Improved apparatus for disinfecting water-closets, lavatories, and other similar conveniences / [William Leadbeater Simmons].

  • Simmons, William Leadbeater.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improved apparatus for disinfecting water-closets, lavatories, and other similar conveniences / [William Leadbeater Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 10 15 20 25 Date of Application, 23rd May, 1888 Specification Accepted, 6th July, 1888 A.D. 1888, 2,W Mar. N° 7602. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improved Apparatus for Disinfecting1 Water-closets, Lavatories, and other similar Conveniences. We, William Leadbeater Simmons of 201 High Street, Stoke Newington, London, in the County of Middlesex and Ebenezer Albert Simmons of 61 Bavston Road Stoke Newington in the County of Middlesex, Carpenters do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to bo particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— This apparatus consists of a Box or tank with a metal lining which contains the disinfecting fluid. In this box or tank are fixed levers attached to a hollow vessel or tube, one end of which is hinged at the bottom of the box or tank and which com¬ municates by means of a valve with a discharge pipe outside the box, in connection with the water closet or other convenience to be disinfected. These levers are actuated by a handle which is outside the box, and which upon being turned moves the levers and raises the hollow vessel or tube into an oblique or vertical position opening at the same time the valve at the base of the hollow vessel or tube and thus is discharged into the pipe beyond a fixed quantity of liquid which the said hollow vessel or tube will hold. At the end of the lever attached to the hollow vessel or tube is a projecting stop to prevent the hollow vessel or tube passing an oblique or vertical position. When the handle is released it returns to its nornal position by means of a weight attached to a lever in connection with the hollow vessel or tube, this hollow vessel or tube then falls into its original horizontal position at the bottom of the box, at the same time closing the valve and preventing any further outlet, and is thereby refilled with disinfecting fluid for the next discharge. In order that the nature of my said improvements may be the more fully understood I will proceed to describe the several figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed, all of which figures are marked with the like letters of reference throughout. Figure 1. is a section taken longitudinally shewing the Box or tank which holds the disinfecting fluid, when the mechanism is in its normal position and the valve at the base of tube is closed, in which A. A. is the Box or tank. B. is the hollow vessel or tube. C and C1 are the levers tor raising the hollow* vessel or tube. D is the [Price 6c?.]