CA2070480A1 - Sanitary cell with cleaning appliances for toilet seat - Google Patents
Sanitary cell with cleaning appliances for toilet seatInfo
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
- A47K13/00—Seats or covers for all kinds of closets
- A47K13/24—Parts or details not covered in, or of interest apart from, groups A47K13/02 - A47K13/22, e.g. devices imparting a swinging or vibrating motion to the seats
- A47K13/30—Seats having provisions for heating, deodorising or the like, e.g. ventilating, noise-damping or cleaning devices
- A47K13/302—Seats with cleaning devices
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
- E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
- E03D9/00—Sanitary or other accessories for lavatories ; Devices for cleaning or disinfecting the toilet room or the toilet bowl; Devices for eliminating smells
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- Sanitary Device For Flush Toilet (AREA)
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Abstract
Fl/Br OTT9104DE
08.05.1992 Summary The present invention relates to a sanitary cell comprising appliances for cleaning the toilet seat (2) disposed on a toilet bowl (1) with a) the sanitary cell being divided by a wall (3) in the sanitary chamber (4) with the toilet bowl (1), and a technical equipment chamber (5), b) the toilet bowl (1) is fastened to the wall (3), c) the toilet seat (2) is arranged on the toilet bowl (1) in guide bars (6), d) the guide bars (6) are elongated into the technical equipment chamber (5) through an opening (7) in the wall (3), in order that the toilet seat (2) is displaceable along the guide bars (6) into the technical equipment chamber (5), and e) the appliances (8, 9, 10, 11) required for cleaning the toilet seat (2) are arranged in the technical equipment chamber (5).
08.05.1992 Summary The present invention relates to a sanitary cell comprising appliances for cleaning the toilet seat (2) disposed on a toilet bowl (1) with a) the sanitary cell being divided by a wall (3) in the sanitary chamber (4) with the toilet bowl (1), and a technical equipment chamber (5), b) the toilet bowl (1) is fastened to the wall (3), c) the toilet seat (2) is arranged on the toilet bowl (1) in guide bars (6), d) the guide bars (6) are elongated into the technical equipment chamber (5) through an opening (7) in the wall (3), in order that the toilet seat (2) is displaceable along the guide bars (6) into the technical equipment chamber (5), and e) the appliances (8, 9, 10, 11) required for cleaning the toilet seat (2) are arranged in the technical equipment chamber (5).
Description
7 3~ ~ Fl/Br OTT9104DE
08.05.~992 __~______._____________________________________________ Gebr. Otto KG
Siegener Str. 69 5910 Kreuztal West-Germany ____________________~_______ _________________________ Sanitary Cell with Cleaning Appliances for Toilet Seat The present invention relates to a new sanitary cell, comprising appliances for cleaning the toilet seat disposed on a toilet bowl.
From DE-A-27 21 433 a water flushing closet has been known, comprising a lift-up lid -which is provided:at the lower side of the lift-up lid with an:appliance for automatically cleaning the toilet lid, by means of which the toilet seat is flushed with a washing and disinfection liquid and cleaned with brushes or wipers.
The device for cleaning the toilet lid is provided with a splashing device by means of which the inner side of the toilet bowl is simultaneously splashed and disinfected.
Further, from DE patent 21 40 097 a device for automatically cleaning toilet seats has been known, wherein the toilet seat is flushed with a washing and disinfection liquid cleaned with brushes and dried with wipers. ~n this device, the splashing device and the cleaning appliance provided with brushes and wipers are arranged at the toilet lid to be lifted, which forms a ~?~
constructional unity -to be fixed to the closet body, together with the toilet seat and a liftable bottom part formed as a discharge ring sealing the parting line between the toilet lid and the bottom part by means of a water shielding provided at the toilet lid and the bottom part.
An appliance for cleaning a WC seat by means of a liquid flow has been known from DE patent 24 56 020 which flow is guided through a hollow arranged below the surface of the WC seat to passage openings to the surface of the seat, with a connection between seat and liquid reservoir being provided. In addition to this, an inlet tube for a medium for drying the WC seat is provided which has been wet-cleaned befsre, and with air being provided as a drying medium for the transport of which a blower is arranged.
