Improvements in Sanitary Closets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1395
Complete Specification Left, 14th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sanitary Closets.
I MOSES JAMES ADAMS, Engineer 5 & 7 Old Queen Street Westminster do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in the form of closet pans, in one case where I use
them coupled as a multiple closet and of the syphon outlet attached thereto and also
in the use of closets singly as may be desired used singly or in series apply if so
wished at the outlet or other part where a connection to a metal or other pipe is
needed for flushing or discharging, a coating or enveloping or a depositing of such
material on the ware of the closet or vessel that the same may be "tinued" and
that the plumber or user may thereto attach by "wiped " or solder joint his soil or
other pipe and the closets I sometimes form with a syphon outlet that at the time of
the flush the contents may be emptied by suction, sometimes I form the closet with
a groove or indent or a section giving the same so directing the Hush that it enters
the mouth of syphon and aids syphonic action thereby and this groove or indent
I also may form in ordinary closets' projecting the water in the trap to clear its
contents, again in a closet I sometimes form its outlet with a valve the whole
arrangement then conforming more nearly to the pedestal closets' now in use but
fitted with a valve.
Dated this 26th day of November 1895.
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
5 & 7 Old Queen Street, Westminster, Engineer.
Improvements in Sanitary Closets.
MOSES JAMES ADAMS Sanitary Engineer 5 and 7 Old Queen Street
Westminster S.W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
As stated in my Provisional Specification part of my invention consists in the
mode of treating a closet or other outlet or inlet where it is desired to connect an
earthenware or other pipe or glazed ware pipe or outlet or inlet to a lead or other
metal pipe by wiped or solder jointing.
On reference to the accompanying drawing my proposal will be readily followed
Fig. 1 shewing a closet with inlet horn D ventilating pipe C and outgo B.
Fig. 2 shews an enlarged section of this outgo F being the earthenware G Ga
wire of copper or other easily tinned metal wound round F at H HI shew the
coating of tin or other solder which covers the wire before named and which
enables the plumber or other user to attach a soil or other pipe of lead or other
metal thereto by a wiped or a copper bit joint.
At Fig. 3 and 4 I shew the closet fitted with discharge valve A this valve works
on spindle B and when closed as shewn holds the water in closet basin the valve
being opened by any means allows the contents of the closet pan to pass by W and
Pre &

page_text: E to the outlet. The side view Fig. 3 shews how by foot lever H or hand lever M
I actuate the spindle B at C is a water valve so constructed that when the lever M
or H is set in action water flows through the inlet nozzle D to the flushing rim O
the weight K serves to close the water valve when the lever is released.
At Fig. 5 I shew a closet having an indent or depression N this serves to direct
a flow of water from the flushing rim upon the contents of the trap P and thereby
facilitates the cleansing of the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. The use of the closet as shewn formed as a pedestal but fitted with an outlet
valve, and arrangements for actuating the same, in combination with valve and
arrangements necessary thereto.
2nd. The use of the closet as shewn Figs. 3 and 4 which standing on its own
base and requiring no wood or other enclosure, shall yet be complete in itself with
outlet valve, and mechanism to actuate the same.
3rd. The use of the closet as shewn and described at Figs. 3 and 4 and the parts
thereof, consisting of valves, for outlet and water supply, actuated by foot lever or
by hand.
4th. The use of wire or band of copper, brass or other material, so wound about
or twisted round a portion of a pipe or outgo that when "tinned" it is possible
to attach by "wiped or other solder jointing, the soil or other pipe.
5th. The combination of the wound or twisted wire, with the glazed ware pipe
or outlet, on which the same is twisted for the purpose as described and as shewn
in one form at Figs. and 2.
7th. The use of a groove, indent, or other channel as N Fig. 5, formed for the
purpose of directing a scour of water in a closet pan.
8th. The use of the various appliances and the form of the same shewn by
accompanying drawings, and herein described, or their equivalent, though differing
in conformity, substantially the same.
Dated this 13th day of February 1896.
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
5 & 7 Old Queen Street, Westminster, Sanitary Engineer.