FR2651984A1 - SANITARY INSTALLATION FOR TEMPORARY SETUP, CONSISTING OF AN INDIVIDUAL, MOVABLE AND REMOVABLE CABIN. - Google Patents

Abstract

Sanitary installation of the type consisting of an individual cabin 2, movable and removable, equipped with a member for receiving and storing effluents, characterized in that it comprises an independent tank consisting of a tank comprising connection means allowing a removable and reversible connection of said tank-tank on the effluent reception and discharge members arranged on the cabin 2, the tank tank thus being able to be removed, after a determined period of use, independently of the cabin, for setting up and in operating position of a new reservoir tank and the cabin 2 comprises at its base a housing 1 receiver of said tank-tank, the housing being arranged below the effluent reception and discharge members , which are thus able to be conveyed by gravity from said members to said reservoir tank.

Description

The present invention relates to a sanitary installation for

  temporary space and of the type consisting of an individual, movable and removable cabin, equipped with effluent reception and storage members, allowing autonomous operation independently of any connection to a source of rinsing fluid or to a

collective evacuation.

  The invention will be particularly applicable to the realization 1-0 of a park of sanitary cabins likely to be set up on a seasonal or temporary basis On the occasion of the regrouping or of punctual concentration in time and in space of people, in circumstances and

  conditions which do not include any infrastruc-

welcome ture.

  It is therefore necessary, to meet the needs of people thus concentrated in a limited space, to make available to them equipment making it possible to comply with reception conditions comprising a minimum

hygiene and comfort.

  The invention will be more particularly applicable in the context of gatherings or concentrations of people On the occasion of collective events, such as meetings, exhibitions, open-air concerts, country festivals, sports competitions, pilgrimages or even building sites.

public works.

  In all these cases, the gatherings of people are in places which do not benefit from any possibility of

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  sewer connection, electrical connection or

  city water supply or running water.

  The invention generally makes it possible to install sanitary equipment in places devoid of any

  infrastructure and any source of energy.

  It will also be applicable to the installation of equipment during seasonal migrations comprising an accumulation, spread over a few weeks or a few months, of a large population, for example on holiday tourist spots, seashores, camping areas, or winter sports areas,

  skiing, rest areas on motorways or the like.

  The invention therefore makes it possible to set up one or a plurality of individual sanitary cabins operating autonomously for a period of time corresponding to

  a cycle of use, thus meeting short-term needs

  tanned without connection to an energy source or to a

  water supply or drainage network.

  But another object of the invention is to allow relatively prolonged operation of such cabins with the possibility of ensuring the evacuation, without manipulation in the open air, of the effluents once the cabin is at the end of the cycle; so that a cabin at the end of the cycle can remain on site and be put in order for a new operating cycle, without however having to carry out operations unpleasant for the environment of transfers or

effluent transfer.

  To this end, the invention relates to a sanitary installation of the type consisting of an individual, movable and removable cabin, equipped with a body for receiving and storing effluents, characterized in that it comprises a reservoir

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  independent consisting of a tank comprising connection means allowing a removable and reversible connection of said tank-tank on the receiving members and

  for discharging the effluents placed on the cabin, the tank

  tank thus being capable of being removed, after a determined period of use, independently of the cabin, for installation and in operating position

of a new tank-tank.

  More specifically, the cabin comprises at its base a housing, receiver of said tank-tank, the housing being arranged below the bodies for receiving and discharging effluents, which are thus able to be conveyed by

  gravity from said members to said tank.

  And more especially still, the tank-tank has on its upper wall an opening cooperating with a removable closure member thus alternately closing the tank-tank for transport and storage during periods of non-use and ensuring, by withdrawal of the shutter, the communication between the reception and evacuation bodies of the cabin with the interior space of the tank-tank, when the tank-tank is

in place in the cabin.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, the cabin comprises a set of fluid manipulations, such as a volume pump, connected downstream to the reception and evacuation bodies for the supply of these

organs in flushing liquid.

  And in this embodiment, said pump is connected upstream to said tank-reservoir via a connection socket allowing connection and / or

  rapid separation of the pump from the reservoir.

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  More especially still, said tank-reservoir comprises a filtration block immersed within the tank and connected to said connection socket, this filtration block enabling the pump to be supplied with a liquid phase withdrawn from said tank-tank. According to another characteristic of the invention, the pump is provided of the diaphragm type and it includes a pedal.

  mechanical actuation, the pedal being arranged sensitive-

  lying above the cabin floor and being associated with

a return spring.

