US1130046A - Water-closet. - Google Patents

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E. G. WATRGUS.

WATER CLOSET.

APPLICATION rum MAY 21. 1907.

1,1 30,046. Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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E. G. WATROUS.

WATER CLOSET.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21,1907.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EARL G. WATROUS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO FEDERAL-HUBER 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

WATEB-CIDSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EARL G. WATROUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ater-Closets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to water closets and the object thereof is to provide a water closet so constructed and arranged as to project from a side wall of a room or the like and to be supported by the usual soil pipe located in the wall, as distinguished from the usual construction of water closet which rests upon the floor.

My form of water closet is particularly advantageous and finds useful application in cement construction of buildings inasmuch as such closet does not require the usual floor connections for which reason the usual thin floors of cement buildings may be employed, and inasmuch as also the usual thin side walls may be utilized without any necessity of building an false structure for the water connections. KIoreover, when my form of closet is used less obstruction of the floor space of the room is occasioned and a more sanitary arrangement and a better appearance are provided. Furthermore my construction of water closet has the additional advantage of ready and convenient attachment and detachment as hereinafter made apparent.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of my new form and arrangement of water closet shown in position on a side wall of a room and supported by a soil pipe; Fig. 2 a plan view thereof; Fig. 3 a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 a detail view of the anchoring ring whereby the bowl of the water closet is securely held in place by the soil pipe.

The same reference characters are used in the several figures to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the present embodiment of invention as illustrated in the drawings the bowl 1 of the water closet is of the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 which represents the same construction of bowl proper as illustrated in my United States Patent No, 804,6l4 issued to me on November 14, 1905, in which such bowl is provided with the rimflush 2 and a jet 3 and also a discharge passage 4. When the water is admitted to the which is indicated in the drawings and such bowl is adapted to be connected with and supported by the soil pipe 6. To this end I provide a ring 7 which surrounds the usual hub or lateral connection 6* of the soil pipe and is adapted to be removably secured to such connection in suitable manner as by means of the pair of set screws 8 passing through opposite sides of the ring and hearing against said hub 6. This ring has lugs or extensions 9 which project r-adiall therefrom and are provided with screw t ireaded holes 9". These holes are adapted to receive the clamping bolts 10 which as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 extend through a portion of the structure of the bowl and abut at their heads against the surfaces or shoulders 1" formed on the bowl structure. The bowl being thus secured to the anchoring ring and the latter being in turn secured to the soil pipe, the closet bowl is consequently firmly supported by the soil )ipe, without any support or connection with the floor of the room so that the floor space below the bowl is open and unobstructed.

It will be understood that the discharge passage 4 communicates at its rear end with the soil pipe so as to discharge directly thereinto, the trap being formed as a part i;

of the bowl wherein an effectual water seal is provided. According to the present construction this discharge passage has a flanged extension 4 which extends into the hub 6 of the soil pipe and moreover in the illustrated construction and by preference I provide such hub with an internal sleeve or collar 11 in order to provide a standard size of diameter as to the opening into the soil pipe. This sleeve is provided with a marginal flange 12 between which and the bottom of an annular socket 13 in the bowl structure is interposed a gasket or other packing 14 so as to seal the joint between the closet bowl and the hub of the soil pipe,

it being understood that the extension 4 of the discharge passage extends into the sleeve 11 for a suitable distance. By preference packing 15 is interposed between the hub 6 and the sleeve 11. It will be clear that the sleeve or collar 11 constitutes a pressure device against the lower half of which the bowl fulcrums when weight is imposed thereon so as to translate the strains so imposed, by simple leverage, into an outward pull on the bolts 10.

It is evident that my form and construction of closet may be readily installed by simply applying and securing the anchoring ring 7 to the hub of the usual soil pipe and then placing the bowl in position and screwing up the bolts 10 and making the connection 16 with the water supply for supplying the water to the bowl through the slow-closing valve mechanism shown at 5. With equal facility the bowl may be removed by simply disconnecting the connection 16 and removing the bolts 10.

While I have shown and described the installation of a single water closet in connection with an ordinary character of vertical line of soil pipe it will be understood th t a series or range of these closets may be provided and connected with a common and substantially horizontal soil pipe adapted to serve all of the closet bowls through suitable connection therewith. My form of closet is thus applicable to cement construction of buildings for the same may be readily installed regardless of the fact that such buildings have thin floors and side walls and without providing special thickness of floor and walls or building any false work thereon to accommodate the closet and its connections. \Vhere the wall is rather thin as shown, the connection between the soil pipe and bowl is a short one but where the wall is thicker the bowl may be attached to the hub indirectly as by a sleeve connection or the hub may be lengthened.

