TRANSPORTABLE SANITARY UNIT

• US 20140259971A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mad Investments B.V.
• Original Assignee: Marcel Adriaan Dirk Bikker
• Inventors: BIKKER, Marcel Adriaan Dirk
• Granted Patent: US 9,060,652 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/34
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 4/00 Combinations of baths, douches, sinks, wash-basins, closets, or urinals, not covered by a single other group of this subclass such combinations when connected to water supply or waste pipe E03C1/01
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 7/00 Wheeled lavatories wheeled closets without flushing A47K11/00; construction of land vehicles B62
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/34312 Vertical telescopic structures
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/34336 Structures movable as a whole, e.g. mobile home structures vehicles comprising living accommodation for people, e.g. caravans, camping or like vehicles B60P3/32
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 1/1216 Public W.C.s
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 2001/1283 Small buildings of the ISO containers type

Abstract

Transportable unit for forming a straight parallelepiped-shaped residential space, provided with a bottom and a covering, and upright walls extending in between them, which walls can be converted between a—particularly retracted—transport position and a—particularly extended—operational position, in which the unit has a larger height, wherein the unit is equipped as a sanitary unit having a series of toilet bowls, urinals and/or showers.

Claims

1. A transportable unit for forming a straight parallelepiped-shaped residential space, comprising:

a bottom;

a covering; and

upright walls extending in between the bottom and the covering, the walls being adapted to be converted between a retracted transport position and an extended operational position, in which the unit has a larger height,

wherein the unit is equipped as a sanitary unit having a series of toilet bowls, urinals and/or showers,

the bottom is part of a lower section of the unit and the covering is part of an upper section of the unit, which lower and upper sections can be moved in a vertical direction with respect to each other, said lower and upper sections having frames comprising longitudinal girders, transverse girders and columns meeting each other at corners of the unit,

the upright walls form partitions/inner walls for shielding off sub-spaces in which the respective toilet bowls, urinals and/or showers are accommodated, and

the inner walls/partitions shielding off the sub-spaces have an upper wall attached to the upper section of the unit and a lower wall attached to the lower section of the unit, wherein the upper wall and the lower wall of said upright walls are slidable vertically into or along each other by moving the upper and lower sections with respect to each other in said vertical direction.

2. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein a common drain pipe for the toilet bowls, urinals and/or showers is incorporated in the bottom, wherein the drain pipe is adapted to be connected to a vacuum drainage system.

3. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the upper wall and the lower wall are of approximately similar height.

4. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the sub-spaces are directly accessible via entry sides of the sub-spaces, the entry sides of the sub-spaces being provided with respective individual doors for closing and opening the entry sides of the sub-spaces, said doors being provided in a sidewall of the unit.

5. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein sub-spaces in the operational position are formed by bays or niches, divided into an upper niche section and a lower niche section, that are attached to an upper section of the unit comprising the covering and a lower section of the unit comprising the bottom, respectively, the lower niche section and the upper niche section having upright wall sections that at conversion between the transport position and the operational position can be moved along or into each other.

6. The transportable unit according to claim 5, wherein the niches have been formed by pairs of boxes, namely an upper box and a lower box, each having an upright separation wall, which bounds the sub-space to two or three horizontal sides, namely to one or both sides of the sub-space and/or to the rear, away from the entrance of the sub-space in question, wherein both boxes are open on the entry side and on the upper and lower side, respectively, facing each other, and wherein the upper box is part of an upper section of the unit comprising the covering and the lower box is part of a lower section of the unit comprising the bottom, wherein the upper section and the lower section can be vertically moved with respect to each other.

7. The transportable unit according to claim 6, wherein the lower box comprises a bottom wall forming a surface for a user to stand on and/or the upper box comprises an upper wall in which a light fixture is disposed.

10. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the toilet bowls, urinals and/or shower heads are arranged in the lower section of the unit comprising the bottom.

11. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the unit has half a standard height of a standard freight container, and an extended operational position, in which the unit has a larger height, wherein in the operational position the unit has a full standard height of a standard container,

the standard height is the height of a 20 ft. TEU container, a 40 ft. TEU container or a 45 ft. High Cube container, and

the length and width of the unit equal the length and width, respectively, of a 20 ft. TEU container, a 40 ft. TEU container or a 45 ft. High Cube container.

14. The transportable unit according to claim 1, provided with ISO corner fittings on the corners.

15. An assembly of a number of transportable units according to claim 1, wherein one unit has a length L corresponding with the standard length of a standard freight container and n units have a length L′

corresponding with 1/n×

L, wherein n is an integer.

16. The assembly according to claim 15 and a truck or trailer on which the transportable units have been placed.

21. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the sub-spaces each have a urinal.

22. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the sub-spaces each have a toilet bowl.

23. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the sub-spaces each have a shower.

24. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the upper and lower walls of the inner walls/partitions shielding off the sub-spaces are detachably attached to the frames of the upper section and the lower section of the unit, respectively.

26. The assembly of two transportable units according to claim 1, wherein the two transportable units are stacked onto one another and are in their retracted transport position.

8. A transportable unit for forming a straight parallelepiped-shaped residential space, comprising:

a bottom;

a covering; and

upright walls extending in between the bottom and the covering, the walls being adapted to be converted between a retracted transport position and an extended operational position, in which the unit has a larger height,

wherein the unit is equipped as a sanitary unit having a series of toilet bowls and/or urinals, said toilet bowls or urinals each having individual branch drain lines,

an upright wall forms a partition wall between two series of urinals and/or toilet bowls, the series being arranged along the partition wall, the individual branch lines which are connected to the drain pipe being are at least partially incorporated in the partition wall.

9. The transportable unit according to claim 8, wherein the partition wall has a lower partition wall and an upper partition wall which can be moved in a vertical direction with respect to each other, wherein the lower partition wall is divided into a first lower partition wall part and a second lower partition wall part that each support a toilet bowl or urinal of a respective series, said first lower partition wall part and a second lower partition wall between them define a vertical accommodation space for accommodation of the upper partition wall.

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25. An assembly of two transportable units, each unit forming a straight parallelepiped-shaped residential space, provided with a bottom and a covering, and upright walls extending in between them, which units by a telescoping vertical displacement of the upright walls can be converted between a retracted transport position and an extended operational position, in which the unit has a larger height, wherein each unit is equipped as a sanitary unit having a series of toilet bowls, urinals and/or showers, wherein the two transportable units are stacked onto one another and are in their retracted transport position.