Improvements in Waterclosets, Urinals, and Slop Sinks.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1896-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Waterclosets, Urinals, and Slop Sinks.
I, PETER SYMINGTON BROWNLIK, of 20, East Nelson Street, in the County of
Glasgow, North Britain, Enamelled Fireclay 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, that is.
to say:
My said invention has for its object to improve the construction of certain parts of
waterclosets, urinals, and slop sinks, so us to increase the efficiency of the action of the
flushing water and so as to secure a more certain afterflush for filling the basin up to
the proper level.
In waterclosets as at present constructed the water on entering the passage leading
from the supply inlet strikes against the inner end of that passage at the back of the
rin of the basin and has its velocity thereby more or less diminished before it enters
the passages extending round parts of the rim, thus lessening to a certain extent the
flushing action of the water. To overcome this defect I make the back passage of
considerable width and by an angular partition divide the flashing water and lead it
without abrupt change of direction in two equal streams to the hollow rim. This
angular partition is made with an opening in each side throngh which water can enter
the space enclosed by the angular partition and on the main flushing action ceasing
the water then in the enclosed space will pass through one or more holes into the-
basin and ensure that the water in the basin is filled up to the desired height.
My improvements are applicable to many of the existing forms of waterclosets
urinals and slop sinks, but in order that my invention may be properly understood
I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to
and showing, by way of example, a washdown watercloset as made with my
improvements.
Figure, 1, is a plan partly in section and Figure, 2, is a vertical section of the
improved watercloset.
As shown in the drawings the watercloset is of the washdown type having a hollow
rim, A, for directing the Bushing water into the basin, B, and according to my
invention I form in the passage, C, leading from the water supply inlot, D, an
angular partition, E, which divides the flushing water and directs it in two equal
streams into the hollow rim, A. The effective flushing action of the water is thus
considerably increased owing to the force of the water not being lessened by its first
striking tho inner end of the supply passage, before entering the two parts of the
rim, A, as it does in waterclosets as at present constructed. Water has access to
the space within the angular partition through an opening, F, in oach side of the
partition, E, and passes into the basin, B, through holes formed in the back part of
the rim, A; and on the main flushing action ceasing the water then in the enclosed
space will pass into the basin as an afterflush to fill up the water in the basin to the
desired height.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a watercloset, urinal, or slop sink forming or fixing in the passage leading
from the water supply inlet, an angular partition which divides the flushing water
and leads it without aheunt change of direction in two canal stranma into the hagin

page_text: rim, substantially as hereinbefore described and as shown in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In combination with the subject matter of Claim, 1, the utilising of the space
enclosed by the angular partition for providing an afterflush substantially as
herein before described.
Dated this Twentieth day of August 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent..