Public sanitary cubicle

• US 4,922,559 A
• Filed: 10/11/1988
• Issued: 05/08/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hans Wall
• Original Assignee: Hans Wall
• Inventors: Wall, Hans
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Charles E.
• Application Number:
  US07/272,754
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: 4/233, 4/662
• US Class Current: 4/662
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 9/002 Automatic cleaning devices

Abstract

A public sanitary cubicle comprises a sanitary room with a water closet accessible through an outer door and a cleaning room separated therefrom by a partition and which contains the means necessary for the supply, disposal and cleaning of the sanitary room, particularly a cleaning appliance which can be brought up to the water closet after moving away the partition or part thereof and a drain connected to the water closet. For improving and facilitating cleaning work, the water closet has a substantially flat base with a rear drainage edge and which is inclined from the sanitary room to the partition, as well as a rear wall formed by the partition or its movable part, the drain being located in the cleaning room in the vicinity of the partition below the drainage edge of the base of the water closet and is exposed by moving away the partition or its movable part.

Claims

1. Public sanitary cubicle comprising a sanitary room with a water closet accessible through an outer door and a cleaning room divided off by a partition from the sanitary room and which is provided with the means necessary for the supply, disposal and cleaning of the sanitary room and in particular a cleaning implement which can be brought up to the water closet after moving away the partition or a part thereof and a drain connected to the water closet, wherein the water closet has a substantially flat base downwardly inclined from the sanitary room to the partition and having a rear drainage edge and a rear wall formed by the partition or its movable part, and wherein the drain is located in the cleaning room in the vicinity of the partition below the drainage edge of the base of the water closet and is exposed by moving away the partition or its movable part.

2. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1, wherein the lower area of the partition has the movable part, which at least has the size necessary for forming the rear wall of the water closet, said partition part being movable into the cleaning room whilst freeing the rear drainage edge of the water closet.

3. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 2, wherein the movable partition part is provided at its lower end with a portion inclined downwards into the sanitary room and which forms part of the base of the water closet and is connected by its leading edge to said drainage edge.

4. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1, characterized in that the sanitary room has a movable floor, which for cleaning purposes can be tilted or moved in the direction of cleaning room.

5. Sanitary cubicle according to one of the claims 1 or 4, wherein the movable partition part, together with the floor of the sanitary room, can be moved in the direction of cleaning room.

6. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 5, wherein below the water closet extending to floor is provided a cleaning appliance for the floor moving away below it.

7. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1, characterized wherein a grating for retaining coarse material is arranged above the drain.

8. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 7, wherein the grating is downwardly inclined into the cleaning room.

9. Sanitary cubicle according to one of claims 7 or 8, wherein the grating is pivotably mounted on the side remote from the water closet and can be pivoted from a position above the drain into the cleaning room towards the end of the cleaning process during the cleaning of water closet.

10. Sanitary cubicle according to one of the claims 1, 6, 7 or 8, wherein the partition is part of a cylinder forming the complete inner wall of the sanitary room and which in the sanitary cubicle is rotatable about its vertical spindle and has a cutout corresponding in the use position with the outer door and which faces the cleaning room in the cleaning position.

11. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning appliance for the water closet and the fixed partition and portions of a rear wall of the sanitary room laterally connected thereto is constituted by a rotary brush adapted to the contour of the aforementioned wall parts and which is movable along the same over the height of the sanitary cubicle.

12. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 11, wherein the rotary brush is arranged in a chamber above the ceiling of the sanitary room and can be lowered into the latter after opening a ceiling skylight.

13. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 11, wherein the rotary brush runs in guides on facing side walls of the sanitary room.

14. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1 wherein the sanitary room comprises facing side walls which comprise in each case two cubicle-high wall parts, the two wall parts closest to the outer door are mounted on vertical spindles close to the outer door in such a way that in the use position of the sanitary room they are connected flush to the two other side wall parts, whilst they can be swung inwards until they abut with one another in the cleaning position and separate the access area of the sanitary cubicle with the outer door from the remaining sanitary room.

15. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1, wherein the partition comprises two parts separated in the vertical plane of symmetry of the water closet, which are mounted on vertical spindles and are pivotable from the use position by 180°

into the sanitary room in front of the water closet in such a way that the part of the sanitary room having the water closet is separated from the remainder thereof and is simultaneously opened to the cleaning room.

16. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 15, wherein the cleaning appliance for the water closet has a driven rotary brush located in cleaning room.

17. Sanitary cubicle according to one of the claim 16, characterized wherein the rotary brush is located between two support arms mounted in the cleaning room and which after moving away partition can be pivoted towards the water closet, the rotary brush engaging in the water closet (11).

18. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 17, wherein the support arms have an extension extending over and beyond the mounting support of the rotary brush and are constructed as a water duct and that the extensions or the connection bridging the same are located in front of the water closet in the cleaning position for cleaning the outside thereof.

19. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning room has a collecting trough for coarse material.

20. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1, wherein the rotary brush (18) is mounted in the cleaning room level with the water closet and can be moved horizontally from the rear into water closet.

21. Sanitary cubicle according to claim 1, wherein a water high pressure pump is arranged in the cleaning room and several, optionally movably guided water nozzles are provided for spraying at least part of the inner wall of sanitary room.