Improvements in the Construction and Arrangement of Water Closets.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 11th May, 1893-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction and Arrangement of Water
Closets.
We CHARLES PENNEY of 24 Church Street, Heaton Norris, in the County of
Lancaster, Stone Carver, and JOSEPH THACKRAH of 78 Wellington Road South,
Stockport, in the County of Chester, Engineer and Surveyor, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
or
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Our invention refers principally to our method of preventing the "stopping up
blocking," by foreign substances of the outlet from the closet bowl to the
trap and soil pipes. To effect this we fix in the neck or outlet pipe, a cylindrical
moveable collar of malleable material which
we secure in position by an
arrangement in the construction of the same. To this collar which we perforate
we fix at given intervals and in defined positions several fluted and shaped prongs-
of various lengths projecting at different angles-and in effect forming a grating
for seperating all usual deposits appertaining to water closets but "holding or
preventing from passing all extraneous matter or substances which if passed would
stop up,' or "block" the trap or soil pipes beyond.
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Another part of our invention consists in creating an additional flushing
arrangement by forming channels in the shell of the closet bowl, by which we
connect the water supply pipe with the perforated collar and outlet pipe.
Dated this Eighth day of February 1893.
CHARLES PENNEY.
JOSEPH THACKRAH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction and Arrangement of Water
Closets.
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We CHARLES PENNEY of 24 Church Street Heaton Norris, in the County of
Lancaster, Stone Carver, and JOSEPH THACKRAII of 78 Wellington Road South,
Stockport, in the County of Chester, Engineer and Surveyor, 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 refers principally to our method of preventing the "stopping up,'
or "blocking," by foreign substances, of the outlet from the closet bowl; to the
trap, and soil pipes. To effect this, we fix in the neck or outlet, a cylindrical
moveable collar of malleable material, which we secure in position, by an
arrangement in the construction of the same. To this collar we fix at given
intervals, and in defined positions, several fluted and shaped prongs, of various
lengths, projecting at different angles, and in effect forming a grating for seperating
all the usual deposits appertaining to water closets, but "holding or preventing
from passing, "all" extraneous matter, or substances, which if passed would
stop up" or "block" the trap or soil pipes beyond.
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We herewith append 1. sheet of drawings of which the following is a
description:
Fig. 1. represents a longitudinal vertical section of an apparatus for preventing
the "stopping up," or "blocking," of the outlet pipe, the trap, or soil pipes,
connecting the closet bowl with the drains. It consists of a cylindrical moveable
collar A. made with a bevelled flange b. on the upper edge, and seated in the
outlet pipe C. To the rim of the collar A. we cast on several fluted and shaped

page_text: prongs, d. of various lengths and projecting at different angles, the purport of
which are to regulate the course of the deposits from the closet bowl to the drains―
and thereby prevent the stopping up," or "blocking," which it is the aim of our
invention to avoid.
Fig. 2. represents a plan of the longitudinal vertical section, Fig. 1. which
indicates the position of the several fluted and shaped prongs, d. and illustrates
their uses in regulating the deposits in passing through the orifice E.
Fig. 3. represents a longitudinal vertical section of the general skeleton frame of
a water closet, F. on a reduced scale, wherein we indicate the position of our
preventor from "stopping up," or "blocking," apparatus A. as fixed in the outlet
pipe C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
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1. The application of
or
a preventor from "stopping up" blocking'
apparatus as described, for securing the passage of all usual deposits common to
water closets, in its transit from the closet bowl to the drains.
2. The "holding" or preventing from passing of "all" extraneous matter, or
substances which are foreign to the uses of water closets, and if passed would
inevitably stop up," or "block" the trap or pipes.
Dated this 8th day of May 1893.
CHARLES PENNEY.
JOSEPH THACKRAH.