Improvements in Spittoons.
Year: 1891

page_text: .Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 18th June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July,
1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spittoons.
We, ALBERT PUSEL of 10 Weissenburgerstrasse, Tailor and THEODOR
SENESTREY, of 77 Preysingstrasse, Doctor of Medicine, both of Munich, in the
Kingdom of Bavaria, Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is an improved spittoon, in which for sanitary
reasons, the sputum is prevented from drying up. The improved spittoon consists
of a main reservoir, the upper part of which contains another reservoir adapted
to be taken out and having in front at the bottom a valve or valves. Below the
upper reservoir, to which water is supplied in any suitable manner, is provided
a groove shaped slide adapted to be drawn out and having an opening at the rear
end. The valves of the upper reservoir are so placed that when the slide, which
is inclined rearwardly, is being drawn out or pushed in, the valves are opened for a
short time and closed again by means of conic projections provided on the slide.
Thereby, when the slide is being drawn out, it is rinsed to prevent the sputum
from adhering, and on its being pushed in again after having been used as spittoon
proper, it is rinsed again, and the sputum washed through the opening of the slide
into the lower reservoir, which is from time to time emptied and cleaned.
The improved spittoon, which is particularly intended for corridors and staircases
may be let into the wall and provided with water either direct or from the grooves
of certain kinds of windows, in which grooves the condensation water from the
window panes accumulates.
10th 1.. of August 1891
HUELSER & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spittoons.
We, ALBERT PUSEL, of 10, Weissenburgerstrasse, Tailor, and THEODOR
SENESTREY, of 77 Preysingstrasse, Doctor of Medicine, both of Munich, in the
Kingdom of Bavaria, 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 :-
This invention is based on the well-known fact, that the sputum of consumptive
patients should not be allowed to dry, in order to avoid infection.
For this purpose, we employ water which runs down from a window, or which is
supplied from any other suitable source, for automatically flushing the sputum into
a suitable collecting box.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. I is a longitudinal and Fig. II a transverse
section of an apparatus embodying our invention, and consisting chiefly of a
metallic box A placed under the window sill.
The said box is divided into two compartments by means of an inclined longi-
tudinal slide a. As shown by Fig. 11, this slide is concave or grooved, and cut
out at its lower end b, so as to form an opening towards the lower compartment of
the box.
The upper compartment of the box A contains an inner box d, which can be
lifted out by means of a cross-bar e. This box is open at the top and provided at
the bottom of its front part with a valve for several valves. It receives water

page_text: from the window sill through an opening h, or it may be specially filled with water.
The valves, of which two are shown in the drawing, Fig. II, are lifted by means
of inclined lugs g formed on the slide a, both during the withdrawal and during the
re-insertion of the slide.
The apparatus is used by drawing out the slide a, then spitting on the same and
replacing it. The valves f are thereby lifted twice, that is, the first time, when the
person begins to draw out the slide, and the second time shortly before the slide
has again reached its original position. The water flowing through the valve
openings, while the slide is being drawn out, flows into the cavity or groove of the
slide, and through the aperture 6 of the same into the lower compartment of the
box A. The surface of the slide is thereby moistened, to prevent the sputum from
adhering to the same, and to facilitate its being washed away by the water which
afterwards passes through the valve opening, that is to say, when the valve opens
a second time. The water flushes the sputum through the aperture 6 into the
lower compartment of the water box. The latter is periodically emptied and
cleaned.
Instead of placing the apparatus under a window-sill, it may be secured in a
recess of a wall or placed in any other convenient part of the room.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:—
b
A spittoon comprising in its construction an external box or main receptacle (A),
an inner box or water receptacle (d) contained in the outer box (A) and provided
with valves (f), an inclined trough shaped slide (a) situated underneath the water
receptacle and adapted to lift the said valves, the whole being arranged in such a
manner, that water discharged from the inner box automatically flushes the surface
of the slide receiving the sputum, and escapes with the latter through an opening (h)
of the slide, substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of June 1892.
A. PUSEL,
T. SENESTREY,
By Huelser & Co.