IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING WATER CLOSET BASINS TO THEIR TRAPS
Year: 1884

page_text: I HENRY CONOLLY of 53 Hampstead Road in the county of Middlesex
Manufacturing Sanitary Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said
Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING WATER CLOSET BASINS TO THEIR TRAPS
to be as follows-
'
The object of my invention is to attach water closet basins to the separate traps
thereof in such a manner that the. trap can be fixed in any required position in
respect of the basin thereby allowing me to place the said basin in regard to the
soil pipe as may be necessary in each particular case without it being obligatory as
it usually is at present to form the trap in a special manner for each apparatus.
I carry out this object by interposing between the water closet basin and the
separate trap thereof a collar or short piece of pipe of the required shape and length
and diameter in which collar is the bottom valve if any of the closet basin. Ou
each end of this collar I form a flange and the upper flange is attached to a flange
formed on the bottom of the basin by screw bolts or otherwise. The lower flange
of the collar is attached to a flange formed on the end of the separate trap also by
screw bolts or otherwise and this trap can therefore be fixed in the required
position in respect of the basin by arranging and fitting the attachments which
secure these two flanges together in the necessary manner.
It is obvious that this my method. of attachment can be used and applied in
every case where a separate trap is used whether the said trap is above or below
the floor level and whatever may be the material of which the said trap is made
I can make this collar of the same or of a different material as may be convenient
in each case.

page_text: I HENRY CONOLLY of 53 Hampstead Road in the county of Middlesex
Manufacturing Sanitary Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING WATER CLOSET BASINS TO THEIR TRAPS
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 my invention is to attach water closet basins to the separate traps
thereof in such a manner that the trap can be fixed in any required position in
.respect of the basin thereby allowing me to place and erect the said basin in that
position in regard to the soil pipe as may be necessary or convenient in each
particular case without it being obligatory as is usually the case to form the trap 1
in a special particular manner for each apparatus.
I carry out this object by interposing between the water closet basin and the
separate trap thereof a collar or short piece of pipe of the required shape and
length and size in cross section and the several parts of the basin and the collar
and the trap are connected and attached together as is hereinafter described.
In order to clearly explain my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed I refer to the accompanying drawing in which I shew an ordinary valve
closet basin with the separate trap thereof situated above the floor level fitted with
my herein described invention.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the closet.
Figure 2 is an horizontal section thereof taken at a. b. in Figure 1.
A is the closet basin between which basin and the separate trap B thereof
I interpose the collar or short piece of pipe C of the required dimensions in which
collar C is the bottom valve of the closet basin actuated by the lever D. On each
end of this collar C I form a flange and the upper flange E is made of the same
shape as the ordinary or other flange formed on or fitted to the bottom or neck of
the basin A and the said flange E is secured thereto in any convenient and suitable
manner preferably by screw bolts and nuts as shewn in the drawing. The lower
flange F of the collar C is made of a circular or annular shape and is secured to a
corresponding and similar flange G formed on the end of the separate trap B in any
convenient manner to allow the said trap B to be fixed in the required position in
respect of the basin A so as to lead direct to the soil pipe. These two flanges F
and G may be secured together by clips on their outer peripheries or otherwise but
I prefer the method shewn in the drawing. According to this method I form in
one of these two flanges F and G preferably in the flange F on the collar C a series
of slots H and the bolts I which are passed through holes in the other flange
preferably in the flange G on the trap B pass also through these slots H and can
travel along the same being secured above by screw nuts. Thus and in this manner
the trap B can be fixed in any required position in respect of the basin A.
In the same manner as herein before described I can attach the separate traps to
water closet basins of any and every description whether fitted with bottom valves
or not and it is obvious that this my method of attachment as aforesaid can be used
and applied in the same manner when the trap is fitted and arranged below the
floor level K in which as in all other cases the collar or short piece of pipe is made
of the required and suitable length and whatever may be the imaterial of which the
trap of any particular closet is made the collar may be made of the same or of a
different material as may be convenient or desirable in that particular case.
Thus according to and in consequence of this my invention as herein before
described I can make the basins and the separate traps of water closets in any

page_text: convenient manner and the said basins and traps will be suitable for erection and
can be erected in every required position and place whereby the process of
manufacture is greatly simplified and the convenience of erection is greatly
increased.
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. The method or manner of attaching water closet basins to their traps
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and declared.
2. The collar or short piece of pipe interposed between and attached to the
water closet basin and the separate trap thereof substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described and declared.