US357253A - Half to joseph bayldon taylob - Google Patents

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(No Mode1.)` YJ. H. WATSON.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. WATSON, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, AS'SIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOSEPH BAYLDON TAYLOR, OF SAME PLAGE.

EARTH-CLOSET.,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,253, dated February 8, 188.7.

Application filed May 2B, 1886. Serial No. 203,516. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, JOHN HENRY WATsoN, of the cityv of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, patternmaker, have invented an Improvement in Earth-Closets, of which the followingisa speciication. l

The inventionrelates to that class of earth closets orcommodes in which the deodori'zing material is discharged from a hopper containing it onto the excrement by the upward movement of the seat when the party seated thereon rises therefrom; and the object of the invention is to -insure that the deodorizing material shall be thrown onto the excremen't, no matter how slowly or quietly the party may rise from the seat; and it consists, essentially, in providing a device which will hold the deodorizing-material hopper in such a position `that when the device is.` removed from the hopper it will spring forward with a jerk' sufficiently to throw the required quantity of deodorizing material upon the excrement, the said device being designed to move away from the hopper instantaneously, no matter how slowly the seat of the closet may be permitted to rise.

In the drawings, Figure l represents acommode, a portion of the seat being vbroken away to exhibit the mechanism connected with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side View of the hopper and mechanism for operating the same. A represents a hopper designed to contain the necessary deodorizing material. This hopper is pivoted at a, and is provided with a weight, B, which will cause the hopper A to rock on its pivot when not otherwise held.

C is a bar, pivoted at b and connected to the spring D, as shown. Y

'VhenA the seat E is pressed down, the hopper A is pressed back by the pressure of the roller d, secured to the under side of thevseat. Vhen thus held back, the arm e, extending from the hopper A, is carried clear of the'bar C, the inner end of which baris simultaneously forced up by the downward movement Vof the seat E, which, as will be seen, presses down the spring D, so as to carry with it the outer end of the bar C, the inner end of which, as stated, being brought up to a point in front of the arm e. When the weight of the party is removed fromv the seat E, the said seat is designed to move upwardly in the ordinary way, and the roller d is moved clear of the hopper A, and as the seat E continues to rise it leaves the spring D clear to act, permitting it to draw up the outer end of the bar C, the inner end of which is thus drawn down away from the arm e, when the weight B causes the hopper A to rock on its pivot a with a jerking action, thereby causing the deodorizing material in the hopper to be thrown I from its spout f upon the excrement within the pail F. 4

kIt will be ,understood that instead of the weight B a spring might readily be applied to operate the hopper A, and it will also be understood that instead of the spring D other substitutes might readily be supplied by which the pivoted bar C will be carried .clear of the hopper A, 'so as to permit it to act in the manner described, the essential feature in my invention being an arrangement by which the roller d shall be entirely clear of thehopper A before the said hopper is permitted to be acted upon by its weight or spring.

What I claim as my inventionisl. .The combination, with'the pivoted hopper and seat, of a spring-actuated bar, substantially as described, engaging said hopper when the seat is held down, and constructed to be released by the upward movement of said seat, to entirely disengage the hopper and p ermit the same to suddenly ilip forward, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the pivoted hopper and hingedseat, of the spring D, arranged beneath, in direct contact with, and operated by said seat, and the pivoted bar C, connected with said spring, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In an earth-closet, the combination, with the pivoted hopper A, provided with aweight, B, and the hinged seat E, of the bar e, attached to said hopper, the pivoted bar C, carrying a roller engaging said bar, and the y spring D, arlanged beneath and operated by hopper, with one end engaging said bar, subthe seat and connected with said pvoted bar stantially as and for the purpose speeied.

C, substantialy as and for the purpose speo- Toronto, May 20, 1886. ed.

5 4. The combination, with the hopper piv- JOHN H XVATSON' oted ab its top, of the bar e, attached to the In presence of rear of said hopper, and the spring-actuated CHARLES C. BALDWIN, bar C, pivoted near its center beneath said CHAS. H. RICHES.

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