  According to yet another characteristic of the invention, the cabin and the tank comprise reciprocal and removable securing means alternately allowing the manipulation of the cabin and tank-tank assembly in an integral state and the manipulation of the cabin on the one hand and of the reservoir d on the other hand separately and being separated. It is also possible, within the framework of the invention, to provide that the cabin on the one hand and the tank-tank on the other hand each comprise hooking or gripping means on lifting devices such as loops allowing the

  securing the cabin and / or the tank respectively

  tank on lifting devices such as a harness

  lifting capable of being maneuvered by the arm of a crane.

  According to another characteristic, the tank-tank includes a drain plug provided with a shutter inside said tank-tank and controlled by an operating rod vertically passing through the tank, the end of the rod subjected to manipulation being accessible from the wall

tank top.

  And the invention also relates to a procedure for managing a fleet of independent sanitary cabins produced according to the above characteristics, the cabins being set up temporarily or seasonally, and this procedure is characterized by the succession of the following operations: - On sets up a certain quantity of booths comprising a tank-tank which initially contains a small quantity of corresponding rinsing liquid & the quantity necessary for the first uses. - We leave the cabins in operation for a while

  substantially corresponding to the filling of the tanks

tanks.

  - We deposit in the immediate vicinity of a cabin whose

  tank is substantially full a new tank

  tank containing only the initial quantities of new rinse aid, necessary for the first uses.

  - The cabin is separated on the one hand and the tank-

  full tank associated with said cabin, in particular at the level of the cabin pump connection on the tank-tank.

  - We move the cabin leaving the tank on the spot -

  full tank and this cabin (without tank) is brought to a neighboring position and in particular of superposition relative to the new tank-tank (previously installed) and the pump of said cabin is connected to said new tank-tank, the cabin then being suitable

  to a new operating cycle.

  - The full tank is removed, after closing

  the latter, with a view to its evacuation and its emptying.

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  Other characteristics and advantages of the invention

  will emerge from the description which follows and which is given in

  relationship to an embodiment presented as

  non-limiting example, with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  Figure 1 shows a perspective view from the outside

  of a cabin seen substantially from the front.

  Figure 2 shows a perspective view of the same

  cabin substantially by its rear face.

  Figure 3 shows a plan view of the sensitive cabin.

  at the level of the floor, the tank part, located

  under the floor, being shown in dotted lines.

  Figure 4 shows a vertical sectional view of the

  lower part of the cabin in a median plane.

  Figure 5 shows a plan view of the part

tank associated with the cabin.

  While Figure 6 shows a vertical sectional view along a median plane of the tank as shown in

previous figure.

  According to Figures 1 and 2, we see that the installation essentially comprises an individual cabin made for example of polyester and forming a shell stiffened by curved walls. This generally prismatic shell with square base 1 thus defines the body of the cabin 2 made opaque, the

  part 3 of the roof being made of translucent polyester.

  The front panel has door 4, the base of which is located at level 5 corresponding to the cabin floor and

  accessible via the folding step 6.

  The lower part or base 7 of the cabin, located below level 5 corresponding to the floor, constitutes the part of the cabin defining a central housing in

  which comes to take position the removable tank-tank below

  after described and shown in particular in Figures 5 and 6.

  As can be seen in FIG. 2, the cabin has at its base two pads, for example made of wood forming a beam respectively 8 and 8 'and each lateral pad 8, 8' has at its ends legs provided with rings of

lifting 9.

  And in Figure 2 we also see, between the lifting rings 9 located at the corners of the cabin and allowing the manipulation of the latter, the lifting loops 10

  which belong to the tank-tank assembly.

  As will be explained in the description of the operation

  of the system, the loops respectively 9 belonging to the cabin and 10 belonging to the tank-tank block allow the independent lifting and handling of the cabin and the tank; while it is however possible to ensure the joint handling of the cabin and the tank together,

  either the cabin and the tank-tank have been previously-

  joined together, that is to say that the lifting devices, for example harnesses suspended at the end of a crane arm, engage simultaneously on the loops respectively 9 of the

  cabin and 10 of the tank-block.