DE laid-open 25 11 300 describes a device for cleaning a toilet bowl with water flushing in which the seat of the toilet bowl is also intensively cleaned after each use. To achieve this, above the splashing device and below at a distance from the lid a guide plate is arranged which covering the seat from above at a distance, with the outer rim of the guide plate being arranged in the area of the outer upper rim o f the seat such that a ring gap is formed between the guide plade and the seat, and that the lower rim of the lid has a seal ~hich abuts to the outer upper rim of the seat when they are in a closed condition, with a ring gap resulting between the outer rim of the guide plate and the lid. A further development of this device is described in DE laid-open 25 23 782. A device for disinfection and cleaning the seat surface of toilet bowls after a contact with them is also the subject-matter of the German patent application 26 21 802. Inthis application, the specially formed lid of the toilet bowl, around which and along the inner rim thereof a nose is formed, as to avoid running-out of the cleaning water, the mounting of tubes and nozzles is provided splashing the seat surface after each US2 with water and a desin~ectant.
DE laid-open 26 30 089 describes a further modification for cleaning the toilet seat is described. In this application, the toilet seat is made such that at leat the surface of the seat is transportad along cleaning devices and cleaned in this wa~ mechanically and/or chemically and then dried~ For carrying out this method, the toilet seat is supported rotatably in itself, so that the surface thereof can be passed by the cleaning appliances. ~s a rotatin~ drive for the toilet seat which is preferably made like a hose serves a flexible shaft which is automatically be rotated after use of the toilet seat by means of a motor. ~he cleaning of the toilet seat is carried out mechanically by means of brushes and spraying nozzles out of which water or a disinfectant, respectively, is splashed on the surface of the rotating hose-like toilet seat.
Finally, stripping lips are provided engaged with the toilet seat by means of which a quick drying of the cleaned surface of the toilet seat is obtained.
In DE laid-open 26 42 985 something may be read about a device permitting to maintain the seat and the toilet bowl sterile after each use. This device is charac-terized in that the seat has a ring channel connected with a duct for the desinfectant and with a suction implement, if necessary, and that the seat is made of a porous material or i5 provided with bores distributed at equal distances and joining in from the ring channel.
From DE laid-open 29 07 754 a device for cleanin~ and disinfecting the seat of a toilet bowl has been provided, wherein in a bowl-like toilet lid nozzles for splashing washing and disinfection liquids are arranged in the form of a ring.
The drawback of the above-described devices according to the state of the art is that the~ are to a great extent restricted to a water cleaning without using other mechanical means. If mechanical claaning appliances, such as brushes, are provided, they are arran~ed by rather complicated methods in the sanitary chamber. This particularly applies for the solution according to DE laid-open 26 30 089. Neither is it possible to have an optimun cleaning in all cases, as to keep the toilet bowls clean, :in particulax if there is no mechanical cleaning.
In DE patent 22 63 ~74 next to the toilet bowl or behind it a cleaning box is arranged. In this box, two guide bars are provided by means of which the toilet seat can be slided in a vertical position in-to the cleaning box. For this, a special mechanism had to be developed, as to effect amendment of the direction of the seat from the horizontal position to the vertical position and onto the guide bars. Such a mechanism is naturally connected with sufficient drawbacks. This may also be taken from column 5, line 20 of DE patent 22 63 474, in which the construction of two special tappets is described fixed above to the guide bar. Apart there~rom, such a device is more sensitive, so that it is not suitable for the automatic operation.
DE laid-open 27 34 056 describes a ~echanism rather similar to those of DE patent 22 63 474. For also in this patent, in the embodiment according to drawing 2 a cleaning box is placed behind the toilet bowl into which the seat is brought to be cleaned. Also a vertical position of the toilet seat is provided during the cleaning procedure. Contrary to patent specification 22 63 474 no guide bars are provided and thus, there is no special branch mechanism. For this reason, the cleaning equipment according to DE laid-open 27 34 056 is a disimproved embodiment as compared with DE patent 22 63 474. Further cleaning proposals are described in the following documents:
DE patent168 912 DE laid-open 17 78 929 GB patent133 039 DE patent75 425 DE patent240 687 DE patent252 298 DE laid-open 3 127 890 EP patent252 861 EP laid-open 201 435 US2 59~ 167 DE 283 470.
