Dry Closet or Bedroom Commode.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 1st May, 1893-Accepted, 24th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by HAMILTON AUGUSTUS JUKES, Gentleman,
Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada.]
Dry Closet or Bedroom Commode.
RUPERT FAVELL, Manufacturer Bedford Works Bucknall Street New Oxford
Street London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:→
My invention relates to improvements on earth or ashes closets whereby the use
of earth or ashes after each stool may be dispensed with, all odours & foul gases
being carried off by a free current of air carried through closet at all times.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1892.
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RUPERT FA
FATED.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Dry Closet or Bedroom Commode.
RUPERT FAVELL Bedford Works Bucknall Street New Oxford Street
London W.C. Manufacturer 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in dry closet or bedroom commode,
whereby the use of earth or ashes after each stool may be dispensed with, but to
ensure cleanliness & ease in emptying excrement care should be taken to place
some dry earth or ashes in excrement bucket before using, all odour & foul gases
being carried off by a free current of air passing through closet at all times.
This closet can be set up in any room in a house having a chimney-hole or stove-
any time.
pipe passing through it & is readily movable from one room to another at
attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings in
which―
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of device embodying my invention.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of bucket B.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of dry closet or commode closed.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
A is a box having top or seat 6 with suitable opening.
a is a hinged lid or cover.
d is a hinged door having an aperture C, as shewn.
e is an opening in rear of box above bucket B through which enters the pipe D
which pipe is to be connected with any stove-pipe or chimney-hole in order to
create a draft.
B is a bucket for excrement, having an overhanging lip or turnover j, handle f,
& lug or pull g.
These buckets
C is a bucket for urine, having handle k & lug or pull m.
fit snugly into box leaving room for air to pass all round front & sides & out
over top B having a curled lip under which C slips, preventing any leakage
between, both buckets being higher in front than in rear & sloping gradually back
from the top of front & closet to just below hole e, where pipe D enters, both
buckets being narrower at bottom than at top, thus allowing space for handle f
& lug g between buckets, always insuring cleanliness, urine bucket C being
purposely made high in front in order to prevent any escape of urine, door d when
fatched fitting close up against bucket at top & lug m at bottom, always forcing
buckets into position & retaining them there.

page_text: Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim as my invention & desire to protect is-
The combination in a dry closet or commode of the box A, with the opening e in
rear, the seat b, with suitable opening, hinged lid a, hinged door d, with aperture C
in or below door, the bucket B, with overhanging lip j, handle f, & lug y, the
bucket C with handle & lug m, & the pipe D, entering dry closet through
aperture e to connect with stove-pipe or flue, substantially as set forth.
1st May 1893.
RUPERT FAVELL.