US1119210A - Water-closet. - Google Patents

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F. WEINRICH.

WATER CLOSET.

APPLICATION TILED MAR.11, 1014.

Patented Dec. 1. 1914..

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

laden/01 F. WEINRICH.

WATER CLOSET.

APPLICATION rum) MAR.11,1914.

1 1 1 9,2 1 O. Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

FRANK WEINRICH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO BRUNSWICK-BALKE- COLLENDEB CO., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

WATEBrCLOSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK WEINRICH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water- Closets; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheets of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates generally to improvements in a water closet, and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate my said invention more fully, Figure 1 is a longitudinal, vertical section of a water closet bowl, in which my invention is incorporated. Fig. 2 is a like section of a fragment of said bowl on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a plan of my invention. Fig. 4 is a vertical section in the direction of the arrow pointers in line 4-4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of a detail of construction.

Like parts are indicated by corresponding symbols or characters of reference in all the figures of the drawings.

In many municipalities ordinances have been enacted providing that the seats proper on water closet bowls in public places must be maintained in a position considerably away from contact with the bowls when not,

in use, so that a free circulation of air between the top of the bowl and bottom face of the seat may take place.

One of the objects of my invention, there fore, is the production of a counterbalanced seat of new and novel construction, whereby the seat may be maintained at any predetermined distance from the bowl when not in use, there being incorporated therewith adjustable devices whereby the height of the seat from the bowl may be varied.

Another object of my invention is the provision of hinging devices for the seat which have no contact with nor fastening to the exterior of the bowl whatever, so that 001'- rosion of these elementsis prevented.

Still another object of my invention is the r f incorporation of means in connection with the hinging devices, so coacting, that when a person arises from the seat, the latter will swing up to a higher point than its normal position, and cause to be actuated, through suitable media, the outlet of a flushing tank for the closet how].

To attain these results I now refer to the drawings in which- A designates a water closet bowl of a general type of construction, usually made from porcelain, and Bthe siphon outlet therefor. (l is the upper rim of said bowl, and D an annular water passage therein, there being a plurality of downwardly extending openings 'F, whereby flushing water passin through said passage D may enter said bowl and flush the same.

Directly behind the bowl A proper and located above the siphon outlet B there is an essentially rectangular chamber E formed by the top wall of the siphon outlet, the back wall of the bowl proper, and by side walls 1 and 2, a rear wall 3, and a top wall t, the latter being of the same height as the top face of the bowl rim C. In the said top wall is formed a water passage 5 communieating with the passage D in the bowl rim C. Water from a typical flush tank having a typical flush valve is conveyed to water pas- .Takge 5 through an upright flush pipe 6 or the The flush tank and valve above mentioned may be of any of the many types on the market and for that reason are not shown in the drawings.

It is to be understood that the bowl proper, the siphon outlet walls, and the walls for the chamber E are integrally formed by the usual processes of pottery work for this class of goods.

Piercing the top wall 4 of chamber E, on either side of the water passage 5 and communicating with chamber E are circular openings 10 and 10'. A short distance to the rear of these openings and in alinement therewith, there are two other openlugs for the rece tion of eye bolts 11 and 11, the heads 0 which bolts are located within chamber E as seen in Fig. 2; nuts 12 and 12" being employed to rigidly maintain said bolts in position; Pivoted to and depending from said bolts are hinge memhers L, each comprising depending legs 13 and 13* and a connecting bar 14:. At the lower ends of these legs are located bosses with set screws 16 and 16, and sai' arcuate openings therein are provided for the reception and passage t erethrough oi arouate rods 17 and 17. These rods are bent to a semicircle to a radius having its center in the pivotal centers of the hinge members IA, it heing now understood that the openings 10 and 10 through the top 4 are pro-- duced on a like radius and adapted for the free passage therethrough of one end of each of the rods 17 and 17, which said ends are firmly embedded in a suitable closet seat S. lhe opposite ends of said rods terminate in a nose 18 for purposes hereinafterdescribed, and on said rods loetween leg 13 and nose 18' are slidahle counterwoights 19 (one on each rod) which are held in any desired position on said rods by set screws 20.

lit will now be observed that by a proper positioning of the counterweights 19 on the rods 3.? and 17 any desired normal angularity between the bottom face of the seat S and the top face C of the rim-of the loowl'A, may he estalolished while the seat is at rest. And, it will he understood that when the seat is depressed to the rim or": the bowl, as when a person is seated thereon, the counter weights have shifted to a position in which they will impart a much greater upward force to said seat when a person arises therefrom, and cause said seat to swing to a much higher position than normal, otter which the same will oscillate until itcomes to rest at the normal angularity.

