Improvements in Privies or Closets.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th June, 1898-Accepted, 6th Aug.,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Privies or Closets.
I, ERNST ARTHUR REISSIG, of Steinstrasse, Dresden, Saxony, Painter, 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:-
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This invention has for object to improve the sanitary conditions of privies or
closets by preventing the escape of noxious effluvia therefrom upwards into the
surrounding atmosphere and also to prevent them from becoming choked or stopped
up by doing away with the usual discharge pipe or pipes.
The invention consists in the application to a privy or closet seat board of a
device in which two rings--one taking into and upon the other-clamp between
them a paper or like bag or pocket which receives the excrement and is intended to
be released and replaced after each time of using the closet. When released it
falls into the privy pit or into a suitable receptacle.
The device of the invention is shewn in the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 being
a cross sectional view of the two rings in the open position suitable for releasing
and replacing a bag or pocket; Fig. 2 a similar view of the rings closed and
clamping between them the bag or pocket; Fig. 3 a half plan view of the device;
and Fig. 4 a separate view of the bag or pocket.
The two rings a, b, made of metal, wood, or other suitable material are preferably
hinged together as shewn. They are provided or formed with conical exten-
sions c, d, fitting closely one within the other. The ring a is placed upon or
attached to the seat board (not shewn) while the ring is movable.
The conical extensions serve for holding between them a paper or like bag or
pocket e, the conical form of which should correspond to the conicity of said ring
extensions c, d, so as to properly fit the same.
The bag e serves to receive the excrement and in order that it may not be over-
weighted and thereby torn away at the place of attachment it may advantageously
be provided at the point with a small orifice f for the passage of liquid.
Instead of jointing or hinging the rings together they may be separate, the upper
one being simply lifted out of and inserted within the other as occasion requires,
and as the fitting of the conical ring extensions c, d, for clamping the bag or
pocket is a work requiring some skill, said extensions may with a view to saving
labour and expense be replaced by a suitable number of spring bag gripping
tongues.
A construction of dry closet is known in which a separable metal hopper has in-
serted in it a paper bag or pocket, but in that case excrement can and does come
between the bag and the hopper whereby the usefulness and value of the closet
is affected, but in this invention the bag or pocket and its contents stands by itself
and falls into the pit or receptacle without coming into contact with any discharge
pipes and thus no clogging or stoppage of pipes can take place.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A device for application to seats of privies or closets consisting of two rings a, b,
preferably jointed together and having conical extensions c, d, or tongues, for
holding a bag or pocket e which serves to receive the excrement, for the purpose
specified, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 25th day of June 1898.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
15, Took's Court, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.