US884484A

US884484A - Means for flushing receptacles.

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Publication number: US884484A
Application number: US31134306A
Authority: US
Inventors: John W Grantland
Original assignee: Haines Jones & Cadbury Co
Current assignee: Haines Jones & Cadbury Co
Priority date: 1906-04-12
Filing date: 1906-04-12
Publication date: 1908-04-14
Anticipated expiration: 1925-04-14

Description

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MEANS FOR 'LUSHING REGPTACLES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. GRANTLAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HAINES, JONES &

OADBURY COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENN- SYLVAN IA.

MEANS FOR FLUSHING RECEPTACLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed April 12, 1906. Serial No. 311,343.

To-all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. GRANTLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Means for Flushing Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for flushing rece tacles, chiefly intended for flushing the bow s of water-closets and the like and has for its object to provide a new arrangement, combination and mode of operation, of parts for starting, with certainty and in a simple manner, the siphonic discharge of fluid from a tank or reservoir.

The invention consists in means possessing the features hereinafter described.

Thatl which is regarded as new will be set forth in the clauses of claim appended to the description.

In the accompanying drawings in which is shown that which I regard as the best known embodiment of my invention, and in which one manner of use is illustrated.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, parts appearing in section, and the apparatus being in initial position. Fig. 2 is a similar view of those parts of the mechanism adjacent the tank or reservoir, in set position ready for automatic action. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are iront elevations of the siphon and adjacent parts, showing different positions thereof during different stages of operation.

In said drawings 1 designates the tank or reservoir to contain the flushing fluid, 2 a bowl to be hushed, and 3 a conduit for conducting the fluid from the tank to the fluid.

Within the tank is a siphon 4 one leg of which is open to the tank and the other communicates with conduit 3, and has valved communication with the tank. The siphonic action is started by opening the v'alved communication between the tank and the conduit, and in the preferred type of mechanism the valve is opened by moving the siphon itself, which constitutes a connection between the valve and the valve-opening mechanism. In some aspects of my invention it is not limited to a movable siphon, as the combination of elements making up the valve-opening mechanism may be otherwise connected to the valve. Therefore, except in respect of those claims where a movable siphon is ex- `derstood as not limited thereto.

pressly mentioned the invention is to vbe un- Proceeding with the description of the preferred example of the invention, the valve shown, is connected to or formed with the longer leg of the siphon and is of cage type, that is to say, it has an open guide-extension 5 and a gasketed passage-closing head 6. The guide exten- Sion 5 works in the conduit 3, its different positions being shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5.

Connected to the valve, the siphon constituting the connecting link, is an arm? the stem 8 of which passes through and is guided in a bracket 9 supported by the tank. The arm 7 is provided with a lever-race 7a. A gravity catch 1() is pivotally connected to the arm and normally stands with its nose lOfl across the race 7a in the path of the lever hereinafter referred to. The catch is provided with a trip 11 with which coperates a stationary element, in the present example, consisting of the bracket 9. The arm 7 is provided with a plurality of holes 12 to receive the pivot of the catch to provide for proper adjustment of the latter.

13 designates a lever suitably fulcrumed, for instance, as shown, upon a part 14 of the bracket 9, and having one end 13b disposed in the race-way 7'a in position to co-act with the catch 10 to lift the siphon and start the siphonic flushing operation. The other end of the lever 13 is adjustably connected to a operating rod 15, so that it may be adjusted with relation to said rod in consonance with the adjusted position of the catch 10. The

preferred means of connection, which is shown in the drawings, consistsof a box 16 fitted upon the screw threaded end 15a of the rod 15, so that itv may be screwed up and down thereon and held by a nut 17. The corresponding end 13a of lever 13, straddles the rod and with the box, forms a socket joint. v

The operating rod 15 is arranged to be moved in one direction to set the several ele ments for operation, and in an opposite direction to cause a cycle of operation thereof. These movements of the rod may be accomplished automatically, and I regard the arrangement by which it may be so actuated as ately starts the siphonic action.

same is not essential to those clauses of appended claim which do not make reference thereto.

Referring now to an automatic operation the rod 15 is made to preponderate in weight as compared with the operative weight of the siphon and its closely associated parts added to that of the rod actuating means, whereby the several parts are normally in position shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The rod actuating means consists of a lever, one arm 18 of whichis designed to conform to the place to be flushed and is designed to be actuated by pressure, and the other arm 19 of which is connected to the rod 15.

