IMPROVEMENTS IN SANITARY RECEPTACLES
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I JOSEPH HEYS of 76 Hillgate Street Hurst Brook Ashton under Lyne in the
County of Lancaster Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector do hereby declare the nature
of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SANITARY RECEPTACLES" 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 this Invention is the construction of a pail or receptacle by means
of which the liquid portion may be more effectually separated than has hitherto
been practicable from the solid portion of the foecal or other contents of such pails
or receptacles and thus be allowed to fall or run away into the drain.
And in order that this my said Invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a Drawing upon which
Fig. 1 is a plan of my improved sanitary receptacle shewing also my improved
mode of connecting the same to the drain, and Fig. 2 is a front sectional view of
Fig. 1 upon the line a-b.
In carrying out my Invention I employ a vessel or receptacle constructed of
sheet metal or of wood or of suitable material and in the centre of the bottom b of
this receptacle I form an orifice c opening into a tail piece & which serves to guide
the liquid directly into the corresponding opening e formed through the stone
earthenware tile or other base f.
From the orifice c radiate one or more grooves g which are formed in the upper
surface of the bottom b and are covered with a perforated inverted casing or
trough which perforated casing is continued up the sides of the receptacle as
illustrated. It will be evident that this arrangement of the perforated casing
permits the liquid portion of the contents of the receptacle to drain off and escape
however high such contents may rise inside the receptacle and that the tail piece d
ensures the liquid falling direct into the drain pipe instead of spreading over the
upper surface of the base.
The base is formed with a recess a little larger than the bottom rim of the
receptacle so that such recess forms a guide for ensuring the receptacle being
placed in correct position and with the one orifice over the other.
It is preferred that this base shall be formed with a tail piece j on the underside
as illustrated to enter the mouth or socket of the drain pipe k or the bottom side
of the base surrounding the opening e may be "throated" after the manner of
treating the underside of a window sill to ensure the liquid entering the drain add
prevent the same travelling under the base and so impregnating the brick work or
other surface of the ground.

page_text: In conclusion I would observe that I am aware that perforated plates forming
passages in similar receptacles have been used by Robert Weare as specified by
him in Letters Patent No. 2192 and dated 3rd June 1879 and more recently by
John Turner and James Robertshaw in Letters Patent No. 1429 and dated
A.D. 1881 and therefore I make no claim to such passages as is specified but what
I consider novel and thus desire to secure by Letters Patent is:
1* The construction of sanitary receptacles in which the perforated passages
are continued up to and gathered into the one central orifice formed in the bottom
of the receptacle substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated on the accompanying Drawing.
2nd The employment of a recessed base in conjunction with sanitary receptacles
whereby the receptacle is guided into position and the orifices are brought into
correspondence substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the
accompanying Drawing.