US334491A

US334491A - Privy-seat

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Publication number: US334491A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-01-19
Anticipated expiration: 1903-01-19

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G. 8a J- TURNBULL.

PEIVYSBAT. Nq. 334,491.. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE TURNBULL AND JOHN TURNBULL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PRlVY-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,491, datefi January 19,1886.

Application filed April 16, 1885. Serial No. 162,495. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that we, GEORGE TURNBULL and JoHN TURNBULL, citizens of the United States, and residents of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Privy-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of devices in which means is employed to prevent splitting and warping of the body of a privy or Water-closet seat; and our invention has for its object to provide a cheap and efficient means whereby the expansion and contraction of the seat-will be compensated for and its splitting due to such cause prevented. We attain such object by the construction of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of the usual form of privy-seat, to which our improvement is applied; Fig. 2, a detail end elevation of the same, and Fig. 3, a detail section of same.

In seats for privies and water-closets heretofore employed the main body A of the seat was formed, preferably, of a single piece of wood, at each end of which was nailed or otherwise secured cleats B, the grain ofwhich was at a right angle to that of the main body A of the seat. A seat so constructed was fatally defective, in that, owing to the differences in'the degree of expansion and contraction of the parts, a splitting or warping of the seat would in time take place and renderthe seat in most instances inconvenient or worthless. In the present improvement such differences in the degree of expansion and contraction of the parts is provided for by means of a series of elongated slots in the end cleats, through which pass the screws D, by which the cleats B are secured to the main body A of the seat.

To reduce friction between the heads of such screws and the front of the cleats, metallic bushings Gare inserted in the cleats, as shown, so as to provide a metallic bearing-surface for the heads of said screws. These bushings are formed with elongated slots'e, of the same size as those in the end cleats, B, and the edges of such slots are preferably beveled or countersunk, as shown, to receive the countersunk heads of the screws D. By means of the improved construction above described the main body A,of the seat, carrying the cleat-attaching screws D, is allowed to have a free expansion and contraction due to variations of moisture and dryness to which the parts are exposed. 1

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

1. In a seat for privies, the combination of the body A, provided with screws D, with the end cleats, B, provided with elongated slots to admit of a transverse movement of said screws within said cleats due to the expansion and contraction of the main body A of the seat, essentially as set forth.

2. In a seat for privies, the combination of the body A. provided with screws D, with the end cleats, B, having elongated slots that are 7 provided with slotted metallic bushings G at their outer ends, essentially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof witness our hands this 4th day of April, 1885, at Chicago, (Jock 7 county, Illinois.

GEORGE TURNBULL. JOHN TURNBULL.