Improvements in Mechanism for Operating Water Closets of Ships, Hotels, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1894
CONFTETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mechanism for Operating Water Closets of Ships,
Hotels, and the like.
I, DANIEL DIMOND WHITE of 7 Field Street, Holderness Road, Hull, in the
County of York, Foreman Fitter, 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 :-
My invention consists in the employment of a spring, (or any other suitable motor
may be used) to drive my improved mechanism for automatically working a pump
to discharge excrement from underline water closets and is especially applicable to
the water closets of first-class yachts, passenger steamers, hotels and the like.
My invention consists in apparatus for automatically working a pump which is
strong enough to overcome any resistance offered by closets having overhead
pressure of water, such as in closets upon yachts or vessels situated under the
water line.
I apply a spring with geared wheels attached to a lever, arranged to work the
pump.
The trigger or controller which holds the spring in check, is controlled by the
handle which is connected to the flushing valve or cock.
When the aforesaid handle is lifted, it immediately releases the controller, which
releases the tension on the spring, and causes the pump to rotate, making a certain
number of revolutions, which can be adjusted to any number required, by the
winding up and setting of the finger or trigger in the recesses on the wheel.
The machine is controlled by a governor in the form of worm wheel driving a
worm upon a shaft having a fan, which acts as a ventilator, and all gases that
arise are immediately expelled, thus purifying the atmosphere and improving its
sanitary condition.
The pump rotates according to the extent it has been wound up by the attendant
or other person, who winds the machine up.
An indicator may be placed in a suitable position which will denote the exact
number of times the water closet can be used without rewinding..
It has been a great inconvenience with underline water closets to have to work
the pumps by hand; by my apparatus, I have overcome this difficulty.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. shows elevation partly in section of apparatus for operating the pump of
water closets.
Fig. 2. is an end view of Fig. 1.
The apparatus or machine on drawing consists of double acting pump A, having
its suction B connected up to the closet, and the discharge branch C connected up
to the ship's side, the pump A is provided with suitable valves.
The pump piston M is actuated by a series of wheels D, E, F, G, and G¹, which
are suitably geared and connected to a disc H, the disc H having connecting rod J,
lever K and link N, attached to piston rod L.
The motion is derived from the spiral spring S, preferably coiled up inside of
wheel D, the spring is attached to the wheel D at O and to its shaft R.
The pump is started by means of raising the handle Y and lever X, terminating
in a trigger X₁, engaging with notches X' in wheel G'. The lever X is also

page_text: An arrangement of governor is provided (by means of shaft A', worm A³, and
worm wheel A³ operated by the pinion wheel G upon the same shaft gearing with
the pinion wheel E) to balance or steady the same, and prevent its running at too
great a speed.
Attached to the shaft A' at the upper end, is a ventilating fan B' fitted for
expelling air or noxious gases which may accumulate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not claim
any of the parts of my apparatus separately, but only in combination for the
purposes herein set forth, but I declare that what I claim is :-
The arrangement and combination of apparatus consisting of the spring S,
wheels D, E, F, G, G', and A³, shaft A¹, worm A, fan B2, disc H and connections
to the piston L, handle Y, lever X, with trigger X' and connections to flush
cock Z for automatically working a closet pump and ventilator, substantially as
shown and described.
Dated this Fourteenth day of Santambor 1001
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.
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JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.