Improvements in Fresh Water Closets.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fresh Water Closets.
We, J. DUCKETT AND SON LIMITED, of Sanitary Ware Works, Burnley, in the
County of Lancaster, and JAMES DUCKETT, of Woodleigh, Burnley, aforesaid,
Sanitary Ware Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in water closets.
The first part relates to the method of securing the seats.
We dispense with the usual metal supports and form in one piece of ware with the.
closet, a table or shelf, which extends backwards to within about.three inches of the wall.
This table or shelf is preferably about eleven inches long and prepared to receive a wood
backrail about six inches wide, back edge of which adjoins the wall. The rail is
bolted to the table or shelf. When the seat has to be hinged, we secure it to the said
backrail.
The second part of our invention relates to improvements in the mode of introducing
the flushing water into basin.
Integral with the said table or shelf, we form a vertical inlet of suitable form and
dimensions to receive the fall-pipe. Connected with this vertical inlet we form within
the said table or shelf and integral with it, two conduits, one on each side of the basin
to communicate with the flushing rim.
In order to make our invention perfectly clear, we herewith annex drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a section of a wash down closet (but our invention is also applicable to
wash-out or other forms of water closets). Fig. 2 is a plan of the basin, table, (or shelf)
with the flushing conduits shewn thereon. Fig. 3 is a plan of the closet seat.
C closet seat. D vertical inlet. E E are the said
the table or shelf. B backrail.
conduits.
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improvements in Fresh water Closets.
We, J. DUCKETT AND SON LIMITED, of Sanitary Ware Works, Burnley, in the County
of Lancaster, and JAMES DUCKETT, of Woodleigh, Burnley, aforesaid, Sanitary Ware
Manufacturers, 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:—

page_text: The first part relates to the method of securing the seats.
We dispense with the usual metal supports, and form in one piece of ware with the
closet, a table or shelf which extends backwards to within about three inches of the
wall. This table or shelf is preferably about eleven inches long and prepared to
receive a wood back-rail about six inches wide, back edge of which adjoins the wall.
The rail is bolted to the table or shelf. When the seat has to be hinged, we secure it
to the said back-rail.
The second part of our invention relates to improvements in the mode of introducing
the flushing water into the basin.
Integral with the said table or shelf, we form a vertical inlet of suitable form and
dimensions to receive the fall pipe.
Connected with this vertical inlet we form within the said table or shelf and integral
with it two conduits, one on each side of the basin to communicate with the flushing
rim. Or, if preferred, the solid portion hetween the two conduits may be removed
so as to leave one large triangular condu. instead of two narrow ones. This will be
at once apparent by reference to the drawings, accompanying our Provisional
Specification, from which our invention will be fully understood.
Fig. 1 is a section of a wash down closet (but our invention is also applicable
to wash-out or other forms of water closets). Fig. 2 is a plan of the basin, table (or
shelf) with the flushing conduits shewn thereon. Fig. 3 is a plan of the closet seat.
A is the table or shelf B backrail secured thereto, and to which the closet seat C is
hinged. Dis the vertical inlet and E-E are the said conduits, which may be either
of the form shewn, or the solid portion between the two may be removed so as to form
one triangular conduit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The improved means or method of securing a wood backrail to table or shelf
at back of closet, and hinging the seat thereto, substantially as shewn and
described.
2. A table or shelf support for closet seat, in combination with two conduits E E
for flushing water, substantially as shewn and described.
3. A table or shelf support for closet seat in combination with conduit of a
triangular or somewhat similar form for flushing water, substantially as described and
set forth.
Dated this 26th day of March 1898.
RICHMOND & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants, 12, Standish Street, Burnley.