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PEDAL OF ERATOR FOR FLUSH VALVES
Filed July 30, 1923

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UNITED STATES
JOSE CORET, OF HABANA, CUBA.
PEDAL OPERATOR FOR FLUSH WALVES.
Application filed July 30, 1923. Serial No. 654,768.
This invention relates to improvements in
pedal operators for flush valves and its ob
ject is to provide an improvement in the
same, with the purpose of enabling the per
5 son using same to operate the same without
touching any part of the mechanism with
his hands.
Another object of the invention is to pro
vide an improvement in such mechanisms
so that the same may be actuated by means
of a pedal arranged near the water-closet
bowl and which can be actuated by the foot
of the person using the same, without trouble
or hindrance for the user.
Another object is to provide a casing for
the chain of such mechanisms, so as to pre
vent all possible contact with the same.
The invention is described with reference
to the figures of the annexed drawing, in
20 which :
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a water-closet,
partially cut away, in which the pedal oper
ating mechanism of the tank is provided
with the improvements forming the subject
25 matter of this invention.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a detail view which illustrates,
looking from above, the case containing and
supporting the improved pedal operating
3 mechanism.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section
on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a detail view which illustrates
looking from above, said pedal operating
35 mechanism and its supporting plate.
And Fig. 6 is a detail which shows in per
spective the said pedal operating mechanism.
in the drawings, 1 indicates a water-closet
bowl, 2 the tank, 3 the communication tube
40 between the bowl and the tank, 4 the lever
pivotally mounted as at 5 on a Support 6
fixed to an end wall of the tank, to operate
the discharge valve of the tank, which is not
shown as same is of the Well known type,
45 and 7 is the shooting chain which hangs
from the outer end of lever 4.
The improvements which this invention
comprise are to enclose this chain 7 within
a vertical tube 8 connected to tank 2 by
means of two brackets 9 fixed at different
heights to the adjacent end wall of tank 2,
and the lower end of the protecting tube
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8 is fitted in a slot with rim 10 formed at
the top of a cover 11 which is preferably of
octagonal shape and provided with a hori
Zontal flange 12 which is connected by means
of bolt screws 13 with its nuts 14 to the edge
of corresponding shape of a platform 15
provided with a standard 16 formed with a
base plate 17 so as to fix same by means of 6)
Screws on the ground immediately and at
a side of the bowl of the water-closet 1, some
what to the back of same. The platform 15
is provided with four openings 18 for venti
lation and on the same is fixed by means of
screws 19 a supporting plate 20 provided
with two pairs of raised lugs 21 and 22
which are somewhat spaced apart. Between
the two lugs 22 is pivotally mounted on a
horizontal pin 23 a simple lever 24 which 70
at its outer end is connected to the lower end
of the chain 7 and at its inner end is articu
lated at 26 to the fork shaped end of a
treadle lever 25 pivotally mounted between
the two lugs 21 on a horizontal pin, this 75
lever 25 being longer at the treadle arm
which projects out of the cover 11 through
an opening 27 formed in the end wall of
said cover. The union of the supporting
plate 20 and of the platform 15 is rein 80
forced by means of side wings 28 which are
connected 15.by means of screws 29 to said
platform
The operation of this pedal operating
mechanism is as follows: By pressing down
with the foot the treadle 25, the treadie
lever 25 is caused to rotate in one direction
and in opposite direction the lever 24 which
pulls down the chain 7 within tube 8 and
lever 4 is actuated so that the discharge ()
valve of the liquid contained in the tank 2
is raised in the well known manner. When
treadle 25 is let loose, the treadle lever 25
and the simple lever 24 swing in different
directions to the previous described one and 93
the chain goes up again owing to the
gravity action of the discharge valve of
tank 2. - -
It should be understood that the form of
the described mechanism can vary without
altering the spirit of the invention which is
as set forth in the appended claim.
What I claim is:-
Apparatus of the class described compris
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ing a standard, a base plate thereon having
lugs, a covering casing on the standard hav
ing an opening in its front end Wall and also
having an opening in its top near its rear
5 end, a pair of lever's pivotally mounted on
the lugs, and articulated together, one of
said lever's extending through said opening
in the front wall of the casing and being
provided with a treadle, and an operating
chain attached to the rear end of the other 10
lever and extending through said rear open
ing of the casing cover.
in witness whereof I affix my signature.
JOSE CORET.