Automatic Disinfecting Apparatus for Seats of Closets and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Automatic Disinfecting Apparatus for Seats of Closets and the like.
I FRITZ ROSE of 3 Holstenplatz Hamburg in the Empire of Germany
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 :-
This invention for automatic disinfecting apparatus for seats of closets and the
like has for its object to effect the permanent and automatic disinfection of those
parts of closets which are brought into direct contact with the human body and by
which therefore infectious diseases may be spread. This effect is most easily caused,
as is proved by the Public Health officials by the seats of closets especially during
epidemics; and consists in the arrangement of large hollow bodies, preferably for
this purpose made of baked porous clay which is partly glazed and partly unglazed
which can be filled with a disinfecting fluid through an opening provided with a
stopper, and used as a seat or addition to the seat of closets and the like.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings :-
Figures 1 and 2 are section and plan respectively of a closet seat constructed
according to this invention and Figures 3 and 4 and Figures 5 and 6 are similar
views to Figures 1 and 2 showing slightly modified construction. Figures 7 and 8
show the front view and vertical section of a workshop closet.
The seats for ordinary closets either project above the seat frame as in Figure 1
or are level with the upper part as in Figure 3. In stand out closets the seat is
formed of an elliptical hollow body as shown in Figure 5 and for a workshop closet
a hollow chamber runs along the top of the riser as shown in Figure 8 and is made
of clay.
In all the different styles shown the hollow space to receive the disinfecting fluid
is marked a. bare diaphragms which facilitate the rise of the liquid. All those
parts of the hollow bodies which are not to be permeated by the liquid are glazed,
whilst on the contrary those parts which most easily come into contact with the
humanbody as for example the upper surface and upper part of the opening in the
seat present the raw porous material to be impregnated with the fluid which
appears on the corresponding surfaces in the form of mist.
According to the porosity and absorbtive power of the material the unglazed
surfaces of the seats will be more or less permeated by the fluid.
The filling of the hollow spaces with disinfecting fluid is effected through
openings c which are provided with stoppers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare that what I
claim is :-
A seat for closets and the like consisting of a hollow body of a strong porous
substance at the parts coming in contact with the user as for example clay which
absorbs disinfecting fluid from the hollow space underneath and is thus automatically
and permanently disinfected.
Deted this 14th day of November 1892.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.