US180059A - Improvement in water-closet tanks - Google Patents

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WATER-CLOSET TANKS; m. I No 180,059. Patent-ed. .Iu1y18, 1876.

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WATER-CLOSET TANKS, m. No.180,059. Patented J u1 1a, 1876.

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STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEWART PETERS AND WILLIAM DONALD, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-ICLOSETUTANKS, 1520.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,059, dated July 18, 1876; application filed May 18, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, STEWART PETERS and WILLIAM DONALD, of Glasgow, Scotland, have in ented certain Improvements in VVater- Closet Tanks, and Apparatus for the Supply and Discharge of Liquids; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a vertical section of our improved apparatus as applied to what are known as hopper closets. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of our apparatus slight-1y modified, so as to be applied to a pan or valvecloset.

The same part is marked by the same letter of reference wherever it occurs in the drawings.

The object of our invention is to simplify the construction of the working parts, and to prevent the waste of water, by limiting the amount of the discharge and after-flush.

The nature of our invention consists in providing the water-tank with a siphon, operated by a lever under control of the closet-handle, to deliver to the closet a fixed supply of water, with or without an after-flush, as may be required; and, in combination with said apparatus, a self opening and closing faucet, provided with a lever and ball-float, all constructed and operating substantially as hereinafter more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, A marks a small tank, made of cast-iron or other suit able material. From the bottom of the tank projects upward the conical tube D, made, preferably, of copper, and extending above the water-level. Over this tube is suspended a copper cap, E, hung t0 the cistern-lever F, which has its fulcrum in a stud attached-to the side of the tank, and is connected by chain or rod M with the closet-handle N. (See Fig. 3.) A very small hole, E is bored in the top of cap E, permits the escape of airfrom the cap, and allows the water in the space E be tween the cap and tube D, to attain the same level as that in the tank A.

H is the service-pipe, provided near its junction with the closet with the ordinary siphontrap H l is the supply-pipe, connected with 'the street-main or other source of supply. It has V a valve or faucet, J, connected with a lever, L, provided with a ball-float, K, on its extremity. This float rises and falls in a chamber,

tube D, and the shorter arm of the space between cap E and tube D. When once the siphon is set in action, it will continue running until the whole of the water in the tank has been discharged, provided the cap E be held up; but the action will stop immediately on the cap being allowed to fall, so that a partial or complete flush may be had, as desired. The small hole h in the float-chamber B allows the water to escape from that chamber after the contents of the tank have been discharged. The fall of the ball-float K opens the supply cock J, and the tank is again filled to a height at which the rise of the ball closesthe cook.

The foregoing description applies specially to the arrangement shown in Figs. land 2, in which a hoppencloset, without a pan, is to be supplied. 7

Fig. 3 illustrates the modification made to supply the after-flush required in pan or valve closets after the main flush has stopped. It consists of a copper tube, 0, introduced between the tnbe l) and the cap E, in the manner clearly represented in the figure. When the main discharge is in action the space between D and 0 will become filled with water; and after the cap E has been dropped to arrest the main discharge,'the water in O escapes through a small hole, a, made in the side of tube l), and supplies the required aftertlush to the pan-closet.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with. the tank A and trapped service-pipe H, of the tubeD, cap E,

and lever F, all constructed, arranged, and ranged, and operating substantially in the operating snbstantiallyin the manner and for manner and for the purpose setforth.

the pnrpose described. The above specification of our said inven- 2. The combination, with the tank A and tion signed and witnessed at Glasgow this 9th trapped service pipe H, of the tubes D and 0, day of March, A. D. 1876.

cap E, and lever F, all constructed, arranged,

and operating substantially as and for the STEWART PETERS. purpose specified. WILLIAM DONALD.

3. The combination, with the tank A, of'the Witnesses: supply-pipe I cock J, lever L, ball K, and per- JOHN MCGOWAN,

forated ballehamber B, all constructed, ar- 1 WILLIAM BLAIR.

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