IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISINFECTING Water- CLOSETS, URINALS, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Langston Jones, of Webster's Hotel, Ely
Place, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISINFECTING Water-
CLOSETS, URINALS, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Sealed the 18th December 1874, and dated the 15th July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Langston Jones
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 15th July 1874.
I, HARRY LANGSTON JONES, of Webster's Hotel, Ely Place, Holborn,
in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISINFECTING
WATERCLOSETS, URINALS, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
:-
The object of this Invention is the disinfection of waterclosets,
urinals, and similar purposes by a simple, ready, and inexpensive
method.
The apparatus employed consists of a cylindrical or other shaped
recipient furnished with a lid; and containing a fluid disinfectant of some

page_text: Bort (Hart's for example): It is constructed of earthenware, metal, or
other durable substanco, and in the interior is a tube or pipe in direct
communication with a glass lined cylinder, in which a piston of gutta
percha, india-rubber, or other material is caused to work by the up-and-
down action of the closet handle for the purpose of introducing the
disinfectant. This apparatus is fixed by screws or bolts to the flooring
beside the closet pan and beneath the seat by passing over the cylinder
or other shaped recipient a collar or ring of metal made either in one
piece or in sections, and which rests on a rim or flange made.or fixed on
the recipient.
The action of the disinfector (one of whose characteristic features is
that it is valveless) is as follows:-On drawing up the closet handle a
like motion is imparted to the piston, it being connected by a rod in any
suitable manner with this handle, and by this action the disinfecting
fluid contained in the recipient is admitted..through one or more orifices
in the side of the internal and glass lined cylinder so as to allow of its
flowing into the pipe, and on the descent of the piston, caused by that
of the downward movement of the handle, the force exercised by the
piston on the fluid drives it up the pipe and into the closet pan, with
which the pipe communicates, so that the fluid mingles with and is
retained in the trapping water remaining in the closet pan after the
flushing has taken place. When the closet handle is closed the piston
reoccupies its normal position below the orifices of introduction of the
fluid, which is thereby cut off.
The same principle is applicable to closets where the seat is made to
depress for flushing the closet, and in the case of urinals the depression
of a board actuates the piston.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Harry Langston Jones in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th January 1875.-
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HARRY.
LANGSTON JONES, of Webster's Hotel, Ely Place, Holborn, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.

page_text: to flow thence into the closet pan, but which latter action does not take
effect till after the flushing of the closet, so that the disinfectant fluid is
always retained in the trapping water.
I have mentioned Hart's disinfectant, as that being a coloured liquid
it will be at once perceived if the trapping water is coloured by it, and
so prove the proper working condition of the apparatus. I do not
however confine myself to any special kind of fluid, as others may.
advantageously be employed.
When the recipient has been once filled the apparatus will act for a
considerable period, as only a small quantity of the liquid is used at a
time, and the dimensions and capacity of the recipient and of the cylinder
would of necessity vary to suit the requirements of the case.
In the accompanying Drawing the apparatus is shown half size.
The action of the disinfector, one of whose characteristic features is
that it is valveless, is as follows:-On drawing up the closet handle a
like motion is imparted to the plunger E, it being connected by a rod G
in any suitable manner with the handle, and by this action the disin-
fecting fluid contained in the recipient A is admitted through one or
more orifices H in the side of the internal and glass lined cylinder D and
below the plunger E, which is now raised, and allows the fluid to fill the
cylinder and to enter the pipe C which communicates with the closet
pan, and on the descent of the closet handle, and with it the plunger E,
the force exercised by the latter in its downward movement on the fluid
drives it up the pipe C, and thence into the closet pan, and the flushing
of the closet being effect before the entry of the fluid into the pan the
disinfectant mingles with and is retained in the trapping water. When
the closet handle is closed the plunger réoccupies its normal position
below the orifice of introduction H of the fluid, which is thereby cut off.
A small pin passed through the rod of the plunger at the upper part-
and inside the recipient prevents the plunger leaving the cylinder should
the closet handle be violently acted on.
The same principle is applicable to closets where the seat is made to
depress for flushing the closet and in the ease of usingle the donnession

page_text: The apparatus is fixed by screws or bolts to the flooring beside the
closet
pan and beneath the seat by passing over the cylinder or other
shaped recipient a collar or ring of metal, made either in one piece or in
sections, and which rests on a rim or flange forming part of or con-
nected to the recipient, or it may be supported and fixed as shown in the
Drawing.
Having thus described my Invention and the mode of carrying the
same into effect, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,
the disinfecting apparatus herein illustrated, and consisting of a recipient
of some form, wherein is a glass lined cylinder D in which a plunger E
moves, and is actuated by the up-and-down motion of the closet handle,
with which it is in connection by the rod G, which reciprocates the
action of the closet handle and communicates the like motion to the
plunger for forcing the disinfectant fluid up the pipe C, and thence into
the closet pan, as and for the purposes herein mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Langston Jones, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
HARRY LANGSTON JONES. (L.S.)
Witness,
A. C. HENDERSON,
6, Southampton Buildings,
Holborn.

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