US98905A - Improvement in stkeet-tjrinaiis - Google Patents

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N mutiert iattt @met @inline Letters Potent N 98,905, dated January 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN STREET-URINALS.

The Schedule referred to -n these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it Vknown that I, Moarrz BACHARACH, of the city, county, and State otl N ew York, have invented anew and improved Street-Urinal; and I do Ahereby declare that the following is a l'ull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of myimproved Su'eet-nl'inal.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of a modification ofthe V same.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section of the same, taken on the plane ofthe line x x, tig. 1.

Figures 4 and' are horizontal sections of the same. Figure 6 is a diaphragm, showing how the nrinals `are to be placed in the streets of a city.

Similailetters of reference indicate corresponding parts.V

This invention has for its object to design convenient structures, that maybe pnt up inV the streets of cities and towns, to contain urinals, and to which easy access can be had from the streets.

In American cities, these necessary structures have scarcely ever been put up, owing to the diliiculty of constructing-them so as not to occupy much room, and as not to expose those using them. o

`In European cities, manyare arranged, `but they are all open toward the street, and exposed to the view of persons in wagons ^and carriages, although they are closed toward the sidewalks.

My invention consists in constructing the buildings in circular arched forni, of wire ganze, lined, for a portion of their height, with sheet-metal, whereby ample provision is made for ventilation, while the occupant-s are screened from the observation of persons upon the street or sidewalk.

Those which are to be pnt up at street-corners arev in form ci' an arched passage, as indicated at A in tig. 6, and also in iig. 5, so that the open ends, a a, are in line with the converging curb-stones.

The vessel B is arranged either on the short or on the long side, midway 'the ends, as shown in fig 5, and is connected with two pipes, b and c, one for the discharge, the other for rinsing-water to How in.

'j he ends are closed by doors D D, which are made self-closing, by means ol' suitable springs or weights.

The men canA enter through one door, and leave through the other, so as not to interfere witheach other.

By this arrangement, there will be no oi'ence given to the persons on the sidewalk, as they see only the rounded long side ot' the structure, while, on the street, only the short side and the doors are visible.

Those urinals that have to be pnt up between streetcorners, are made of segmental form, as in tig. 4, and at Q in tig. 6. lhey stand with their long rounded sides on the sidewalk, and their straight sides converge atan angle of about ninety degrees.

Doors are arranged on the str. ight sides, and a vessel, B, put in, as in the first-described apparatus.

The walls are made ot' sheet-metal, or other suitable material, and may be oi' wire gauze, as shown, in which case the lower part of the building has an inner lining, E, to prevent the interior from being inspected from the outside.

The walls are made of wire gauze or netting, as shown, to obtain good ventilation, and their lower parts are provided with an inner linng, of metal, E, to prevent the interior from heilig inspected from the outside.

Having thus ldescribed my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A street-urinal, made on an arc ot' a cir'cl'e, or curved transversely, constructed of ret-iculated material, with a lining in its lower portion, and provided with the basin B and discharge-pinch, all substantially as described.

MORITZ BAGHARACH. YVitnesses:

FRANK BLooKLEY, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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