US1675263A

US1675263A - Urinal

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Publication number: US1675263A
Application number: US156505A
Authority: US
Inventors: Flagg Ernest
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-12-22
Filing date: 1926-12-22
Publication date: 1928-06-26
Anticipated expiration: 1945-06-26

Description

E; FLAGG Jung 26, 1928.

Filed Dec. 22, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet ITN SSES ATTORNEYS June 26, 1928. 1,675,263

E FLAGG v URINAL Filed. Dec. 22, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 ZZKJ/M m/wzw ATTORNEYS Patented June 26, 1928.

PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST FLAGG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

URINAL.

Application filed December 22, 1926-. Serial No. 156,505.

The present invention is concerned with the provision of a sanitary urinal. The types of upright recessed urinals which are now commonly in use are very objectionable because of the fact that a great deal of water is required to properly flush them, and because the urine in any event does not strike running water. Due to the extremely rapid decay of urine there is a most disagreeable odor associated with the types of urinals now employed which can be eliminated only by the provision of a construction in which a film of running water is maintained over the surface of the urinal when in use. I

The present invention overcomes the disadvantages of the old type of urinalby providing a device which is absolutely sanitary, being so arranged that a film of running water always covers the walls of the. urinal basin when the latter is in position for use.

Preferably I effect material space economy by mounting the urinal under an ordinary wash basin. and by using a treadle to swing the urinal out from under the basin into operative position. This treadle also controls the supply of water to the urinal so that as the urinal is swung to operative position, the water automatically starts to flush. As the device is returned by a spring or other suitable mechanism to inoperative concealed position, the water is automatical ly cut off. y I

This treadle arrangement is another material advantage because it is necessary for one desiring to use the urinal to step upon the treadle. He must therefore stand in proper position for use before the urinal is.

swung from its concealed position, and any danger of spilling on the floor is eliminated.

With the above noted and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims. The invention may be more fully understood from the following description in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein- Fig. 1 is a view in vertical section through a wash-bowl and urinal, the dotted lines indicating the position of the latter when shifted to exposed operative position.

Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation of the.

device While I have shown theurinal associated with a wash-bowl and normally concealed thereunder, it will be evident that the washbowl is no essential part of the combination, although material space economy may be effected, for instance in Pullman car washrooms or other public lavatories, by-the ar- I ported any suitable manner, and is provided with a faucet 14 connected to a water supply line 15. The drain outlet from the basin is controlled by a suitable drain valve 16 and the basin drains into a discharge pipe 17. Preferably both the supply pipe 15 and drain pipe 17 are vertically disposed, and connected near their lower ends adjacent the floor by across pipe 18 plugged as at 19 and 20 to prevent the passage of water from the supply pipe directly to the drain pipe. Rising from the pipe 18 are supply pipe 21 and drain pipe22 for the urinaL'thelatter being in the nature of a trough or basin 23 normally disposed under the wash-basin 13. The upper ends of

pipes

21 and 22 are connected by across pipe 24 havinga plug therein at any suitable point (not shown) to prevent the supply line fromdischarging directly into the drain pipe.

The urinal is formed with a discharge neck 25 coupled as at 26 directly to the cross pipe 24, and a short riser 27 connects the inlet side of the pipe 24 with a tubular water chamber 28 extending around the top of the urinal and formed with a number of discharge orifices 29. Thus, with the chamber 28 full of water, the orifices 29 will maintain a continuous film of water moving over the surface of the urinal basin and flowing ofl through the neck 25. i

The T-

couplings

30 and 31 which connect the

pipes

21 and 22 togthe pipe 18 are free to rock on the pipe 18 swinging the U-shaped

structures

21, 22, 24 about pipe 18 as a center, and thereby permitting the urinal'to be carried from the concealed position of Fig. 1 to the dotted line exposed position of Fig. 1,

this movement being opposed by spring 85 swings forwardly, a flow of water occurs from the pipe '20 through

theports

34, 33, up thepipe 31,;and from the annular chamber .28, this flow being automatically cut off when, the spring is permitted to swing the urinal under the wash-basin.

"Itwill be obvious that any suitable means may beresorted to for limiting the throw of the treadle operated

pipe frame

21, 22, 24: which carries the urinal. Such means'l'ias been illustrated as a depending flange 50 at the forward portion of the wash basin which extends into the urinal basin and limits swinging movement of the latter in bot-h directions.

The device ispri narily sanitary, because of the factth'at wateris always flowing in a film over the basin walls. It is also sanitary because of the fact that a user in order to move the device to operative position must step upon the. treadle and in so doing place himself in the proper position for use, so that there is no danger of soiling the floor. It will be obvious that while-I have shown the device associated with a wash basin .to effect material space economy .in public lavatories of various kinds,- particularly .Pullman car lavatories, it is'by no means essential that the wash bowl or basin form any part of the combination. The urinal-for. instance might I be swung inwardlyunder a shelf, or might be associated with various other articles of furniture. It is within the scope of the present invention, to mount the urinal .in any manner which will conceal it from view, and, to provide means for simultaneously shifting the urinal to exposed operative position and flushing thesame.

Obviously various changes and alterations might be made in the general form and ar- .rangementof the parts described without wash bowl of a swinging frame under thebowlanda urinal basin carried thereby, the

frame being normally spring heldto retain 7 the urinal basin in concealed position, a treadle for swinging the frame outwardly to expose the urinal basin, the bowl and basin including interengaging parts limiting the movement of theswinging frame in both direc i 2. The combination with a stationary wash bowl, of a urinal basin movably mounted nder the bowl and normally spring held in inoperative concealed posit on, means forswinging the basin outwardly nto exposed operative position, interengaging portions at the front of the bowl and the rear of the basin limiting the outward swinging inoveinentof the basin.

I 3. The combination with a stationary wash bowl, of a urinal basin niovably mounted under the bowl and normally spring held in noperative concealed position, means .for

sw nging the basin outwardly into exposed operative position, the bowl having at its front a depending extension engageable with the rear of the basin to limit its outward swinging movement.

4. A device of the class described in claim 1 wherein tllOSWlHglIlg frame. for the. basin is formed of pipes constituting water supply and waste pipes for the basin.

i v ERNEST FLAGG.