I■- PROVEMENTS IN CLOSETS, COMMODES, PRIVIES, AND BUCH LIKE
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Shakespear Allardyce, of Fordington,
in the County of Dorset, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "I■-
PROVEMENTS IN CLOSETS, COMMODES, PRIVIES, AND BUCH LIKE.”
Sealed the 14th March 1873, and dated the 1st October 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Shakespear
Allardyce at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 1st October 1872.
I, WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR Allardyce, of Fordington, in the County
of Dorset, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSETS, COMMODES, PRIVIES, AND SUCH LIKE,"..
to be as follows :—
The improvements embrace the supplying deodorising materials to
closets, commodes, privies, and such like, so that the required amount,
of deodorising material may be properly distributed over or on the
excreta without waste, and also the apparatus for effecting the dis-
tribution.
The improvements may be performed as follows:-The closets may be
constructed of toon binde eithas anle

page_text: seat or otherwise worked by the person using them actuating a handle
or lever, and can be made available for earth, ashes, charcoal, or other
deodorising material by arranging the dimensions or form of the hole
through which such material is to pass from the reservoir, and the
required amount of the charge of such material may be regulated in the
same way.
The vibrator or receiver to hold the deodorising material may be made
wholly of wood or metal, or partly of wood and partly of metal with a
nozzle, and immediately under this nozzle is placed a metallic or wooden
cylinder or segment of a cylinder (fixed on an axle), so that it may
rotate or partially so to hold the deodorising charge. The upper part
of this cylinder or segment has a hole in top of the same size or
nearly so as the end of the nozzle, and a convenient hole in the front
through which the earth is thrown out by the axle being partly turned,
the back part of the cylinder or segment at the same time cuts off
the descent of the deodoriser from the reservoir.
In the self-acting closets the cylinder stands with the deodoriser cut
off. The weight of a person sitting on the seat depresses the end or
ends of a lever or levers of which the other ends in rising lift an arm
or arms on the shaft to which the cylinder is attached, and bringing a
the hole in this cylinder under the nozzle a charge of earth descends
into the cylinder; as the person rises the cylinder is returned to its
former position, and the charge of earth is thrown forward on to an
inclined plane of wood or metal over which it passes to cover the
excreta.
In the closets non-self-acting the cylinder stands with a charge in it,
and the person using it by means of a knob, handle, or lever gives a
motion to the shaft which throws the earth forward, as described
above.
In both closets the cylinder is brought back to its normal position hv

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Shakespear Allardyce in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 28th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William
SHAKESPEAR ALLARDYCE, of Fordington, in the County of Dorset,
Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Shakespear Allardyce, Her special licence
that I, the said William Shakespear Allardyce, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Shakespear
Allardyce, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSETS, COMMODES, PRIVIES, AND SUCH LIKE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Shakespear Allar-
dyce, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Shakespear Allardyce, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The improvements embrace the supplying deodorising materials to
closets, commodes, privies, and such like, so that the required amount
of deordorising material may be properly distributed over or on the
excreta without waste, and also the apparatus for effecting the dis-
tribution.

page_text: The improvements may be performed as follows:-The closets may
be constructed of two kinds, cither self-acting by a person sitting on the
seat or otherwise worked by the person using them actuating a handle
or lever, and can be made available for earth, ashes, charcoal, or other
deodorising material by arranging the dimensions or form of the hole 5
through which such materials is to pass from the reservoir, and the
required amount of the charge of such material may be regulated in the
same way.
The vibrator or receiver to hold the deodorising material may be made
wholly of wood or metal, or partly of wood and partly of metal with a 1
nozzle, and immediately under this nozzle is placed a metallic or wooden
cylinder or segment of a cylinder (fixed on an axle), so that it may
rotate or partially so to hold the deodorising charge. The upper part
of this cylinder or segment has a hole in top of the same size or nearly
so as the end of the nozzle, and a convenient hole in the front through
which the earth is thrown out by the axle being partly turned, the back
part of the cylinder or segment at the same time cuts off the descent of
the deodoriser from the reservoir.
In the self-acting closets the cylinder stands with the deodoriser cut
off. The weight of a person sitting on the seat depresses the end or
ends of a lever or levers of which the other ends in rising lift an arm
or arms on the shaft to which the cylinder is attached, and bringing
the hole in this cylinder under the nozzle a charge of earth descends
into the cylinder; as the person rises the cylinder is returned to its
former position, and the charge of earth is thrown forward on to an
inclined plane of wood or metal over which it passes to cover the
excreta.
In the closets non-self-acting the cylinder stands with a charge in it,
and the person using it by means of a knob, handle, or lever gives a
motion to the shaft which throws the earth forward, as described
above.
In both closets the cylinder is brought back to its normal position by
means of a spring or balance weight or weights attached to the shaft or

page_text: Figure 1 is a sectional plan of closet; Figure 2, a sectional front
elevation through A, A, on plan; and Figure 3, a sectional side
elevation through C, D, on plan; these Figures show the working
parts.
O is the reservoir or depôt for deodorising material; N, the nozzle;
Y, the oscillating charge cylinder; R, the axle on which Y works; S, the
shoot; P, the pan or receptacle.
Figures 1 and 2 show more particularly the application of the
Invention to closet rendered self-acting by sitting on the seat.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Shakespear Allardyce, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR ALLARDYCE. (L.S.)