Improvements in Slop Blocks for Sink Pipes and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Slop Blocks for Sink Pipes and the like.
I, FREDERICK HODGESS, of 201 York Street, Hulme, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a slop block which shall be more convenient
to use and fix than heretofore and also act as a trap to prevent noxious vapours from
passing up the sink pipe, and in addition act also as a suitable outlet or termination
for bath waste pipes, waste water pipes, and the like.
I accomplish this, by forming a block of suitable material and size, with an inlet,
opening within the house for the sink pipe, in which inlet pipe is formed a suitable
small trap, fitted with suitable inlets for air and cleaning and terininating in a suitable
outlet over the yard sumph grid. I also furnish suitable inlets in the block outside the
house for such bath or other waste water pipes as may be required.
Dated this 12th day of February 1896.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
7 South Corridor, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Agent to Applicant.
I, FREDERICK HODGESS of 201 York Street, Hulme, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Contractor, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a slop block which shall be more convenient
to use and fix than heretofore and also act as a trap to prevent noxious vapours from
passing up the sink pipe, and also act in addition as a suitable outlet or termination
for bath waste pipes, waste water pipes and the like.
I accomplish this, by forming a block of earthenware, or other suitable material, of
suitable size, with an inlet for the sink pipe which when the block is built in place,
opens within the house, this inlet pipe is formed in its passage through the block into
a suitable trap and terminates in a suitable outlet over the yard sumph grid.
I furnish it also with suitable inlets for cleaning and air. I also furnish a suitable
inlet outside the house to which such bath or other waste pipes can be attached as
required.
The drawings sent herewith show a section of a suitable form of my slop block
containing all the points mentioned, a indicating the inlet for sink pipe, within the
house continuing downwards and forming trap band finally terminating in outlet c
over yard sumph grid .d indicates the inlet, for bath or other waste water outside the
wall, which joins the pipe a at a little distance above trap b. The trap bis prevented
from "syphoning" by air inlet e and can be cleaned from inside the house by opening f
which is fitted with a suitable plug 9 when not in use.

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, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
In a slop block, the combination of inlet a, trap b, outlet c, waste water inlet d, clean-
ing inlet, and air inlet e, substantially as described and shown hereinbefore and in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of October 1896.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
7 South Corridor, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Agent to Applicant.