US1974955A - Sanitary device - Google Patents

Description

Patented Sept. 25, 19.34Y

Application September 27, 1930, Serial No. 484,879 Renewed August 3, 1934 2 Claims.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in sanitary devices, and more particularly it pertains to a disinfectant holder.

It is one of the objects of the invention to provide a disinfectant holder which is adapted for removable attachment to a water closet hopper.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a device of the character described which may be positioned in the path of the flow of water employed for flushing the hopper'.

It is a further object 0f the invention so to construct a device of this character that it may be readily removed from operating position.

It is a further object of the invention so to construct a device of the afore-mentioned character that the antiseptic element thereof may be readily renewed after total consumption thereof.

It is still a further object of the invention so to construct a device of the afore-mentioned character, that it will be capable of universal use.

With the above and other objects in View, reierence is had to the accompanying drawing, wherein,

Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating a water closet hopper with a device constructed in accordance with the present invention removably secured thereto.

Figure 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view illustrating the manner of attachment of the device constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 3 is a view in side elevation of the invention,

Figure 4 is a View in end elevation.

In the drawing, the antiseptic holderV is in the form of a coil '70 formed from resilient wire, and the ends of said wire are bent around into 40 parallelism with the body portion of the holder as indicated at 7l, and are further formed as at '72 with resilient legs terminating in angular extensions 73. The end convolutions of the coil are gradually reduced in diameter to provide relatively closed ends to retain the antiseptic elements within the coil. The antiseptic material in the shape of balls is introduced merely by distortion of the coil portion intermediate its ends and inp serting the same between the convolutions thereof.

By reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing, it will be seen that the device is secured in position by inserting the resilient leg 72 through the water supply opening B of a water closet A.

After insertion of the leg '72 through the opening B, the same expands so that the angular extensions 73 engage the walls of the water supply passage C. Thus it will be seen that the convoluted body lies against the inner side of the bowl A and the pellets of disinfectant '75 are disposed in the path of the water discharged through the opening B and carried into the bowl for disinfecting purposes.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that the present invention provides a new and novel means for supporting a plurality of antiseptic tablets or the like within the path of flow of the flushing water of a water closet hopper in such a manner that as the hopper is flushed, the water passes in the presence of the antiseptic tablet and an antiseptic solution is thereby formed and remains within the hopper after each iiushing operation thereof.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and what it is desired to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is;

l. A holder of the class described comprising a main body portion in the form of a coil formed intermediate the ends of a single piece of wire, means for closing the ends of the coil, said means consisting of smaller convolutions of the coil, and means for attaching the coil in operative position, said last mentioned means comprising a pair of closely associated parallel spring arms each of which extends parallel to the body portion throughout a portion of its length, and right angular extensions projecting from the end of each of said spring arms, said right angular extensions projecting in opposite directions.

2. A holder of the class described comprising a single length of resilient bendable wire coiled midway between its ends to provide an elongated convoluted body, the end convolutions being smaller than the intermediate convolutions, the ends of said wire being bent outwardly and thence inwardly toward each other against and parallel to said convoluted body, spaced parallel arms extending outwardly from said inwardly bent portions and being formed of the same material, and oppositely disposed angularly extending lingers on the free ends of said arms.

ANESTIS FOLTIS.

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