Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
  • E03D9/00—Sanitary or other accessories for lavatories ; Devices for cleaning or disinfecting the toilet room or the toilet bowl; Devices for eliminating smells
  • E03D9/002—Automatic cleaning devices
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H1/00—Buildings or groups of buildings for dwelling or office purposes; General layout, e.g. modular co-ordination or staggered storeys
  • E04H1/12—Small buildings or other erections for limited occupation, erected in the open air or arranged in buildings, e.g. kiosks, waiting shelters for bus stops or for filling stations, roofs for railway platforms, watchmen's huts or dressing cubicles
  • E04H1/1205—Small buildings erected in the open air
  • E04H1/1216—Public W.C.s

Definitions

• the invention relates to a sanitary cell for public purposes, consisting of a sanitary room accessible through an outer door, in which a toilet bowl with a drain is arranged.
• sanitary cells are accessible via an external door that opens after the coin has been inserted and have fully automatic cleaning devices.
• the outer door is closed and the cleaning process is started.
• the locking of the outer door is automatically released so that the sanitary cell is accessible again after the coin has been inserted.
• Sanitary cells of this type are directly connected to the sewage system at their location on the outflow side, so that they can be operated as an autonomous sanitary unit in normal operation without maintenance.
• the object of the invention is to create a sanitary cell of the type mentioned which, in spite of a compact construction, offers sufficient space for movement, in particular for wheelchair users.
• the toilet bowl can be pivoted about a substantially vertical axis by means of a drive device and that an actuating device is arranged on the outside of the sanitary cell, by means of which the drive device can be actuated and controlled.
• the invention provides on the one hand that the toilet bowl is not adjusted manually but by means of a drive device, for example a drive motor.
• the actuating device with which the drive device can be activated and the toilet bowl can be brought into the desired pivoting position is preferably provided on the outside of the sanitary cubicle according to the invention on the outside thereof, thereby reliably avoiding that a user of the sanitary cubicle erroneously enters the toilet bowl pivots when he sits on it or uses the sanitary cell in any other way, especially since the outer door is closed when the sanitary cell is in use.
• a keyboard can be provided in an advantageous embodiment of the invention, with which one of various predetermined pivoting positions of the toilet bowl can be selected.
• An erroneous adjustment of the toilet bowl by a user in the sanitary room can be reliably ruled out if the drive device for the toilet bowl can be actuated by means of the actuating device only when the outer door is closed and is controllable.
• the drive device can be actuated and controlled by means of the actuating device only when the sanitary room is free and not used.
• appropriate sensors are arranged in the sanitary room, which determine the presence of a person and accordingly block the actuation device in this case.
• a display device for the swivel position of the toilet bowl can preferably be arranged on the outside of the sanitary cell, in addition to the actuating device.
• the toilet bowl can be swiveled from a basic position in both swivel directions by up to a maximum of approximately 90 °, but preferably up to approximately 75 °, so that the space in the basic position in front of the toilet bowl is simultaneously the is in the maximum swivel position to the side of the toilet bowl.
• the toilet bowl can be fixed in different swivel positions. This is for a safe and secure
• the determination can be made either continuously, for example by means of a clamping device, or in a graduated manner. In the latter embodiment, a latching direction should be provided. If a self-locking geared motor is provided as the drive device, this can also serve to fix the toilet bowl at the same time.
• the toilet bowl is arranged on a rotatable base plate which is firmly connected to the toilet bowl, so that a high level of stability is achieved for the latter.
• the base plate is integrated in the floor of the sanitary room, avoiding steps and steps.
• the toilet bowl for draining the excrement is followed by a possibly S-shaped or labyrinth-shaped drainage section, which in turn opens into a drainage pipe that leads to the sewage system.
• the drainage section can either be designed to be stationary so that the toilet bowl rotates relative to it, but preferably the drainage section can be pivoted together with the toilet bowl. This can be achieved in particular in that the drain section is pivotally inserted into the drain pipe at its lower end, the central axis of the drain pipe coinciding with the vertical pivot axis of the toilet bowl.
• the toilet bowl can be provided with a backrest in a further development of the invention.
• the backrest can be accommodated in a niche of the sanitary room wall, at least in the middle basic position of the toilet bowl, the Leaning surface of the backrest is preferably aligned with the section of the sanitary room wall arranged above it, so that a substantially smooth transition between these two surfaces is achieved.
• a public sanitary cell In order to use a public sanitary cell, physically disabled people in particular need additional grip and holding devices, in particular handles, which the user can hold onto and support when sitting on the toilet bowl or when standing up from it. Since, in the embodiment according to the invention, the toilet bowl can assume various positions relative to the surroundings and in particular the adjoining sanitary room walls, it is provided according to the invention that a plurality of handle or holding devices are preferably provided, each of which can be optionally used or Use position can be brought.
• a pivoted handle bar is preferably used as the handle or holding device.
• a user can swivel an assigned handle bar from the non-use position, in which it is arranged as space-saving as possible on or in the wall of the room, into the use position, so that he can rely on it reliably.
• the handle or holding devices should be fixable in the use and non-use positions and should in particular be lockable or lockable.
• the handle or holding device in practice, it has proven to be advantageous to design the handle or holding device as a frame-like holding bracket, which is arranged over two at the same height Horizontal bearing is pivotally attached to the sanitary room wall.
