US924152A - Apparatus for disposal of garbage. - Google Patents

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A. E. D'UMAS. APPARATUS FOR DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE.

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FKQEO ALFRED E. DUMAS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 5, 1908.

Patented June 8, 1909.

Serial No. 456,241.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED E. DUMAS, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatuses for the Disposal of Garbage, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus, more especially for use in apartment houses having several stories, and with a view to the maintenance of sanitary conditions.

The apparatus comprises a vertical garbage conduit of comparatively large diameter and of sheet metal or other suitable material arranged to extend vertically crosswise relatively to several floors of a building and having openings leading thereinto at the respective floors, with movable closures for said openings, an enlarged inclosed chamber in connection with the lower portion of said conduit having a door for closing and open-. ing at one side thereof, a receptacle supported in said chamber for receiving the more solid and bulky garbage substances, and a waste pipe leading from said enlarged chamber, usually to the sewer; and the apparatus furthermore includes means for water-flushing the vertical garbage conduit as well as other internal parts of the apparatus.

The apparatus includes other provisions, constructions and arrangements for advantages hereinafter rendered apparent. And the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, is described in conjunction therewith, and is set forth in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus'shown as arranged for use at the rear of an apartment house. Fig. 2 is a plan view of an enlarged chamber located at the lower portion of the garbage conduit; Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on line 33, Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a garbage receptacle removably contained in the enlarged chamber; Fig. 5 is a plan view and parts in horizontal section as taken on line 55, Figs. 1 and 6, while Fig. 6 is'a substantially vertical section as taken on line 6-6, Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a partial vertical section as taken on line 77, Fig. 6; and Fig. 8 is a horizontal cross section as seen on the line 8-8 of Fig. 6, looking upward.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

A represents the conduit extending vertically crosswise relative to several floors ac of a building having openings (1 leading thereinto adjacent the respective floors whereby garbage at any fioor may be cast into the vertical .conduit to descend therein into a chambered enlargement C near the bottom of the building which chambered enlargement may advantageously be of rectangular form, as represented in Figs. 2 and 3, having its bottom downwardly convergent and in open communication with a waste pipe I) which connects with a sewer pipe or soil pipe d. The said enlarged chamber C is open at one side and has a hinged. or otherwise movable door C thereat for closing it. The said chambered casing C has at opposite sides near its lower portion rests or ledges e for supporting, and permitting to slide thereon, a deep pan or garbage receptacle having its bottom made of screening or otherwise foraminous, as indicated atf.

G represents a gate horizontally slidable above, and closely in relation to, the top of the garbage receptacleC,its supporting en gagement being on angular ledges or'rests c and this gate or guard may be drawn outwardly, partially, through the side opening of the enlarged casing when the door C is opened; and when so drawn out its imperforate inner end portion 9 has its location directly under the lower end of the garbage conduit, A, which is connected with and opens through substantially the middle portion of the top of the casing C but when the gate G is inwardly slid to its normal position, as shown in Fig. 3, the central aperture 9 therethrough leaves the passage unobstructed to permit the garbage coming down the conduit to fall into the receptacle D.

it represents an annular wall secured to and depending below the top wall of the chamber C, the same having a diameter somewhat larger than that of the garbage conduit; and this annular wall is preferably made downwardly convergent, and forms a pocket when. the gate is partially drawn out, within which garbage thrown down from above,wh1le the receptacle D is being removed and replaced,may be confined and prevented from spreading or banking up on the gate at points remote from its center, or falling over the edge of the gate to pass to the waste pipe.

The garbage conduit A at its portions adjacent the respective floors whereat the garbage entering openings at aforementioned,

are provided, is made with transversely widened enlargements having their bottoms downwardly and inwardly inclined toward the conduit proper whereby they are of hepper or chute shape, these enlargements in addition to having side and inclined bottom walls also, have for each, a top wall i, which, however, only partially covers the hopper shaped enlargement,the remainder thereof being closed by the cover B which is hinged at its inner edge and is provided with a horn or lug j to contribute as a part of valve operating means for the flushing, shortly to be further pointed out.

The garbage conduit has flushing pipes J extending around substantially horizontally in the portions thereof which are provided with and include the hopper enlargements.

E represents a water supply pipe vertically arranged in any suitable proximity to the garbage conduit and having, by connection branches, 7c, water supplying communication with service tank F which respectively rests upon the removable top walls i of the hopper enlargement.

Each service tank is intermediatcly in its height divided by an apertured partition m resting on which is a valve disk n, the stem 0 of which extends downwardly axially within the lower portion of the service tank through a bushing therefor in the top wall t, and has a depending protrusion for a short distance below the atoresaid wall "L.

g represents a lever intermediately pivoted on a bracket therefor within the hopper shaped enlargement, the inner end thereof having a stud and slot engagement, as represented in Fig. 6, with the lower protruding end of the valve stem, while its other extremity has a stud and slot engagement with the short thrust rod which is suitably vertically guided and the upper end of which is in cooperative relation to the aforementioned lug j 011 the cover 6 The upper halves of the cylinders in which the service tanks are comprised will be normally filled with water, while the lower half will be normally empty.

