US1041887A - Area-cesspool. - Google Patents

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G. W. SCHODDE.

A REA GESSPOOL. APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 23, 1909.

Patented 001;. 22, 1912.

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

GEORGE W. SCHODDE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR IO FANNY J'. MEYER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AREA-CESSPOOL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Scnonnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Area-Cesspools, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in plumbing and the same has for its object more particularly to provide an area or courtyard drain which may be readily connected to a waste or drain pipe, and which is so constructed as to be readily taken apart to remove any solid matter which may gather or collect therein.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide an area cesspool by means of which all water or fluid entering the same may be fully drained off andthus prevent the freezing of fluid therein and the cracking or breaking of the cesspool.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a cesspool having a catch-basin in the form of an inner receptacle provided with outlets which catch-basin may be bodily removed from the cesspool when it becomes necessary to clean the same, or obtain access tothe waste pipe or drain leading therefrom.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connect-ion and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a sectional View of an area cesspool constructed according to and embodying my said invention, said section being taken on the'line 1'-1 of Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is a top view partly broken away to show the interior of the cesspool, and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view showing the catch-basin removed from the cesspool.

In said drawings 10 designates an outer receptacle which is herein shown as of rec tan ular outline and having its sides 11, 11 inclined and stepped to produce a shoulder Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 23,1909.

Patented Oct. 22, 1912.

Serial No. 514,196.

12. At the bottom of said receptacle is pro vided a sleeve portion 13 within which may be secured one end of a waste pipe or drain, and along the upper edge of said receptacle 10 is provided a laterally-projecting recessed flange l0.

14 denotes a flashing of lead or other suitable material, which surrounds the reduced end of said outer receptacle and is secured against the underside of the shoulder 1.2 by means of a rectangular collar 15 and screws 16 extending through said collarand flashing into said receptacle 10. Upon the inner side of the receptacle 10 adjacent to its corners are provided lugs 16 16.

17 denotes a removable catch-basin which is made substantially rectangular in outline with tapered sides and provided at its upper edge with a laterally-projecting rectangular flange 18 of unequal width but conforming in outline substantially with the interior of the receptacle 10, and adapted to be supported upon the upper ends of the projections 16 16 upon the inner sides of said receptacle.

The catch-basin 17 and its flange 18 are so arranged that the body portion of the catch-basin when in position within the re ceptacle 10 will be nearer to one of its edges than the remaining edges or sides of said receptacle 10 in order to provide a relatively wide free space 19 through which fluid may pass to the waste pipe or drain. Along the corners of said catch-basin 17 are provided apertures 20, 20, and along the upper edge of said catch-basin at'the side which is farthest removed from the innersurface of the receptacle 10 is provided a transverse opening 21 protected by a grating consisting lect in said catch-basin. 24 denotes a cover having its central portion dished and provided with apertures 25 25. At one of the edges of said cover are provided projecting lugs 26 26 which are adapted to extend into recesses arranged in the inner recessed edge of the flange 10 and at the opposite edge of said cover 24 is provided a revoluble looking device consisting of a stud 27 having a projection 28 at its lower end adapted to engage the undersideof a shoulder 29 at the inner edge of the flange 10 and at its upper edge said stud is provided with a flat head 30 having apertures therein (not seen) to receive a key or spanner whereby said locking device may be rotated to secure or release said cover.

The operation of the device is obvious. It may be stated, however, that the fluid matter which enters the receptacle 10 through its perforated cover passes into the" catch-basin 17 and issues initially through the lowermost of the apertures 20 20 arranged at the four corners of said catchbasin. When said catch-basin becomes filled, however, with solid matter the fluid will thence pass over the top of said solid matter which may have collected therein and pass through the transverse opening 21 near its upper" edge and thence downwardly into the space 19, and passtinto the waste pipe or drain connected to the sleeve portion 13 at the base of said outer receptacle.

It will be noted that in my improved construction it will be impossible for any fluid matter to collectuwithin the receptacle 10 or the catch-basin 17 owing to the arrangement of the apertures therein, and that when the same is filled with solid matter the fluid may still find its way through either the transverse opening 21 in the top thereof, or over the edge of the flange 18 and thence pass between the edge of the flange 18 and the inner wall of the receptacle. The space between the edge of the flange and the inner edge of the receptacle 10being very small will prevent any solid matter passing into the receptacle 10 or the waste pipe leading therefrom.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Admin comprising a receptacle consisting of a body portion and a reduced base portion, a flashing having an angular inner edge disposed about said base portion, a collar surrounding said reduced base portion having its lower edge arranged substantially flush with the angular edge of said flashing, and means for securing said collar and flashing to said receptacle, substantially as speci- 2. A drain comprising a receptacle consisting of a body portion and a reduced base portion, a flashing having an angular inner edge disposed about said reduced base portion, a collar having a horizontal portion and a depending portion thereon, havroams? said collar having a horizontal end and inclined portion depending therefrom, said depending portion having its lower edge arranged substantially flush with the angular edge of said flashing, and means for securing the horizontal portion of said collar against the under side of the body portion of said receptacle and securing the angular edge of. said flashing against the inclined portion of saidreceptacle, substantially as 4;. 0A drain comprising an outer receptacle, a shoulder on said receptacle, a flashing disposed about said outer receptacle, a collar arranged below said flashing, means for securing said flashing and collar against the shoulder on said outer receptacle, an inner substantially closed receptacle open at its top and provided with a laterally projecting flange, apertures at the vertical edges thereof, and a transverse opening extending across one side of said inner receptacle adjacent to its upper edge, a series of vertical, parallel members extendin over said transverse opening, and hand es arranged opposite to each other upon the inner sides of said inner receptacle, substantially as specified.

5. A drain comprising a rectangular outer receptacle consisting of a body portion and a reduced base portion, lugs provided upon the inner surface of said body portion above the reduced end thereof, a flashing disposed about said reduced base portion, a collar arranged below said flashing, screws extending through said collar'and flashing and into said body portion whereby to secure said flashing in position thereon, an inner receptacle corresponding in outline generally with said outer receptacle, said inner receptacle being open at its top and provided with a laterally-projecting flangerof uneven width whereby to support said in ner receptacle within said outer receptacle nearer to one of the edges thereof, apertures arranged at the vertical edges of said inner receptacle, a transverse opening arranged at one of the sides of said inner receptacle farthest removed from the innersurface of said outer receptacle, a series of vertical,

amass? 3 aperture therein, handles arranged upon ninth day of June, nineteen hundred and said inner receptacle, and a perforated cover eight.

disposed within the open top of said outer GEORGE W. SCI-IODDJE. receptacle, substantially as specified. Witnesses; 5 Signed at the city of New York, in the CONRAD A. DIETERIOH,

county and State of New York, this twenty- ANNIE R. ANGUS.

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