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US 4,490,863 AGranted
Portable hand-held urine disposal system for residential structures
OwnerGrover C. Pateinventor
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Abstract
The present invention entails a hand-held urine receiver that is constructed in the general form of a reservoir and is communicatively connected to a flexible hose. The flexible hose extends from the urine receiver and is communicatively connected to a drain line that forms a part of the plumbing network of a residential structure. In order to adapt the urine receiver of the present invention for female use, there is provided a vaginal insert.
Claims1
A relatively inexpensive dry urinal disposal system for use in conjunction with a public rest room facility comprising in combination:
- A. a public rest room facility;
- B. lavatory means disposed in said public rest room facility and including a basin for receiving water;
- C. a drain line having a vertical section that extends downwardly from said basin of said lavatory means;
- D. said drain line further including a horizontal drain line section that extends from said vertical drain line section generally horizontally adjacent said rest room facility for channeling and directing waste water from said basin of said lavatory means;
- E. main sewer disposal line means connected to said generally horizontal drain line section for channeling waste water and other material passing through said drain line from said drain line and away from said public rest room facility;
- F. a plurality of laterally spaced urinal adapters connected to said generally horizontally disposed drain line section extending adjacent said rest room facility;
- G. each of said plurality of urinal adapters including a receiver secured around said horizontal drain line section and having an upstanding open pipe projecting upwardly from said horizontal drain line section with said upstanding open pipe including an opening therein;
- H. a plurality of urinals secured to and supported by respective receivers connected and spaced along said horizontal drain line section;
- I. each of said plurality of urinals including quick attach and detach means for detachably securing said respective urinal to said receivers for enabling the respective urinal to be quickly and easily attached to and detached from said generally horizontal drain line section;
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- J. said quick attach and detach means including a down spout extending from each respective urinal and communicatively connected therewith with said down spout having a selected outside diameter such that said down spout will frictionally fit within the opening of said upstanding pipes of said receivers.
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