A Method of Rendering Urinal Plates Incapable of being Written Upon.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 21st Apr., 1890-Accepted, 5th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Rendering Urinal Plates Incapable of being Written
Upon.
JOHN BELL MILLAR Ironfounder, Sun Foundry Glasgow do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To cast ornamental designs on the inside screens and on division plates and other
exposed surfaces of cast iron urinals, water closets or similar cast iron public or
private conveniences, such designs being raised or in relief or so cast that the
ornamental surfaces are incapable of receiving writing sketching or markings of any
legible description.
Dated this Sixteenth day of October 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Rendering Urinal Plates Incapable of being Written
Upon.
I, JOHN BELL MILLAR, Iron Founder, of Sun Foundry, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
that is to say :-
To cast ornamental designs on the inside of screens and on division plates and
other exposed surfaces of cast-iron urinals, water-closets, or similar cast iron public
or private conveniences. Such designs being raised, sunk, or in relief or so cast
that the ornamental surfaces are incapable of receiving writing, sketching or
markings of any legible description.
And in order that my said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended
an explanatory Sheet of Drawings showing one application of my improvements
under two patterns or form of design, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective
elevation of the interior of a four divisioned urinal constructed of cast-iron and having
the inner surfaces of the back and side plates or screens, and both surfaces of the
partition or division plates in accordance with my improvements cast with ornamental
designs, the upper parts below the ordinary open flower work at top, being cast of a
rosette or daisy pattern in relief, shown to a large scale in Figure 2, and the parts
below same of a fluted or corrugated raised pattern of design, shown to a large scale
in Figure 3, both patterns of design being cast for the purpose of rendering writing,
sketching or markings of any legible description incapable of being written or
scratched thereon. Figure 4 is a perspective elevation of the interior of a urinal
corresponding to Figure 1, but showing the design of pattern represented in Figure 2
as extending the whole length of the inner surface of the vertical side plates or
screens, and of both surfaces of the partition or division plates, the fluted or ridged
pattern of design shown in Figure 3 being in this application only cast on the under
half of the inner surface of the back, plates, on which the urine and washing water
would run down. Figure 5 represents a diagram plan view of a four divisioned
urinal with two inlets and outlets, as against a wall, and Figure 6 a corresponding
view of one with three divisions or chambers and a single inlet and outlet passage,
having the vertical cast-iron plates all round, both forms of urinal being otherwise of
an ordinary construction.
and

page_text: Instead of casting the raised or sunk patterns directly on the surfaces of the cast-
iron plates, they may be moulded in enamel clays on the surfaces of these plates, or
made in earthenware, fire-clay, glass, or such like silicious materials.
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.
The casting or application, and use on the surfaces of cast-iron plates forming the
interior of urinals, water-closets, or similar public or private conveniences, of designs
raised sunk or in relief, or otherwise, in one, two, or more patterns, for the purpose
of rendering writing, sketching, or markings of any legible description incapable of
being written or scratched thereon, substantially as herein described and by way of
application shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated 19th April 1800
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.