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Title: Post Office Edinburgh and Leith directory
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory Limited
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Postmaster General
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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teighteen months have brought this Closet into such perfection, especially the improvedDirect Water-Way and Regulating Side-Screw Valve, that there is a difficulty in meetingthe demand. Upwards of 1,500 of these Closets are now in use, and giving groat satisfac-tion. This success has brought some small imitators into the field, who, while pirating theprinciple, and making some alteration in details, fancy they have ground for calling suchmodified piracies original inventions. Any parties selling or fitting up such Closets, whichare infringements, will be liable to heavy damages. Parties have already, at the instanceof Mr. Ross, the Patentee, been served with legal notices for infringement of his patentrights. Detached Valves for Closet? already in use are supplied; and tins Paten: :sapplied also to Bramah Valve Closets, Johnstons Carlton Closet, a;.J soaiuothers, full particulars of which may be had on application. WILLIAM JOHNSTON, 49 Mitchell Street, Glasgow. $£$ 1-3 m © ;2i S3 I:
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THE GLASGOW TUBE AND METAL WAREHOUSE. -16 ,HAJJK 1! SEL^ACTINGinaO WATER-CLOSET VALVE. This Valve is a combination of Bosss and Johnstons Patents, and will be more readily understoodby reference to the principle fully explained in Rosss Self-Regulating Water-Closet. It is so constructed that the Closet cannot be used without a flow of watercoming to cleanse the Basin so soon as the user sSses from the seat, when thewater will only run for a definite number of seconds, determined at. fitting up, bythe regulating of the .small screw side valve, C. ^o Iw of waiter will come whileany person is using the Closet, a»d by no means easa it be left running andwasting water. The Water will only flow after a wEiesBf Has been applied to the SEAT AND THES REMOVED, BUT NOT WHILE THE ¥..£l«H? BESTS ON THE SEAT. DESCRIPTION.Refer to Section—Slntf, opposite page-; A, inlet from the* main; B B, the passage to the Basin.Through small hole beginning at C, the water pressure is admitted to inside of

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