An Improved Method of Connecting Together Latrines or Waste Water Closets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application. 6th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd June, 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Connecting Together Latrines or Waste
Water Closets.
We, WILLIAM OATES and JOHN JOHNSTON GREEN, of the Firm of Oates
and Green, Limited, Halifax, in the County of York, Sanitary Engineers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference to latrines or waste water closets, and our improve-
ments have reference only to where there are a series of latrines placed side by
side and being emptied into the same drain.
Our improvements consist in connecting latrines together by pipes of increasing
diameters, that is to say, the pipe which feeds the first latrine might be four
inches in diameter, the pipe connecting the next latrine five inches in diameter,
and the pipe connecting the third latrine six inches in diameter, and so on, the
pipe between each latrine being of larger diameter than the preceding one.
By this means a more perfect flushing of the pipes is effected.
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TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.
An Improved Method of Connecting Together Latrines or Waste
Water Closets.
We, WILLIAM OATES, and JOHN JOHNSTON GREEN of the Firm of Oates
and Green, Limited Halifax in the County of York, Sanitary Engineers, 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:-
Our invention has reference to latrines or waste water closets, and our improve-
ments have reference only to where there are a series of latrines placed side by
side and being emptied into the same drain.
Our improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, where a series
of latrine closets are arranged side by side having pedestals A. communicating
with pipes B each of which pipes increases in diameter that is to say :-the pipe
which feeds the first pedestal may be four inches in diameter, the pipe connecting
the second pedestal five inches in diameter, and the pipe connecting the third
pedestal six inches in diameter, and so on, the pipe B between each pedestal A
being of larger diameter than the preceding one. By this means a more perfect
flushing of the pipes is effected. The latrines may be supplied with water from a
fall pipe, or by an elevated tipper as shewn at C.
This arrangement of closets is perfectly self-acting requiring little or no
attention on the part of the persons using them.
D is a loose cone fitting into the inside of the pedestal. The said cone is made

page_text: from highly glazed porcelain and it guides the excreta and urine into the centre
of the basin, whereby fouling of the pedestal or the rising pipe is prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
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In latrine closets the combination therewith of connecting pipes B of increasing
diameters between each pedestal arranged and combined substantially as
described and illustrated in the drawings.
Datal this and dan of Tune 1896
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.