Improved Sanitary Fittings Applicable to Horse Boxes, Stalls, Stables, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1890-Accepted, 19th July, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Sanitary Fittings Applicable to Horse Boxes, Stalls,
Stables, and the like.
We, WILLIAM BURTON, Gentleman, of High Street, Marylebone, and THOMAS
DURRANS, Architect, of Upper Baker Street, both in the County of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said 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 certain improved sanitary fittings especially applicable
to the flooring of horse boxes, stalls, stables and like erections constructed for the
accommodation of horses and other animals, such fittings being designed to provide a
drier and warner bed than is afforded by the usual brick flooring, providing for the
free escape of urine and other liquid which may find its way thereto, and also effecting
a saving in the amount of straw usually used to litter such flooring.
On the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1, represents a plan view of the improved fittings.
Fig. 2, represents a transverse sectional elevation thereof.
Figs. 3, and 4, represent enlarged sectional views, the former being taken on about
the plane ab, and the latter on about the plane, c.-d, Fig. 1.
In carrying out the Invention, I construct, in the flooring of the stall, stable or the
like, a well, 5, of suitable dimensions, preferably constructing it in concrete, 6, and I
provide the same with a trapped outlet, 7, to permit of the free escape of all liquid
which may find its way to the well.
At the top part of the well I let into the flooring a supporting frame, 8, which is
preferably set in surrounding brick work, 9, of the kind usually used in the construction
of such flooring. The frame, 8, is preferably cast in suitable metal, (though it may be
constructed of wrought metal or of any other suitable material,) and is adapted to
support in the desired relative positions a series of removable, reversible and inter-
changeable flooring blocks, 10. It may support such blocks only at its ends as
represented in Fig. 1, or it may be made with one or more transverse bars adapted to
support such blocks at any part or parts intermediate of their ends, or to support such
blocks placed end to end. The frame, 8, is constructed with distance pieces, 11, or the
like, so disposed or adapted as to keep a space, 12, between the adjacent blocks to provide
for the free escape of all liquid matter which may fall on or find its way thereto, and to
facilitate such escape the adjacent edges of the blocks are preferably chamfered off, as
at, 13, or they may be otherwise equivalently adapted for such purpose.
of the blocks may also be chamfered off.
The corners
The blocks are preferably made of wood well creosoted or otherwise suitably
pickled, but they may be made of india-rubber or of gutta-percha or other suitable
material. Being removable they permit of access to the well being readily obtained
for its being cleaned out if occasion should require, and being reversible they permit
of the lower side being placed uppermost when the upper side is sufficiently worn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
1. Constructing sanitary fittings for the flooring of horse boxes, stalls, stables and
the like in the improved manner hereinbefore described with reference to the accom-
panying drawings.
2. In sanitary fittings for the flooring of horse boxes, stalls, stables and the like, in

page_text: combination, a frame adapted to support a series of removable blocks in desired
relative positions at a distance apart, and a series of removable and interchangeable
blocks adapted to be supported in such positions by such frame, substantially as berein-
before set forth.
Dated this 14th day of June 1890.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.