connect my bent tube to the fitting by any suitable unions and I may
provide it at any suitable point with an attachment for a ventilating pipe.
By my arrangement I leave the basin intact and avoid the defects of a perforated
overflow therefrom.

page_text: I ANDREW AINSLIE COMMON, of N° 63 Eaton Rise, Ealing, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN WATER CLOSET APPARATUS OR FITTINGS" and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My Invention relates to apparatus whereby I determine the height at which the
water shall stand in the basin of a Water Closet, while leaving the basin intact;
my arrangements being particularly applicable to the apparatus known as the
"Bramah."
I attach to the upper part of the fitting carrying the valve and into which
the lower part of the basin fits, a tube or pipe rising from above the valve outside
the basin to such height as it may be desired to keep the water at within the basin,
and bent over and brought back to the fitting beneath the aforesaid valve.
On the accompanying sheet of Drawing I have shown, in Sectional Elevation, a
portion of water-closet apparatus embodying my improvements.
A being the basin. B is the valve.
C Is the tube or pipe secured in the fitting D above the valve at a and after
rising to the height & returned to the fitting D¹ at c.
D The fitting carrying the valve and into which the basin is fixed.
D¹ The fitting below the valve.
Upon the closing of the valve B should the water rise in the basin until it
attains therein the height dit will return below the valve B by means of the
pipe C. until it stands at the determined height.
At the point e of the tube C I insert a pipe for the purpose of preventing the
syphoning of the basin in case of accident to the valve. I may connect my bent
tube to the fitting by any suitable unions, and I may provide it at any suitable
point with an attachment for a ventilating pipe.
By my arrangement I leave the basin intact and avoid the defects of a perforated
overflow therefrom.
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
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1. In a Water-Closet apparatus or fitting the tube or pipe C having one opening
above the valve B, independent of the basin, the other below it, and rising outside
the basin substantially as described and illustrated and for the purpose specified.
2. The improvements in Water Closet apparatus or fittings hereinbefore
described and illustrated on the accompanying sheet of Drawing.
Dated this Twenty fourth day of November 1885.