US364430A - Charles memmert - Google Patents

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- (No Model.) v C. MEMMERT.

BEDROOM SANITARY CLOSET.

No. 364,430. Patented June 7, 1887.-

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I BY fit W ATTORNEYS.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MEMMERT, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

BEDROOM SANITARY CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,430, dated June 7, 1887.

Application filed March 19, 1887.

To all whom, it may concern: Be it known that I, CHARLES MEMMERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of \Vashington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedroom Sanitary Closets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective of a portion of an apartment, showing the mantel-piece, its lireboard, and my improved closet-seen red thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing my im proved closet projecting into the chimney or tlue through the brick-work nearthe floorline. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my improved closet detached.

The object of my invention is to provide sleeping-apartments with a closet set in the fire-board or wall and extending into and communicating with the chimney or flue, to form a receptacle for the chamber-pot, so that the same will be out of sight and all odors there from will pass up the chimney.

The invention will be first described, and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

A represents my'iinproved closet projecting into the line or chimney 1, either through the brick-work 2, as shown in Fig. 2, or through thefire-board 3. (Shown in Fig. 1.) In either case the closet is placed near the floor-line.

The closet is made of any suitable material, preferably sheet metal, and has an open front ,to the flange at, around the edge of which, at

one side, is hinged the door B. The lower part of the door is provided with small holes b.

The closet is provided in the upper part of its rear wall with an opening, 0, so that a current of air will pass from the room through the holes I) and opening 0 into the due, and thereby carry off all odors and gases from the chanibenpot, as shown in Fig. 2.

In order that the updraft in the line may not prevent the gases from passing out through the opening 0 at any time, I provide a lip or flange, D, at the lower side 'of the opening, the lip projecting at right angles to the back of the closet.

In practice the closet will be nine inches deep, nine inches wide, and seven and'onefourth inches high, so that when in place it will not project into the flue more than four inches, and the rear end of the closet is rounded,

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and gases pass up the fine.

It is especially useful in sick-rooms, where it is impossible to instantly remove the vessel containing fecal deposits.

I am aware that a water-closet has been provided with a pipe leading into aflne, the pipe having an upwardly'extending deflector at its lower side within the flue; also, that a chair has been provided with a privy-seat, a casing or receptacle below the same, an apertured door hinged to the front of the casing, and a pipe leading from the rear of the easing into the flue; also, that a chimney or line has been provided with a casing set into the brick-work, and having a door hinged atitsopen front and closed at every part within the fine, except at its bottom, which was open and provided with a cage depending into the flue. WVithin the casing was placed a drawer-frame having a hinged privy-seat and a vessel constructed to dump its contents down into the cage in the flue when the drawer and privy-seat were moved within the casing, and I do not claim any of said constructions as of my invention.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is-

l. The combination, with a chimney or flue having an opening communicating with the interior of a room, of the chamber-receiving closet set in the said opening flush with the inside of the room, projecting into the fine, and having' an opening in its rear upper end, and a hinged apertured door at its open front end, the closet being otherwise closed, substantially as set forth.

2. A sanitary closet adapted to project into a flue formed with an open front, a rounded rear end, an opening, 0, in the upper part of said rear end, a flange, D, projecting outward from the lower edge of the opening, the flange a around the open end of the closet, and the the room, to receive a separate and discondoor B, hinged at one side thereof and pronected vessel of the character set forth, and no vided with holes b near its lower edge, subcommunicating with the room and fine, sub

stantially as set forth. stant-iall y as set forth.

5 3. The combinati0n,with an apartnicnthav- CHARLES MEMM ERT.

ing an opening near the floordine leading into \Vitnesses: the flue, of the open'front sanitary closet set SOLON G. KEMON,

into the said opening flush with the inside of H. B. BROWN.

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