US658639A - Sanitary receiving-basin. - Google Patents

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* Patented Sept. 25, |900. B. H. GUIDN.

SANITARY RECEIVING BASIN.

(Application led Nov. 24, 1899.)

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BERNARD R. GUION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF TVVO-'II'IIRDS TO ALEXANDER LUTZ, OF SAME PLACE, AND JAMES E. IVALSH, O

DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SANlTARY RECEIVING-BASIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,639, datedv- September 25, 1900.

Application filed November 24, 1899. Serial No. 738,169. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, BERNARD R. GUION, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Receiving-Basins, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to new, useful, and sanitary improvements in receiving or catch basins for cities and towns to receive and discharge the surface-water from streets into the sewers, also to be connected with the drainage from factories and slaughter-houses independent of the discharges from Waterclosets and urinals.

The common form of receiving or catch basins now in use for street service in cities and towns is objectionable for numerous reasons. The rst is the inability of said basins to properly retain the sediment in the surface-water from said streets and prevent it from being carried 01T with the sewers, where it lodges, thus eventually clogging up the same; second, that during a dry spell a large volume of water is held in said basin, becoming more and more foul every day, throwing off foul and offensive gases. Third, the pressure of this large body of foul water is furthermore objectionable when the basin is to be cleaned, for the reason that said water has to be removed and deposited upon the street, where it is usually retained in a pool until the heavier deposits are removed from the basin, after which said water is permitted to again run back into the basin. This form of procedure is objectionable and a nuisance, as foul and obnoxious gases arise from the foul Water. Fourth, when the sediment has accumulated in said basin above the bottom of the trap-stone the surface-water from the streets cannot How into the sewers. Consequently the streets and sometimes the cellars of houses are flooded. A further and material objection to the present form of con struction of said basins is in the manner the heavy accumulations or deposits have to be removed. It is first necessary to dip out the water and pool it, as above set forth, after which men are sent into the basin with shov- 'for service.

elsv and buckets, and the mud, sand, and heavy deposits are taken out in away which is very slow and disagreeable, especially since after the water, the mud, sand, and heavy deposits referred to have been removed from below the bottom of trap-stone the outlet to the sewer is opened and its gases permitted to escape.

My invention is designed with especial regard to the objections above noted; and it is the object of my improvement to first provide a receiving-basin which is a sanitary device of simple and durable construction; second, to arrange Yso as to permit of the convenient and ready removal of the heavy deposits and without the necessity of handling any of the water used for trapping the sewer, to prevent the possibility of iooding the streets and cellars of houses, to insure the purification of the water and its separation from the deposits and impurities as they pass through the basin, and, finally, in providing an automatic siphoning device which operates to take o the largevolume of water and insure the detention of sufficient water within the basinto at all times form a trap for the sewer-pipe; also, that there will be no necessity of allowing the matter to remain in the basin and become foul and obnoxious, as it can be changed at any time in a few moments; also, that the appliance can be put in any receiving-basin as now constructed in any city or town, without the necessity of changing the brick masonry or the head or gutter stone, at a small cost.

With the above objects in view my inven* tion consists in the novel construction and combination of parts set forth in the accompanying two sheets of drawings, forming a part of this specication, upon which similar characters of reference denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures, and of which- Figure l shows a central vertical longitudinal section through my improved receiving basin, the cover being detached and the removable basket hoisted out for emptying. Fig. 2 is a similar sectional view with the basket in place, the basin closed, and ready Fig. 3 shows a slightly-modified form of basin, the same being adapted for private use, such as factories, &c. Fig. 4 is across-section taken at a right angle to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 and on line 4 4 of Fig. l, looking in the direction of the opening. Fig. 5 is a similar cross sectional view showing the screen contracted to form a smaller outlet. Fig. G is a sectional plan on line 6 6 of Fig. l; and Fig. 7 shows a similar sectional plan of a round basin instead of a square, as illustrated in the preceding figures.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference marked upon the drawings, A indicates lthe main compartment of the basin, B the capstone, and C the cover.

