Public urinals for females / [Casimir Victor Doriot].

  • Doriot, Casimir Victor.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Public urinals for females / [Casimir Victor Doriot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i\° 4294 A.D. 1893 Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1893 Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1893—Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Public Urinals for Females. I, Casimir Victor Doriot of 72 Boulevard Magenta Paris in the Republic of France, Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as follows :— For some long time attempts have been made to provide for females in large 5 towns and cities conveniences which are at present only provided for men. That which has retarded up to the present time the establishment of public and free urinals for females is that the problem presents several difficulties which have never been solved in a satisfactory manner. Amongst these difficulties, the first refers to good manners, the second to that of 10 freedom from payment and, intimately connected with the first, appeared altogether incapable of solution, in this sense, that if it were proposed to establish free urinals, it was indispensible to employ in connection with them, to secure proper conduct, a female attendant, charged, amongst other duties, with closing these urinals at a certain hour of the night for reasons which will be readily understood. Id Although the problem therefore appears difficult as above indicated, I believe nevertheless that I have solved it in a very satisfactory manner, by devising urinals provided with the following characteristics. 1. My urinal, which will occupy no more space than urinals for men, will be so arranged that it can serve solely as a urinal. _ 2. I will establish a female attendant receiving a very small salary, who will be either a newsvendor, a flower seller, &c. 3. This female attendant will be charged with watching over the cleanliness of the urinal, with its care, from the point of view of good manners and with its closure after the theatres close, for example. 25 ^ 4. With the small salary of the attendant and the price for advertising which I intend to apply to my urinals, I shall be able to realise a fair return on the cost of establishment and to supply towns with free urinals for females. After the above description I desire by the present application to secure the entire and exclusive right to the system of urinals for women which fulfils the 30 conditions above enumerated and which will be readily understood by the following description aided by reference to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1. represents in elevation, my system of urinals for females. Figure 2. shows in sectional plan drawn on a horizontal plane the same urinal. Figure 3. represents a vertical section of the pan or basin separately. 35 Figure 4. show's separately the arrangement w'hich I employ to prevent the opening of the door at the side when the compartment is occupied. As will be seen in the drawings my system of public free urinals, has externally the form of a chalet or kiosk. It is composed of a certain number of panels a, of marble, sheet iron, wood or other suitable material, up to a certain height and 40 the others of glass for example, can receive advertisements w'hich will be lighted up at night by gas jets in the interior of the kiosk. In front, is arranged in the interior of the kiosk the table b for the attendant new'svendor, flower seller &c. who can deliver the goods by the front panel c which is open for this purpose. This urinal has twTo entrances d. d, one to the right, the other to the left of the attendant. These entrances communicate with the same lobby e divided into two by a door / articulated at g to be capable of movement to the right or left and afford access to one or the other of the two compartments h, h, of my urinal. [Price 8o?.] 45