It is the drawback of all of these devices that the solution proposals are connected with very great technical efforts. As a rule, those devices are sensitive, so that they are not suitable for public toilets which have always to be designed for a great number of users.
A further essential drawback of all of the above-described devices is that the service personnel has to enter the toilet room ~or a control of the cleaning degree o~ the toilet seat. This leads to the e~fect that a check i5 carried out only at non-regular inter-vals. For this reason it is quite possible that contaminations or damages to the cleaning devices are not noticed by the personnel.
German patent specification 283 470 provides to carry out the cleaning of the toilet seats in a part separated from the sanitary room by a wall.
Further, a seat disk is provided having a number of seat openings which are partially arranged on this side, partially on the other side of the saparating wall. In the wall a shaft is provided, so that the seat disk is rotatable. ~ rather complicated construction has been described as a rotating mechanism. According to the description, whe~ the toilet has been used, the seat disk is rotated as far that the next opening is placed over the toilet bowl.
On the other side of the separating wall a box is provided in which the seat disk is cleaned. For this reason, the box is equipped with fixed brushes and sponges, that i5, the seat disk is only pushed through the sponges or brushes, and a cleaning is carried out in this way, which, however, has not proven to be suf~icientl~.
The drawback of the German patent specification 283 ~?~
470 is the fact that the cleaniny equipment ls provided in a closed box, so that no optical control is possible by the service personnel. Thus, it is not possi~le ko recognize in good time tenacious contaminations or damages to the toilet seat or the cleaning brushe~. On the contrary, it is always necessary to open the box, as to have the controls carried out by the service personnel. From this follows that it is also necessary to interrupt operation durin~ service and control works.
Finally, it should be indicated that no drying of the seat disk is provided according to German patent specification 283 470. Consequently, this devic~ is not suitable for an automatic operation already for this reason. In addition to this, the arrangement of the rotaking disk requires essential space. For as to rotate the seat opening, the sanitary cell must have a certain width. Besides, the complicated mechanism described in patent specification 283 470 bears a greater risk of being damaged. Also for this reason, the device has sufficient drawbacks concerning the automatic operation.
It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a sanitary cell with appliances without the drawbacks known up to the present.
This object is achieved in that a) the sanitary cell is divided by a wall in the sanitary chamber with a toilet bowl and a technical equipment chamber, b) the toilet bowl is fastened to the wall, c) the toilet seat is arranged on the toilet bowl in ~uide bars, d) the ~uide bars are elon~ated into the technical equipment chamber through an opening in the wall, in a~
order that the toilet seat is displaceable along the ~uide bars into the technical equipment chamber, and e) the appliances required for cleaning the toilet seat are arranged in the technical equipment chamber.
The guide bars are preferably arranged in the technical equipment chamber such that the toilet seat is moveable on them while retaining its horizontal position.
However, it is further possible to arrange the guide bars such that they are designed slightly inclined.
This would have the advantage that the displacement of the seat becomes more easy. However, also other directions of the guide bars, for example, a lateral direction or an upright direction are possible.
The hight bars may freely project into the technical equipment chamber without additional supports. This has the adYantage that great space of the anyhow small space of the technical equipment chamber is saved in.
However, it has proved to be good to underprop the guide bars by one or more supports, as to avoid possibly occuring bending forces because of the displacement of the toilet seat on the guide bars into the technical equipment chamber.
The advantage of the device according to the invention consists in that a smooth automatic cleaning is secured. For this purpose, preferably a motor drive is provided, by means of which the toilet seat can be moved into the technical equipment chamber after use.
The motor drive can be correspondingly triggered by a control mechanism. For example, the control signal may be coupled with the water flushing of the toilet or also with the lock of the entrance door to the sanitary chamber. Commonly the mechanism is triggered by which the toilet seat is displaced into the technical equipment chamber by means of triggering the flushing mechanism or by means of a specially provided button with the indication "Seat Cleaning" or by unlocking the lock of the door.
As to avoid accidents, above the WC bowl a radar field is provided, and the procedure will immediately be stoppedl as soon as this radar field is violated. Apart therefrom, a protection against accidental contact is arranged, that is, as soon as the seat is pressed and the motor has to draw more current for displacing the same, the motor switches off immediately.
