Improvements in or relating to Flushing Apparatus for Water Closets and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1900—Accepted, 27th Oct., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Flushing Apparatus for Water Closets
and the like.
I, JEMIMA EDWARD KITCHING, of 41, Morpeth Street, Hull, in the County of
Yorkshire, Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to the flushing apparatus of cisterns in connection with
water closets or the like and has for its object to provide an improved method
of and means for giving a powerful flush without the use of a flushing valve or
valves, (such valves being liable to get out of order) and at the same time to
act as a water waste preventer by immediately stopping the flow of water to the
cistern, tank or water receptacle, only allowing the exact quantity of water to
flow to give the required or regulation amount of water allowed for each flushing
operation without any water running to waste.
For the purpose of my invention I employ a cistern or tank of any suitable
shape provided with an open ended flush or outlet pipe, and within such cistern
I employ a second tank, cistern or water receptacle of any suitable shape but
preferably of the same configuration as the internal part of the outer cistern
but of smaller dimensions, this inner receptacle is mounted on an axle which
works in brackets or bearings formed in any position on the outer cistern or
placed anywhere to most satisfactorily allow of the inner receptacle tilting and
depositing its contents into the outer cistern.
An arm, chain or other suitable device is attached to the axle or other part
of the inner receptacle and is connected to the pull.
Any suitable construction of ball tap may be used for supplying water to the
receptacle, and the arm which carries the ball may rest on the axle of the water
receptacle, such axle being bent or being provided with a lug so raising the ball
and shutting off the supply of water whilst the flush is taking place.
If desired the water receptacle may be provided with an overflow pipe or
spout, as may also the outer tank, so that in case of emergency such as that of
the ball tap leaking, any overflow of water from the water receptacle may be
carried off by means of a pipe outside the outer tank.
The action of my improved flushing device is as follows:-
The inner receptacle being full of water supplied by the ball tap, when it is
required to flush the closet pan or the like, the pull is drawn, the arm or the like
connected to the water receptacle tilts such receptacle which deposits its contents
into the outer cistern, the water rushes through the open ended pipe and down
to the closet pan, so flushing out its contents, the ball tap is closed during the
flushing operation, but immediately the water receptacle resumes its normal
position the tap is opened and the water flows into the receptacle until the
required quantity is run in, which is regulated by the ball tap, the apparatus
then being ready for the next flush.
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page_text: contents; the ball tap H is closed during the flushing operation by the axle D
raising the arm J of such tap and closing the valve, but immediately the water
receptacle resumes its normal position, the ball drops and the valve is opened and
the water flows into the receptacle until the required quantity is run in, such
quantity being regulated by the ball tap, the apparatus then being ready for the
next flush.
In place of the arm or the like F for tilting the receptacle C, such receptacle
may be operated automatically in the case of urinals or the like, by means of
any of the well known means for automatically causing a flush at intervals or
continuously.
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:-
1. A flushing device for water closets or the like characterized by an outer
tank such as A having a flushing pipe B a tilting receptacle such as C within the
tank, and a ball tap H for supplying the water to the tilting receptacle sub-
stantially in the manner and for the purposes shown and described."
2. The combination of parts to form a flushing device in the manner and for
the purposes substantially as shewn and described with reference to the accom-
panying drawings.
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