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N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES R. ENDER, OF TRENTON, LOUISIANA.

FOUNTAIN-WASHSTAND.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 89,476, dated August 7, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. R. Ender, of Trenton, in the parish of Wachita and State of s- Louisiana, have invented a new and useful

Fountain-Washstand; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being Ϋ had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which the 10 figure represents a vertical longitudinal section taken through the middle of my portable fountain washstand, showing the several peculiarities of the same.

The object of this invention is to combine k 15 with a portable washstand the advantages of a head of water, whereby a supply may be obtained for the basin from a faucet or _L bracket pipe at pleasure, and thus, where a dwelling is not supplied with water pipes, 20 leading from a common reservoir, or where it would be inconvenient and objectionable * to furnish the house with water pipes, the . advantages of having a ready supply of water will be obtained by my invention at 25 the same time it is not necessary that the washstand should be established in any one place about an apartment.

For effecting these objects my invention consists in arranging within the. cupboard 30 or body of the washstand and under the basin in the top of said stand, a reservoir of a suitable capacity containing a suitable water bellows from which proceeds a tube or pipe, which leads to the basin and is furi 35 nished with a suitable stop-cock. The bel^! lows is suitably weighted and constructed

I so that it will give a steady downward force

L· to the water contained in it, and supply the

Γ basin whenever the cock should be turned, as will be hereinafter described and represented.

* To enable those skilled in the art to fully

I understand my invention I will proceed to i describe its construction and operation.

t 45 In the drawings, A represents an ordinary washstand, which may be of any suitable size, shape, or design, and B is the basin having the usual vent hole a, in its i bottom with a plug and chain δ, and a waste pipe c, leading from the vent hole to a slop bucket C. For lightness and portability the basin B, may be made of light sheet metal ^r and suitably painted or enameled.

D is a cylinder of any required size, which 55 is placed to one side of the washstand under the basin B, and within the stand so that it may be out of sight when the front doors of the stand are closed. The cylinder incloses a bellows E, made of any suitable waterproof and flexible material and surrounded 60 at intervals with metal rings d, which prevent the sides of the bellows from swelling out and coming in contact with the inner sides of the cylinder when filled with water. The bottom of the bellows is fixed 65 to the cylinder D, and the top is free to rise and fall. F is the supply pipe which communicates with the interior of the bellows through its bottom and leads up to the basin B, as represented in the drawings, where it 70 is bent over and furnished with a stop-cock G. The top of the bellows is provided with a supply orifice H, suitably closed for filling the bellows with water, and also a suitable weight H', for giving the necessary pressure 75 to force the water up through pipe F, into the basin when the cock G, is opened.

J is a drum having its bearings in the top of the cylinder D, above the bellows, around which passes a cord y, which leads to the 80 center of the bellows head where it is attached. The drum J, is provided with a ratchet wheel and pawl, and a winch to wind up the cord y, for raising the bellows’s head up to the point shown in the drawings for 85 filling the bellows with water. When the bellows has, in this manner, been filled the orifice H, is closed tightly and the cord y, is detached from the bellows’s head, or, what would be the same thing, the pawl is disen- 90 gaged from its ratchet, the weight H', will then exert a sufficient downward pressure on the water in the bellows to give a free supply through the cock H, to the basin B.

From this description it will be under- 95 stood that I obtain, by a simple means, a portable fountain washstand, and a very desirable and useful article of furniture for dwelling houses or apartments that are not supplied with water pipes. 100