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E. C. GONDIT.

URINAL No. 349,030. Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZEKIELC. CONDIT, OF KANSAS CITY, hUSSOURl.

URINAL.

SPECIFICATIN forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,030, dated September 14. 1886.

Application tiled March 16, 1886. Serial No. 195,451. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:`

Be it knownthat I, EZEKIEL G. CoNDrr, of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements iu Urinals, of which the following is a specication.

My present invention relates to urinals designed for use in school-houses or other public buildings, in connection with dry-closets and Ventilating-shafts; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction of the trough or urinal, as hereinafter more fully explained.

Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a portion of a building, showing my improved urinal in position. Fig. 2 is a transverse horizontal sectionI on the line x a: of Fig. 1; and Figs. and 4 areenlarged views of the trough detached, to illustrate its construction.

It has become customary of late to use dryclosets in school-houses and similar large buildings, as fully set forth in Patent No. 318,884, the air from the various rooms ofthe building being conducted through the vault of the closet and from thence to the outer air through a ventilating-shaft. As heretofore constructed the urinal used in connection with such dry-closets consisted simply'of a metal trough running along the wall of a room, so arranged as to deliver its contents into the Ventilating-shaft near its base, or into the vault of the dry-closet as near the ventilating-shaft as convenient, no water being used to cleanse the trough or urinal, except as the same may be cleaned from time to time by thejanitor or person in charge of the building. In some cases this form of urinal is used independently of the dry-closet, it being arranged in such cases to deliver its contents directly into the veutilatingshaft. I have found in some cases that these urinals after being used for some considerable time emit anunpleasant odor, which not onlylls the small room in which they are located, but escapes therefrom into the halls and passage-Ways, more or less, thus tending to render the air within the building foul and unpleasant; and the object of my present invention is to prevent this.

In the drawings, A indicates the closet or room in which the urinal is located; B, the

vault of the dry-closet below; C, the 1oulair duct, which delivers the warm and foul air from the various rooms of the building into the vault, and D the ventilatingshaft connected to the vault B and extending out through Iand above the roof of the building, and through which shaft a strong draft is maintained at all times.

I construct my improved urinal as shown in the several iigures-that is to say, I rst provide a trough, I, and then secure within it another trough, J, in such a manner as to leave a meniscus or crescent shaped space between them, as shown in cross-section in Fig. 3, the two troughs being joined or united along their edges in any suitable or convenient manner. The inner trough, J, is provided with a series ofperforations, e, which may consist of'asingle row along its center, as shown, or there may be, in addition to these others, arranged at intervals nearer the edges. The trough thus constructed is secured at the proper height, somewhat inclined, as shown in Fig. 1, and has its delivery orlower end extended through the wall into the Ventilating-shaft D. Vhen thus arranged,the duid delivered to the trough J will pass through the perforations e into the space between the two, and will then ow along the trough I and pass from thence down into the base of shaft D, where, if desired, plaster-of-paris or other absorbent material may be placed to be removed from time to time, the passing current of air, however, serving to evaporate itso soon that the use of an absorbsent is not generally thought necessary. The draft of the ventilating-shaft will create a suction through the trough I, or,rather, through the space between the two troughs, and to supply this the air will be drawn through the perforations e, and as it is thus drawn in it will of course be made to pass over the surface of the trough J, more or less, and will gather up and carry with it any odor arising therefrom, and will also convey away all odor from within the trough I and the space above it, delivering the same into the Ventilating-shaft, from whence they are conveyed to the outer air. It will of course be understood that the space between the troughs at the end within the rooln will be closed, so as to compel the air to pass through the per forations from above.

It is obvious that this form of urinal may be used in connection with the dry-closet and be arranged to connect with the vault of the IOC same, or that it may be used independently of the dry-closet, provided there be a ventilating-shaft or other means for producing the necessary current or draft of air. By this construction I ain enabled to obviate the eX- istence Within the building of the disagreeable odor which might otherwise arise from urinals in which water is not kept running.

I am aware that it is common to construct earthenware urinals and Water-closets with openings and tubes for the connection of ventilating-pipes, and with a double bottom arranged to hold water7 and thus forni a trap to prevent the entrance of sewergas, and there- 15 fore I do not claim such; but,

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