D represents the inlet from the street, of which E shows the curb and F the gutter lines, respectively.

My basin may be formed of any preferred Shape-such square, round, or hexagonand is divided by means of a vertical screenwall G, thus dividing the basin into a large and small compartment A and II. Within the large or main compartment I locate a receiving-basket I, which is of special construction and is designed to catch the flow of water as it pours in through the opening D from the street. This basket is formed of either perforated sheet-metal or wire screen, which construction insures the detention therein of ail the solid `matter which comes in with the iiow of water and permits of the free exit of said water from said basket. The basket is provided with a chain-handle K, by means of which it is engaged for hoisting from the basin. In practice this basket is raised from the basin by means of a suitable derrick, which is so arranged that the basket may be elevated above a cart, into which the contents of said basket are deposited and carted off. I further provide the basket with a detachable bottom, whereby the deposits above referred to may be quickly removed. This detachable bottom is formed of solid doors L L, which are hinged at either side and overlap at the middle in a manner to be secured by suitable catch M, as shown.

The compartment H, before mentioned, may be built on as an addition to the main basin or may be produced by dividing a large receptacle, as shown in my drawings. As before stated, the two compartments are divided with a screen G, which may constitute the entire wall, as shown in Fig. 4, or it may be of reduced size and set into a wall of masonry, as shown in Fig. 5. The upper part of this screen-wall contains a door N, as shown, whereby access may be had to the small chamber of the basin for cleaning or other purposes. The bottom of this small compartment is below that of the main or larger one, thus forming a deeper receptacle and one which will permit of the drainage 4from said larger receptacle. From the bottom of this small receptacle I make my pipe connection for the street-sewer, which connection consists of a pipe O, having an elbow set in the edge of the wall and having a vertical inner end P andra deflected outer portion Q. The inner end of this pipe is disposed adjacent to the bottom of the chamber in a manner to drain the water therefrom after the siphon has once been started. Around this pipe and within the small chamber I pack a quantity of gravel R of suitable size, through which the water tiows, in addition to the screen-partition G, from the main basin, and it strains down through said gravel and fills up around the mouth of the pipe R.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that the action of my improved basin is as follows: The Water when liowing in from the streets is first deposited in the basket, where it leaves all of the solid matter. From this basket the liquid runs out into the smaller receptacle through the screenpartition and the gravel contained within the smaller compartment until the latter is filled up and overflows out through the outlet-pipe O, which flow of water forms a siphon from the basin to the street-sewer. This siphon once started will continue to flow until the wateris drawn entirely out of the large receptacle and down to the bottom of the smaller one, whereby t-he seal is broken and air is let into the suction-pipe or siphon. The moment the seal is broken the Siphon stops flowing. The column of water in said Siphon falls around the mouth of the pipe or Siphon, thus forming a seal for the same, and prevents the sewer-gas from escaping from the sewer.

From the above operation it will be seen that the heavy and coarse substances which are present in the water are lodged in the basket and the water drained from them, thus leaving said coarse deposits at all times ready to be removed without interference by the presence of water.

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

l. In a sanitary receiving-basin the combination of the main compartment, an adjacent compartment separated therefrom by means of a screening device and its bottom below the level of the main compartment in a manner to drain the same, a door located in said screening device, a siphoning device leading from said smaller compartment and adapted to automatically drain the water from the basin, a filling of gravel or like material placed around said pipe, a basket suspended within the main compartment and means to permit of said basket being hoisted therefrom.

2. The combination in a receiving-basin of the main compartment, a basket located therein, a collapsible bottom for said basket and means for removing the same from the compartment for discharging its contents, a secondaryV compartment having its bottom below that of the first compartment in a manner to drain the same, a screen separating IOO IOS

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bottom is below that of the rst compartment, a filling` of gravel in said second compartment, a door leading from one to the other, a siphoning-pipe leading from the second, and lower compartment, whereby the device may be drained.

Signed in the city, county, and State of New zo York this 31st day of October, A. D. 1899.

BERNARD R. GUION.

Witnesses:

JOHN C. GUI'oN, WALTER E. BROWN.

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