Improvements in or applicable to Water Closets.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept. 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb., 1892-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Water Closets.
I ALFRED MOUNTAIN FOWLER the Younger, of 3 Warren Street, Stockport,
in the County of Chester Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of water closets which are automatically
flushed at intervals by means of the waste water from slopstones, sinks, or yard
gullies, and the objects of the invention are to improve and simplify their construc-
tion and action and to economize the cost.
For the purposes of my invention I fix beneath the seat a plain vertical or sloping
earthenware pipe (preferably glazed inside). The lower end of this fits in the
socket at the upper end of a similar short pipe or pan which forms a continuation
thereof. This pan is provided at one side with a short inlet pipe to which is
connected the drain pipe leading from the slopstone sink, yard gulley, or other
source of waste water.
The bottom of this pan rests above an opening in a vessel or box of larger
dimensions in which is mounted on pivots a tipping tank into which the waste water
falls and this tipping tank being placed immediately below the pan the excreta will
also fall direct thereinto.
The pivots of the tipping tank are so arranged that as soon as the level of the
waste water accumulating therein reaches to the top of the same, it becomes
overbalanced, and tilting forwards, it empties its contents into the mouth of a
sloping pipe leading into the main drain.
The top of the vessel or box is provided with an inspection opening which is
closed by a removable lid or cover.
Dated this 19th dow of Santember 1801
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Water Closets.
I ALFRED MOUNTAIN FOWLER the Younger of 3 Warren Street Stockport
in the County of Chester Engineer, 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 class of water closets which are automatically
flushed at intervals by means of the waste water from slopstones, sinks, or yard
gullies, and the objects of the invention are to improve and simplify their construc-
tion and action, and to economize the cost.
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 annexed sheet of illustrative drawings and the following explanation
thereof.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section Fig. 2 a plan or horizontal view and Fig. 3 a horizontal
section of a water closet constructed according to my invention, and
Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical and horizontal sections of a slight modification of
the same.
For the purposes of my invention I fix beneath the seat a an earthenware pipe b

page_text: preferably glazed on the inside. This pipe may be either cylindrical as shewn at
Fig. 1 or sloping or conical as seen at Fig. 4.
The lower end of this pipe 6 fits in the socket at the upper end of a similar short
pipe or pan c which forms a continuation thereof.
This pan c is provided at one side with a short inlet pipe at d (see Fig. 1) to
which is connected the drain pipe e leading from the slopstone, sink, yard gulley or
other source of waste water.
The bottom of this pane rests above an opening in the upper side of a vessel or
box of larger dimensions in which is mounted on pivots g (Fig. 3) a tipping
tank into which the waste water falls, and this tipping tank being placed
immediately below the pan a the excreta will also fall directly thereinto.
A slight modification is shown at Figs. 4 and 5 wherein the inlet pipe d instead
of opening into the pan c opens at once into the upper part of the vessel or box f
which is made in two parts with a horizontal joint.
The pivots g of the tipping tank hare so arranged that as soon as the level of 1
the waste water accumulating therein reaches near to the top of the same, it
becomes overbalanced and tilting forwards (as shown by the dotted lines at Figs. 1
and 4) it empties its contents into the mouth of the sloping pipe i leading into the
main drain so that the same is periodically and automatically flushed.
The top of the vessel or box f may be provided with an inspection opening
which is closed by a removable lid or cover k as shown at Figs. 1 and 2.
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 :-
In a water closet automatically flushed at intervals with the waste water from a
slopstone, sink, yard gulley or other source of waste water the combination with
the pan of the closet of a pivotted automatic tipping tank placed immediately
below the same in such a position that the waste water and excreta will fall
directly thereinto and be periodically and automatically tipped into the main
drain substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings
annexed.
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