Improvements in Waste Water Closets.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Waste Water Closets.
I JESSE KIRKMAN of Park Place Chorley in the County of Lancaster, Steam
Packing Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to that description of water-closets wherein the waste
water from the slop-stone or sink is made use of to flush the pan of the water-
closet.
According to my invention I make the pan of the water closet preferably of
earthenware and of a cylindrical form open at the top and closed at the bottom,
with the exception of an opening to which the pipe leading to the sewer is attached.
Connected to one side of this I fix or form a cistern, preferably of the same material
and of about the same diameter and of a convenient height, so as to form a kind of
twin-cylinder.
The bottom of the cistern is higher than that of the pan, and an opening is made
from one to the other; this opening in the cistern is closed by a valve, and the waste
water which flows from the slopstone or sink is conducted by means of a suitable
pipe into the cistern and accumulates therein.
Means are provided for opening the valve by pulling a wire or chain, or otherwise,
when the pan is required to be flushed, and on the opening of the valve the whole
contents of the cistern are discharged through the pan.
A. wooden seat is placed over the pan in the usual way, and at a convenient
distance below the same an overflow opening is made between the two cylinders, so
that if the waste water should accumulate too rapidly in the cistern it will not rise
above the level of the opening but will pass away through this overflow opening
into the pan and thus reach the sewer, leaving the cistern full up to the level of this
overflow opening..
Dated this 24th day of November 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Waste Water Closets.
I JESSE KIRKMAN of Park Place Chorley in the County of Lancaster Steam
Packing Manufacturer, 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 relates to that description of water closets wherein the waste
water from the slopstone, sink roof, or yard is made use of to flush the pan of the
water closet.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the illustrative drawing hereunto annexed and the following explanation
thereof.
The drawing represents a vertical section of a waste water closet constructed
according to my invention.
I make the pan a of the water closet preferably of earthenware of a cylindrical
form open at the top and closed at the bottom with the exception of an opening & to
which the trap c and pipe d leading to the main sewer is attached.

page_text: Connected to one side of this pan a I fix or form a flushing cistern e preferably of
the same material, and of about the same diameter, and of a convenient height so
as to form (with the pan a) a kind of twin cylinder.
The bottom of the cisterne is higher than that of the pan a and an opening or
passage is made from one to the other. This opening in the cistern e is closed by
a valve y and the waste water which flows from the slopstone, sink roof, or yard
(or any two or more of them) is conducted by means of a suitable pipe into the
cisterne and accumulates therein.
Means are provided for opening the valve g by pulling a wire or chain i or
otherwise when the pan a is required to be flushed, and. on the opening of the
valve 9 the whole contents of the cistern e will be discharged through the
pan a.
A wooden seat k supported by an extension pipe is placed over the pan a in
the usual manner, and at a convenient distance below the same an overflow
opening m is made between the two cylinders a and e so that if the waste water
should accumulate too rapidly in the cisterne it will not rise above the level of
this opening m but will pass away through the said overflow opening into the
pana and through the trap and pipe d reach the sewer, leaving the cistern e full
up to the level of the overflow opening m ready for flushing when required.
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
claim is :-
The improvements in waste water closets consisting in the combination of the
pan a and attached flushing cistern e, passage valve g, and means for raising the
samme, with the overflow opening between the flushing cistern and the pan
substantially as and for the purposes herein before set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1892.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.