Adjacent the flush pipe 6 hereinhefore reterred to, there is a small upwardly entending tuhe 21 which reaches to within a short distance of the valve handle of a tank flushing valve (not shown). The said tube has its lower end in contact with top 4, and is in alinement with an opening "22 passing through said top. Axially helow opening 22 and tired to the underside of the top 1- is located a short, open ended, tube 23, having a longitudinal slot 24 at the upper end thereof. Adapted to freely slide within this tuloe is located small cylindrical weight 25 to which is attached a light wire 26, the upper end. oi which is fastened to the flush tank valve (not shown) alreadyreit'erred to.

Said weight 25 is of sufiicient weight only 7 to maintain a very slight tension in wire 26; enough only to tauten said wire, in fact. The 25 has a nose 2? projecting through. slot 24 of tube which nose at its outer extremity apivoted dog 28. 'lhe nose 18 of the arcuate hinge rods It? arrears and 17 is ada ted to engage said dog, which is so arrange" as to be rigid with said projection 27, when downward pressure is applied, while. upon application of upward "force the dog will yield thereto;

The operation of the flushing elements of my invention may now be described as follows, it; being assumed that flush pipe 6 and flush-valve wire 26 are properly connected to a suitable flush tank and its valve, respectively: By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that seat S is in its normal position while at 1 rest with the nose 18 practically in contact with the-upper face of dog 28. When the seat. is depressed, as under the weight of a person seated thereon, the nose l8 swings upwardly and away from said dog, while counter-Weights 19 assume a position toexert a greater upward force upon the seat when the weight is removed therefrom, which will cause said seat to swing into approximately the position shown in Fig. 1. When the seat swings up, the nose strikes the dog 28, and forces it, together with the weight 25 and wire 26 downwardly, thereby opening the tank flush valve. As the seat continues its upward movement the nose 18 will pass fromengagement with the dog 28 by reason of the arcuate, downward path traveled by said nose; and,""when the seat returns to its normal position, the nose 18 will, in its upward-journey, engage the lower face of the dog 28' and cause the some to swivel about its pivot, thereby permitting the nose to easily understood. en the water in the flush tanlris exhausted, the weight of the valve therein will raise'the weight 25 hack to its original position.

While I have herein disclosed the pre-' ferred mode of practising my invention, ll desire it understood that l may make such changes and alterations as would suggest themselves to those skilled in the art and permitted under the doctrine of mechanical equivalents. a 7

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim new and desire to secure to myself by Letters l atent of the United States 2- l. A water closet comprising, in combinatron, a bowl, a seat superimposed thereon, rearwardly depending arcuate rods tired to saidseat and oscillatahly suspended from said bowl, and means in connection with said rods whereby a predetermined anguiarity hetwe u said seat and said howl is maintained while said seat is rest.

2. A water closet comprising, in combination, a bowl, a seat superimposed thereon,

ass by in a manner;

rearwardly depending arcuate rods fined to said seat and oscillatahly suspended from said howl, means in connection with said rods whereby a predetermined angularity between said seat and howl is mainma am in tained while said seat is at rest, and means whereby said angularity of rest may be varied.

3. A water closet comprising, in combination, a bowl a seat superimposed thereon, rearwardly depending arcuate rods fixed to said seat and oscillatably suspended from said bowl, means in connection with said rods whereby a predetermined angularity between said seat and said bowl is maintained while said seat is at rest, and a flush valve 0 crating device adjacent the end of said r s adapted to be tripped by said rods.

4. A water closet comprising, in combination, a bowl, and an auxiliary chamber, a seat superimposed on said bowl, arcuate rods fixed to said seat extending into said chamber, and oscillatably mounted therein, and means in connection with said rods whereby a predetermined angularity between said seat and said bowl is maintained while said seat is at rest.

5. A water closet comprising, in combination, a bowl, and an auxiliary chamber, a seat superimposed on said bowl, arcuate rods fixed to said seat, extending into said chamber, and oscillatably mounted therein, and means in connection with'said rods whereby a predetermined angularity between said seat and said bowl is maintained while said seat :is at rest, and means whereby said angularity of rest may be varied.

6. A water closet comprising, in combination, a bowl, and an auxiliary chamber, a seat superimposed on said owl, arcuate rods fixed to said seat, extending into said chamber, and oscillatably mounted therein at the radial center of said arc, and means in connection with said rods whereby a predetermined angularity between said seat and said bowl is maintained while said seat is at rest.

7. A water closet comprising, in combination, a bowl, and an auxiliary chamber, a seat superimpwed on said bowl, arcuate rods fixed to said seat, extending into said chamber, and oscillatably mounted therein at the radial center of said are, means in connection with said rods whereby a. predetermined angularity between said seat and said bowl is maintained while said seat is at rest, and means whereby said angularity of rest may be varied.

8. A water closet comprising, in combination, a bowl, and an auxiliary chamber, a seat su erimposed on said bowl, and arouate rod fixed to said seat, extending into said chamber, and oscillatably mounted therein, a nose at. the inner ends of said rods, and a flush valve operating device in said chamber adapted to be tripped by said nose.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK WEINRIOH.

W. 0. Smart.

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