US 5,287,563 A · Hygienic urinal

Abstract

A hygienic urinal for installation in restrooms is disclosed. The hygienic urinal consists of an outer body and an inner body. The outer body comprises a pair of sidewalls connected at the rear edges to a rear wall, and a horizontally oriented top connected to both sidewalls and the rear wall resulting in a boxlike structure open at the front. The rear wall of the outer body is adjacent to and flush with a vertical wall of the restroom. The urinal bottom is recessed in the restroom floor and gradually sloped toward a centrally positioned drain. The inner body of the urinal consists of two inner sidewalls connected along their front edge to the outer body sidewalls and along their rear edge to an inner rear wall parallel to the outer rear wall. A urine deflector centered in the inner rear wall extending downward from the top of the urinal deflects urine toward the splatter shields to prevent urine from splashing onto the trousers or shoes of an individual using the urinal or surfaces of the surrounding restroom. Splatter shields are positioned on either side of the urine deflector extending from the inner rear wall angularly toward the front and parallel to a sidewall of the urine deflector. The urinal is connected at its upper end to a supply of water and is provided with internal passages to allow rinsing of urine from the urinal after by the operation of a flow control valve.

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Dependent claims

A standing-type hygienic urinal comprising

an outer body consisting of a vertical rear wall and two vertical side walls each of which is connected along its rear edge to a side edge of the vertical rear wall, a top surface and a floor surface;
a receptor cavity consisting of a vertical rear inner wall, a generally horizontal upper surface and two vertical inner side walls each of which is connected along its front edge to the front edges of a side wall of the outer body;
a deflector consisting of at least two joined deflector surfaces, each of said deflector surfaces extending downwardly from the top of the urinal;
shield means consisting of at least two shield members, each of said shield members extending angularly outward from the receptor cavity;
flushing means consisting of a water supply conduit, a water control valve operatively connected to the said water supply conduit, a discharge conduit for discharging water from the water control valve to the receptor cavity;
drain means consisting of an aperture provided in the floor of said urinal operatively connected to a sewer discharge conduit;
each of said at least two shield members extending angularly from the inner rear wall such that it is positioned approximately parallel and adjacent to a deflector surface;
and
each of said at least two shield members extending angularly from the inner rear wall a distance greater than said deflector surfaces extend from the inner rear wall.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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