Improvements in Dry Earth Closets.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Mar, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dry Earth Closets.
We WILLIAM CONGREVE and RICHARD BROWNSWORD, of 34 & 36 Lower Hillgate,
Stockport in the County of Cheshire, Ironmongers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows
Thus invention relates to improvements in dry earth closets and has for its object to
provide means whereby distribution of the ashes or disinfectant onto the excrement
can be effected more readily, uniformly, and reliably than heretofore has been the
case
The invention consists in the use and application of a loaded valve inside a suitable
hopper, such valve being opened by either a pull or seat action, and in forming the
lower extremity of the conduit of the said hopper, with a slot like spout so as to project
the ashes or disinfectant onto the excrement in a spiny or thin layer.
The said hopper we may either fix inside or outside the closet at a level above the
seat.
The loaded valve which is employed inside the hopper is formed with a conical face,
the upper extremity of the conduit forming its seating
The said valve is suitably connected to one end of a rocking lever, the other end
having a chain attached by means of which the valve can be opened or the respective
end of the lever by suitable connections may be caused to be acted upon by the closet
seat
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dry Earth Closets.
We WILLIAM CONGREVE and RICHARD BROWNSWORD, of 34 & 36, Lower Hillgate,
Stockport, in the County of Cheshire, Ironmongers, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in dry earth closets and has for its object to
provide means whereby distribution of the ashes or disinfectant onto the excrement
can be effected more readily, uniformly, and reliably than heretofore has been the
case
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood, we have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures
Fig 1 is a sectional front view and Fig. 2 a sectional side view showing our invention
applied to a dry earth closet with pail.
In carrying out our invention the improvements consist in the use and application
of a loaded valve a inside a suitable hopper b, having a conduit c, such valve a being
opened or raised by either a pull or seat action, and in forming the lower extremity of
the conduit c of the said hopper b, with a slot like spout or spreader d, situated
underneath the closet seat f so as to project the ashes or disinfectant onto the excrement
in the pail in a spray or thin layer
b
The said hopper 6 which can be of any convenient shape, we may either fix inside
the closet e to the back thereof, as shown in the a inexed drawing, or outside the same,
where desirable, at a level above the closet seat f.

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The loaded valve a is employed to slide in a tube or casing 9, attached to the inside
of the hopper band is formed with a conical face a¹, the upper extremity of the
conduit C, or the narrow part or outlet of the hopper forming its seating el, there
being an open space h left between the latter and the lower extremity of the tube or
casing g so as to permit the ashes or disinfectant of entering the conduit c, on the
loaded valve a being raised.
The loaded valve a is suitably connected to one end of a rocking lever i, preferably
by means of a rod k and chain link 1, the other end having a chain m provided with a
handle m' attached, by means of which the loaded valve a can be raised; or the
respective end of the lever 1, by suitable connections, may be caused to be acted upon
by the closet seat f, or otherwise as shown in dotted lines and as may be found most
convenient
1
Having now particularly described and ascertained the
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we
claim, is
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"In dry earth closets."
nature of this inven
declare that what we
1st. The loaded valve a, employed inside the hopper b, raised and lowered by a pull
or seat action and adapted to open and close the outlet e¹ of the hopper b, substantially
as and for the purpose specified.
2nd The combination with the outlet e¹ of the hopper b, specified in the preceding
claim, of a conduit c, the lower extremity of which is formed with a slot like spout or
spreader d, substantially as and for the purpose specified
Dated this 5th day of February 1890.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.