IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER-CLOSETS
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HULME, of Saint John's Street, West Smithfield, in the County of Middlesex,
Brass and Cork Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the fourth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heir and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Hulme, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said George Hulme, my executors, administrators, and assigns," or
such others as I, the said George Hulme, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER-CLOSETS;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said George
Hulme, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the said
George Hulme, do hereby declare that the nature of my said improvements,
and the manner in which the same are to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, (Figures 1, 2, and 3 being drawn to a scale of
about half size, and Figures 4 and 5 of three inches to one foot,) and to the
figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):
My improvements relate to a method of supplying a flow of water to the
basins of water-closets generally.; and in order that my improvements may be
more fully understood, I will at once proceed to the¸.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents a cross section of a pump barrel; Figure 2, section of
the barrel taken through the cock; Figure 3, section of a barrel, adapted for
a self-acting closet; Figure 4, front view of an ordinary water-closet, shewing
my improvements attached thereto; and Figure 5, an end view of the same.
A, A, the barrel; B, the supply pipe, connecting with the reservoir; C, the
pipe connecting with the basin; D, a bucket, furnished with a valve E, to allow
water to pass from the under to the upper side of the barrel A, through
holes at *.
At the under side of the bucket D the valve F is connected by
a loose joint working against the valve seat G; the upper side of the bucket D
is connected by the rod H to the lever I, having its fulcrum at K; this lever
is furnished with notches for adjusting the weight L, the other end of the lever
being furnished with a friction roller M. It will appear evident that by raising
the handle and lever a, the end of the lever I will be acted upon, thereby
depressing the bucket D, opening the valves E and F, and consequently allow-
ing a free passage for the flow of water from the reservoir through the valve E,
to supply the upper side of the bucket, and through the pipe C to the basin of
the closet; the quantity of water admitted into the basin of the closet being
regulated by the cock 0; to regulate the length of time that the valve F may
be kept open for the flow of water from the reservoir to the basin of the closet
after the pan or valve has closed, the barrel A, A, is furnished with openings
N, N, communicating from the under to the upper side of the bucket D, and
fitted with a cock O. Now, by turning the cock O in such a position that the
waterway through the cock O will be diminished, more time will be required
for the bucket to displace the contents of the barrel, and vice versa, the water
from the reservoir forcing its passage through the pipe B, the valve way G,
and pipe C, into the basin of the closet, the water continuing to flow until the
valve F is brought into contact with the valve seat G, which is effected by the

page_text: gravitating power of the weight L depressing the end of the lever I, forcing the
water from the upper side of the bucket D through the passage N, N, and
cock O, when the communication of the reservoir will be shut off, and the
apparatus in a position, as shewn by red lines, to perform another similar
evolution.
Having thus described the nature of my said improvements, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the particular form or size set forth in the accompanying Drawing, but what
I claim is the mode herein-before particularly described of keeping a valve
open for any required length of time for the supply of water to the basins
of water closets generally.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
GEORGE (L.S.) HULME.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of November,
in the fifth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said George
Hulme came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid
was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-fifth year
of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.