An Improved Arrangement of Reservoir for Lavatory Basins and other Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1890-Accepted, 13th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Arrangement of Reservoir for Lavatory Basins and
other Purposes.
✓ communication from abroad by HARRIET JANE DUXBURY, of Colombes, in the
Department of Seine, France.
I, PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved arrangement of reservoir adapted especially
for lavatory basins and the like but also adapted as a reservoir for liquids for other
purposes. the object being in lavatories and the like in which the basin is sunk in a
table or slab, to utilize the space beneath the top and around the basin which is usually
wasted, thus dispensing with the usually unsightly elevated reservoir and gaining the
space occupied by same.
In carrying out the invention the basin is partially submerged in the water contained
in a reservoir or tank suitably supported in the lavatory or wash-stand, so that the
water level in the reservoir when full will about fill the basin when it is admitted to
same. To secure this admission a valve or plug is employed placed in the bottom of
the basin and preferably having combined therewith a discharge pipe. Said valve
may be of any suitable form but is preferably such a one as is described in an
application for Letters Patent filed on the 15th day of October 1889, under No. 16,208
Dated this 18th day of October 1889.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Arrangement of Reservoir for Lavatory Basins and
other Purposes.
A communication from HARRIET JANE DUXBURY, of Colombes, in the Department of
Seine, France.
I, PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents, 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 an improved arrangement of reservoir adapted especially
for lavatory basins and the like but also adapted as a reservoir for liquids for other
purposes, the object being in lavatories and the like in which the basin is sunk in a
table or slab, to utilize the space beneath the top and around the basin which is usually
wasted, thus dispensing with the usually unsightly elevated reservoir and gaining the
space occupied by same.
In carrying out the invention the basin is partially submerged in the water
contained in a reservoir or tank suitably supported in the lavatory or washstand, so
that the water level in the reservoir when full will about fill the basin when it is admitted
to the same. To secure this adinission a valve or plug is employed placed in the bottom
of the basin and preferably having combined therewith a discharge pipe. Said valve
may be of any suitable form but is preferably such a one as is described in an
application for Letters Patent filed on the 15th day of October 1889 under No. 16208.
The accompanying drawing shows an elevation with a portion of the front broken
away of an independent washstand with basin and reservoir complete and the
arrangement would be the same either for permanently fixed or portable lavatory

page_text: apparatus excepting that in the permanent apparatus the reservoir or tak
contains the water would generally be fitted with a ball cock or equivalent arrangement
for maintaining the level of the water in the reservoir.
In this drawing A represents the top (usually a marble slab) of the apparatus
whether fixed or portable, and B the basin. (is the waste pipe which in the case of
a permanent apparatus would communicate in the usual way with the drainage system
or be carried out through the wall, or in the portable apparatus may communicato
with the supplementary vessel 1) which could be removed and changed when required.
E is the reservoir or tank which as will be seen by reference to the drawing occupies
the space immediately underneath the slab or top A the bottom being arrange
preferably as nearly on a level with the bottom of the basin as possible. The reason
for making the bottom of the reservoir nearly correspond with the bottom of the basin
is to avoid the presence of dead water which would not be used in the basin and would
he apt to become offensive and contaminate other water when placed in the reservoir.
If desired however the bottom of the reservoir E may be placed at a higher level than
that of the basin and with the form of valve above described a communication may be
made by means of a pipe or the bottom of the reservoir may be dipped around the
basin, so as to allow the water to flow to the valve. This last is a convenient
arrangement as the whole of the floor of the reservoir may be so inclined that the
whole of the water may be drawn out of it by opening the basin valve. The reservoir
may if necessary be provided with a waste pipe but usually if the proper relative
positions of the basin and the bottom of the reservoir are observed this will not be
necessary.
As above explained a suitable form of valve is provided preferably in the bottom of
the basin upon opening which the water contained in the reservoir will rise in the
basin and it the valve be kept open sufficiently long it will rise to the same level in
the basin as it occupies in the reservoir. The extreme top limit therefore of the water
in the reservoir is arranged so that if the valve be left open until the two levels
correspond the water in the basin will only reach a suitable height or at all events will
not overflow the basin and in consequence of this arrangement the unsightly and often
The waste from the basin as
offensive overflow passage may be dispensed with.
already explained preferably passes down through the middle of the inlet valve.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
1. The combination with a lavatory or similar basin of a reservoir such as E so
placed as to occupy the space underneath the slab or top of the stand or lavatory and
so combined with the basin that if the inlet valve he left open the basin will not
overflow and that practically all the water in the reservoir can be run into the basin,
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the combined lavatory
basin and reservoir substantially as described.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.