IMPROVEMENTS IN URINALS, BOTH SINGLY AND IN CONNECTION WITH DRY EARTH CLOSETS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Phillips, of No. 8, Albion Place, in the Parish
of Heavitree, in the County of Devon, Gentleman, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN URINALS, BOTH SINGLY AND IN CONNECTION WITH DRY
EARTH CLOSETS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Phillips at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th October 1880.
HENRY PHILLIPS, of No. 8, Albion Place, in the Parish of Heavitree, in the
County of Devon, Gentleman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN URINALS, BOTH SINGLY AND
IN CONNECTION WITH DRY EARTH CLOSETS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in urinals, both singly and in
connection with dry earth closets.
I construct a urinal so that the discharge pipe from the urinal basin is led down
to a receptacle containing dry earth or other dry powdered deodorizing material,
and is caused to discharge below the surface of such material and near to the bottom
of the receptacle, say, five or six inches from it.
The bottom of the vessel I also make to slope gently downwards away from the
point at which the fluid enters, so that the fluid may percolate into the powdered
inaterial contained in all parts of the receptacle. By discharging the fluid below
the surface of the dry earth or material in the receptacle no effluvium whatever
will arise from the receptacle, and the earth or material in the receptacle does not
require to be changed until moisture appears on the surface; the earth or
material, which is still in a perfectly inodorous but highly fertilized condition,
should then be removed and fresh dry earth or material substituted for it. Tho
receptacle may be of earthenware or other suitable material and be covered over
with a removeable lid.
In dry earth closets also, which are so constructed that the liquid matter
discharged into them is passed into a separate receptacle from that into which the
solid matters pass, the outlet pipe by which the liquid is led away may similarly
be caused to discharge below the surface of dry earth or material contained in a
receptacle in the manner above described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and
of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Henry Phillips in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th May 1881.
HENRY PHILLIPS, of No. 8, Albion Place, in the Parish of Heavitree, in the
County of Devon, Gentleman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN URINALS, BOTH SINGLY AND
IN CONNECTION WITH DRY EARTH CLOSETS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in urinals, both singly and in
connection with dry earth closets.
I construct a urinal so that the discharge pipe from the bottom of the urinal
.basin is led down to a receptacle containing dry earth or other deodorizing material,
and 'the fluid is discharged 4 or 5 inches below the surface of the earth or other
material used. The bottom of the receptacle I also make to slope gently downwards
away from the point at which the fluid enters, so that the fluid may percolate into
the mass of material used.
The receptacle may conveniently be a rectangular box about 4 feet in length
by 2 feet in breadth and about 18 inches in depth at one end, and where the
discharge pipe from the urinal basin is led into it. At the opposite end it may be
of less depth. The bottom may have a slope, say, of about 4 inches in the length
of the box.
By discharging the fluid below the surface of the material used no effluvium
whatever will arise from the receptacle, and when the material is moderately damp
on its surface it should be removed from the receptacle and exposed to the air that
it may become dry, a fresh supply of dry earth being substituted for it; for
continuous use, and when that which has been used has become dry, it may
again be used in the urinal receptacle, or in what is known as a dry closet, and
thereby have imparted to it increased manurial value.
Having thus described my Invention and the manner of performing the same, I
would have it understood that I claim the construction of urinals, substantially as
herein before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Phillips, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one.