Transportable sanitary unit

• US 9,366,019 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2015
• Issued: 06/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mad Investments B.V.
• Original Assignee: Mad Investments B.V.
• Inventors: Bikker, Marcel Adriaan Dirk
• Primary Examiner(s): Fox, Charles A
• Assistant Examiner(s): SADLON, JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US14/714,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20150247315A1
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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, provided with a bottom and a covering, and upright walls extending in between the bottom and the covering, which walls can 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 at least one of toilet bowls, urinals or showers,

the upright walls form partitions for shielding off sub-spaces for the toilet bowls urinals or showers, said sub-spaces being accessible via respective entrances of the sub-spaces, said entrances being located on an exterior side of the transportable unit,

each sub-space in the extended operational position is formed by a bay or niche, divided into an upper bay or niche section and a lower bay or 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, and

the lower bay or niche section and the bay or upper niche section have upper and lower upright wall sections that at conversion between the retracted transport position and the extended operational position can be moved along or into each other.

2. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein each bay or niche section has been formed by pairs of boxes, including an upper box and a lower box, each having an upright separation wall, which bounds the sub-space to two or three horizontal sides, or 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.

3. The transportable unit according to claim 2, 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.

4. The transportable unit according to claim 2, wherein the upper boxes and the lower boxes are detachably attached to the upper section of the unit and to the lower section of the unit, respectively.

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

6. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the upper upright wall section is attached to the covering and the lower upright wall section is attached to the bottom, wherein the upper upright wall section and the lower upright wall section are of approximately similar height.

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

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

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

10. The transportable unit according to claim 1, provided with doors for closing and opening the entry sides of the sub-spaces.

11. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the toilet bowls, urinals or showers are arranged in the lower section of the unit comprising the bottom.

12. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein in the transport position the unit has half a standard height of a standard freight container, and in the operational position the unit has a full standard height of a standard container.

13. The transportable unit according to claim 12, wherein the standard height is the height 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. The transportable unit according to claim 1, wherein the unit can be converted from the transport position into the operational position by means of a fork-lift truck, of which the fork engages the upper section of the unit.

16. 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.

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

18. A transportable unit for forming a straight parallelepiped-shaped residential space, provided with a bottom and a covering, and upright walls extending in between the bottom and the covering, which walls can 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 at least one of toilet bowls, urinals or showers,

the upright walls form partitions for shielding off sub-spaces for the toilet bowls urinals or showers, said sub-spaces being accessible via respective entrances of the sub-spaces, said entrances being located on an exterior side of the transportable unit,

a common drain pipe for the toilet bowls, urinals or showers is incorporated in the bottom, wherein the drain pipe is adapted to be connected to a vacuum drainage system, and

the upright walls comprise an inner wall extending between two series of urinals, toilet bowls or showers, for forming a partition wall between the two series, the series being arranged along said partition wall on either side thereof, respectively, wherein said urinals, toilet bowls or showers each have an individual branch line discharging to said drain pipe, wherein each individual branch line is at least partially incorporated in said partition wall.

19. The transportable unit according to claim 18, 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, wherein the first lower partition wall part and the second lower partition wall part between them define a vertical accommodation space for accommodation of the upper partition wall.

20. The transportable unit according to claim 18, wherein the toilet bowls, urinals or shower heads are arranged in a lower section of the unit comprising the bottom.