US1524306A - Flushing device - Google Patents

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Jan. 27. I 925.

L. PEARCH FLUSHING DEVICE Filed Feb. 23, 1922 20 n L 11 19 20 j 12 7 5,- 7 6 Lillian Pearck ag herww Patented Jan. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES LILLIAN PEARCH, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FLUSHING DEVICE.

Application filed February 23, 1922. Serial No. 538,527.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LILLIAN PnAnoH, a

citizen of the United States, and residing at Flatbush, Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvemerits in Flushing Devices, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to flushing devices and particularly to devices of this class de signed for use in cleaning out drain pipes and traps of sinks, basins, tubs and the like, and the object of the invention is to provide a device of the class and for the purpose specified with improved means for mounting the same in connection with strainer plates and other elements commonly employed in drain pipes of various kinds and classes, whereby my improved device by making slight adjustment therein is adapted for use in any kind or type of drain pipe; a further object being to provide a single unit or element mounted in connection with the casing of the device and in connection with which the anchoring elements are all mounted whereby a device of this class of the simplest possible con struction is obtained; and with these and other objects in view theinvention consists in a device of the class and for the purpose specified, constructed as hereinafter de scribed and claimed.

The invention described and claimed herein is an improvement on that shown and described in- U. S. Patent No. 1,17 3,854; granted Feb. 29, 1916, and is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvernent are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in "which E- Fig. 1 is a sectional view through a part of a sink or basin showing a drain pipe and strainer plate mounted in connection therewith and showing a sectional view through my improved flush device which is mounted in position for use;

Fig. 2 a detail view of a Cpart of my improved construction detache and,

Fig. 3 a perspective detail view of a modified form of construction which I employ.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing I have shown at 5 a part of a sink or basin in the bottom of which is mounted a perforated strainer I plate 6 having a plurality of perforations 7 which communicate with a drain pipe 8 mounted in connection with the bottom of the sink or basin 5 in the usual or any desired manner, and in Fig. 1 of the drawing,

I have shown at 9 my improved flushing device comprising, in the form of construction shown, a cap-shaped casing 10 having an enlarged base flange 11 provided in its lower face with a groove 1.2 to receive a suitable packing ring 13, and at one side of the casing 10 and 111 the top thereof is an upwardly directed spout 1% with which a flexible tube or pipe of any kind or class partially indicated in dotted lines at 15 in Fig. 1 of the drawing and the other end of this pipe is adapted to be connected with a water discharge device,'as for example, a faucet.

Centrally of the casing 10, or the top thereof, is an aperture 16, through which a threaded rod 17 forming part of an anchoring device is adapted to pass, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, and the lower end of said rod is hook-shaped in form as shown at 18, and adjustably mounted upon said rod is a part 19 provided with laterally directed threaded extensions 20 upon which are adjustably mounted arms 21 having hook-shaped ends 22 which are adapted to be passed through the apertures 7 in the strainer plate 6, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

Mounted upon the rod 17 is a lock nut 28, washer 24:, and packing gasket 25, said gasket being adapted to seat upon the top of the casing 10 to form a seal around the aperture 16 through which the rod 17 passes. In securing the flushing device in position the arms 21, or the hook-shaped ends 22 thereof, are passed through two of the apertures 7 in the strainer plate, after said arms have been adjusted on the extensions 20 to bring the same in position to register with two of the apertures 7, and the hook end 18 of the rod 17 is moved into an inoperative position as shown in Fig. 1, after which the casing 10 is placed in proper position and the thumb nut 23 moved downwardly to securely retain the casing in connection with the strainer plate 6 to prevent the leakage of water into the sink or basin 5 around the base of the casing 10, and when the device is properly secured in position water is admitted into the spout 14 and casing 10 through the tube or pipe 15 in the usual manner.

In Fig. 3 of the drawing, I have shown a slight modification of the construction shown in Fig. 1 in which the arms 21 are slidably mounted upon the extensions 20, said extensions being not threaded in the construction shown in Fig. 3 to facilitate this operation and adjustment, and the ends of said extensions are flared or enlarged as shown at 26 to prevent the displacement ofthe arms v21 from said extensions, with these exceptions the construction, operation and use of the modification shown in Fig. 3 will be the same as that shown in Fig. 1.

It will also be understood'that when the strainer 6 is not employed and other means, suchifor example as cross pins and the like are employed in the drain pipe, the hook end 18 ofthe rod 17 is moved downwardly and extendedbelow the arms 21 and moved into engagement with a cross bar and the like for thepurpose of anchoring the casing 10, and asthis practice is common and well known in the art, no specific illustration thereof has been made. The novel feature of the present invention resides in the unitar 7 device 9 which is adjustably mounted in the casing and capable of universal use: in connection with drain pipes of sinks, basins, tu'bs and the like of various kinds and classes, and whileI have shown certain details of construction for carrying my invention into effect, it will be understood that I am not necessarily limited to these details, and changes therein and modifications thereof may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Le tters Patent, is

1. A flushing device of the class described comprising asuitable casing, means for admitting water thereto, and an anchoring device movably mounted in connection with said casing and provided with adjustable elements capable of lateral and vertical adjustment in said casing, one of said elements being provided with an integral hook end andthe other of said elements being vertically and laterally adjustable on said first named element.

2. A device of the class described comprising a suitable casing, means for admitting water thereto, an anchoring device comprising a part movably mounted in said casing, a member adjustably mounted on said part and provided with laterally adjustable anchor elements, said first named part ing provided with an integral hook end whereby itmayserve as an anchor element for said casing.

A device of the class described comprising a suitable casing, means for admitting water thereto, an anchorin device comprising a part-movably mounte in said casing, a member adjustably mounted on said part and provided with laterally adjustable anchor elements, said first named part being provided with an integral hook end whereby it may serve as an anchor element for said casing, and means adjustable on said first named part for securely holding said casing in operativeposition.

4. An anchoring unit for flushing devices of the class described, said unit com rising a threaded rod, a member in threadbd engagement with said rod and capable of vertical adjustment thereon, said member being provided with laterally directed extensions, and arms provided with hookshaped ends adjustably mounted on Said extensions.

5. An anchoring unit for flushing devices of the class described, said unit comprising a threaded rod, a member in threaded engagement with said rod and capable of vertical adjustment thereon, said member being provided with laterally directed extensions, arms provided with hook-shaped ends adjust-ably mounted on said extensions, and said threaded rod being hook-shaped in form at one end.

In testimony that claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name this 20th day of February 1922.

LILLIAN PEARCH.

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