US881543A - Portable lavatory. - Google Patents

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No. 881,543. PATENTED MAR. 10, 1908. A. W. GALE.

PORTABLE LAvAToRY.

APPLIUATION FILED DBO. 26. 1905. 1

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PORTABLE LAVATORY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 10, 1908.

Application led December 26, 1905. VSerial N o. 293,203.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. CALE, a citizen of the United v States, residing at Alberta, in the county of Stevens and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Lavatories; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient lavatory orwashstand, especially adapted for use in rural districts, small towns, and elsewhere Where houses are not provided with modern plumbinand city water slplply.`

o the above ends, t e invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters lndicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 shows the improved lavatory inside elevation; and Fig. 2 shows the same in parts being broken away and some sectioned.

The numeral 1 indicates the bowl or wash basin, which fits in the open upper end of, and is supported by, a ailv2.v In its bottom, the basin 1 is provided) with a drain passage that is adapted to be closed by a stop er 3. The rim of the basin 1 prjects slight y bcyond the rim of the pail 2, so that it may be readily picked up and removed from the pail. The pall, as shown, is provided with the usual bail 4.

To su port the pail with the bowl 1 at the proper e evation, for use by an adult or other person, 4I rovide a light stand, preferably of skeleton orm, and constructed entirely of metal. This stand, as shown, is rovided with four legs 5, that are braced an( tied together somewhat above their lower ends by cross-bars 6. One of the legs 5 is much longer than the other three, and extends above the pail, and has a soap-dish 7 secured to its upper end. The support for the pail is formed by a pair of horizontally crossed tiebars 8 that are secured to the four le s 5 considerably above the lower ends of t e three short legs. The stopper 3 is attached to the lower end of a chain 9, the upper end of which is attached to the u per portion of the long leg 5, so that the saidpstopper cannot be displaced or lost.

The use of the device is obvious. Th(I soiled Water in the basin 1 is allowed to run into the catch pail 2 whenever the stopper 3 is pulled up and unseated. When the soiled water z in the pail 2 raises above the bottom of the basin 1, the water Will stand in the basin, and that will, of course, indicate that the pail should be ein tied. There is, thereforo, no danger that t e pail 2 will overflow. The device is both sanitary and convenient. It offers the best possible substitute for the lavatory of a modern plumbing system.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

The combination with a stand having legs 5 and transversely crossed lower and u per tie bars 6 and 8 rigidly connecting said egs, said bars 8 being located below the upper ends of said legs, of a pail arranged to rest upon the upper bars 8 and to be detachably held in posltion by the upwardly projecting ends of said legs, a basin fitting the top of said pail and provided with a drain passage in its bottom, a stopper detachably fitting said drain passage, a flexible connection attached to said stopper, one of the said legs 5 being extended above the said pail and basin, and the said flexible connection being attached thereto, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR W. CALE.

Witnesses:

WM. C. BICKNELL, 'HENRY T. RONNING.

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