Improvements in Tops, Seats, or Rims for Closets and Baths.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th May, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tops, Seats, or Rims for Closets and Baths.
1, HENRY SUTCLIFFE of Staincliffe, Halifax in the County of York, Sanitary
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
Closet and bath seats rims or tops as hitherto made are of a character such
that the coldness thereof is liable to cause injury to persons seating themselves
thereon and especially is this the case with invalids or delicate persons.
My invention has for its object to provide a seat, rim or top for closets and
baths which overcomes this objection. According to my invention I make the
upper surface of the seat rim or top of ground or powdered cork or mixture of
cork with other materials which will not nullify the warmth of the cork. The
said cork or cork mixture may be applied in any convenient way for example it
may be moulded or otherwise made into slabs of the requisite size and shape
and be applied to the upper surface of a body or support of wood or other
substance to give the requisite strength. A seat rim or top so made will be
found to obviate the objections which apply as aforesaid to these articles as
hitherto made.
Dated this 10th day of August 1892.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tops, Seats, or Rims for Closets and Baths.
1 HENRY SUTCLIFFE, of " Staincliffe," Halifax, in the County of York,
Sanitary Engineer, 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 :-
Closet and bath seats rims or tops as hitherto made are of a character such that
the coldness thereof is liable to cause injury to persons seating themselves thereon,
and especially is this the case with invalids or delicate persons. My invention has
for its object to provide a seat rim or top for closets and baths which overcomes
this objection. According to my invention I make the upper surface of the seat
rim or top, of ground or powdered cork, or mixture of cork with other materials
which will not nullify the warmth of the cork. The said cork or cork mixture may
be applied in any convenient way, for example it may be moulded or otherwise
made into slabs of the requisite size and shape and be applied to the upper surface
of a body or support of wood or other substance to give the requisite strength.
The seat rim or top so made will be found to obviate the objections which apply as
aforesaid to these articles as hitherto made. In order that my invention may be
better and more fully understood 1 herein give reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1. represents a closet seat and Fig. 2. a bath top, the upper surfaces of the
wood parts, (marked B.) of which are covered with powdered cork or mixture of
cork with other materials (marked A.) that will not nullify the warmth of the cork
as aforesaid. The said powdered cork or mixture of cork may be applied in any
convenient way but the way in which it is fixed in this instance is by glueing as in
ordinary veneering.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I hereby declare that
what I claim is :-
The covering of the upper surfaces of tops, seats. or rims for closets and baths,
with ground or powdered cork or mixture of cork with other materials which
will not nullify the warmth of the cork.
Dated this Ninth day of May 1893
HENRY SUTCLIFFE.