I claim:

1. In combination with a soil pipe having a lateral connection, an anchoring member firmly seated upon said connection and provided with lateral extensions having openings therein, a closet bowl arranged to project from a side wall and provided with openings in alinement with the openings in said extensions, and devices passing through said alined openings for rigidly connecting the bowl to said anchoring member, so that the bowl is wholly supported from said pipe.

2. In combination with a soil pipe having a lateral connection, an anchoring ring adjustably mounted on said connection and pro ided with lateral extensions having o 'ienings therein, a closet bowl arranged to project from a side wall and provided with openings in alinement with the openings in said extensions, and bolts passing through said alined openings for rigidly connecting the bowl to said anchoring ring, so that the bowl is wholly supported by the soil pipe.

3. In combination with a soil pipe having a lateral connection, a bowl having abutments on each side and distant from the rear of the bowl toward the front, a ring surrounding and secured to said lateral connection and provided with lateral extensions opposite said shoulders on the bowl, and bolts engaging said extensions and said shoulders to rigidly clamp the bowl to said lateral connection, so that the bowl is wholly supported from the soil pipe.

4. In combination with a soil pipe having a lateral connection, a closet bowl having a tubular projection at the rear, said projection being surrounded by a bearing surface, shoulders extending from the rear of the bowl toward the front, a ring surrounding and secured upon said lateral extension, and provided with lateral lugs opposite said shoulders on the bowl an abutting member within said connection and surrounding said tubular projection, said abutting member engaging said bearing surface at the rear of the bowl, whereby the pressure of the bowl is transmitted through said abutting member to the soil pipe, and bolts engaging said lugs and said shoulders to clamp the bowl to said ring, so that the bowl is wholly supported from the soil pipe.

5. In combination with a soil pipe having a lateral connection, an anchoring ring surrounding and secured to said connection, and a closet bowl rigidly secured to said ring, so that the bowl is wholly supported from the Soil pipe.

6. In combination with a soil pipe having a lateral connection, a ring surrounding said connection and having extensions provided with holes, set screws for removably and adjustably securing said ring to said connection, a closet bowl arranged to project from a side wall and provided with openings in alinement with the openings in said extensions, and bolts passing through said alined openings for rigidly connecting the bowl to said ring, so that the bowl is wholly supported from the soil pipe.

7. In combination with a soil pipe having a lateral connection, a ring surrounding and secured to said connection, a flanged abutting sleeve arranged in said connection, a closet bowl arranged to project from a side wall and rigidly secured to said ring, so that the bowl is wholly supported from the soil pipe, the pressure of the bowl being transmitted to the soil pipe through said abutting sleeve, and packing interposed between said sleeve and the bowl for sealing the joint.

8. In a water closet. the combination of a soil pipe provided with a lateral connection, means whereby the bowl is secured to said lateral connection, including abutting members whereby the pressure of the bowl is transmitted to the soil pipe.

9. Ina water closet of the class described, a soil pipe provided with a lateral connection, means arranged to take about said connection whereby the bowl is removably held against the side wall, and mechanism adapted to take against the rear side of the bowl to transmit the pressure of the bowl to the soil pipe.

10. In a combination with a soil pipe and its lateral connection, a closet bowl having a rear or wall discharge and arranged to project from a side wall, means taking about the latter connection whereby the bowl is i'emovably held against the side wall, and mechanism adapted to take against the rear face of the bowl and transmit the pressure to the soil pipe.

'11. In a combination with a soil pipe provided with adateral connection, a yoke surrounding and removably secured to said connection, a closet bowl secured to and supported laterally by said yoke and having a discharge passage communicating with said connection, and means adapted to take against the rear face of the bowl whereby the pressure is transmitted to the lateral connection.

12. A wall bowl having bolt passages eX- tending through the body of the bowl from the rear thereof and terminating in shoulders on each side of the bowl, said shoulders being distant from the rear of the bowl toward its front, thus adapting the bowl to be wholly supported by bolts passed through said passages and attached to a support.

