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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    5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 N° 4294.—A.D. 1893. 3 Doriot* s Public Urinals for Females. In this case, the two central compartments a1, a1, are side by side, but separated by a partition b1. In each wing of the urinal are arranged the two compartments c1, a1, to which access is given by a single door d\ arranged and operated exactly as stated above. With this arrangement of the compartments in line, the female attendant placed at A, can overlook the two wings at the same time. The two doors el, e1, of her compartment shut back at the right and left as shown by the dotted line f1 in the drawing. In order to shut the two entrances to the compartments of the wings, a screen of several shutters or divisions may be employed which the female attendant arranges laterally as indicated by the dotted lines g\ This screen is made up of a certain number of plates of sheet iron, which when the unnal is opened are arranged parallel to each other behind the attendant’s compartment. But the two entrances E of the compartments can also be closed by means of a shutter which rolls up in the cornice. As shown in Figure 6, in order to have a urinal of a smaller diameter only a single compartment is employed, the door dl of which is always immoveable when this compartment is occupied as described above. The place A for the attendant presents an opening at Id which permits of her overlooking the urinal. With this arrangement in order to close the urinal a lateral and concentric shutter is employed which the attendant draws across the entrance. When the urinal is open this shutter shuts back on the inside against the circular enclosure. The object of the present invention is therefore to establish conveniences for females to serve only as urinals, but I reserve the right of applying thereto water- closets. either in one or both of the two compartments. It will be well understood that the shape, details, materials and dimensions of this system of urinal may be varied at will without in anyway changing the nature of the invention. Dated this 27th day of February 1893. C. V. DORIOT, By Harris & Mills, 23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents. COMPLETE 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 this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :— For some long time attempts have been made to provide for females in large towns and cities, conveniences which are at present only provided for men. That which has retarded up to the present time the establishment of free public urinals for females is, that the problem presents several difficulties which have never been solved in a satisfactory manner. Amongst these difficulties, the first rests on the question of good manners ; the second, on that of freedom from payment, and, being intimately connected with the first, appeared altogether incapable of solution in this sense, that if it were proposed to establish free urinals, it vTas indispensable to employ in connection with them, to secure proper conduct, a female attendant charged, amongst duties, with closing these urinals at a certain hour of the night for reasons which will be readily understood,