Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Disinfection – Dispensing to bowl
Patent
1984-04-20
1985-12-03
Turk, Arnold
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Disinfection
Dispensing to bowl
422266, 422263, 422277, A47C 1900
Patent
active
045558191
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention is concerned with an improved support for cleansing and/or colourant products, for hanging on the rim of a WC-bowl.
A large number of devices ar already known which are designed to receive cleansing and/or deodorising products with a view to maintaining WC-bowls in a state of cleanliness and/or disinfection or for the deodorisation of the latter.
In a number of cases the products used to this end contain compounds and/or colourants which are soluble in water (in general blues or greens), intended to react with and/or to colour the water remaining in the bowl after each flushing operation.
Known devices may be classified into two main categories, according to whether the product or composition used, which is generally presented in the form of a solid block, is immersed in the water between two flushing operations or on the contrary is located in the atmosphere and consequently exposed between these operations.
The principles according to which known devices have been designed are briefly summarised hereafter schematically with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5 of the appended drawings.
The following fall into the category of immersed blocks:
1. Those (see FIG. 1) constituted by a simple generally perforated receiver or basket (1) for containing the block of the composition under consideration and provided with a handle or other means of hanging (2) on the rim of a WC-bowl;
2. Those (see FIG. 2) also comprising a receiver (1) divided into two compartments, the first (1a) designed to contain the composition or the block under consideration, and the second (1b) provided with siphon means (1c), the whole being adapted to be suspended or hung on the rim of a WC-bowl by the intermediary of hanging means (2) (see German Pat. No. 1903773--Potrafke and French Pat. No. 1117332--Roussey);
3. Those (see FIG. 3) having the receptacle (1) containing the block of composition under consideration (1a), in which the said receptacle (1) is provided with siphon means (1c).
The whole is provided with its hanging means (2) for the rim of a WC-bowl (see French Pat. No. 8109221--L'Oreal and British Pat. No. 379553--Brain).
The following are in the category of exposed blocks:
1. Those (see FIG. 4) comprising a block (1a) with its support means or basket (3) directly connected to the hanging means (2) (See French Pat. No. 2170341--Reckitt) and
2. Those (see FIG. 5) comprising a retaining chamber (1) provided with a mesh support (3) for the composition under consideration (1a) and, below the said mesh, a siphon device (1c) the whole being provided in well known fashion with hanging means (2) (see for example French Pat. No. 2424374--Globol).
These devices present a certain number of major disadvantages namely:
(A) For immersed blocks:
One of the principal functions of the blocks that are suspended on the rim of WC-bowls is to contribute to the deodorisation and disinfecting of the WC-bowl. This function may be realised in two ways either separately or simultaneously, namely, either by transfer of an amount of the active product into the water remaining in the bowl or by evaporation of this active product from the block of the composition under consideration. It may be appreciated that when such a block is immersed in water such evaporation is rendered virtually impossible, as a result the deodorisation and/or disinfection observed in such case is very mediocre.
A second inconvenience of immersed blocks occurs with blocks of coloured compositions: in this case it has indeed been established that each time the action is flushed and after the rinsing water has flowed from the housing-support in which the coloured block is situated, an accumulation of coloured drain marks extending along the side of the WC-bowl is produced. The drain marking is more or less intense depending upon the ease with which erosion of the colourant block occurs. Furthermore the colour of the drain marks formed gradually increases in concentration with time. In this way a coloured trail or mark is formed, along the lateral wall of the WC-bowl and be
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Delagneau Hubert
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