US407663A

US407663A - Wash-basin

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Publication number: US407663A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-07-23
Anticipated expiration: 1906-07-23

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(No Model.)

G. W; HUGKABAY.

' WASH BASIN No. 407,663. Patented July 23. 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE \V. HUCKABAY, OE GARFIELD, LOUISIANA.

WASH-BASIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,663, dated July 23, 1889.

Application filed September 12, 1888. Serial No. 285,201. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HUcKABAY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Garfield, in the parish of Caddo and State of Louisiana,have invented a certain new and usefulNVash-Basin, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a wash-basin with means for automatically closin g the valve or stopper in the bottom thereof when one is using the basin; also automatic means for opening said valve to permit the waste water to escape when one moves away from the basin; and it consists in the parts which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is-herein had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

, Figure 1 represents a partial sectional elevation of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a section on the line 00 0c of Fig, l.

A A represent the two side frame-pieces of the stand, B the top thereof, and O a crossboard connecting the side pieces A A near their bottom. The cross-board C is provided with two side openings 0. The top of the stand B is provided with a central opening B for the reception of the wash basin or bowl D. Said basin is provided with a bottom opening D, and E is a tubular extension havingits upper end secured around the said opening.

F is a rubber-covered Valve or stopper for the basin-opening, and F is a stem having its upper end fixed to the under side of the valve fo'rmed integral therewith. Said stem extends downward through the opening D and extension E. A valve-seat G is secured in the bottom of the basin around the opening D. The valve stem is provided with a spiral spring G, interposed between the underside of the valve and the valve-seat.

H is a cross-bar provided with an opening H for the reception of the basin-extension E and The lower end of said stem is fixed to the cross-bar H by means of a pin H or other suitable device. The upper part of the opening H is slightly larger than the lower.

part thereof, so as to form a step or seat for the extension E. There is an annular space I I are two rods having their upper ends secured to the respective ends of the cross-bar H. These rods extend downward through the openings 0 in the cross-board (J, and the lower end of each of said rods is provided with an eye or loop 1 J J are two spiral springs, one on each rod I, and each interposed between the cross-bar H and board C aforesaid.

K K are two levers or arms, each fulcrnmed at K to the rear inner side of a side framepiece A. Each lever K passes through one of theeyes I on the lower end of a rod I. A cross foot-piece L is secured to the outer ends of the levers K.

M is a basin mounted on the cross-piece C, to be used for receiving the waste water when no waste-pipe is used.

The operation is as follows: The foot-piece L maybe on a level with the floor or mounted above the bottom of the basin-frame, as shown in the drawings. By stepping on said crosspiece the levers K, rods 1, and crossbar H are drawn downward and the springs J thereby compressed. The downward movement of the cross-bar H draws down the valve-stem and valve, causing the saidvalve to occupy its seat G and thereby tightly close the opening D in the bottom of the bowl, atthe same time compressing the spiral spring Q. When the valve is thus closed, the bowl will retain any water therein. When ones feet are taken from the foot-piece L, the several spring-actuated parts seated in a cross-bar H, provided with an opening H, of the valve-stem F, secured in the opening of the cross-bar at one end, its upper end passing through the extension and into the bowl, and having on itsupper end a bowlshaped valve F, and the said extension and stem having a space between them to form a Waste-passage, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the frame, its top B and opening B, and the Wash-basin seated in said opening and having a downward extension E, of the valve F, mounted on the valvestem F, located in said extension, said extension and stem having a space between them to form a Waste-pipe, the valve-seat G, the spring G, interposed between the valve-seat and valve, the cross-bar H, having an opening communicating with the space between the extension and stem, said extension located in a seat in the bar, and the'valve-stem secured by a pin to said bar, the bar C, with openings York and State of New York, this 10th day 25 of September, A. D. 1888.

GEORGE W. HUOKABAY. Witnesses:

J. P. SooTT, FRANK A. FoUTs.