IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES OR APPARATUS FOR FLUSHING URINALS AND OTHER PLACES AND REGULATING THE DISCHARGE OF THE FLUSHING LIQUID the said
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Codd Plumber 29 Heaver Road Battersea SW
for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES OR APPARATUS FOR
FLUSHING URINALS AND OTHER PLACES AND REGULATING THE DISCHARGE
OF THE FLUSHING LIQUID
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Codd, at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th February 1883.
ALFRED CODD Plumber 29 Heaver Road Battersea SW IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPLIANCES OR APPARATUS FOR FLUSHING URINALS AND OTHER PLACES AND
REGULATING THE DISCHARGE OF THE FLUSHING LIQUID.
My invention consists of an outer cistern made of galvanised iron or cast iron
or any other suitable material with an inner compartiment holding a requisite
quantity of water working in the former on pivots
The inner compartment is supplied in the ordinary manner by mean of a ball valvo
Affixed to the outer cistern is a lever extended and fitted with a swivel catch
which when the lever is pulled depresses a crank attached to either of the pivots
on which the inner compartment works and tilts the said compartiment
When in action, the inner compartment being tilted by means of the lever at
once discharges its contents into the outer compartment and thence into the flush
pipe to its destination
The prevention of Waste being the leading feature of the invention the
mechanism is so arranged that the inner compartment immediately after discharging
its contents returns to its original position. This transpires whether the lever is
held or not thus rendering it a perfect waste preventer.
My invention is also provided with an effective overflow which consists of a
bent nozzle fixed to the inner compartment which enters a lipped aperture in outer
compartment
The principles involved in the construction do not in any way restrict me to size
& shape
The apparatus is also adapted for flushing urinals or any place where a given
quantity of water is desirable

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alfred Codd in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th August
1883.
ALFRED CODD, Plumber, 29 Heaver Road Battersea, S.W. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPLIANCES OR APPARATUS FOR FLUSHING URINALS AND OTHER PLACES AND
REGULATING THE DISCHARGE OF THE FLUSHING LIQUID,"
My invention consists of an outer cistern made of galvanised sheet or cast
iron, or any other suitable material, to the bottom of which the flushing pipe
is fitted, leading to the urinal or other place to be flushed; this pipe is always
open.
Inside this cistern a smaller cistern is fitted, sustained-upon two pivots, upon
which it swings when operation.
The inner cistern is supplied with water in the ordinary manner by-means of a
ball valve, which turns off the supply when the inner cistern is sufficiently filled.
Affixed to the outer cistern is a lever with a balance weight, and fitted with a
swivel or pawl catch, for tilting and emptying the inner cistern into the outer
cistern.
An overflow pipe is fitted to the inner cistern, which protrudes therefrom and
overhangs a lipped aperture and small receptacle formed in or fitted to the outer
cistern, to allow such overflow to escape and drain away without passing into the
outer cistern.
When the lever is pulled, the swivel catch tilts or overbalances the inner cistern,
whereby the water contained therein is immediately emptied into the outer cistern,
and runs down the flushing pipe. The pawl of the lever at the same time leaves
the provision fitted to the inner cistern, which immediately returns to its
normal position for refilling. On the lever being released the lever also returns to
its normal position, ready for future use, the pawl enabling it to pass the provision
formed on the inner cistern, without disturbing the same.
When the inner cistern
returns to its normal position, after being tilted, it does so immediately, whether
the lever is continued to be held or not, thus preventing the possibility of wilful
or other waste.
The size and form of the apparatus may be varied according to the requirements.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
The manufacture and use of water-waste preventers, forming my improvements
in appliances or apparatus for flushing urinals and other places and regulating the
discharge of the flushing liquid, substantially as herein before described.
In witness whereof I the said Alfred Codd have hereunto set my hand and
seal this eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.
ALFRED CORD (1.9)
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