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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    10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 N° 4294.—A.D. 1893. 5 Poriot’s Public Urinals for Females. so tliat the door cannot he moved either to the right or to the left, so long as the persons have not descended from their foot-boards m. In order that the occupants can only discharge urine, I arrange a pan or basin r* in front of the footboard m, which has by preference the form represented in the drawings at Figs. 2 and 3. For this purpose this pan or basin, furnished with a water shoot n* 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 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 ???, and consequently faces the roof of the basin, which is hollowed out at u for greater convenience. 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 discharge orifice to carry off the water used in cleaning the place. The urinal is shut, for example, after the theatres close by means of a corrugated or revolving shutter, which rolls up in the cornice v when the urinal is opened. Finally, a small verandah #, placed above the front panel, protects the counter of the attendant from rain, &c. 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. When on the edge of a narrow foot-path. Fig. 5 of the drawings represents in plan the arrangement of a urinal for women when it is required to be constructed against a wall, for example. Fig. 6 shows a urinal for women such as I propose to construct for application on a foot-path, for example. As shown in the drawings at Fig. 5, when my urinals are placed against a wall or 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. In this case the two central compartments a1 a1 are side by side but separated by a partition bl. In each wing of the urinal are arranged the two compartments c1 a1, to which access is given by a single door d1 arranged and operated exactly as stated above. With this arrange¬ ment of the compartments in line, the female attendant placed at A can overlook the two wings at the same time. The two doors e1 el of her compartment shut back at the right and left, as shown by the dotted line f] 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 gl, This screen is made up of a certain number of plates of sheet iron, which, when the urinal 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 Fig. 6, in order to have a urinal of a smaller diameter, only a single compartment is employed, the door dl of which is always immovable when this compartment is occupied, as described above. The place A for the attendant is provided with an opening at A1, 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 therefore is 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.