In the sanitary chamber appliances for cleaning the toilet seat are preferably arranged above or laterally to the guide bars. For this purpose may be provided, for example, brushes, water nozz:les and fans. Accord-ingly, the toilet seat moving along the guide bars is cleaned in this chamber. By the rotating brushes a mechanical cleaning is obtained. The water nozzles support this procedure and the splashed Nater may also be mixed with a disinfectant or a detergent, if necessary. Finally, the toilet seat can be cleaned by means of the fan. It may also be supported by wipers.
The cleaning may naturally be increased, the longer the toilet seat is moved to and fro on the guide bars.
~ere, the optimum time point may be set by means of a corresponding program control. In the same way, an improved cleaning effect may be obtained by an elongation of the guide bars. In addition to this, the personnel can enter the technical equipment chamber and check at any time by an optical control, whether all cleaning appliances are correctly adjusted and whether ..
they work. This means, by this way it is possible to execute a continuous maintenance for the toilet seat, which was not the case in the initially described state of the art, since for optically control the same the service personnel had to enter the same door as the user of the sanitary room.
In the following the invention is described in more detail with reference to the Figures.
ig. 1 shows the sanitary cell of the invention as an elevation;
Fig. 2 shows the the sanitary cell as an upright projection.
In Fig. 1 the toilet seat 2 is placed on the toilet bowl 1. ~he guide bars 6 are arranged protruding in a horizontal position into the technical equipment chamber 5. The toilet seat 2 may be moved from the sanitary chamber 4 through the opening 7 of the wall 3 separating the sanitary chamber 4 from the technical equipment chamber 5. During this movement water is splashed onto the toilet seat via the nozzle bars 9.
The rotating brushes 8 arranged behind the nozzle bars 9 effect a mechanical cleaning o~ the toilet seat. The toilet seat is moved on the guide bars 6 to their end supported by the device 13. It is now possible to move the toilet seat several times to and fro within the technical equipment chamber, if required. Finally, the rotating brushes are au`tomatically lifted and the water flow is interrupted, as to initiate the drying phase. Drying is obtained in that a plurality o~ to-and-fro movements are made below the fan 10. Finally, the toilet seat can be driven through the opening 7 in the wall 3 into the sanitary room 4 until it is again placed above the toilet bowl 1. Possible humidity remainders are removed by means of the wiper lip 11.
08.05.~992 __~______._____________________________________________ Gebr. Otto KG
Siegener Str. 69 5910 Kreuztal West-Germany ____________________~_______ _________________________ Sanitary Cell with Cleaning Appliances for Toilet Seat The present invention relates to a new sanitary cell, comprising appliances for cleaning the toilet seat disposed on a toilet bowl.
From DE-A-27 21 433 a water flushing closet has been known, comprising a lift-up lid -which is provided:at the lower side of the lift-up lid with an:appliance for automatically cleaning the toilet lid, by means of which the toilet seat is flushed with a washing and disinfection liquid and cleaned with brushes or wipers.
The device for cleaning the toilet lid is provided with a splashing device by means of which the inner side of the toilet bowl is simultaneously splashed and disinfected.
Further, from DE patent 21 40 097 a device for automatically cleaning toilet seats has been known, wherein the toilet seat is flushed with a washing and disinfection liquid cleaned with brushes and dried with wipers. ~n this device, the splashing device and the cleaning appliance provided with brushes and wipers are arranged at the toilet lid to be lifted, which forms a ~?~
constructional unity -to be fixed to the closet body, together with the toilet seat and a liftable bottom part formed as a discharge ring sealing the parting line between the toilet lid and the bottom part by means of a water shielding provided at the toilet lid and the bottom part.
An appliance for cleaning a WC seat by means of a liquid flow has been known from DE patent 24 56 020 which flow is guided through a hollow arranged below the surface of the WC seat to passage openings to the surface of the seat, with a connection between seat and liquid reservoir being provided. In addition to this, an inlet tube for a medium for drying the WC seat is provided which has been wet-cleaned befsre, and with air being provided as a drying medium for the transport of which a blower is arranged.
