US352388A

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Publication number: US352388A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-11-09
Anticipated expiration: 1903-11-09

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Patented Nov. 9, 1886,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicEo PROSPER BARDON, OF WAGO, TEXAS.

COMMODE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 352,388, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed August 20, 1885, Serial No. 174,897. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, P RosrER BARDON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waco, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Commodes; 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.

.My invention consists, first, in a commode the body of the receiving-vessel of which is formed of staves and hoops, the latter of which operate automatically to keep the joints between the staves always water and gastight; second, in certain novel features of const-ruction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter described andspecilically claimed.

The objects of my invention are to enhance the utility of the receiving-vessel as a tight receptacle for the fecal and other matters deposited into it; utilize the receivingvessel itself as a direct support for the seat; provide for a ready separation of the seat from the vessel and the draft-flue, and furnish a commode which is practically gas-proof against the escape of effluvia into the room or other place; will conduct away all unpleasant and unhealthful odors, and be convenient of management, as will be hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the commode having its hinged top piece turned up from the seat,illustrating the commode as ready for use. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through one of the hoops and the commode receiving-vessel, showing the automatically-tightening device which is applied to each hoopas it appears before the hoops are driven home, or tight upon the staves of which the vessel is formed. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of `a thin metal plate of the tightening device, which is used for protecting and keeping theelastic material of the automatic tightening devices in proper position with respect to the hoops until they are driven home or tight upon the stares of the vessel. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the said metal protection-plate as it appears when bent and provided with the said elastic material. In this view the hoop is left out of its position in order to expose the elastic tightening material. Fig. 5 is asectional detail view of the :is formed with a beveled or conical edge surface faced with a rubber band, a', or other suitable packing material, whereby the fit between the flared edge of the head-piece a and thedisk-cover c is made air and gas tight. The barrel staves being of wood and liable to shrink, the barrel A would soon become leaky if the hoops B were not made to automatically' tighten the staves and keep the joints closed. To accomplish this, strips of elastic material b-such as vulcanized india-rubber-are apl plied between the hoops and the outer surface of the barrel, and in order to keep the said elastic material b in proper relation to the hoops and prevent it from doubling and rolling away from between the hoops and the vessel during the operation of driving the hoops upon the vessel, plates b of thin sheet metal (see Fig. 3) are provided and the pieces of elastic material b laid upon them, and the plates and elastic material confined upon the hoops by bending the edges of the plates, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5.

The pieces of elastic material b, when con-l ned as described, occupy places on the inner periphery of the hoops, and are kept from contact with the surface of the barrel by the metal plates, whileby the bent edges of the plates they are kept from separating from the hoops, and also preventedfrom becoming hunched77 while the hoops are being driven home.

The hoops are applied around the barrel A and driven home in the usual way,.and after this is done the edges of the plates b are bent down straight or to their normal position, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and are easily removed for reuse in applying elastic tightening material b to another commode-vessel.

A commodeseat, C, is placed upon the barrel A, and in order to prevent leakage at the joint between the barrel and the seat the lower IOO portion of the seat is provided with an annular packing iiange or rim, c, which its Very snugly into the chine of the barrel,.while the seat rests down upon the chine of the barrel. A suitable opening, c, is provided in the seat C, which may be closed by a cover, c2, turning upon hinges c3. Behind the opening c' another smaller opening, ct, is provided in the seat C, through which the gases escape. This opening c* is closed by a short horizontal iiue, c5, constructed above the opening c on the rear portion of the seat C, and this ilue 051s .very snugly fitted into the lower portion of a long and large vertical draft-tine, D, so that while a close joint-fitting is secured, the seat, with its short iue c5, can be easily united to or separated from hthe larger long due D.

In order to accomplish the objectjust stated,

the flue D is providedwith/a bottom portion, el, which bears tight against the bottom piece of the rear end of the tlue c5, which rear end enters the lower portion of the iiue D and is snugly surrounded by the walls of the same, as shown. An opening, c, in the top portion of theilue c5 serves as a means for communication between the ilues D and c5 and the barrel A after the disk-cover has been removed. During the use ot" the commode the flue D 1s permanently fixed in position and connected with a cl1imney-tlue of a building, or with some other means for conducting the gases out of range of the atmosphere being breathed. The gases forming in the barrel rise speedily, by reason of their buoyancy, to the top, and find their way through the dues ci and D into the chimney or pass into the air above the house, instead of entering through the joints of the commode into the room.

Vhen the barrel requires to be emptied, it is first disconnected from the flue D, then the seat C from the barrel, and closed gas-tight by the disk-cover a, and then carried bodily through the house without leaving any unpleasant odors about the premises.

This commode is a very useful substitute fol` the ordinary water-closet in general; but it is especially useful where theconstruction and use of sewers are impracticable -from natural impediments-such as are experienced with' swampy lands. l

I do not claim under this patent the method of drawing the gases from the commode and inside of the room in which it is situated by a relative proportioning of the parts of the apparatus shown and described, so as to in sure an upward suction of all the foul gases from the receptacle and about the hole in the seat, as I have an application for a patent dated May 4, 1886, therefor, now on le in United States Patent Oiiice.

1. In a commode, a receivingbarrel,A, having hoops B and elastic tightening strips b, substantially as and for the purpose described.

PROSPER BARDON.

Witnesses:

CHAs. Kornir, R. WV. PARK.