Improvements in Sanitary Appliances applicable for Tenement Houses and other Places, Useful more especially for Preventing Stoppage of the Drains.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sanitary Appliances applicable for Tenement
Houses and other Places, Useful more especially for Preventing
Stoppage of the Drains.
I, JOHN EDMUNDSON of 2 Dineley Street, Church, near Accrington, in the
County of Lancaster, Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
In water closets for the use of tenements in which several tenements join at the
same water closet the connections are very apt to get stopped up through old boots,
tin cans, and the like being drawn down them.
Now this invention is designed to prevent the passage of sticks, tin cans, boots,
and the like into the drains. It consists first in placing in the water closet basin
or other receptacle an interior and shallow basin or disc supported considerably
above the bottom of the main basin or gully and leaving a space to one side or
preferably all round wide enough to allow the excreta and paper to pass but
stopping all larger articles. The flush is arranged to shoot over this basin and
thus flush it clean. With ordinary side gullys I form the gully as a block of wood
metal or earthenware preferably the latter and place all the holes sloping inward.
At some distance below I place a horizontal disc having its sides some distance
from the sides of the gully. This disc can be raised up and down it being fixed
to a central eyebolt projecting above the gully. A child attempting to pass a stick
down into the gully finds it impossible to do so as the stick comes in contact with
the disc and if sticks be left in the holes level with the top of the trap the simple
upward lifting of the eyebolt raises them above the surface so that they can easily
be extracted. Opposite the exit from the gully traps or water closets I place a
pipe rising gradually to the surface and having a lid locked in position. By
unlocking this lid a scraper or flexible rod can be shoved down to clean out the
gully or water closet. Where there is a siphon as is usually the case between the
water closet or gully trap and the main I arrange to clean it out in the following
manner. From each end of the siphon a sloping pipe rises to the surface crossing
the siphon and being at a slight angle both horizontal and vertical with the axis of
the main pipe. A third pipe if desirable can dip down vertically or nearly
vertically into the siphon. By means of these three pipes cleaning rods can be
brought down into the siphon and also into each of the pipes connected with the
siphon.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sanitary Appliances applicable for Tenement
Houses and other Places, Useful more especially for Preventing
Stoppage of the Drains.
I, JOHN EDMUNDSON of 2 Dineley Street, Church, near Accrington in the
County of Lancaster, Builder, 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 sanitary appliances applicable for tenement houses and
other places, useful more especially for preventing stoppage of the drains. It
comprises certain improvements in or additions to the invention set forth in my
previous Patent No. 8763 of 1895.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure is a part sectional elevation of a closet pan and its connections
constructed according to my invention;
Figure 2 a plan of the same with the disc B removed;
Figure 3 an elevation partly in section of the improved gully with the grid or
lid raised;
Figure 4 a top plan of the lid unlocked from the gully;
Figure 5 an inverted plan of the same locked;
Figure 6 a front elevation of my improved trap;
Figure 7 an end elevation thereof; and,
Figure 8 a plan.
In water closets for the use of tenements in which several tenements join at the
same water closet, the connections are very apt to get stopped up through old
boots, tin cans and the like being thrown down them. Now this invention is
designed to prevent the passage of sticks, tin caus, boots or the like into the drains.
It consists, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, in placing in the water closet basin A, or
other receptacle, an interior and shallow basin or disc B, supported considerably
above the bottom of the main basin A or gully by projections B1, and leaving a
space b to one side, or preferably all round, wide enough to allow the excreta and
paper to pass, but stopping all larger articles. C is the flush pipe, D the drain
pipe, E a connection leading up to the slop grid in the yard or other convenient
place which will facilitate the cleaning of the excreta pan or trap. The flush is
arranged to shoot over the basin or disc B and thus flush it clean.