DE laid-open 25 11 300 describes a device for cleaning a toilet bowl with water flushing in which the seat of the toilet bowl is also intensively cleaned after each use. To achieve this, above the splashing device and below at a distance from the lid a guide plate is arranged which covering the seat from above at a distance, with the outer rim of the guide plate being arranged in the area of the outer upper rim o f the seat such that a ring gap is formed between the guide plade and the seat, and that the lower rim of the lid has a seal ~hich abuts to the outer upper rim of the seat when they are in a closed condition, with a ring gap resulting between the outer rim of the guide plate and the lid. A further development of this device is described in DE laid-open 25 23 782. A device for disinfection and cleaning the seat surface of toilet bowls after a contact with them is also the subject-matter of the German patent application 26 21 802. Inthis application, the specially formed lid of the toilet bowl, around which and along the inner rim thereof a nose is formed, as to avoid running-out of the cleaning water, the mounting of tubes and nozzles is provided splashing the seat surface after each US2 with water and a desin~ectant.
DE laid-open 26 30 089 describes a further modification for cleaning the toilet seat is described. In this application, the toilet seat is made such that at leat the surface of the seat is transportad along cleaning devices and cleaned in this wa~ mechanically and/or chemically and then dried~ For carrying out this method, the toilet seat is supported rotatably in itself, so that the surface thereof can be passed by the cleaning appliances. ~s a rotatin~ drive for the toilet seat which is preferably made like a hose serves a flexible shaft which is automatically be rotated after use of the toilet seat by means of a motor. ~he cleaning of the toilet seat is carried out mechanically by means of brushes and spraying nozzles out of which water or a disinfectant, respectively, is splashed on the surface of the rotating hose-like toilet seat.
Finally, stripping lips are provided engaged with the toilet seat by means of which a quick drying of the cleaned surface of the toilet seat is obtained.
In DE laid-open 26 42 985 something may be read about a device permitting to maintain the seat and the toilet bowl sterile after each use. This device is charac-terized in that the seat has a ring channel connected with a duct for the desinfectant and with a suction implement, if necessary, and that the seat is made of a porous material or i5 provided with bores distributed at equal distances and joining in from the ring channel.
From DE laid-open 29 07 754 a device for cleanin~ and disinfecting the seat of a toilet bowl has been provided, wherein in a bowl-like toilet lid nozzles for splashing washing and disinfection liquids are arranged in the form of a ring.
The drawback of the above-described devices according to the state of the art is that the~ are to a great extent restricted to a water cleaning without using other mechanical means. If mechanical claaning appliances, such as brushes, are provided, they are arran~ed by rather complicated methods in the sanitary chamber. This particularly applies for the solution according to DE laid-open 26 30 089. Neither is it possible to have an optimun cleaning in all cases, as to keep the toilet bowls clean, :in particulax if there is no mechanical cleaning.
In DE patent 22 63 ~74 next to the toilet bowl or behind it a cleaning box is arranged. In this box, two guide bars are provided by means of which the toilet seat can be slided in a vertical position in-to the cleaning box. For this, a special mechanism had to be developed, as to effect amendment of the direction of the seat from the horizontal position to the vertical position and onto the guide bars. Such a mechanism is naturally connected with sufficient drawbacks. This may also be taken from column 5, line 20 of DE patent 22 63 474, in which the construction of two special tappets is described fixed above to the guide bar. Apart there~rom, such a device is more sensitive, so that it is not suitable for the automatic operation.
DE laid-open 27 34 056 describes a ~echanism rather similar to those of DE patent 22 63 474. For also in this patent, in the embodiment according to drawing 2 a cleaning box is placed behind the toilet bowl into which the seat is brought to be cleaned. Also a vertical position of the toilet seat is provided during the cleaning procedure. Contrary to patent specification 22 63 474 no guide bars are provided and thus, there is no special branch mechanism. For this reason, the cleaning equipment according to DE laid-open 27 34 056 is a disimproved embodiment as compared with DE patent 22 63 474. Further cleaning proposals are described in the following documents:
DE patent168 912 DE laid-open 17 78 929 GB patent133 039 DE patent75 425 DE patent240 687 DE patent252 298 DE laid-open 3 127 890 EP patent252 861 EP laid-open 201 435 US2 59~ 167 DE 283 470.
