Improvements in Apparatus for Disinfecting and Deodorizing Night Chairs, Chamber Utensils, Slop-pails, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1892-Accepted. 1st Oct., 1892 ·
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Disinfecting and Deodorizing Night
Chairs, Chamber Utensils, Slop-pails, and the like.
I JOHN COATES DANIEL, of 3 Grove Place, Hanley, in the County of Stafford.
Estate Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for disinfecting and deodorizing night chairs, chamber utensils
slop-pails, and the like, has for its object to prevent the escape of any offensive
odour or gas from the said receptacles; and consists essentially of a supply cistern
containing a suitable disinfecting and deodorizing liquid and fixed on the underside
of the cover or lid of the receptacle, and of a distributing chamber fixed to the
supply cistern and connected thereto by a pipe provided with a valve normally
closed by a spring but opened by means of a handle outside, when desired to
disinfect and deodorize the contents of the receptacle, the liquid then passes from
the supply cistern to the distributing chamber which is provided with a dished
perforated bottom so as to distribute the liquid.
Dated this 1st day of December 1891.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Disinfecting and Deodorizing Night
Chairs, Chamber Utensils, Slop-pails, and the like.
I, JOHN COATES DANIEL, of 3 Grove Place, Hanley, in the County of Stafford,
Estate Agent 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 :-
This invention for disinfecting and deodorizing night chairs, chamber utensils,
slop pails, and the like, has for its object to prevent the escape of any offensive
odour or gas from the said receptacles; and consists essentially of a supply cistern
containing a suitable disinfecting and deodorizing liquid, and fixed on the underside
of the cover or lid of the receptacle and of a distributing chamber fixed to the
supply cistern and connected thereto by a pipe provided with a valve normally
closed by a spring but opened by means of a handle outside, when desired to
disinfect and deodorize the contents of the receptacle; the liquid then passes from
the supply cistern to the distributing chamber which is provided with a dished
perforated bottom, so as to distribute the liquid.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings
Fig. 1. represents a vertical section of my apparatus applied to a night chair or
the like.
Fig. 2 is a part plan and Fig. 3. is a part inverted plan of the same.
A supply cistern a for containing the disinfecting and deodorizing liquid is
connected by a feed or escape valve b with an outer distributing chamber c having
a perforated and dished cover d, so that on opening the valve liquid escapes from
the supply chamber a and spreading over the cover d falls through the perforations e.
The escape valve consists of the valve proper connected by the pin to the outer-
push button y and held closed against its seat by the spring h. On depressing the
button the valve is pushed from its seat, and liquid passes from the chamber a
through the holes i and the perforated guide diaphragm into the distributing
chamber c. The barrel m is soldered or otherwise secured to the partition n.
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page_text: liquid is introduced into the cistern a through the opening o which is afterwards
closed by the screw plug p. The upper plate 7 is formed with a circular band r
which serves to stiffen it and also to form a channel to receive the rim or upper
surface of the vessels to which it is applied.
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 :-
An apparatus for disinfecting and deodorizing night chairs, chamber utensils,
slop pails and the. like, comprising a supply cistern connected by a valve to a
distributing chamber having a perforated dished cover, the whole arranged,
constructed, and operating substantially as described.
L 2000
JOHN COATES DANIEL.
Wheatley & Mackenzie,
40, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.
JOHN COATES DANIEL.
Wheatley & Mackenzie,
40, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.