Referring to the gully depicted in Figures 3, 4, and 5, I form the gully F as a
block of wood, metal or earthenware, preferably the latter, and make its hole
sloping inwards on two sides at H, so that the gully opening F is narrower one
way than the other. G is a lid or perforated grid. At some distance below the
grid G, I place a horizontal head or disc J narrowed at two opposite sides, so that
they shall be some distance from the sides of the gully. This disc J can be
raised up and down but being fixed to the grid by a central eyebolt I, projecting
above the gully. A child attempting to pass a stick down thorough the perforated
grid G into the gully finds it impossible to do so as the stick comes in contact
with the disc J, and if sticks be left in the holes level with the top of the grid, the
simple upward lifting of the eyebolt I raises them above the surface so that they
can easily be extracted.
Opposite the exit from the gully trap or water closet I place the pipe E,
Figures 1 and 2, rising gradually to the surface, and having the lid or grid G
(Figures 3, 4 and 5) applied to it locked in positiou. This locking is effected by
turning the lid a quarter turn so that the head J will engage under the shoulders
(see Figure 5) and leave a free passage j for the slop water or other drainage to

page_text: pass down into the drain. To unlock it the lid or grid G is turned so that the
narrowed side of the head J will coincide with the narrowed part of the gully F
(see Figure 4). By unlocking this lid or grid therefore and lifting it off, a
scraper or flexible rod can be shoved down to clean out the gully or water
closet.
Where there is a syphon or trap as is usually the case between the water closet
or gully trap and the main, I arrange to clean it out in the following manner,
reference being had to Figures 6, 7, 8. From each end of the trap M, a pipe L
or arm rises to the surface, crossing the trap and being at an easy angle with the
axis of the main pipe. A third pipe N can, if desirable, dip down vertically or
nearly vertically into the trap. By means of these three pipes, a cleaning rod can
be brought down into each trap. O are rests to which are attached spirit levels,
which may be placed to secure a perfect level when setting the trap. The reference
letter K, Figures 3, 4 and 5 indicate lugs or projections, forming the bearing
surface of the grid on the top of the gully, thus considerably reducing the bearing
surface of the grid, facilitating the cleaning, and preventing the grid sticking in its
seating.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under-
stood that I lay no claim in this specification to the invention set forth in my prior
patent aforesaid, but I declare that what I herein claim is,-
1. In water closet basins and other receptacles, the combination with a shallow
basin or disc supported above the bottom of the main basin or gully leaving a
space to one side or all round, wide enough to allow the excreta and paper to
pass, but stopping all larger articles, of a flush pipe so arranged as to shoot
the flush over the shallow basin or disc and thus flush it clean substantially as
described.
2. For the purpose of preventing articles being mischievously or otherwise
passed into the drain through the grid of a gully, the combination with the gully
of a device consisting of a grid such as G, a horizontal head J some distance
below the grid, and a bolt fixing the grid and head together, whereby a person
attempting to pass an article down into the gully through the grid finds it impossible
to do so, as the articles come in contact with the head, and if sticks or other
matter be left in the grid perforations, level with the top of the grid, the simple
upward lifting of the bolt raises them above the surface, so that they can be easily
extracted substantially as described.
3. The improvement in gully lids or grids, which consists in attaching to the lid
or grid at some distance below it, a horizontal head, and in so forming the gully
opening which receives the lid or grid, that by inserting the head and grid there-
into and turning them a quarter turn, the head will lock itself against or under
the gully top and conversely in unlocking substantially as described, whereby there
is less liability of the grid being lost or stolen.
4. The improvement in drain traps, which consists in providing in combination
with the ordinary inspection pipe which rises from one end of the trap, a second
sloping pipe or inspection arm rising from the opposite end of the trap to the
Eurface, with or without a third pipe dipping down vertically or nearly vertically
into the trap, whereby cleaning rods can be brought down into the trap, and into
each of the pipes connected therewith, substantially as described.
5. The general combined arrangement and construction of parts forming my
improved sanitary appliances, applicable for tenement houses and other places
substantially as set forth.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.