Specification of Bridge Baron Standen : collecting and treating excrementitious matters.
- Standen, Bridge Baron.
- Date:
- 1873
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Specification of Bridge Baron Standen : collecting and treating excrementitious matters. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Standens Improvements in Collecting, 8fc. I]xcrementitious Matters. view, but by the depression of the front part of the seat in use these side plates open for a free passage, and then the ejectments drop into a receptacle placed in position to receive them below. But that the Invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe means pursued by me in carrying the same into effect. 5 Description of the Drawings. Eigure 1 shews a plan view; Eigure 2 an under side view ; Eigure 3 a sectional front view; and Eigure 4 a transverse section of a privy or closet arranged according to the first head of the Invention with the parts of it in the position they would assume when not used by a person 10 sitting on the seat. Eigure 5 shews a plan view ; Eigure 6 an under side view; Eigure 7 a sectional front view; and Eigure 8 a cross section, shewing the position the parts assume when in use by a person sitting on the seat. a is the seat, and b the ordinary hole therein. This seat is formed to 15 rock on centres or axes <?, c3 and there are weights applied to the back part thereof with a tendency to keep that part depressed and the front edge thereof raised, or the like effect may be obtained by spring pressure. d, / and 9> are the four plates applied to the under side of the seat. The plates d and e are fixed stationary to the seat, and the plates / 20 and g are affixed to rods forming axes /1 and g\ suspended so as to turn freely in necks applied to the under side of the seat to enable these plates / and g to turn freely between the plates d and e. The rods or axes/*1 and gl are bent at one of their ends into a crank form as at f2, g2, and the ends /3, /, thereof pass into eyes applied to the stationary parts 25 surrounding the seat. When the front part of the seat a is raised by not being sat upon the tendency is to cause the lower ends /4, g4, of the plates /and g to bear against each other at their lower edges as represented by Eigures 1, 2, 3, and 4. On the contrary when the front edge of the seat a is depressed 30 in use by being sat upon the action of the cranks /2, g2, is to cause the plates/ and g to separate and allow of the free passage of the ejectments to a receptacle which may be wheeled or otherwise placed in the position of the dotted lines h. The relative position of the moveable and stationary plates may be 35 varied, and the receptacles are moveable so that when one is filled](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30758233_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
