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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Bartholomew's Pan and Hopper Closet Valve. 

 F. H. Bartholomew, 84 Marion street. New- York. 



The drawing, figure one, represents an improvement in the 

 ordinary Pan Water Closet, the purpose of which is to save the 

 expense and room required for cistern, service box, ball cock, 

 overflow pipe, crank- wires, or air vessel, so that the whole fixture 

 shall be arranged beneath the seat-board, out of sight; while the 

 valve shall be placed upon the top of the trunk of the closet, 

 enclosed in a safe, or drip-box, so that all the waste from the 

 pipe, between the valve and the basin, and any leakage that may 

 possibly take place about the valve or the couplings, shall go 

 directly into the closet, and cannot therefore wet the floor, how- 

 ever much the valve shall leak. E is the safe, or drip-box, which 



Bartholomow's Pan and Hopper Closet Valve. 



