US1103141A

US1103141A - Closet-flushing apparatus.

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Publication number: US1103141A
Application number: US54332610A
Authority: US
Inventors: William Heap
Original assignee: CECIL R HEAP; William Heap & Sons
Current assignee: William Heap & Sons; CECIL R HEAP
Priority date: 1910-02-11
Filing date: 1910-02-11
Publication date: 1914-07-14
Anticipated expiration: 1931-07-14

Description

W. HEAP. CLOSET FLUSHING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11, 1910.

Patented Jul 14,1914.

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WILLIAM HEAI, OF GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN,

ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM I-IEAP & SONS.

0F GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN, A FIRM CONSIS'IING OF WILLIAM HEAP, WILLIAM LIONEL HEAP, AND CECIL R. HEAP.

CLOSET-FLUSI-IING APPARATUS.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM HEAP, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Haven, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Closet-Flushing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention has particular reference to the mechanism for actuating the flushing valve to discharge the tank contents, and consists in a construction including a rotary or rocking operating member positioned upon the tank exterior in proximity to its lower edge in a convenient position for use.

The invention further consists in the peculiar arrangement and combination of the various parts of the mechanism, and in certain details of construction, as will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings,--Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view illustrating an embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the lever operating or controlling member and its connector; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the tank.

In the drawings thus briefly described, A represents the flushing tank, of usual construction, provided with a discharge opening or outlet in its bottom wall, 13 is the usual flushing valve seat about the opening, and C the valve.

I) is the operating lever for lifting the valve from its seat to permit of the discharge of the tank contents. It is in the form of a balanced arm, fulcrumed intermediate its ends to the front wall of the tank near the top thereof, as plainly shown. At one end, the lever is provided with an inwardly extending ofiset a, to which is connected the lift wire or rod 1), which unites the lever with the flushing valve. The opposite end of the lever is weighted, as at 0, and is further provided with a stud d. The operating member for the lever is in the form of a handle E, positioned as shown in Fig. 3 upon the exterior of the tank near its lower edge and near one of the tank ends in Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 1914.

Application filed February 11, 19 10. Serial No. 543,326.

a position where it may be conveniently operated. The handle is rigidly attached to a stub shaft F, which projects through an opening in the front wall of the tank and carries rigidly attached at its inner end an arm G.

H represents an operative connection between the handle and the valve lever. I have here shown it in the form of a rigid bar formed with a loop 0 at its upper end engaging the stud d and terminating in a threaded section f at its lower end engaging a threaded bearing 9 swiveled upon the arm G.

The manner of operation of the valveactuating means is obvious. Upon movement of the handle section in either direction, the main operating lever is shifted and the valve lifted from 1ts seat. To maintain the handle section in the desired depending vertical position, as indicated in Fig. 2, I have provided, in addition to the balanced lever, a counterweight for the valve. I designates the counterweight referred to, which I preferably apply to the operating member E, the connection being made directly with the rotary arm G, as shown in Fig. 2.

Furthermore, to allow of the expansion and contraction of the tank, I have provided not only means for adjusting the connection between the handle member and the valve, but also a lost motion connection that will serve to take up any slight variances in the tank. The adjustment is effected through the threaded end 1 and its bearing 9, while the play is obtained through the link or eye 6.

What I claim as my invention is,-

In a closet flushing mechanism, the combination with'the tank, of a valve operating lever arranged therewithin and fulcrumed intermediate its end upon one side of the tank interior adjacent the top thereof, a valve, a connection between one end of said lever and said valve, a rock shaft journaled in said side wall of the tank adjacent the bottom of the tank and arranged upon the opposite side of the fulcrum of the lever from the connection of the latter With the valve, said rock shaft having portions extending Within and Without the tank, an arm secured to the portion of therockshaft Within the tank, a handle arranged Without the tank and connected to the rock shaft, a rod connecting saidarm and the other end of said lever having a lost motion connection With the one and adjustable connection WILLIAM HEAP. l/Vitnesses: I

H. R. G. MIMITT, ADDIE GRANT.

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