US542633A - Closet - Google Patents

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(NoModaLy P. G. EMERY.

GLOSET.

Patented July 16 WW1/Leona,

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PLATO G. EMERY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE ADAMS & VVESTLAKE COMPANY, OF ILLINOIS.

CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 542,633, dated July 16, 1895.

Application illed February Z1, 1895.. Serial No. 539,238. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PLATO G. EMERY, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Closets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is intended more particularly for use in railroad-cars and upon steamships or steamboats, but is applicable to more general uses, and may be employed with dry closets or those flushed by water. Its object is the automatic lifting of the seat by the raising of the lid, whereby the bowl or hopper may be used as a urinal or slop-receptacle without the liability of soiling the seat, and, further, to allow the seat to be left free to be lowered or closed independently of the lid, the latter remaining lifted.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective View of a. closet embodying my invention, the seat and lid being down. Fig. 2 is a similar View, the seat and lid being raised to allow the bowl or hopper to be conveniently and neatly used-as a urinal or slopreceptacle. spective of a detail of the invention.

Similar figures of reference indicate similar parts in the respective views.

l represents the woodwork or casing forming part of the closet ixtures.

2 is the bowlor hopper, preferably of porce# lain. To a ledge or projection 3, forming a part of the casing, is hinged the seat 4, while also hinged thereto is the lid 5. One leaf of the hinge 6 of the seat is screwed to the outer face of the ledge 3, its other being let in ilush with the back edge of the seat, the arrangement being such that when the seat is lowered it rests in the plane of'the ledge 3, as seen in Fig. l. One leaf of the hinge 7 of the lid 5 is let in and secured flush with the top of the ledge 3, while its other leaf is let in and fastened ush with the back edge of the lid, the pivotal or hinging points of the lid being in the rear of and slightly above those of the seat, as shown. The lid and seat are each so hinged that when raised either shall stand slightly inclined to the rear or out of the perpendicular, the lid being by preference arranged to rest against and be stopped by a part of the casing or other lixture,aud the Fig. 3 is an enlarged view in per-` seat to rest against and be stopped by the outer or under side of the lid, and both by their slightly-backward inclination to maintain positions secure against pulling forward.

At one side or edge of the seat 4 is let in or inserted andrproperly secured by screws or otherwise a plate S, having a projecting pin `9,while at the corresponding side or edge of the lid is similarly secured a plate 10, to the center of which is pivoted,upon a pin or projection 11, a gravity-latch 12. The latch 12 is provided at its lower or outer end with an elongated toe 13 and at its other end with a weight 14. 'Ihe weight is furnished with a shoulder 15, which rests above the top edge of the plate 10.

W hen the seat and lid are down, which is their normal position, the gravity-latch 12 stands as seen in Fig. l-that is to say, with its straight inner portion 12a resting against the rounded surface 9a of the projecting pin 9, its toe 13 below and out of contact with said pin, and the shoulder 15 above the plate 10.

When it is desired to use the bowl or hopper 2 as a urinal, the operator takes hold of the front edge of the lid 5 and slightly lifts it, which causes the straight inner portion 12a of the latch to slide upon the front rounded surface of the projecting pin 9 and the inner end of the toe 13 to engage thelowermos't edge of saidipin, when, the lifting of the lid being continued, the seat will be also lifted, the toe engaging during the lifting dierent surfaces of said pin until both the seat and lid reach the respective positions shown in Fig. 2, at

Vwhich time the operative surfaces of the toe will have been brought against the surface 9" of the pin 9 practically parallel thereto, enabling the toe to slip from Contact with the pin by the action .of the weight 14, the movement of the gravity-latch being checked by the contact of its shoulder 15 with the top edge of the plate 10. The seat having been thus automatically disengaged from the lid, the seat may be lowered to place, leaving the lid Araised. Should the seat and lid both be down, and the former is to be employed for its sole and proper use, the operator may readily detach the latch from the pin 9 and raise the lid, leaving the seat down for use. Having described my invention, I claim- IOO 1. In a closet of the character described, a hinged seat and a hinged lid combined with a counter-weighted gravity latch suitably limited in its swinging movement, and a pin, said latch and pin automatically connecting the seat and lid When both are down and adaptingthem to be raised together and automatically detached when raised, substantially as set forth.

2. In a closet of the character described, a hinged seat and a hinged lid combined with a pin projecting from a side of the seat, and a counter-Weighted gravity latch pivoted to a corresponding side of the lid and suitably limited in its swinging movement, said pin and latch automatically connecting the seat and lid when both are down and adapting them to be raised together and automatically detached when raised, substantiallyas set forth.

3. In a closet of the character described, the combination4 of a seat hinged to a fixture of the casing, ahinged lid, a pin projecting from a side of the seat, and a counter-weighted gravity latch suitably limited in its move ment and pivoted to a corresponding side of the lid and having an elongated toe, the construction ot' the operative surfaces of the pin and toe being as described, whereby the seat and lid having been raised together upon the engagement of the pin and toe, the latter shall be allowed to slip from the pin by the action of the counter-weighted gravity latch, substantially as set forth.

4. In a closet of the character described, the combination of a bowl, a hinged seat, a hinged lid, a pin projecting from a side of the seat, and a counter-weighted gravity latch havinga -shoulder for limiting its swinging movement and an elongated toe for automatic engagement with and detachment from said pin, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and seal.

PLATO G. EMERY. [n s] Witnesses:

W. P. BRAINARD, B; MOMILLAN.

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