. 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 . tus sketched at Fig. 15lr is known as the Universalcloset, and consists of a roomy pottery ware basin, resting upon acast iron stench trapped base. The pulling up of the handle in. thiscase effects the flushing, and not the pressing down. The supplyvalve is fitted with a regulator, adjustable to any pressure of this closet also an inspection door is placed on the trap, so as
. 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 . tus sketched at Fig. 15lr is known as the Universalcloset, and consists of a roomy pottery ware basin, resting upon acast iron stench trapped base. The pulling up of the handle in. thiscase effects the flushing, and not the pressing down. The supplyvalve is fitted with a regulator, adjustable to any pressure of this closet also an inspection door is placed on the trap, so as topermit of the soil pipe being cleared out without unseating the closet,or sending for a carpenter. Another practical feature in it is that itstands on its own base, and needs no propping up. All three of theabove can be adopted with success. They are manufactured andsupplied by Mr. B. Finch, of the Holborn Sanitary Works, London,and are the patents of Mr. Stidder. Closet Range—Deodorizing Closet. The foregoing may be said to represent the closets now in use in the majority of houses, hut there remains a classof apparatus chiefly de-signed for workmen on afarm or factory of anykind, which I must allude. I bs to in order to render the series more complete. This is known as theWater Closet Bange, and an illustration of the system is given at151 rr. Familiarly speaking, it is a trough with an egg-shapedbottom, deepest at the discharge end. The egress pipe at the lowerend has a socket valve, acted upon by a lever in the usual water supply is at the highest part of the trough, and consistsof a service pipe with self-acting ball-cock apparatus. If there is asewer the connection therewith is made at the lower end of the trough,or if none, the soil can be discharged into an ashpit or dry earthreceptacle. The sketch here given shows a closet range for five per-sons, with seats merely, and without partitions for privacy, but theselast can be fitted up in a variety of w
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