US104270A - Improvement in earth-closers - Google Patents

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matted tatra @anni @imita LEWIS Gr. CLOCK, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent No. 104,270, dated Tame 14, 1870.

IMPRovEMnNT INBARTH-cnosrrrs. y.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same vwith my invention applied thereto, such invention consisting in a peculiarmechanism for discharging into the hud, o1` excrement receptacle, earth from the hopper.

In the drawing- A denotes the seat;

B,'the lid or cover thereof', the said cover being hinged to a stationary cleat, a.

In rear of and above the seat is the hopper or earthreservoir C, which, at bottom, is open, so as to discharge upon a platform, D, arranged below the hopper and seat, and in rea-r and aside of such seat.

0n the said platform is a discharger, E, composed of a sexies of arms, b b, extending radially and at equal distances apart from ahorizontal ratchet, c, ha-ving teeth arranged on its upper side.`

Figure 3 is a top view, and

Figure 4, a side View of such discharger, the teeth of its ratchet being shown at d.

There is arranged on the seat, and so as to play through' au opening, e, madein the cleat, a slider, f, which has pivoted to it a `pawl, g, to operate against the teeth of the ratchet. 4

Furthermore, there is a short arm or tooth, It, pro'- jected from-the rear edge of the seat and into an open-'- ing, fi, made in the slider f. i v

Figure 5 is a top view ofthe slider and its pawl. Figure 6 being a side view of them.

Ou raising the coverfrom oft' the seat, the toothv will move the slider toward the hole of' the seat, and thereby draw the pawl back on the ratchet; but, while the cover is being depressed, the tooth will :move the slider and advance the pawl against the ratchet, so'as to turn it through a part of a circle, whereby the'discharger will be caused to force oft'v the platform and A into the hod or excl-ement-` receptacle under the seat, a quantity of earth.

The diseharger, by its peculiar construction, and its arrangement with the hopper and platforl,`will prevent unnecessary waste or escape of earth from the hopper.

The arms of the dischar'ger should be Aarranged at such distances apart that neither of them shall be directly underneath the seat-hole when the cover is raised to its highest position, or when a person may be sitting on the seat.

- I claim as my invention- The discharger E and its operative mechanism, viz., the tooth h, the slider j, the pawl g, and ratchet c, combined with the hopper C, the platform D, the seat A, and its cover B, the whole being substantially as and to operate as specied.`

LEWIS G.CLOCK. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. It. Snow.

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