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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



kitchen purposes. It occupies very small space, and can be 

 attached to any boiler now in use, at small expense. 



[c/3 silver medal awarded. 



Car)'''s Self-acting Pan Water Closet. 



Sawyer & Carr, 3 Bedford street. New- York. 



The weight of a person on 

 ^; the seat of the closet, de- 

 ^ presses the rod C, when 

 the valve B descends and 

 the plugF takes its place. 

 This movement of the 

 valve causes a momentary 

 dash* of water to pass into 

 and around the closet ba- 

 sin 0, thereby preventing 

 the adherence of soil, etc., 

 but the instant the plug 

 F, enters the jjart previously occupied by the valve B, it immedi- 

 ately prevents any more water running while the closet is being 

 used. On the person's weight being removed from the seat, the 

 stem H of the cock rises, thereby lifting the plug F from its seat. 

 The water now commences to flow into the closet basin, and the 

 projection of the rod C catching under the latch M, lifts off the 

 brass lever R from the iron weight P, which allows the pan to 

 unlock and drop to its full extent, emptying its contents. In 

 order to have the pan thoroughly washed out and cleansed, it is 

 retained in this open position by the crook at the end of the brass 

 lever R, dropping into the notch S of the weight P, and holding 

 it there until the rod C in gradually rising, lifts up the crook, 

 when the weight P, (being now the heaviest, as the pan is empty,) 

 drops and closes up the pan, — but the valve B is not yet up to its 

 place, as it is regulated to run sufficiently after the closing of the 

 pan, to leave the latter full of clean water, when it is again ready 

 for use, [j? silver medal awarded. 



