Improvements in Portable Water Closets or Latrines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd July, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Water Closets or Latrines.
I ANDRE CASSARD of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris, in the republic of France,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Tho object of this invention is to provide portable water closets or latrines for use at
public or other fêtes, racecourses, exhibitions, and other places, where the. public
temporarily congregate for amusement.
In carrying out my invention, I provide a vehicle of convenient size, constructed of
an ornamental character, and provided with means for obtaining thorough ventilation.
Along one side of this vehicle I arrange a series of compartments provided with
suitable pans and seats. The pans are provided with shoots, which extend through the
floor of the vehicle, which discharge the forces etc. into suitable tubs standing on the
ground below them, or into a trough supported in any convenient manner from
the vehicle.
As the floor of the vehicle will be some distance above the ground I provide panels
which are attached to the body of the vehicle, and extend to the ground. 1 also
provide a flight or flights of steps by which the floor may be reached.
Doors may be placed at either end, or on one side of the vehicle.
When water closets are used, I prefer to employ the trough, which will be connected
with a cesspool or a sewer in any convenient manner, means being provided to prevent
the escape of sewer gas into the vehicle.
The water may be obtained direct from the main, or from tanks suitably placed to
obtain a flush in the pan. The trough is also connected to the water supply for the
same purpose. A syphon at the discharge ond of the trough ensures a certain height
of water being always retained in the trough.
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¡NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Water Closets or Latrines.
I, ANDRÉ CASSARD, of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris in the Republic of France,
Manufacturer, 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 the present invention is to provide portable water closets or latrines
for use at public or other fêtes, race-courses, exhibitions, or other places where the
public temporarily congregate for amusement.
In carrying out my invention, I provide a vehicle of convenient size, constructed of
an ornamental character, and provided with means for obtaining thorough ventilation.
Along one side of this vehicle, I arrange a series of compartments, provided with
suitable pans and seats. The pans are provided with shutes which extend through the
floor of the vehicle, which discharge the forces etc. into suitable tubs standing on the
ground below them, or into a trough supported in any convenient manner from
the vehicle.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a front view of a portable latrine mounted
on carriage wheels, constructed according to my invention, and arranged for travelling.
Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of a latrine, as arranged for use, and Fig. 3 is a
front view of the same; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 5 is a similar
section of a portable water closet, as modified for use in the vicinity of sewers or drains,
and Fig. 6 represents a sectional plan view.

page_text: The vehicle is light and elegant, but is solidly built, and it is provided with
windows a, a, on all sides. Above these windows are openings bb, fitted with slats or
louvres for ensuring a free circulation of air in the interior of the vehicle.
Two ventilators d, placed upon the roof of the vehicle, and the casements c c at the
end of the passage, complete the arrangements for the perfect ventilation of the
interior.
The ventilation of the space below the vehicle, where the tubs are placed, is
equally ensured by four ventilating pipes f. f, placed at the four corners of the vehicle,
and reaching from below above the roof.
The vehicle may contain a convenient number of closets, as, for example, six, as
shewn in the drawings, which are of suitable dimensions, and are placed along one
side.
The dimensions of the separating partitions are in accordanco with those of the
closets. Each seat is formed with a hole i for receiving a pan of any approved
system, and a round hole is pierced through the floor under each seat to allow of the
passage of the lower end of the pan, below which, and fixed to the floor, is a funnel n,
a shute m, and a slide of galvanized sheet iron (fig. 2).
Below these three accessories, is placed the tub, also of galvanized sheet iron; this
tub rests in a tray h, of galvanized sheet iron, so that the overflow of liquid about the
ground, will be obviated.
The passage A of the carriage extends from end to end, and is of any convenient
width. Two sliding doors g, g¹ are placed in the middle of the side of the vehicle, to
permit of entrance to the closets.
A double stair k, with a landing, gives access to the public. This double stair and
landing may be dismounted and detached from the vehicle, when moving from place
to place. Or tho entrance to the vehicle may be at the ends.
Over the double doors, is placed a moveable awning e, to which are hung a pair of
curtains, intended to mask the entrance to the vehicle; these curtains fall over the
handrail of the landing k.
All the windows of the vehicle are of ground glass, and they are protected at night
by means of sheet iron shutters secured by buttons. The roof is of wood, covered with
zinc, and it is provided with two ventilators d. d, and with three lanterns ; having
reflectors such as those employed for lighting railway carriages. The vehicle is
mounted upon wheels placed a suitable distance apart, to permit of the ready insertion
and removal of the tubs l.
The lower part of the carriage is closed in by panels o, solidly constructed; and
these panels are provided with doors to permit of the removal of full tubs and their
replacement by empty tubs.
In setting up the vehicle, the wheels are scotched with cast iron wedges, and the
vehicle resting upon the wheels and springs, and also on frames fixed inside the panels,
is further supported by four stout wooden posts, placed at the four corners of the
vehicle.
For travelling, the tubs 1, full or empty, are removed, and exchanged for fresh ones,
which are placed in the passage of the vehicle, with the panels, steps, and other
accessories; these serve to counterbalance the weight of the pans, and thus maintain
the vehicle in equilibrium.
For use in connection with sewers, the portablo water closet is constructed in
the same way as above described, the tubs l, however, being replaced by a pipe
or covered trough (fig. 5), for conveying the foeces to the sewer. A supply of
water to the pans is desirable, in this case, for carrying away the focal matters.
The necessary supply of water to the pan may be effected by pulling up the handle s
on the right of the seat; the supply being obtained from a pipe y, Fig. 5,
concealed under the seats, and running from end to end of the vehicle. The interior
of the closets, that is to say, the space occupied by each seat, is lined with thin sheet
load, to ensure cleanliness.
The piper, of galvanized sheet iron, and of suitable dimensions, is placed horizontally
below the floor of the vehicle, outside the wheels, and beneath the seats; one end

page_text: terminates in a neck, to which is joined the syphon Z, which connects it with the
sewer; the opposito end is provided with a tap connected by a lead pipe to any
convenient water supply. Short tubes ., in number equal to the number of
seats, are rivetted to the main pipe or cover of the trough r, so that the inside of that
pipe is perfectly clear throughout its length, and offers no obstruction to the passage
of any solid maiter or paper. The short tubes, connect with the shutes
æ under
the floor of the vehicle, and they are each provided with a collar
U, of galvanized sheet
iron. The lower extremities of the shutes c, being enclosed for a certain length in
the tubes 2, z, the collars carried by these latter close them hermetically.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is: --
1. A portable water closet or latrine, consisting of a vehicle on wheels, divided into
compartiments provided with scats and pans, cach pan discharging into a separate
receptacle, or a common receptacle, as set forth.
2. The arrangement of portable water closets or latrines, that may be utilized by
the public as soon as they are placed in position, as shown and described.
11:51 d of T..., 1980
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for tho Applicant.