  As can be seen in FIG. 4, the floor 11 of the cabin, made up of panels of treated aluminum reinforced army, and

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  leaning on a reinforced polyester frame integral with the cabin, supports the ceramic bowl, which can be of the "English" or "Turkish" type as in the example

  shown in Figure 4 under reference 12.

  The base of the bowl 12 opens out through the valve 13 into the interior volume of the tank 14 which, for this purpose, has an opening at its upper part for receiving the outlet formed by the base of the bowl, opening 15 which is capable of be closed by a removable hatch 16 when not in use, this shutter hatch 16 being capable of being positioned and secured in the standby position on the upper plane of the

  tank-reservoir, laterally with respect to the opening 15.

  The tank-reservoir assembly 14 forms a large capacity (for example of the order of 300 liters) and it is

  thus embedded inside the base 1 'of the cabin.

  The interior volume of the tank-tank includes a drain plug 17 associated with a shutter 18 and opening on the bottom of the tank-tank, the shutter 18 being capable of being operated by the rod 19 controlled on

  the stirrup 20 from the upper wall of the tank.

  Furthermore, the interior space of the tank-tank comprises

  a filtration block 21 resting on the base of the tank

  tank and connected by line 22 to the outlet

removable connection 23.

  This connection socket is located near

  the notch 24 (Figure 5) made on the body of the tank

  tank to accommodate the cylindrical pump

(Figure 3).

  This pump is connected for its downstream input by the

  pipe 26 to the quick connection socket 23.

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  The downstream outlet of the pump ends in line 27 at a rinsing liquid spray nozzle 28 located at

bowl head 12.

  The pump 25 is of the diaphragm type and is operated by the pedal 29 mounted on the lever 30, and accessible to

  a level higher than the floor 11 of the cabin.

  At the start, the assembly is set up on site with a reserve of rinsing liquid limited to a few liters and

  allowing the first uses.

  Each actuation of the pump allows the withdrawal from the tank of a quantity (approximately 3 liters) of liquid

  of rinsing which allows the cleaning of the bowl if necessary

  after several calls to the pump.

  As and when subsequent uses the tank

  tank fills and receives liquid effluents and

  solids corresponding to the use of the cabin.

  The tank-tank includes the addition of products making it possible to very strongly tint the accumulated liquid, for example in dark blue as well as products with disinfecting and / or deodorant action; so that at each use the bowl can be cleaned by recovery and recycling of the liquid stored in the tank-tank, corresponding to the small quantity of the initial liquid and to the liquid effluents

  (urine) deposited during successive uses.

  The additive is intended to be self-degrading quickly over time so as to allow the evacuation of the effluents in the wastewater absorbed and treated by the purification stations.

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  Thus at the end of a normal use cycle, the tank being close to its maximum filling coefficient (which can possibly be detected from the outside by level measurement systems), it is possible to reactivate the cabin by a simple exchange of the removable cartridge that

constitutes the tank-tank.

  For this purpose it suffices, a set of manipulations being brought to the site, for example a truck provided with a crane arm, to deposit in the immediate vicinity of the cabin at the end of the cycle a new and substantially empty tank containing the initial quantity of rinsing liquid and additive products, this tank being transported closed, the hatch being placed on its upper opening; after arrival on site the new tank-tank is put

  in the active position by releasing the hatch.

  After which the lifting arm moves the neighboring cabin at the end of the cycle, and whose full tank remains in place, which can be done easily after simple separation of the pump 25 at the connection socket 23; and the raised cabin can be easily attached and brought into the installation position relative to the new tank tank which is located immediately nearby, the

  connection of the pump to the socket of this new tank

  sufficient tank to put the assembly in operating position. The preceding tank tank and therefore substantially filled can then be closed by fitting its hatch and the assembly thus closed can be moved with a view to its evacuation on the platform of the transport and handling machine. It is thus possible to put a cabin back into service at the end of the cycle by simple standard exchange of its tank-tank, avoiding the inconvenience of the traditional system causing it to move to the place of operation of the emptier, namely

  high cost for a small volume of treated effluent, inde-

  amid unpleasant noise and odors, in the middle

  precisely of a concentration of people.

  The sanitary cabin according to the invention will therefore be applicable whenever it is desired to make available to a population, whatever its size, a minimum of sanitary comfort in places devoid of equipment, this installation being able to be carried out very quickly and left available on the site at all times

  necessary for the stay of the population served.

