Improvements in Cleaning Devices for Water Olosets, Sinks, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cleaning Devices for Water Olosets, Sinks,
and the like.
We, JOHN WRIGLEY, and JASPER BEEBEE CHASSEAUD, both of the corner
of Baldwin and Second Streets, in the City of Elmira, County of Chemung and
State of New York, U.S.A., Gentlemen, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a cleaning device for water closets,
sinks, sewer and drain pipes and having curved or irregular bends, of simple and
durable construction, easily handled and reliable in operation.
The invention consists in the improved cleaning device, and in the combination
and arrangement of the various parts thereof, substantially as will be hereinafter
more fully described and finally embodied in the clauses of the claims.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures:
Fig. 1 is a central sectional view of an ordinary water closet, illustrating our
improved cleaning device in position to remove some obstacles from the sewer
connecting pipe ;
Fig. 2 an enlarged detail view illustrating the locking means between the
straight and elbow tube;
Fig. 3 a sectional view of a waste pipe illustrating the cleaning device in
position similar to that shown in Fig. 1, the bent elbow tube being removed;
Fig. 4 an enlarged detail view of the lower end of the cleaning device;
Fig. 6 a modified form of Fig. 4, and
Figs. 5, 78, 9 and 10 detail views of certain implements or tools to be used in
connection with the said cleaning device.
In said drawings a represents a water closet of ordinary construction and
communicating through the trap a 3, and the connecting pipe a 2 with the sewer,
as will be manifest.
The cleaning device consists of the straight tube c, preferably diagonally cut
off at its lower end, as at 1, Figs. 2 and 3,-and the elbow tube d, removably
secured to the said straight tube by any desired locking mechanism. In the
drawings said locking mechanism consists of the pin c 2 secured to and projecting
from the straight tube c and adapted to engage the angle slot d 2 of the elbow
tube.
In said tube c is loosely arranged a rod or wire e provided at its upper (pro-
jecting) end with a crank handle fand at its lower end with a spiral or coil g of
any length desired, and preferably wound left-handed and terminating in a coil
screw h, or provided with a fork ho as clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5
respectively.
If desired an internally threaded nipple g1 may be secured in any desired
manner to the lower end of the spiral 9, adapted to receive the screw threaded
ends 2 of a coil screw 1 with auxiliary hook h6, as in Fig. 6 or of a fork h 3,
a twist drill 4, an auger drill h 14 or chisel h5 as in Figs. 7, 9, 8 and 10

page_text: In Fig. 3 of the drawings, the elbow tube d is removed, and the straight tube c
inserted into the straight portion of the waste pipe a 1 and bears against the bent
portion thereof.
In operation, the cleaning device is inserted in the water closet or the waste
pipe as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. The tube c (in Fig. 1) is held and directed
with one hand, whilst the rod e is first pushed inwards, until the coil screw h of the
coil g reaches the obstacle b (or b1 in Fig. 3). The crank handle fis then turned
from left to right, thereby compressing the coil g and forcing the screw coil h
to firmly engage the obstacle, which latter is then easily removed, by gradually
withdrawing the cleaning device under continuous turning of the crank handle.
From the foregoing it will be manifest, that the device can be used for cleaning
out water closets, sewer and drain pipes, sinks and the like, and that various forms
can be constructed without departing from the spirit of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim, is:
1. A cleaning device for water closets, sewers and the like, consisting of a tube;
a rod loosely arranged in said tube, a crank handle on one end of the rod, a wire
coil at the other end thereof, and a tool or implement removably secured at the
free end of said coil, substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. A cleaning device for water closets, sewers and the like, consisting of a
straight tube, an elbow tube removably secured to one end thereof, a rod loosely
arranged in the straight tube and provided at its upper end with a crank handle,
a wire coil at the lower end of said rod and projecting through the elbow tube,
and a tool or implement at the free end of said coil, substantially as and for the
purposes described.
3. A cleaning device for water closets, sewers and the like, consisting of a
straight tube, an elbow tube on one end thereof, a rod loosely arranged in the
straight tube, a crank handle on the upper end of said rod, a wire coil arranged
at the lower end of said rod and projecting through the elbow tube, and a tool or
implement removably secured to the free end of said coil, substantially as and for
the purposes described.
Dated this 5th day of November 1896
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.