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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    Doriot’s Public Urinals for Females. The door /*, which I apply for this purpose in the interior of my urinal, is articulated at g as above stated, it is further suspended by a friction roller i whose periphery j fits a rail k, with two inclines arranged in directions reverse to each other as shown at Figure 4. This arrangement has for its object to bring the door back to the middle of the 5 lobby after it has been moved to the right or to the left. The articulation of the door is effected on hinges shaped with helical inclines, so that the vertical displacements of the incline are effected squarely. With this door, to enter in the right compartment, for example, it is necessary to push to the left and reciprocally, as the distance, which the door leaves when at rest, 10 between itself and the side l of the lobby is too narrow for the passage of a person. This opening always enables the attendant to survey the urinal. To close either or both compartments when they are occupied, I have furnished the door with the following arrangement. In each compartment is placed a foot board or stand m, on which the person 15 stands to discharge urine. This foot board is articulated at n and is articulated at the opposite side to a rod 0, which at its upper end is articulated to a lever p so as to rock said lever, which latter is articulated at q. This lever is terminated by a stop r which in rising prevents the roller i from running along the incline opposite to that of the com- 20 partment occupied. When the two compartments are occupied at the same time, the roller is keyed or secured by the two stops r, so that the door cannot be moved either to the right nor to the left, so long as the persons have not descended from their footboards m. In order that the occupants can only discharge urine I arrange a pan or basin r*, 25 in front of the foot board t?i, which has by preference the form represented in the drawings at Figures* 2 and 3. For this purpose this pan or basin, furnished with a water shoot rc, for cleaning, is covered by a kind of ridge roof s, which also prevents the clothes of the females from being soaked with the water in the basin. Lastly the said basin is prolonged under the footboard m, by a gutter t, which 30 communicates with a discharge conduit covered or not by a kind of trap or strainer. The compartments being thus arranged, when a person enters, she places herself, without turning round on the footboard m, and, consequently faces the roof of the basin which is hollowed out at u for greater convenience. 35 An indicator plate operated by connections from the door can be arranged to indicate that such or such a compartment is or is not occupied. The floor of each compartment inclines towards the centre so that it is parallel to the line of suspension of the door. Where the two inclined floors meet is a rectangular orifice to carry off the water used to clean the place. 40 The urinal is shut, for example, after the theatres close by means of a corrugated or revolving shutter which rolls up in the cornice e, when the urinal is opened. Finally a small verandah x, placed above the front panel protects the counter of the attendant from rain &c. 45 An inscription very visible and luminous during the night will indicate that the urinal is public, free and only for the use of females. Sometimes it is desirable to modify the shape of these urinals. 1st. When one is to be placed along a wall. 2nd. On the edge of a narrow footpath. 50 Figure 5. of the drawing represents in plan the arrangement of a urinal for women when it is required to be constructed against a wall, for example. b igure 6, shows a urinal for women such as I propose to construct for application on a footpath for example. As shown in the drawing, Figure 5, when my urinals are placed against a wrall or 55 in the yard of a railway station I arrange the compartments all in a line with each other as is the case in those provided for men.