IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER CLOSETS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Tylor, of Warwick Lane, Newgate
Street, in the City of London, and Henry George Frasi; of 84,
Herbert Street, New North Road; in the County of Middlesex,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Tylor and
Henry George Frasi at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition; on the 3rd February 1853.
We, ALFRED TYLOR and HENRY GEORGE FRASI, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER CLOSETS"
to be as follows:-
Heretofore the means of supplying water closets with water
has been by attaching the pull up of the closet to the locking
pan leaver, and actuating or communicating motion to the water
valve or cock from the locking or pan leaver. Now, part of
our improvements consist in attaching the pull up that has
heretofore been attached to the locking or pan leaver to the

page_text: leaver or water valve or cock, and causing the leaver of water valve
or cock to actuate or communicate motion to the pan or locking
leaver, instead of as heretofore, and in allowing the locking or pan
leaver to return with the pan so as to be partially closed; at
the same time the water valve or cock being full open allowing a
full flow of water to the closet until the handle or pull up is
depressed. Another part of our improvements consist in the
valve water closets in causing the pull up rod to pass through a
stuffing box, in communicating motion to the valve, which action is
confined to the interior of the valve box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Alfred Tylor and Henry George
Frasi in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd August 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
ALFRED TYLOR, of Warwick Lane, Newgate St., in the City of
London, and HENRY GEORGE FRASI, of Herbert St., New, North
Road, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Third day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Alfred Tylor and Henry
George Frasi, Her special licence that we, the said Alfred Tylor
and Henry George Frasi, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Alfred Tylor and Henry George Frasi,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER CLOSETS," upon the condition

page_text: down, in which position it is held until the handle or pull up is
depressed, the water valve being full open, allowing a full flow of
water to closet; by this means it is that the pan can never be
short of water, oweing to the pan J, coming to rest so much sooner
than it is possible to close the water valve through the locking
lever being disconnected by the point I, and the roller E.
K, K, K, K, are the weights necessary to bring the levers down
after being raised. Figure 3, and 4, are two elevations of the
valve closet.
.
Figure 3, the end view, and Figure 4, the front, with the first
part of our improvements affixed thereto, which in action is
precisely the same, as to the connecting and disconnecting, as
represented in Figure 1. We will now describe where the second
-part of our improvement is in this closet: it is in causing a pull up
rod to pass through a stuffing box to actuate or communicate
motion to the valve, as will be readily seen by the Drawings,
thereby doing away with all external lugs, or bearing fittings,
and rendering under side of valve box perfectly sound, through the
action being confined to the interior of the valve box. L, is the
valve box; M, the stuffing box on top of valve plate; N, the pull up
rod, with joint in P; O, the valve of closet; P, is a tumbler piece,
working with a joint Q, at one end, and in slot R, at the other,
which slotted piece is affixed to the valve at the angle shown in
the Drawings (the valve seat is india-rubber, which is not new).
Now, it will be clearly seen that when the pull up rod N, is
raised through the stuffing box M, that the tumbler piece P, will
be also raised at the end, working in the slot R, affixed to the
valve O, and by this means open the valve of closet to discharge its
contents. The whole of the actions being coloured will be readily
understood on examining the Drawings.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention and the
manner of performing the same, we would have it understood that
what we claim is: -
The mode described of supplying water closets with water, and

page_text: (amongst others) that we, the said Alfred Tylor and Henry George
Frasi, by an instrument in writing under our hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patents.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Alfred Tylor and Henry
George Frasi, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement: -
Our Invention consists in the mode of supplying water closets
with water, and in the means employed in communicating
motion to levers and valves for working the same; and in order
that our Invention may be fully understood and carried into effect,
we will proceed to describe the Drawings annexed, and the figures
and letters marked thercon. Figure 1, shows a front elevation
of a water closet with part of our improvements applied thereto (the
closet is of ordinary construction as far as the body, the pan, and the
locking lever). A, is the pull up of closet; B, the lever of water valve
with pull up A, attached. This is where our Invention commences:-
C, is the disconnecting piece; D, the water valve, which may be of
any suitable construction (but this preferred); E, is a roller,
fixed on body of closet; F, a pin fixed in valve lever; G, the
locking lever of closet, with the disconnecting piece C, jointed
on; H, is a slot in disconnecting piece, by which connection is made
between lever of valve and locking lever of closet. Now it will
be seen that, by raising the pull up A, the valve D, will be opened,
admitting water to closet; at the same time the disconnecting
piece C, forming a firm connection with the locking lever by the
pin F, and the slot H, until in rising the point I, reaches the
roller E, then the slot H, is released from the pin F; during which
time the pan J, discharges its contents, and returns so as to be
partially closed (as shewn in Drawing Figure 2). Owing to the
locking lever G, coming in contact with the pin F, in its progress

page_text: the combining of the parts to produce the actions for the same as
described in respect to Figures 1, 2, 3, 4.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alfred Tylor and Henry
George Frasi, have hereto set our hands and scals, this
Second day of August, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
ALFRED TYLOR.
(L.S.)
HENRY GEORGE FRASI. (L.S.)