It is the drawback of all of these devices that the solution proposals are connected with very great technical efforts. As a rule, those devices are sensitive, so that they are not suitable for public toilets which have always to be designed for a great number of users.
A further essential drawback of all of the above-described devices is that the service personnel has to enter the toilet room ~or a control of the cleaning degree o~ the toilet seat. This leads to the e~fect that a check i5 carried out only at non-regular inter-vals. For this reason it is quite possible that contaminations or damages to the cleaning devices are not noticed by the personnel.
German patent specification 283 470 provides to carry out the cleaning of the toilet seats in a part separated from the sanitary room by a wall.
Further, a seat disk is provided having a number of seat openings which are partially arranged on this side, partially on the other side of the saparating wall. In the wall a shaft is provided, so that the seat disk is rotatable. ~ rather complicated construction has been described as a rotating mechanism. According to the description, whe~ the toilet has been used, the seat disk is rotated as far that the next opening is placed over the toilet bowl.
On the other side of the separating wall a box is provided in which the seat disk is cleaned. For this reason, the box is equipped with fixed brushes and sponges, that i5, the seat disk is only pushed through the sponges or brushes, and a cleaning is carried out in this way, which, however, has not proven to be suf~icientl~.
The drawback of the German patent specification 283 ~?~
470 is the fact that the cleaniny equipment ls provided in a closed box, so that no optical control is possible by the service personnel. Thus, it is not possi~le ko recognize in good time tenacious contaminations or damages to the toilet seat or the cleaning brushe~. On the contrary, it is always necessary to open the box, as to have the controls carried out by the service personnel. From this follows that it is also necessary to interrupt operation durin~ service and control works.
Finally, it should be indicated that no drying of the seat disk is provided according to German patent specification 283 470. Consequently, this devic~ is not suitable for an automatic operation already for this reason. In addition to this, the arrangement of the rotaking disk requires essential space. For as to rotate the seat opening, the sanitary cell must have a certain width. Besides, the complicated mechanism described in patent specification 283 470 bears a greater risk of being damaged. Also for this reason, the device has sufficient drawbacks concerning the automatic operation.
It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a sanitary cell with appliances without the drawbacks known up to the present.
This object is achieved in that a) the sanitary cell is divided by a wall in the sanitary chamber with a toilet bowl and a technical equipment chamber, b) the toilet bowl is fastened to the wall, c) the toilet seat is arranged on the toilet bowl in ~uide bars, d) the ~uide bars are elon~ated into the technical equipment chamber through an opening in the wall, in a~
order that the toilet seat is displaceable along the ~uide bars into the technical equipment chamber, and e) the appliances required for cleaning the toilet seat are arranged in the technical equipment chamber.
The guide bars are preferably arranged in the technical equipment chamber such that the toilet seat is moveable on them while retaining its horizontal position.
However, it is further possible to arrange the guide bars such that they are designed slightly inclined.
This would have the advantage that the displacement of the seat becomes more easy. However, also other directions of the guide bars, for example, a lateral direction or an upright direction are possible.
The hight bars may freely project into the technical equipment chamber without additional supports. This has the adYantage that great space of the anyhow small space of the technical equipment chamber is saved in.
However, it has proved to be good to underprop the guide bars by one or more supports, as to avoid possibly occuring bending forces because of the displacement of the toilet seat on the guide bars into the technical equipment chamber.
The advantage of the device according to the invention consists in that a smooth automatic cleaning is secured. For this purpose, preferably a motor drive is provided, by means of which the toilet seat can be moved into the technical equipment chamber after use.
The motor drive can be correspondingly triggered by a control mechanism. For example, the control signal may be coupled with the water flushing of the toilet or also with the lock of the entrance door to the sanitary chamber. Commonly the mechanism is triggered by which the toilet seat is displaced into the technical equipment chamber by means of triggering the flushing mechanism or by means of a specially provided button with the indication "Seat Cleaning" or by unlocking the lock of the door.
As to avoid accidents, above the WC bowl a radar field is provided, and the procedure will immediately be stoppedl as soon as this radar field is violated. Apart therefrom, a protection against accidental contact is arranged, that is, as soon as the seat is pressed and the motor has to draw more current for displacing the same, the motor switches off immediately.