  Alternatively, the cartridge can be mounted removable and movable on rails for its extraction by horizontal sliding, in the manner of a simple drawer, this before its disconnection and its removal followed by the installation of a new cartridge. reconnected and in turn slid into place on rails to its position

  active, under the receiver and inside the cabin.

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Claims (8)

  1 - Sanitary installation of the type consisting of an individual cabin (2), movable and removable, equipped with receiving member (12) and effluent storage, characterized in that it comprises an independent tank consisting of a tank (14) comprising connection means (23, 26, 27) allowing a removable and reversible connection of said tank-tank (14) on the receiving members (12) and for discharging the effluents disposed on the cabin (2) , the tank-tank thus being capable of being removed, after a determined period of use, independently of the cabin, for installation and in the operating position of a new tank-tank.   2 - Sanitary installation according to claim 1, characterized in that the cabin (2) has at its base a housing, receiver of said tank-tank (14), the housing being arranged below the receiving members (12) and d evacuation of effluents, which are thus able to be conveyed by gravity from said organs to said tank-tank.   3 - Sanitary installation according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the tank-tank (14) has on its upper wall an opening (15) cooperating with a removable closure member (16) thus alternately allowing to close the tank for transport and storage during periods of non-use and to ensure, by removing the shutter, the communication of the reception and evacuation devices (12) of the cabin (2) with   the interior space of the tank-tank, when the tank-   tank is in place in the cabin.   4 - Sanitary installation according to one of claims 1,   2 or 3, characterized in that the cabin (2) comprises a set of fluid manipulations, such as a volume pump (25), connected downstream to the reception and evacuation members (12) for the purpose of supply of these organs with rinsing liquid. - Installation according to claim 4, characterized in that said pump (25) is connected upstream to said tank-tank (14) via a connection socket (23) allowing connection and / or   rapid separation of the pump from the reservoir.   6 - Installation according to claim 5, characterized in that said tank-tank (14) comprises a filter block (21) immersed in the tank (14) and connected to said connection socket, this filter block allowing the supply of the pump (25) in one phase   liquid taken from said tank-reservoir.   7 - Installation according to one of claims 5 or 6,   characterized in that the pump (25) is provided of the membrane A type and it includes a pedal (29) for mechanical actuation, the pedal being disposed substantially above the floor (11l) of the cabin and being associated with a spring of reminder.   8 - Installation according to one of claims 1 to 7,   characterized in that the cabin (2) and the tank-tank (14) comprise reciprocal and removable securing means alternately allowing the handling of the cabin and tank-tank assembly in an integral state and the handling of the cabin on the one hand and from   tank on the other hand separately and being separated.   9 - Installation according to one of claims 1 to 8,   characterized in that the cabin on the one hand and the tank   tank on the other hand each have hooking or gripping means on lifting devices such as   loops (9, 10) allowing the respective securing   of the cabin and / or the tank-tank on lifting devices such as a lifting harness capable of   to be maneuvered by the arm of a crane.   - Installation according to one of claims 1 to 9,   characterized in that the tank (14) comprises a drain (17) provided with a shutter (18) inside said tank and controlled by an operating rod (19) vertically passing through the tank, the end of the rod being manipulated being   accessible from the upper wall of the tank.   11l - Procedure for managing a fleet of sanitary cabins   according to one of claims 1 to 10 above, and   characterized by the succession of the following operations: - A certain quantity of cabins is put in place comprising a tank-tank which initially contains a small quantity of rinsing liquid corresponding to the quantity necessary for the first uses. 2651984   - We leave the cabins in operation for a while   substantially corresponding to the filling of the tanks   tanks. - We deposit in the immediate vicinity of a cabin whose   tank is substantially full a new tank   tank containing only the initial quantities of new rinse aid, necessary for the first uses.   - The cabin is separated on the one hand and the tank-   full tank associated with said cabin, in particular at the level of the cabin pump connection on the tank-tank.   - We move the cabin leaving the tank on the spot -   full tank and this cabin (without tank) is brought to a neighboring position and in particular of superposition relative to the new tank-tank (previously installed) and the pump of said cabin is connected to said new tank-tank, the cabin then being suitable   to a new operating cycle.   - The full tank is removed, after closing   the latter, with a view to its evacuation and its emptying.