DE20002725U1 - Sanitary arrangement - Google Patents

Description

Hermann LeGuin

Ravensburger Str. 2 8
DE-88279 Amtzell

Sanitary arrangement

The invention relates to a sanitary arrangement with a collecting basin for collecting liquid and/or stool, in particular a toilet or urinal, which is connected to at least one water pipe and one waste water pipe via a siphon.

Such sanitary arrangements, in particular toilets and/or urinals, are known and used in a wide variety of forms and designs, especially in restaurants and public facilities. They are used to collect stools, liquids, in particular urine, and are usually installed firmly on a surface or on a wall. The disadvantage is that impurities remain within the collecting basin of the sanitary arrangement and can only be removed with a conventional toilet brush and possibly environmentally harmful cleaning agents.

must be removed. Especially in toilets in restaurants and public facilities, toilet brushes or similar are often rarely used, which is undesirable.

The present invention is based on the object of creating a sanitary arrangement of the type mentioned at the beginning, which eliminates the above-mentioned disadvantages and with which permanent cleaning is considerably facilitated.

This object is achieved by assigning at least one sound cleaning device, in particular an ultrasonic cleaning device, to the toilet or urinal.

Such a sanitary arrangement, in particular its collecting basin and/or its siphon, can be equipped with a sound cleaning device according to the invention. This sound cleaning device is preferably installed below a liquid level of a siphon of the collecting basin and can be operated in any way. It can be operated using ultrasonic waves, sound waves, microwaves or the like.

For this purpose, remaining contaminants are removed by using the sanitary arrangement and can, for example, be drained from the area of the collecting basin, in particular from the area of the siphon, into the sewage pipe during a flushing process.

A corresponding sound cleaning device can be activated, for example, by operating the cistern or can be activated for a certain selectable duration. There are no limits to the invention here.

It is also planned to operate the sonic cleaning device during the rinsing process, while the collecting basin is being wetted with liquid, in order to also clean the collecting basin itself of contaminants.

Overall, the present invention provides a sanitary arrangement which makes it possible to clean the sanitary facility in a very simple, quick and cost-effective manner, automatically, without the user having to do the cleaning manually.

Further advantages, features and details of the invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments and from the drawing, which shows in
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Figure 1 is a schematic side view of a sanitary arrangement;

Figure 2 is a schematic plan view of another embodiment of the sanitary arrangement according to Figure 1.

According to Figure 1, a sanitary arrangement Ri according to the invention has a collecting basin 1 for collecting liquid, in particular urine and/or stool. The collecting basin 1 is connected to a waste water pipe 3, as indicated by dashed lines, via a siphon 2.

0 To supply flushing water, a water pipe 4 shown in dashed lines flows from a cistern 5 into the collecting basin 1. The collecting basin 1 is closed by a lockable cover 6, in particular a toilet lid. Flushing water can be fed from the cistern 5 or similar water reservoir or water pipe into the collecting basin 1 via an actuating element 7, which is used for flushing and discharging urine and stool via the siphon 2 into the waste water pipe 3.

0 In the siphon 2 there is permanently water at a certain liquid level 8, which is determined by the siphon 2.

This prevents any odor from escaping from the waste water pipe 3 in a known manner.

In the present invention, it has proven particularly advantageous to assign a sound cleaning device 9, in particular an ultrasonic cleaning device, to the sanitary arrangement Ri, in particular the siphon 2, which can be put into operation, for example, with a time delay when the actuating element 7 is actuated.

In this way, the siphon 2 is cleaned of impurities, in particular by the ultrasonic waves generated. At the same time, such ultrasonic waves can spread in the collecting basin 1 during the rinsing process if, for example, it is wetted with water.

This removes any stool or other residues remaining in the collecting basin 1 and can be carried away with the flushing water. There is no need for time-consuming cleaning of the sanitary arrangement Ri using conventional toilet brushes.

It is intended to be within the scope of the present invention to put the sonic cleaning device 9 into operation before, during and/or after a flushing process. In the embodiment of the present invention according to Figure 1, the sonic cleaning device 9 is located in the area of the liquid level 8 on the siphon 2 within a toilet housing.

In the embodiment according to Figure 2, the sound cleaning device 9 of a sanitary arrangement R2 is also installed in the area of the liquid level 8 on a lower side 10 near the siphon 2 in the collecting basin 1, freely accessible from the outside.

The sanitary arrangement R2 with a sound cleaning device 9 can be put into operation in the manner described above.
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For safety reasons, it is conceivable to put the sound cleaning device 9 into operation only after the collecting basin 1 has been closed by means of the cover 6, so that corresponding sensors, switching elements or the like, which are not shown in detail here, deliver the corresponding signal.

Furthermore, it should also be considered to combine or couple the operation of the sound cleaning device 9 for a selectable duration at a definable time with the actuation of the actuating element 7 for flushing the collecting basin 1.

DR. PETER WEISS & DIPL.-ING. A

Patent attorneys European Patent Attorney

BRECHT

Reference number: G 1101/DE Date: 14.02.2000 B/hu

Position number list

1 Retention basin 34 67 Sanitary arrangement 2 siphon 35 68 Sanitary arrangement 3 sewer line 36 69 4 Water pipe 37 70 5 cistern 38 71 6 cover 39 72 7 Actuator 40 73 8th Fluid level 41 74 9 Sound cleaning
furnishings 42 75 10 bottom 43 76 11 44 77 12 45 78 13 46 79 14 47 15 48 16 49 17 50 _R2 18 51 19 52 20 53 21 54 22 55 23 56 24 57 25 58 26 59 27 60 28 61 29 62 30 63 31 64 32 65 33 66

Claims (8)

1. Sanitary arrangement with a collecting basin for collecting liquid and/or stool, in particular a toilet or urinal, which is connected to at least one water pipe ( 4 ) and one waste water pipe ( 3 ) via a siphon ( 2 ), characterized in that the toilet or urinal is assigned at least one sound cleaning device ( 9 ), in particular an ultrasonic cleaning device. 2. Sanitary arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the sound cleaning device ( 9 ) is associated with the siphon ( 2 ). 3. Sanitary arrangement according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the sound cleaning device ( 9 ) is assigned to the siphon ( 2 ) of the toilet or urinal in the region of a liquid level ( 8 ). 4. Sanitary arrangement according to at least one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the sound cleaning device ( 9 ) can be actuated coupled to an actuating element ( 7 ) of a flush. 5. Sanitary arrangement according to claim 4, characterized in that the sound cleaning device ( 9 ) can be put into operation before, during and/or after a flushing process of the toilet or urinal. 6. Sanitary arrangement according to at least one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the sound cleaning device ( 9 ) can be switched on before, during and/or after a flushing process for a selectable duration. 7. Sanitary arrangement according to at least one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the sound cleaning device ( 9 ) can only be switched on, in particular put into operation, after the collecting basin ( 1 ) has been closed by means of a cover ( 6 ), in particular a toilet lid, with switching contacts, switching strips, sensors or the like possibly providing the corresponding signal for this. 8. Sanitary arrangement according to at least one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the sound cleaning device ( 9 ) can be operated by means of ultrasound, sound, microwaves or the like.