Concurrently with the lii'ting of any one of the covers B to enable a person to throw garbage into the hopper to thence pass'dewn the conduit, the cover lug j by its engagcment with the thrust rod t swings the lever Q and upwardly forces the valve disk through its stem away from its seat on the apertured partition m establishing a descent of water into the lower chamber of the cylinder and from the latter by way of the short connection pipes 12 o, shown in Figs. 7 and 8, to the flushing pipe or channel J, the water issuing through jet holes for rinsing the interior of the conduit and the hopper like enlarge ments thereof.

Fluid or semi-fluid portions of the garbage together with the water used for flushing the apparatus descending into the screen bottomed receptacle D will pass through the latter to the waste pipe, while the substantially solid and bulky portions ol the garbage will be accumulated in the rece 'itacle, to be removed, by withdrawing the latter l'rom within the large chamber as often as occasion therefor may require.

I claim 1. In an apparatus ol' the character described, a vertical garbage conduit having openings leading thereinto at arious places in its height, and movable closures tor said openings, an enlarged rectangular chamber into a substantiallymiddleportion ol the top of which the lower end of the garbage conduit con'nnunicates, said enlarged rectangular chamber having a waste pipe leading from its bottom, and having an opening at one side of approximately the area ol such side, with. a movable door for closing said opening, and said enlarged chamber having opposite horizontal ledges near its lower portion, and a rectangular receptacle, provided with a 'l'oran'iinous bottom, and ol a size to nearly'lill said enlarged chamber, supported on said ledges and horizontally removable through said opening.

2. In an apparatus of the cluiractm described, a conduit extending vertically cross- 7 wise relative to a floor of a building having an opening leading tliereinto adjacent such floor, and a movable closure for said opening, a source of water supply, a connection between such source and said conduit, havin .2 valve, and means actuated by the said movable closure i'or operating said valve.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, a vertical garbage conduit. having transversely widened hopper shaped enlargements and hinged covers for the open tops thereof, a water supply pipe, service tanks connected with the water supply pipe and located above and adjacent each hopper shaped enlargement and having valved means communicating with the interior of such enlargement, and devices actuated by the movement oi each hopper cover and operating the valve oi each service tank.

' 4. In an apparatus of the character described, a vertical garbage conduit having openings adjacent the respective floors of a building and movable covers for said open ings, flushing channels extending around substantially horizontally in the conduit ad jacent said openings, service tanks appurtenant to each flushing channel and having pipe connection therewith, means for supplying water thereinto, valves for controlling the delivery of water therefrom to said llushing channels, and means operated by said covers and operating the service tank valves.

5. In an apparatus of the character de scribed, a vertical garbage conduit having transversely widened hopper shaped enlargelUt ments, adjacent the respective floors of a building, made with top openings, and movable covers for said openings, flushing pipes extending around substantially horizontally in the hopper-provided portions of the conduit, service-tanks above and adjacent each of the enlarged portions of the conduit having water supplying means therefor and having outlet connections with the flushing pipes, valves in the service-tanks for controlling the delivery of water therefrom to the flushing pipes, and means, with which the hopper covers coact, for operating the service tank valves.

6. In an apparatus of the character described, a vertical garbage conduit having a transversely widened hopper shaped enlargement, made with a top 0 ening, and a movable hinged cover for sai opening, a flushing pipe extending around substantially horizontally in the conduit and in the hopper-provided portionthereof, a service-tank above and adjacent the enlarged portion of the conduit, having water supplying means therefor, and having outlet connections with the flushing pipe, a valve in the service-tank for controlling the delivery of water therefrom to the flushing pipe, having a vertical stem depending within the space in the hopper enlargement, and an intermediately pivoted lever, one extremity of which has an operating engagement with the valve stem, while the other extremity thereof is in a coacting relation to said cover lug.

7. In an apparatus for disposal of garbage, a conduit extending vertically crosswise relative to several floors of a building having openings leading thereinto at the respective floors and movable closures for said openings,

an enlarged inclosed chamber in connection with a lower portion of said conduit having a door, a receptacle supported in and trans versely removable from said chamber, a waste conduit leading from a lower portion of said enlarged chamber, and a gate above the place of occu ancy of the receptacle, llOIlzontally movab e and operative to prevent solid and bulky substances from passing to the waste conduit.

8. In an apparatus of the character described, a vertical garbage conduit having openings leading thereinto at various places in its height and movable closures for sald openings, an enlarged chamber through a substantially middle portion of which the lower end of the garbage conduit communicates, and said enlarged chamber having a waste pipe leading from its bottom and having a movable door at one side, opposite hor1- zontal ledges near its lower portion and a receptacle having a foraminous bottom supported on said ledges and horizontally removable, a gate horizontally slidable above the location of the receptacle, adapted in its normal position to leave free passage from the garbage conduit to the receptacle when moved to temporarily prevent substances from downwardly passing by the gate, and an annular wall secured to and depending below the top wall of the enlarged chamber having a diameter larger than that of the garbage conduit.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED E. DUMAS.

Witnesses:

ALFRED J. PHANEUF, WM. S. BELLows.

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