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US 4,069,520 AGranted
Electric bidet
OwnerR. Bert Thomasinventor
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Abstract
My invention relates to a bidet, in combination of a divided water cabinet, top from bottom, and making use of a submerged, electrical pump for water power at the syringe. This bidet, having a seat on top of said cabinet, a waste water catch tank inside the top of said cabinet and a fresh water tank in the bottom of said cabinet, with means of emptying the one and of filling the other; this bidet being portable, but portability being only one of its many improvements as the following paragraphs and drawings will reveal.
Claims11
A portable bidet comprising in combination:
- a. an integral hollow cylindrical structure having a bottom tank and a top tank, said top tank having an open end, said tanks both adapted to contain liquids;
- b. a fountain pipe extending upwardly from the bottom tank through the top tank having a distal end proximate the open end of said top tank;
- c. a basin structure mounted coaxially within said open end of said top tank, said basin structure having a concave bottom surface with a convex rise, said bottom surface having a hole defined therethrough coaxial with said convex rise, said fountain pipe extending through said hole, said basin structure also having an overflow port defined through its side whereby liquid may overflow from said basin into the top tank;
- d. a toroidal seating surface having an inside diameter less than that of said open end of the top tank, said seating surface mounted coaxially on said open end of said top tank;
- e. means for introducing a liquid into the bottom tank;
- f. electrical means for pumping the liquid contained in the bottom tank through said fountain pipe, to direct a spray of liquid upwardly from the distal end of said fountain pipe proximate the open end of said top tank, said liquid being captured by said basin structure and then overflowing into said top tank.
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