Improvements in Flushing Apparatus and Appliances in connection therewith.
Year: 1894

page_text: - Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1894-Accepted, 30th Mar., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flushing Apparatus and Appliances in connection
therewith.
1 MOSES JAMES ADAMS Engineer Peasholme Green York 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 apparatus consists in an improved syphonic flushing chamber of glazed ware
which is used for the flushing of drains closets and other purposes and in the special
forms of closets I have designed as particularly adapted for use therewith. In the
flushing apparatus it will be seen on reference to my drawings Sheet No. 1 Figs. 1,
2 & 3 I use a body AAA by preference tubular in form and placed horizontally
and I arrange such entries for liquid with which the apparatus is charged for
flushing as may be convenient lettered B B B in each figure B serves as an inlet
but in Fig. 1 it serves also as a ventilator for the apparatus this extension I shew
at 12 it serves also by a grating in the cover to admit liquid when so desired.
At C. C. I provide inspection inlets and at D D D my apparatus is formed as a
syphon one end of which joins the body of my apparatus A A A and the other or
longer limb terminates in a box or cup E E E this box having an outlet F F F and
this outlet it will be apparent must be in connection by pipe or other means with
the drain or apparatus it is desired to flush. When liquid enters and fills the
apparatus it will then pass through the syphon D D D which will commence its
discharge emptying its contents with force to the drain or apparatus connected
therewith. Sheet 2 shews at Fig. 3 a closet which is adapted for flushing by my
apparatus which will be connected therewith by the opening and pipe G at Fig. 1
on this sheet I also shew a closet arrangement which I flush by similar means or by
any suitable flushing apparatus raised sufficiently high that it may be connected to
the flushing pipe H and III shewn and so discharged to flush the closet pans JJJ,
it will be seen that the outlets of each closet discharge to a drain K and that
the closet itself is so formed by its considerable diameter and circumference at its
base that it rests thereon firmly and does not require any other casing or support
and also that at LILI form a bead or skirting to aid this support and form a
suitable finish.
Now whereas in the past closets have been used with the large base and bead or
skirting shewn when thus used they have been of such a form that the contents
have been discharged from one pan to another in their cleansing as my own Patent
No. 1573983 but my modification (in which as described herein I make each closet
pan separate from the other) is important from the great degree of separation
secure between the users of the apparatus, that the novel combination of two or
more closet pans flushed from one apparatus and each being connected separately
to a drain and each closet also being formed with enlarged base and furnished with
skirting or bead will be manifest and the pans each being flushed from a flushing rim
also is a novel feature in a closet used as a multiple closet yet standing complete in
itself and its outgo independent of others flushed from the same flushing source.
Fig. 2 shews a section of closet.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1st. The use of a tubular vessel of glazed ware placed horizontally as shewn by

page_text: my drawings fitted with a syphon for discharging the contents of same in
combination with a closet for the flushing thereof.
2nd. The use of a tubular glazed ware flushing vessel and syphon in combination
with the inlets for liquid as shewn and herein described.
3rd. The use of the apparatus for flushing as shewn and described in combination
with the closet Fig. 3.
4th. The use of the syphon apparatus shewn or any syphon apparatus for
discharging a body of liquid in combination with the closet described and lettered
Fig. 1 and 2 on my drawings.
5th. The use of the closet shewn and described by Fig. 1 and 2 having a base
enlarged to support it in combination with a flushing rim where fixed together and
flushed two or more from one flushing apparatus.
6th. The shape and formation of closet as shewn by Fig. 1 and 2 (in section)
having footing or enlargement L outlet to drain and flashing rim generally as shewn
and described.
7th. The general design and arrangement of parts as described and illustrated
in flushing apparatus and closets or their equivalent substantially the same.
Dated this 20th of December 1894.
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
Peasholme Green, York, Engineer.
MOSES JAMES ADAMS,
Peasholme Green, York, Engineer.