US907409A

US907409A - Water-closet.

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Publication number: US907409A
Application number: US42118408A
Authority: US
Inventors: Horace S Rumsey
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-03-14
Filing date: 1908-03-14
Publication date: 1908-12-22
Anticipated expiration: 1925-12-22

Description

H. S. RUMSEY.

WATER CLOSET.

APPLIOATION FILED MAB..14, 1908.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

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HORACE S. RUMSEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application filed March 14, 1908. Serial No. 421,184.

To all. whom a may 6mm Be it known that I, HORACE. S. RUMs'EY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St.

Louis, in the State of Missouri,'have invented a new and useful Improvement in -Water- Closets, of which the following is a specification. i

This invention relates to water closets and of water closets, whose flushing tankis not elevated.

The object of the'invention is to improve upon those water closets wherein the flushing I line 22, Fig. 1.

so kn -is a horizontal transverse section of said closet taken in the plane indicated by the The invention embraces the combination of the flushing tank with any of the well own water closet bowls, whether formed of iron, porcelainior any other material and of whatever internal structure. The draw' I ing, however, represents a bowl and tank as with the-u per wall. I pur ose o constructedof orcelain and shows the two parts-'as if mol ed. in one piece. The bowl is' indicated at 4, the seat at 5,.and the interior of the tank at 6, said tank be' by an extension of the base 7 of the owl and an encircling side wall 8 built thereon and made integral at its upper edge with the up er edge of the bowl.

he closet bowl has the usual flushing passa es 9, 10 and 11 and outlet 12 and the seat is hinged to the bowl in the usualmanner, as indicated at 3. Into the flushing tank 6, a

pipe'13 extends to within a short distance.

rom the bottom of the tank, said pipe bein sealed at its upper end in the upper wall 0 the tank. In the present instance such sealing is effected by makin the pipe 13 integral pipe 13 is for the tan To control the filling of the tank and the emptying thereof for flushing purposes, a specially constructed valve casing is used specification, Figure 1 flushing forced to its seat and,

formed leading water into and out of the trated, wherein 14 represents a tubular valve casing provided at its ends respectively with plugs 15 and 16 seated upon gaskets, as is usual in making water tight joints. In this valve casing there is located the reciproeating inlet or fluted stem, and the reciprocating flushing valve 18, whose stem 19 rotrudes through a stufiing boxin cap 15. his stem 19 is also prolonged in the opposite direction and enmechanism 20, which has an inclined hea adjustably connected, through nut 21, to the base by which it is secured to the seat. The connection of the valve casing to the water supply may be made through a nipple, substantially as indicated at 22.

The drawing represents this integral water.

closet with'the parts thereof in their normal ppfiition as whenfiin en the pressure of water is on, the inlet valve 17 is eld to its seat as-show'n and the valve 18 is held off its seat and the seat 5 1s held in a slightly elevated position by the engagement of the valve stem 19 with the valve tripping device 20. When the seat is depressed the flushing valve 18 is by the engagement of the extension of its stem with the stem of valve 17, the latter is unseated and the water from the main is allowed to enter pi e 13 and pass into tank 6. In doing so, t e air in said tank is compressed until its tension e uals that of the pressure of the water in t e mains. Then when the weight is removed from the seat the valve 17 will -take its seat and the valve 18 will be unseated, due in artto the pressure of the air in the tank orcing the water therefrom through pipe 13 into the flushing passages of the bowl, and, in part to the pressure of the water in the mains acting on valve 17 to seat it. The water will continue to flow from the tank through pipe'l3 through the flushing assages and out through the outlet of the bowl until the air compressed in the upper part of the tank has reached atmos heric pressure. The parts will then be in t e position shown in the drawin s and the usual and may be ofsubstantially the form illusvalve 17 withthe usual squared I ters a depression 1n the stem of valve 17. Depending from seat 5 is a valve trippin place and ready for use.

water seal will be left in the owl and all will the combination with the bow and seat, of a flushin tank built around thebowl and ining into the fl ushinp tank and the flushing tegral t erewith, a horizontal valve casing'in passages of the bow the stem of one of sai the upper edge of the combined Walls of the valves engaging the stem of the other, and bowl and tank, Which casing communicates tripping mechanism attached to the seat for 15 5 With the water sup 1y, with the flushing moving said valves to filL the tank, the retank, and with the ushingass'ages of the verse movement of the valve being efieoted bowl, a reciprocatin springiess feed valve by the pressure of the water in the mains. situated in the casing etween the inlet of the HORACE S. RUMSEY. Water supply and the opening into the flush- Witnesses:

10 in tank, a reciprocating springless flushing EVERETT H. SMITH,

va ve situated in the casing etween the open- STANLEY. 'STONER.