US1363459A - Indoor toilet - Google Patents

Description

A. E. DOWELL.

INDOOR TOILET.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 9. 1'920.

Patented Dec. 28, 11920.

narnia-r or LVA E. DOWELI, F MACOIVIB, ILLINOIS.

INDOOR TOILET.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1.112%.

Application filed February 9, 1920. Serial No. 357,476.

To all whom t 'may concern:

Be it known that I, rinvii E. DownLL, a citizen ot' the United States, a resident ot Macomb, in the county of McDonough and State of Illinois, have invented new and useiul Improvements in Indoor Toilets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to indoor toilets, and it has toi' its principal object, to

improve devices of this character to the extent that all repugnant and noxious odors and gases are carried away by a new arrangement of vents connected to a suitable flue. y

I am aware that various Ventilating appliances have been applied to indoor toilets oi the character herein referred to, and that in connection therewith, chemical mixtures are employed to throw down the noxious odors and gases, supplemented by the use ot.' the Ventilating' means, but I have found that odorous gases accummulate, not only in the cabinet beneath the seat, but more especially around the seat opening, beneath the cover or top and out of the natural path oi travel ot the gases to the usual Vent, as they rise in the cabinet. And it is in the arrangement of an improved Vent in which my invention resides that I am to improve devices of this character by carrying ofi' all odors and `gases not suppressed by the chemical mixture. INith my improved vent, I also obviate any chance of noxious gases escaping into the dwelling and endangering the lives of the occupants, when the cover or top is closed.

Figure 1 is a Vertical sectional elevation of an'indoor toilet embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan View, partly in section, as the same would appear, if taken on the line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Like characters ot' reference denote corresponding parts throughout the figures.

The cabinet, which may be of the usual construction, is designated l, provided with the Ventilating chamber 2, to which is connected the Vertical Vent pipe 3, which may lead out through the roof of a dwelling orbe connected to a house flue having communica- 'tion with the outside of the dwelling. The usual container tis shown within the cabinet having the bail-handle 5 for removing and placing the container in the cabinet.

The top of the cabinet is covered by a seat which includes a part 6 hinged at 7 to a part S. The part 6 is arranged to be raised and lowered to permitan attendant to remove the container 4. The part 6 is aise provided with the usual seat opening 9.

Adapted to cover the seat opening 9 is a cover or top 10, which is pivotally connected to the device to permit it to be swung away from and toward the scat so as to uncover and cover the seat opening 9, as ot' course will be understood. In the particular arrangement of the cover or top 10 shown, itis not intended to raise oi' lower it, as could be the case, but to swing it away :trom and toward the seat, in a horizontal plane. To accomplish this, I connect the cover or top 10 with an arm or bracket 11 having a swingable connection, preferably with the Vent pipe leading from the cabinet.

oming now to my improved Ventilating means, which acts Vsupplementary to the customary Ventilating means en devices ot this character, 12 designates ay vent pipe connected at one end to the cover or top 1Q and communicating with the interior ot the cabinet 1, when the cover or top 10 is over the seat opening 9, through an opening 13 in said cover or top 10. The other end oi the vent pipe 12 has a swingable connection with the vent pipe 3 leading from the cabinet, and communicates with the interior of said last mentioned pipe through an opening, 14 therein, see Fig. l. It will be observed that when the cover or top 10 and vent 12 are swung out and away from the seat of the cabinet, that the opening 14 in the vent pipe 3 is closed and escaping gases may not be deected back through the vent pipe 12 and into the dwelling, but that when the parts have been swung into the position shown in Fig. l, the Ventilating chamber 2 and Vent pipe 3 supplemented by the Vent pipe 12 will carry away all'repugnant and noxious odors and gases from and within the cabinet and all of its crevices and pockets keep the same in a clean and sanitary condition.

What I claim is:

1. In an indoor toilet, in combination with the cabinet-and Vent pine leading there from, a movable cover for the seat opening, and a Vent connected to the cover and -vent pipe adapted to have communication with said vent pipe having an exit opening above the cabinet, a movable cover for the seat opening having an exit opening therein, and a vent providing communication from the opening in the cover to the opening in said pipe.

3. n an indoor toilet, in combination with the cabinet and vent pipe leading therefrom, said vent pipe having an exit opening above the cabinet, a cover for the seat opening having an exit opening therein,

means for swingably connecting said cover with the vent pipe leading from the cabinet,

and a communicating vent between said exit openings in the cover and said pipe, so arranged that when the cover is swung to uncover the seat opening, to close the exit opening in said pipe.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand this 19thday of January,

ALVA E. DOWELL..

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