• the horizontal bearings can be relatively far apart and thus absorb bending moments in a favorable manner.
• the toilet bowl should be arranged in a niche of the sanitary room, which is trapezoidal in plan view, whereby a handle or holding device is attached to the opposite oblique side surfaces of the niche.
• a handle or holding device is attached to the opposite oblique side surfaces of the niche.
• the invention After using the sanitary cell next to the above Cleaning the toilet bowl also requires cleaning the floor of the sanitary cell. This is usually done by applying water and / or steam under high pressure.
• the invention provides that the floor of the sanitary room and / or the floor slab embedded therein is slightly inclined, the water drainage in the floor of the sanitary room or the
• Bottom plate drain grooves can be provided. A particularly simple and effective cleaning of the floor can be achieved if it consists of several floor sections or plates, at least some of which can be pivoted into an upright position.
• FIG. 1 with an external view of a sanitary cubicle
• FIG. 3 shows the sanitary cell according to FIG. 1 in horizontal section
• Fig. 4 shows the floor of the sanitary cell in the open position
• Fig. 5 is a plan view of the floor of the sanitary cubicle.
• a sanitary cell 1 shown in the figures is formed by an outer housing 2 which delimits an inner sanitary room 7 which can be closed by means of an outer sliding door 3.
• a paper dispenser 16, a wash basin 13, a waste container 12 and a toilet basin 20 are arranged in a known manner within the sanitary room 7.
• Handrails 15 are provided on the side walls 14 of the sanitary room 7, which allow the support in particular for frail or disabled people.
• the toilet bowl 20 is arranged in a niche 8 of the sanitary room 7 that is trapezoidal in plan view, near the toilet bowl 2 is 0 provided at the opposite ⁇ chrägen side walls 8a, 8b of the recess 8 are each a headband 18, each of the two arranged at the same height horizontal pivot bearings 19a and 19b on the inner S eitenwand 14 de ⁇ Sanitärraum ⁇ is mounted.
• the holding brackets 18 can be pivoted from the non-use position shown in FIG. 2, in which they are fixed in vertical alignment against the side wall 14 and in particular locked, into a position of use in which they are horizontal into the sanitary room 7 cantilever (Fig. 3).
• the toilet bowl 20 is mounted on a floor plate 22 which is let into the floor 11 of the sanitary room 7 and which is pivotable about a vertical axis V.
• the pivoting movement is initiated by a motor 23, the drive movement of which is transmitted to the base plate 22 via a gear or a toothed belt 24.
• the toilet bowl 20 has on its rear side an upwardly projecting backrest 29 which is arranged in a recess 14a of the side wall 14 of the sanitary room 7, so that a leaning surface 29a with a section 14b of the side wall 14 of the sanitary room 7 arranged above it is aligned to avoid large gradations.
• a curved drain section 25 which engages around the swivel drive and which, with the interposition of a collecting trough 27, opens into a vertical drain pipe 26 which is connected to the sewage system.
• the drainage section 25 is firmly connected to the toilet bowl 20 and together with it swivels relative to the drainage line 26. bar, the central axis M of the drain line 26 coinciding with the vertical pivot axis V of the base plate 22.
• an operating unit 4 is arranged on the outer side of the sanitary cell 1 near the outer sliding door 3 and has an actuating device 5 for the activation and control of the drive motor 23 as well as a display device 6.
• the actuating device 5 comprises three pushbuttons 5a, 5b and 5c, the middle pushbutton 5b bringing the toilet bowl 20 into the central basic position shown in FIG. 3 and the buttons 5a and 5c bringing the toilet bowl into the right or left pivoted position, these positions being shown in FIGS. 3a and 3b.
• the user can read the respective pivoting position of the toilet bowl 20 on the display device 6.
• the sanitary cell 1 is designed in such a way that the toilet bowl 20 can only be pivoted by pressing one of the buttons 5a, 5b or 5c when the sliding door 3 is closed and when there is no additional person in the sanitary room 7.
• sensors (not shown) are provided, which emit corresponding status signals to a control unit, which locks the actuating device 5 if the aforementioned conditions are not met.
• FIG. 3 shows, a wheelchair user, for example, has sufficient space in the sanitary room 7 in front of the toilet bowl 20 after opening the sliding door 3 to move.
• the toilet bowl 20 Before entering the sanitary room, he pivoted the toilet bowl 20 by activating the motor 23 in one of the swivel directions indicated by the double arrow S until the desired swivel position 3a or 3b) has reached.
• the swivel angle between the middle basic position and the maximum swivel settings is approximately 75 °.
• the toilet bowl 20 together with the base plate 22 has reached the desired pivot position, it is held in it by the self-inhibiting motor 23.
• the user can then swing one of the holding brackets 18 out of the non-use position (FIG. 3, lower illustration) into the use position (FIG. 3, upper illustration), a lock also being provided when the use position is reached.
• FIGS. 3a and 3b show that in the pivoted positions next to the toilet bowl 20 there is sufficient space for a wheelchair user to move the wheelchair next to the toilet bowl 20 and to sit over it.
• the sliding door 3 closes automatically and a normal cleaning process follows, in which, in addition to the toilet bowl 20, the floor 11 of the sanitary room 7 is also cleaned with water or steam.
• the floor 11 of the sanitary room 7 and the floor plate 22 embedded therein are slightly inclined in the direction of a horizontal axis P, so that a defined drainage of the cleaning liquid is achieved. This is supported by drain grooves 28 formed over the entire surface of the base 11 and extending essentially perpendicular to the axis P, ie in the direction of inclination.
• the circular base plate 22 also has corresponding drainage grooves 28 which extend radially. According to FIG.
• the floor 11 of the sanitary room 7 consists of a plurality of floor sections 30, 31, 32 and 33, each of which is formed by corresponding floor panels, the floor panels 31 and 32 adjoining the axis P being about the axis P into one shown in FIG can be pivoted upright position in which the cleaning takes place, so that the cleaning liquid or water runs off very quickly from the base plates 31 and 32, as a result of which the cleaning process is shortened.

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