Domestic plumbing and water service / by William White.

  • White, William
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic plumbing and water service / by William White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would be obtained. Their nozzle (n, Figs. 3 and 4) for the inlet service pipe would be far too small to allow of a sufficient quantity of water being ad- mitted for proper flushing; in fact, in order to keep such basins clear, it is the common practice to throw down a pail of water occasionally. Cheap and common sorts of the Shrewsbury closet will necessarily be required in many cases, for cottages, and for servants’ offices. In order to meet these requirements, arrangements have been made for their supply, of the proper form under the patent, for adaptation to the new waste-preventing flusher. (33) . In the hopper or flushing basin, to be used with the water-waste-preventing flusher just described, there is provision for rinsing the sides. The two-inch pipe p is brought down, through a notch or indention (Fig. 7) over the edge of the basin without interception or interruption by any joint or other inequality, and the full force of the water is thus still given to the operation of flush- ing. (34) . It may be useful to make further notice here of the form of the hopper basin ordinarily in use, and to examine into the reason why the water does not properly flush it out. It will be seen that the water coming down the sides almost vertically into the pan (Figs. 3 and 4, § 18) its direction in rebound is almost vertical also. Its force is lost in eddy, after being spent in vain upon the surface, and hence it has no natural tendency to run in the