In practice, the operation of the device illustrated, and for this purpose the automatic operating arrangement will be referred to, the initial position of the several parts shown in Figs. 1 and 3, exists by reason of the preponderance in weight of the rod l5, referred to, or by reason of the mechanical equivalent of that preponderance. When pressure is applied to the lever arm 18 the rod 15 is moved in a direction to rock the lever 13 to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawing, the end 13b of the lever which is disposed in the lever race, pushing the catch 10 out of the way in passing from the position shown in Fig. 3, to that shown in Fig. 4. After the end of the lever has so passed, the catch, by gravity is interposed across the race 7 a and into the path of movement of the end 13b of the lever, as in Fig. 4, in which osition the parts are set for operation. FVhen pressure is removed from the lever arm 18 the rod 15, by reason of its aforesaid preponderance in Weight, rocks the lever and in this movement end 13b of the lever engages the nose 10a of the catch 10, and lifts the arm 7 and the siphon 4 and opens communication between the tank 1 and the conduit 3 leading to the place to be flushed. rIhe passage of water from the tank into conduit 3 immedi- During the active lifting stroke of the lever 13, the trip 13, coperating with the stationary element, such as the bracket 9, withdraws the nose of the catch from in front of the lever, as shown in Fig. 5, whereupon the siphon falls, closing the communication through the valve between the tank and the conduit. The siphonic action, however, having been started, continues until the fluid in the tank is exhausted. When the siphon drops as described, the end 13b of lever 13 will be in position shown in Fig. 3, that it to say, in initial position in readiness for a further cycle of operation.

By my invention I provide a iushin means embodying novel elements, and nove combinations and arrangements of elements and mode of operation, whereby siphonic flushing is accomplished in a simple, eiificient and certain manner.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a ilushing apparatus, the combination of a movable siphon having an arm rising therefrom, a gravity catch pivotally connected to said arm and provided with a nose normallyprojecting beyond an edge of the arm and with a trip, an operating lever having a portion extending across said arm normally below'said nose, and a Jfixed element cooperating with the trip to release the nose from engagement with the lever when the siphon is lifted.

2. In a flushing apparatus, the combination with a vertically moving siphon tube, an arm rising therefrom and provided with a lever race, a gravity catch pivotally connected to said arm and provided with a nose normally extending across said lever race and with a trip, an operating lever having a portion dis osed in said lever race normally below sai nose, and a fixed element coperating with the trip.

3. In a flushing apparatus, the combination with a vertically moving siphon tube, an arm rising therefrom and provided with a lever race, a gravity catch pivotally connected at one end to said arm and having a nose intermediate its ends and a trip at its free end, said nose normally extending across the lever race, an operating lever having a portion extending through the lever race and normally disposed beneath the nose on the catch, and a fixed element coperating with the trip.

4. The combination with a movable siphon, a lever race connected therewith, a lever one end of which is disposed to work in said race, a catch having a nose operatively associated with said lever and said race, and provided with a trip, and means located to engage said trip to withdraw said catch from engagement with said lever.

5. In combination with a movable siphon, a lever race connected therewith, a gravity catch connected to said siphon, and provided with a trip and a nose, a stationary element to engage the trip, a lever one end of which is disposed to work in said race and coperate with said nose, an operating rod connected with the other end of said lever, and means for actuating said rod.

6. In combination with a movable siphon, a lever race connected therewith, a gravity catch connected to said siphon and provided with a trip and a nose, a stationary element to engage the trip, a lever one end of which is disposed to work in said race and coperate with said nose, an operating rod connected with other end of said lever, and means for automatically operating said rod.

7. In combination with a movable siphon, a lever race connected therewith, a gravity catch connected to said race and provided with a trip and a nose, a stationary element to engage the trip7 a lever one end of which is disposed to work in said race and cooperate with said nose, an operating rod connected with the other end of said lever, and a lever connected to said rod Jfor actuating the same.

8. In a flushing apparatus, the combination with a valve, an arm connected therewith and provided With a race-way, valveoperating means comprising a lever disposed in said race-way, a ravity` catch pivoted to said arm and norma y positioned and having a nose portion in the path of movement of said lever in the race-way, said catch being provided with a trip, and means located in `the path of movement of said trip for releasing the engagement of the catch with the lever. A n

9. In a flushing device, the combination with a valve, an arm connected therewith, an operating mechanism including a lever, a gravity catch pivoted to said arm and an active nose portion disposed in the path of movement of said lever7 said catch being provided with a trip, and means located in the path of movement of said trip for releasing the engagement of the catch with the lever.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN W. GRANTLAND.

Witnesses:

HARRY C. HEALY, 'MELvrLLE WHEATLAND.