US1521722A

US1521722A - Flushing container for car lavatories

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Publication number: US1521722A
Application number: US359845A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jr Joe Smith; Alfred W Davis
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-02-18
Filing date: 1920-02-18
Publication date: 1925-01-06
Anticipated expiration: 1942-01-06

Description

Jan. 6. 25' J.'SMITH, JR, ET AL FLUSHING CONTAINER FOR CAR LAVATORIES Filed Feb. 1 8,' 1920 4 Patented Jan. 6, 1925.,

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r g l i JOE SMITH, .13., AND ALFRED w. Davis, or JACKSONVILLE, rnoa rnn.

FLUSHING- CONTAINER FOB CAB LAVATORIES.

Application filed February 18, 1920. Serial No. 359,845.

To all whom 7125 may concern:

Be it known that we, J on SMITH, J1'., and ALFRED l/V. DAVIS, citizens of the United States, residing at Jacksonville, in the county of Duval and State of Florida, have .invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Flushing Containers for Car Lava tories; and we 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.

This invention relates to an improved lavatory for use in connection with a car of the railway day coach or Pullman type and one object of the invention is to provide a lavatory so constructed that a receptacle forming part of the same may be left open for immediate drainage when the train is under way and which may be closed when the train is approaching a station or still within the yard limits.

At the present time it is customary for the train porter to lock the doors of the wash rooms when the train is approaching the station and to leave them locked until the train has left the station and passed out of the yard limits. This causes a great deal of inconvenience.

With this improved device the receptacle may be closed at the outlet and then partially flooded and it will not be necessary to lock the doors of the wash room due to the fact that any drainage from the wash room will be held in the receptacle and the receptacle will not be drained until the train has passed out of the yard limits.

This device is further soconstruoted that the closure of the receptacle may be operated either from the wash room or from a point outside the wash room.

This invention is illustrated in the accom; panying drawing, wherein:

The figure shows my improvement in side ply of a cleansing medium to the receptacle.

This receptacle is comparatively large and it will thus be seen thata train may remain in a station for a relatively long length of time without it being necessary to empty the receptacle.

In order that the outlet or discharge pipe 23, when the train is approaching a station, may be closed, a stopper 25 has been provided which is operable by an arm or lever 26 adapted to be locked in its different positions to a quadrant 42.

Said stopper 25 may be carried by a short rod 25 operable on an inclined plane through suitable guide'bearings 26 formed on suspending arms 26 depending from the flooring 11 to either side of the lever 26. A sliding pin and slot connection 26 is formed between the lower end of the depending lever 26 andthe rod 25 for the stopper 25, whereby the stopper 25 may be readily moved toward or away from the outlet or discharge pipe 23.

hen in use the device is assembled as shown with the receptacle 19 positioned beneath the car and between the trucks. When a train is travelling from one station to another along the track the plug or stopper will be in the position shown thus permitting free passage through and out of the receptacle 19. When the train is approaching a station the stopper or plug will be moved to close the outlet pipe 23 through the use of lever 26. As this receptacle will hold from ten to fifty gallons according to the size of the receptacle it will readily be seen'that the receptacle may be kept closed for a comparatively long length of time and therefore it will not be necessary to close the wash rooms while the train is in the sta tion. Waste water from the wash room will flow through the pipe 18 into the re? ceptacle and will be retained therein until the train has left the station and the porter then releases the stopper or plug to permit the same to be moved to an open position.

It will thus be seen that there has been provided a lavatory construction for use upon trains which will be very etlicient in operation and simple in construction.

WVh-at is claimed is:

A car lavatory apparatus including a collecting receptacle having an oiiset exteriorly free outlet pipe adapted for connection of a means thereto to supply a cleansing me dium, the bottom of said receptacle and said pipe being substantially similarly inclined, means adapted to secure said receptacle to and below the floor oi the car, a stopper to close said outlet pipe, a rod carrying said stopper, said rod and stopper being inclined similarly to said outlet pipe, means independent of said receptacle and first named means for slidably mounting said rod to permit the stopper to be axially moved into and out of closing relation with respect to said outlet pipe.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOE SMITH, JR. ALFRED W. DAVIS. Witnesses FRED B. NOBLE, HERBERT S. SAWYER.