13. In combination a bowl, a piping system including a discharge from said bowl, a supporting member surrounding said discharge and fastened to the piping system and to the bowl, the bowl being supported wholly from the piping system.

14. In combination with a soil pipe having a lateral connection, a bowl having shoulders on each side and distant from the rear of the bowl toward the front, a ring surrounding and secured to said lateral connection and provided with lateral extensions opposite said shoulders on the bowl, and bolts engaging said extensions and said shoulders to rigidly clamp the bowl to said lateral connection so that the bowl is wholly supported from thesoil pipe.

15. The combination of a bowl having a vertical rear face adapted to fit up flush against a side wall or partition and pro vided with a discharge opening in said face and a soil pipe, with a member arranged to come intermediate of the discharge opening of the bowl and the soil-pipe, said member being provided with arms arranged to eX- tend beyond the median line of the member and above the periphery thereof, and means whereby an adjustableconnection between the bowl and the arms of said member is efiected.

16. Bowl sustaining means, comprising means adapted to be secured to a support, a portion of said latter means being adjustable so that the relative position of the support and a bowl located adjacent thereto will be maintained, and strains on the bowl be transmitted to the support.

17. The combination of a bowl having a vertical rear face provided with a discharge opening and taking against a side wall or partition, and a soil-pipe located on the opposite side of the wall or partition, with. means for securing the bowl in place against the wall or partition, a portion of said means being adjustable to relieve the wall or partition of the pressure of the bowl.

18. In a water closet, the combination of a bowlhaving a discharge-opening in the rear face thereof, said bowl being provided with a vertical rear face taking up flush against a side wall or partition, with a soil pipe, retaining means secured to the soil-pipe, and means,a portion whereof extends through the bowl and engages with said first mentioned means to secure the bowl in place, while the other portion of said means transmits pressure from the bowl to the pipe. 19. In a water closet, the combination of a soil-pipe, a bowl provided with a vertical rear face adapted to take up lush against a side wall or partition, means whereby the bowl may be adjusted in its relation to the soil-pipe against'the wall or partition, and strains transmitted to the soil-pipe.

20. In a water closet of the class described, a soil-pipe, a bowl provided with a vertical rear face adapted to take against a partition or side wall, means whereby the bowl is suspended from the soil-pipe and held against the wall or partition, and adjustable mechanism intermediate of the bowl and pipe whereby the rear face of the bowl ma v be held flush against the wall or partition with the strains on the bowl transmitted to the soil-pipe.

21. The combination of a bowl adapted to be suspended against a side wall or partition, a soil-pipe. and a discharge connection extending through the wall or partition and intermediate ol' the bowl and the soil-pipe, with means located intermediate =of the bowl and pipe. and having adjustable relation with the bowl whereby the relative position of the bowl to the pipe is maintained and strains on the bowl taken up by said means.

In combination in a wall closet. a bowl having an outlet and a bearing portion engaging the front of a partition. piping connected to the outlet and lying to the rear of the partition, a bearing plate supported entirely by said piping indepeinlent of the partition, and means independent of the connection between the piping and outlet for securing the said bearing portion to the bearing plate.

23. In combination in a wall closet, a bowl having a bearing portion engaging the front of a partition and having an outlet through such bearing portion, piping to the rearof the partition connected to the said outlet, a bearing plate mounted rigidly against lateral movement upon the piping by supporting means independent of .the connection to the outlet, and connections in the partition between the bearing portion and the plate whereby the bowl is held against movement toward or from the bearing plate.

24. In apparatus of the class described, a partition, a water closet bowl adjacent thereto, a support extending behind the partition, means for supporting said bowl wholly from said support including means to maintain the relative position of the bowl and the support.

25. In apparatus of the class described,

a partition, a support behind the partition, a bowl in front thereof and having a vertical rear face adapted to fit snugly thereagainst, means for attaching the bowl to the support to be carried thereby said means passing through the partition, including means to transfer strains arising in or transmitted to the bowl to the support and not to the partition.

26. In apparatus of the class described, a support, a partition in front thereof, a water closet bowl adapted to fit up flush against the partition, means for connecting the bowl to the support and an adjustable pressure means adapted to abut the rear face of the bowl, whereby the bowl is supported wholly b the support and the partition relieved 0 strains arising in or transmitted to said bowl.

EARL G. WATROUS.

Witnesses:

S. E. HIBBEN, LOUIS B. ERWIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

( Washington, D. 0.

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