Improvements relating to Waste-valves for Lavatory Basins, Baths, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Waste-valves for Lavatory Basins,
Baths, and the like.
1, HENRY JOHN GILCHER, of 122 Seneca Street, Cleveland, in the County
of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, United States of America, Manufacturer, 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 relates to waste-valves for lavatory basins, baths, and the like,
and consists in the novel construction of and means for operating the waste-valve
or stop-plug, substantially as hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawing:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of my improved waste-valve or
stop-plug and its operating mechanism.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same, showing means for operating it from
the front.
Figure 3 is a detached view of the operating rods, and
Figure 4 is a detached view of the plug or stopper.
A represents a shell or chamber located beneath the bowl of a basin or the like
and secured thereto by the screw-threaded outlet sleeve B. C is the plug or
stopper playing in the said outlet sleeve B, the upper disc of which closes the
outlet, and which also has a lower disc, the radial wings c, c forming chambers in
the sides of the plug. In the side of the shell A is provided a set-screw a which
serves to prevent the plug being drawn clear out, by the set-screw acting as a stop
against the lower disc when lifted.
D is a rod held in a box fixed in one side of the shell A, which is provided with
a stuffing-box d. On the end of said rod is fixed a disc or cam E having a pin e
designed for lifting the plug or stopper when the rod is turned. On the outer end
of the said rod is attached a knob Fas seen in Figure 2 when the plug or stopper
is to be operated from the front. When the plug or stopper is to be operated from
the top of the slab covering the bowl, a second vertical rod G is provided, connected
with the horizontal rod D and extending up through the slab, through a sleeve H,
fixed in the slab for supporting it. I is a tube having a head, J, through which
the rod D is loosely placed and which serves to support the said fod. Into the
said tube the lower end of the rod G is inserted and is adjustably fixed by a
set-screw g. On the rod D is placed a collar K, adjustably held in close proximity
to the head J, and having a double or looped arm L attached to it at one side.
M is a pin fixed in one side of tube I, and extending through the said looped
arm L, and which, when the said rod G is rotated a quarter of a turn, acts upon
the loop L to turn the rod D likewise, and, through the medium of the pine on the
disc E, to lift the plug or stopper for the purpose of opening the outlet. By
rotating the rod back again, the pin e is lowered and the plug drops back by
gravity and closes the outlet.
In the chambers of the plug are provided pins p for the purpose of catching any
efuse, such as hair, threads, etc., and enabling it to be removed by loosening the
et-screw a and withdrawing the plug, cleaning it and replacing it.

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 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination of a vertical rod G, a sleeve H inserted in a hole in the slab
and supporting the said rod, a tube I on the lower end of the said rod, a
set-screw g for adjustably holding the tube on the rod, a swivelled head J on the
lower end of the said tube, a horizontal rod D loosely supported in the said
swivelled head, a collar K on the rod D held by a set-screw, a loop arm L attached
to the said collar, and a pin M attached to the tube I and extending through the
said loop arm, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as described.
2. The waste-valve constructed and arranged in combination with the means for
operating it substantially as described with reference to either of the forms or
modifications shown in the accompanying drawing..
Dated this 22nd day of June 1896.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.