. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . ermoves back some earth is deposited on this reception table or earth is measured out between two slides in the shoot; andsmells from the soil, or rising currents of air through the shoot, areprevented by plates of iron and by the position of the scraper. Ibelieve that Mr. Bostel has just concluded some improvements inthese closets. Another patentee, Mr. Joseph Heap, of the C
. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . ermoves back some earth is deposited on this reception table or earth is measured out between two slides in the shoot; andsmells from the soil, or rising currents of air through the shoot, areprevented by plates of iron and by the position of the scraper. Ibelieve that Mr. Bostel has just concluded some improvements inthese closets. Another patentee, Mr. Joseph Heap, of the City-road,Manchester, has also brought out a very good closet of this descrip-tion, the chief features of which consist in the peculiar damper forregulating the quantity of earth, and in an arrangement for siftingthe earth in case it is too wet, or of a mixed and fibry nature. The designs Fig. 155 and Fig. 156 represent Parkers PatentAutomaton Earth Closet, manufactured by him at Woodstock,Oxfordshire, and here the earth shoot moves out of the way whenthe pressure is upon the seat. Eig. 155 illustrates the ordinarychair pattern; but his 1a chair pattern is a more finished article, 84 American Earth being panelled throughout, and also made with an easy slope to theback. Fig. 156 shows a closet of this description for indoor use,made to resemble a chest of drawers, when the top flap is pulled downupon the seat. The earth hoppers are in the wings. He also sells acheap out-door closet, made for fixing over a pit, either single orin rows, being in fact a skeleton apparatus. The whole are madeself-acting. The Americans are not a whit behind us in these closets; andI cannot forbear figuring at Fig. 157 what must surely be the ne plusultra of simplicity in a portable earth commode. All valves andmechanism are repudiated, and nothing more elaborate than a pairof hinges can be found about it. I show it both shut and open, andin the latter state the action of the leg support is w
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