Improvements in Baths and Lavatories.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Baths and Lavatories.
ALBERT GARDNER CLOAKE, 49, Cannon Street, London, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
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My invention relates to the discharge & other apparatus of or connected with
baths lavatories, sinks & similar vessels the improvement regarding the traps
which I make fitted to or cast on the shell of bath or lavatory, with loose grating
fitted inside bath & metal cock discharging waste. I propose doing away with
concealed traps & making bath and lavatories with open trap by loose grating
inside & metal cock outside thus presenting all faulty seatings used in connection
with lift up stand pipes & wastes.
ALBERT GARDNER CLOAKE, 49, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Iron Founder and
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
sume is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement, reference being made to the accompanying drawings:-
My said invention relates to the water supply discharge and other apparatus of or
connected with baths sinks lavatories and similar vessels and comprises various
improvements in details.
In a bath made with one of my present improvements the water supply inlets
are kept quite distinct from the discharge outlet the supply taps for hot and
cold water being fixed to the inside of the end of the bath on a shelf or through
a ledge or recess and one tap on each side of the centre. The shell of the bath
is of cast iron or other suitable material and the discharge outlet is by preference
at the middle of the end as shown at C Fig. 1 either in a recess or otherwise.
Over the body of the inlet taps a shelf is placed, the handle and spindles of the taps
and of the discharge valve passing through it as in Fig. 2 or the spindle of dis-
charge valve may be carried outside of the end of bath and passed through a
separate part as in Fig. 3.
I claim for my invention the combined trap and valve for discharging the
contents of baths, sinks, lavatories, or otherwise, either working with a loose
grating inside of bath and spindle of valve outside of bath or having the spindle
of the valve connected to the plunger working on seating inside of bath. The

page_text: screwdown valve when working inside of bath is fixed under or upon shelf in
the bath and connected by long spindle to plunger covering seating and working
in recess of bath. The valve should occupy the same position on the shelf as
taps supplying bath.
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My method of working combined trap and valve outside of bath would be similar
to the foregoing but having a loose grating as before described inside the bath
over the trap.
At the other end of the syphon of trap A would be the plunger connected to
valve, the spindle being continued and brought through shelf in bath.
I also claim to work the upper part of valve by having use of the double bayonet
joint in place of screwed spindle.
Fig. 4 shows the application to a lavatory basin.
Having thus particularly described my said invention and the manner of per-
forming same I hereby state that I do not restrict myself to the precise details
herein described but that what I believe to be novel and original and claim as
the invention secured by me and in terms of the part recited as Letters Patent,
is:-
(1) The arranging or combining together of the water supply and discharge
and other apparatus of or connected with baths sinks lavatorics and other vessels
for washing purposes substantially in the improved manner herein before described.
(2) The improved discharge details comprising as essential parts trap A and
valve B combined and also trap valve and overflow working in a recess formed in
the bath under a ledge or shelf substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
(3) The combined trap A and valve B working outside of the bath with loose
grating C inside of bath substantially in any of the modes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 25th day of February 1898.