US1332660A - Water-closet installation - Google Patents

Description

A. F. CURTIN.

WATER CLOSET INSTALLATION.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 29, 1917.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

ll jtness ANDREW F. GUR'IIN, F MEDFORID, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

WATER-CLOSET INSTALLATION.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

Application filed August 29, 1917. Serial No. 188,751.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, ANDREW F. CURTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Medford, in the county of MiddleseX and State of Massachusetts, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Water-Closet Installations; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to an improvement in water closet installations. The object of the invention is to produce a new form of installation of such construction that the tank is capable of being supported by the bowl, and serving to cover and conceal the connections between the tank and the bowl and the water connections to the tank. To these ends the invention consists in the installation hereinafter described and particularly defined in the claims. 7 V

In the accompanying; drawings illustrating the preferred form of the invention Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tank, Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 a sectional side elevation.

The tank illustrated in the drawing is made of porcelain or other material, and consists of the tank proper 1 having the back wall 2, side walls 3, front wall 4 and the bottom 5 of the usual or any preferred form. The side and front walls of the tank are continued downwardly below the bottom or floor of the tank to form an apron 6, which is extended downwardly sufiiciently below the bottom of the tank to cover and conceal the inlet or supply pipe 7, the vent pipe 8 and the flush pipe 9 extending from the bottom of the tank to the bowl. The middle or center portion 10 of the apron rests upon the bowl 11. This center portion of the apron is shown as longer than the remainder of the apron and as wide enough to cover both the vent and the flush pipe whether the vent be made upon the one or the other side of the flush pipe. This center portion 10 of the apron forms a firm support for the tank.

It is to be observed that the appearance of the tank commends it by reason of its plainness and simplicity. To the observer it is not apparent whether the water inlet be through the bottom of the tank or through the back wall of the tank. An important feature of the construction is that by virtue of which the tank is supported on the bowl by means of the center portion of the apron. The support of a tank is a matter that has received much attention from constructors, and a wide variety of more or less complicated and ingenious contrivances have been got up in the endeavor to produce a satisfactory tank support. All such difficulty is eliminated by the tank of the present invention because its entire weight is supported upon the bowl. All that is necessary is to provide some simple means for holding it from lateral movement and from tippingoutward from the wall at the top. Such devices are simple in the extreme and the construction lends itself to use with ease to provide a firm, solid support for the tank.

The apron forms a space of ample size to permit the making of proper connections for the flush pipe with the tank and with the bowl, and as the flush pipe is not visible itcan be of plain brass or other material unnickeled, and unprotected by porcelain cover, as the apron protects it from splashings from the closet. The position of the local vent in the wall varies with different installations, either by reason of the soil, or ventilating pipes, or for other reasons, so

it is not always possible to run the ventpipe straight back fro-m the closet, nor to any other definite place, as to the right or to the left or at a certain distance from the center on either side. This has heretofore required closet bowls to be made with right, left and center vents in order that the vent pipe might be properly connected with the ventilating shaft. The present invention permits carrying the vent pipe from the bowl straight back or to the right or to the left as the position of the local vent in the wall requires. In the case in which the local vent in the wall is central a single, plain elbow may be used. In case it is located at the right or at the left a pair of slip elbows is all that is necessary to make the proper connection, and wholly irrespective of the distance at which the vent in the wall is located at either side. Whatever form of vent pipe is used, whether straight, right or left, it is fully protected by the apron and only one style of bowl is required for any installation. Furthermore, the supply pipe may come from the wall anywhere within the space covered by the apron and lead to materials necessary to be employed for these connections, it facilitates installation because irregularity of'appearance is immaterial, and the construction particularly commends itself to dealers in plumbing supplies because it reduces the numberv of I forms of closets necessary to be carried in stock. This invention, therefore, commends itself to the manufacturer because of the reduced stock necessary to be carried; it commends itself to the plumber by reason of the facility of installation; it commends itself to the purchaser byreason of its reduced cost, and it commends itself, to the userby reason of its plain, neat and sanitary appearance.

Viewed in its broader aspects, the invention contemplates providing a porcelain water closet tank with a connection concealing apron on itslower edge, whether such tank-supporting apron be of uniforn'r depth throughout the perimeter of the tank or whether it extends to different depths at different portions thereof, and; irrespective of whether it extends around the, entire periphery of the tank or whether it extends only around a part thereof, as illustrated in the drawings, wherein the depending connection concealing apron is of uniform depth except at center, where it is longer, or deeperin order to reduce the apparent vertical height of the tank.

The word porcelain in the claim is intended asa word of description and not of limitation, for it is apparent that, as above suggested, the tank may be made of other material.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

l. A water closetinstallation comprising a bowl having a rearwardly extended portion of less width than the body portion of the bowlQa porcelain tank and connec ions between the tank; and bowl, the tank having an apron depending from the lower, end

thereof, one, portion of; which is extended downwardlyv beyond the other portions and rests upon said-rearward extension of the bowl so that the weight of the tank is supported solely by the bowl.

2. A water closet'installation comprising a bowl; having a rearwardly extended por- 'tion, the tank. having vthe body portion thereof spaced; some distance, above the bowl and connections without the tank betweeen the bottom thereoffand; the. bowl, the, tank having a depending apron nesting upon said rearwa rdly extendingportion arranged so that the weight of the tank is supported solely by the bowl. 7

ANDREW F. CURTIN.

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