Attending Open-air Meetings.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1890-Accepted, 5th July, 1890
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Attending Open-air Meetings.
I, BEAUMONT HILL JONES, of Haddington Road, Stoko Devonport, in the County
of Devon, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide portable urinal and closet conveniences
for the use of those attending cricket and football matches, volunteer gatherings,
agricultural shows, race meetings and other open air meetings.
The invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings; in which
Fig. 1, represents an elevation of a single urinal,
Fig. 2, represents a plan view thereof.
Fig. 3, represents a sectional elevation of a single closet.
Fig. 4, represents a plan view thereof, and
Fig. 5, represents an advantageous method of removably securing the apparatus to
the ground.
In carrying out the invention, a suitable onclosure is formed by hending plain or
corrugated galvanized sheet iron, 6, to the size and formation required, and securing
the same in such formation by bolting it, as at, 7, to inside tie-bands, 8, and support
the same by bolting the structure to wrought iron standards, 9, preferably either
piping or angle or tee-iron.
These standards are or may be secured at the top by a tie-bar, 10, to which they are
bolted, as at, 11, and they are preferably formed or provided with projecting feet, 12,
adapted to rest on the ground and to be for the time secured thereto (with facility of
being readily removed when required) by wrought iron spikes, 13, or (but not so
advantageously) the lower ends of the standards, 9, may be pointed and driven
into the ground.
The urinal and closet apparatus may either be constructed independently, or side by
side or otherwise conjunctively in any suitable manner.
The closet apparatus is constructed with a door, 14, hinged along one edge, as at, 15,
and adapted with an outer handle, 16, and inner bolt, 17. It is fitted with a wooden
seat, 18, supported by the inner angle tie band, 8, and by risers, 19. A roof piece of
corrugated or plain iron may be attached to the top tie-bar to form a cover over the
seat portion.
When fixed for use the urinal should be placed so that the entrance faces the
outside enclosure or hedge of a field, but where it is not convenient to do this and the
position in which it is proposed to place the apparatus is exposed the entrance thereto
can be screened off by extending one side thereof as doited in Fig. 2. In places
where considerable accommodation is required in one situation, the urinals can be put
together in groups or ranges of any number, but in the latter case they should be
provided with a similarly constructed screen in front. The closet apparatus may be
made in like manner.
The following arrangements should be observed in fixing the urinals and closets.
In fixing the urinals in places where they are likely to remain for some little time and
be much used, to prevent the ground in the immediate vicinity from getting saturated
with an excess of urine a small gutter or trench should be formed in the turf below
the outside covering to conduct the urine to a small dry drain in the ground, just out-
side, the drain consisting of a hole dug in the ground filled with loose stones and
recovered with turf. In fixing the closets, a hole, 20, should be dug below the seat, to
be filled in when the closet is removed, and in cases where the closets are fixed in

page_text: ranges a quantity of loose earth should he provided for throwing over the soil,
for allowing which the lower portion of the iron covering below the seats at the back
may be made movable.
Having now particularly doscribed and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I doclare that what I claim is
Portable urinal and closet apparatus for use at open air meetings constructed
substantially in the mannor hereinbefore described.
Dated this 28th day of Auril 1890.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.