US65715A

US65715A - James weight

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Publication number: US65715A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1867-06-11
Anticipated expiration: 1884-06-11

Description

@uitrit tartes atent @Hina JAMES WRIGHT, OF NEW-YORK, NY., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AANDA FRANCIS BLESSING, OF SAME PLAGE.

Latem Patate No. 65,715, ma Jam 11, 1867.

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TO ALI WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

De it known that I, JAMES WRIGHT, of-the city, county, and State of New York,-have invented a new and improved Device for Cleaning the Traps of Water-Closets; and I do hereby declare that the following `i's a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will ena-ble others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

The drawing represents a side viewpartly in section of my invention.

This invention relates to a device for cleaning. the curved or S-shaped pipe ortraps of water-closets, and consists in the use of a flexible rod, (orseries of rods'hinged t`ogether,) which is inserted in` the end of the pipe and can accommodate itself to the Vshape of the tube, `so as to clean the same completely. Herctofore great diiculty used to be experienced in the cleanining of these curved pipes, and much time was lost in the attempt to satisfactorily do it. By my invention the work is made very easy, as the exible rod will adapt itself at once to the curve of the pipe, and will therefore at once remove any material that may have accumulated in the same.

A. represents the trap of awater-closet. B is a straight tubular guide, which, when the trap is to be cleaned, is set upon thel end of thepipe A, as shown. C is a straight metal or other rod, having a handle, D, on its upper end. E E are small metal bars, which are connected one to another so as to form a long flexible bar, one end of which is pivoted to the lower end of the rod C. `In each joint, between the bars E and C, may be arranged a fridtion-roller, F, the diameter of which should be larger than the width of any of the bars E. The flexible rod is passed through the tube B into the pipe A, and when pushed down the links E E will be carried through the windings o'f the pipe A, in the manner shown in the drawing. The rollers F will serve to make the parts move easier around the corners iu the pipe A. Without the guide B this rod could not be used, las the flexible portion must be longer than the irst straight portion of the pipe A, and would therefore project above the same, and would be folded together if an attempt were made to push it down into the trap. In the tube B the exible rod is always kept straight, and can be easily managed by thc infiexible handle C D.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent I 1. The exible rod E, when made as described, in combination with the tubular guide B and incxibl handle C D, all made and operating substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

2. The friction-rollers F, in combination with the links E of the flexible rod and with the handle C D, all made and operating substantially as herein shown and described.

f JAMES WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

WM. F. McNAMAuA, ALEX. F. Ronnnrs.