Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1887 ·
Complete Left, 7th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th Apr., 1888
GEORGE SMITH, 30, Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, London, N. Plumber do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Sectionized box, metal lined, the lower portion containing fluid disinfectant which
is conveyed through a tube into the basin of closet by means of a valve being raised
through the action of lifting the lid of box. The upper portion being reserved for
paper.

page_text: Apparatus for Disinfecting Water Closets.
I, GEORGE SMITH of 30 Brooke Road Stoke Newington London N. Registered
Sanitary Plumber, 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:-
I provide a box or case of suitable and convenient size and proportions of either
wood or metal or partially of wood and metal or other material divided across into
divisions or spaces which may be lined with metal or other suitable material; the
lower division space being intended to contain or hold a certain or required portion
of a fluid disinfectant or disinfectants of best known quality which is led or conveyed
as occasion requires in regulated quantities through a tube or tubes into the basin of
the closet, which I effect in the following manner.
I take and provide within the said box or chamber a vertical tube or tubes to
about or nearly the height of the upper part of the lower division space formed
therein containing the necessary fluid disenfectant which I provide with a cover or
lid tightly fitting thereon and to the upper or open part of the said tube or tubes I
hinge and connect a further tube or hollow connection at an angle to the same and
touching the bottom of the case or box and leading into the said vertical tube and at
the end or termination I provide and form thereon a scoop or spoon which I attach,
by means of a wire cord, chains or rope to the upper and movable hinged lid of the
"box or case, so that by the action of raising or lifting the lid of the box or case the
scoop or spoon shaped end is permitted to be raised by means of the hinged portion
at the other end from the lower portion of the disinfectant chamber in a horizontal
or angular position and at the same time pours into the vertical pipe or pipes a
necessary or sufficient quantity of the disinfecting fluid which in turn is led toward
and into the closet pan, or as an alternative 1 propose to use two spoons or scoops
with tube connections, so arranged that while one is at the bottom of the box or case
and filling, while the other is at the top and discharging and so alternately.
The upper or open part of the box or chamber when the lid is raised is intended to
contain paper or a roll of prepared paper may be fitted onto the inside of the lid and
perforated across throughout for convenience. The said box or case would be fitted
in a suitable and handy position in the closet chamber.
Instead of raising the lid of the box or case in the ordinary manner by hand to
get paper therefrom and at the same time raise and give a supply of the disenfectant,
may propose and prefer instead to cause the lid of the box to be automatically
raised by the opening or closing of the door, or in both instances if wished, on the
person entering or leaving the closet, or in other convenient and suitable manner, by
means of suitable levers or bell cranks which if mechanically arranged in a simple
manner would effect the desired object of raising the lid of the paper box chamber,
and at the proper time act upon and release the valve or valves and give a ready
supply of the disinfectant to the closet pan.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing I have shewn my apparatus wherein the lid of the
box would be raised by hand but it will be evident the same may be automatically
made to raise and fall in manner just referred to or by any other suitable means.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and Figure 2 a cross section of my plan in which
the following letters correspond. A, A is the box or case, B is the lower chamber
intended to hold the disinfecting fluid, C is the lid or cover to same and D is the
space provided for convenience and as a paper store, E is the upright tube to which
the tube connection F is hinged and permitted to be lowered or dip into the dis-
infecting fluid contained in the chamber B by means of its own weight or gravity
when the lid of the box is lowered by means of the chain attached thereto being
slackened and again raised upon the lid of the box being lifted or raised. The pipe E
at its lower part E', is led toward the closet pan or convenience in suitable manner
and may be bent in S or other form or shape and have a valve or valves to act as a
trap to prevent any possible uprise of gas into the closet chamber.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
The method or means for disinfecting Water Closets or other similar conveniences
by the action of the lid of a box or case which upon its being caused to be raised
either by hand or automatically it likewise raises (or lowers) a scoop or spoon, or
scoops or spoons as the case may be, from the bottom of the chamber provided to
contain the disinfecting fluid, bringing up at each time with the tube, or tubes,
connected to the same a regulated quantity of the disinfecting fluid and causing it to
be poured or delivered into a further tube or tubes into the closet pan or receptacle,
either before or after being used, or in both instances it may be so arranged for if
preferred in which case a double supply or quantity of the disenfectant might be
given.
Dated this Sanand
1000