In the sanitary chamber appliances for cleaning the toilet seat are preferably arranged above or laterally to the guide bars. For this purpose may be provided, for example, brushes, water nozz:les and fans. Accord-ingly, the toilet seat moving along the guide bars is cleaned in this chamber. By the rotating brushes a mechanical cleaning is obtained. The water nozzles support this procedure and the splashed Nater may also be mixed with a disinfectant or a detergent, if necessary. Finally, the toilet seat can be cleaned by means of the fan. It may also be supported by wipers.
The cleaning may naturally be increased, the longer the toilet seat is moved to and fro on the guide bars.
~ere, the optimum time point may be set by means of a corresponding program control. In the same way, an improved cleaning effect may be obtained by an elongation of the guide bars. In addition to this, the personnel can enter the technical equipment chamber and check at any time by an optical control, whether all cleaning appliances are correctly adjusted and whether ..
they work. This means, by this way it is possible to execute a continuous maintenance for the toilet seat, which was not the case in the initially described state of the art, since for optically control the same the service personnel had to enter the same door as the user of the sanitary room.
In the following the invention is described in more detail with reference to the Figures.
ig. 1 shows the sanitary cell of the invention as an elevation;
Fig. 2 shows the the sanitary cell as an upright projection.
In Fig. 1 the toilet seat 2 is placed on the toilet bowl 1. ~he guide bars 6 are arranged protruding in a horizontal position into the technical equipment chamber 5. The toilet seat 2 may be moved from the sanitary chamber 4 through the opening 7 of the wall 3 separating the sanitary chamber 4 from the technical equipment chamber 5. During this movement water is splashed onto the toilet seat via the nozzle bars 9.
The rotating brushes 8 arranged behind the nozzle bars 9 effect a mechanical cleaning o~ the toilet seat. The toilet seat is moved on the guide bars 6 to their end supported by the device 13. It is now possible to move the toilet seat several times to and fro within the technical equipment chamber, if required. Finally, the rotating brushes are au`tomatically lifted and the water flow is interrupted, as to initiate the drying phase. Drying is obtained in that a plurality o~ to-and-fro movements are made below the fan 10. Finally, the toilet seat can be driven through the opening 7 in the wall 3 into the sanitary room 4 until it is again placed above the toilet bowl 1. Possible humidity remainders are removed by means of the wiper lip 11.
Claims (7)
1. Sanitary cell, comprising appliances for cleaning the toilet seat (2) disposed on a toilet bowl (1), c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n t h a t a) the sanitary cell is divided by a wall (3) in the sanitary chamber (4) with the toilet bowl (l), and a technical equipment chamber (5), b) the toilet bowl (1) is fastened to the wall (3), c) the toilet seat (2) is arranged on the toilet bowl (1) in guide bars (6), d) the guide bars (6) are elongated into the technical equipment chamber (5) through an opening (7) in the wall (3), in order that the toilet seat (2) is displaceable along the guide bars (6) into the technical equipment chamber (5), and e) the appliances (8, 9, 10, 11) required for cleaning the toilet seat (2) are arranged in the technical equipment chamber (5).
2. Sanitary cell according to claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n t h a t the guide bars (6) are arranged in the technical equipment chamber (5) such that the toilet seat (2) is moveable on them while retaining its horizontal position.
3. Sanitary cell according to claim 2, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n t h a t the guide bars (6) are arranged in the technical equipment chamber (5) in the horizontal position by means of a support (13).
4. Sanitary cell according to one of claims 1 to 3, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n t h a t a motor drive (12) is arranged therein by means of which the toilet seat (2) is moveable after use into the technical equipment chamber (5).
5. Sanitary cell according to one of claims 1 to 4, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n t h a t appliances (8, 9, 10, 11) for cleaning the toilet seat (2) are arranged in the technical equipment chamber (5) above and/or laterally to the guide bars (6).
6. Sanitary cell according to claim 5, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n t h a t the appliances for cleaning are brushes (8), water nozzles (9) and fans (10).
7. Sanitary cell according to claim 6, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n t h a t the brushes (8) are rotating brushes.
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