Ships – Building – Cabins
Patent
1984-08-23
1986-11-18
Blix, Trygve M.
Ships
Building
Cabins
4663, 4596, 4612, 4613, A47K 400
Patent
active
046229116
ABSTRACT:
A shipboard bathroom module comprises a prefabricated base pan in which a floor drain and a shower drain are located adjacent to each other but on opposite sides of a shower stall curb. Both drains communicate with a common receptacle molded into the base. Water from a wash basin at a remote location within the module is conducted to the receptacle through the shower stall curb, which is hollow. A trap, which serves both drains as well as the wash basin, is located in a box which provides a recess in the deck. In one version of the invention the receptacle built into the bathroom base sits on top of the trap, and the trap is accessible through one of the drain openings in the floor of the module. In another version, wastewater is conducted out of the receptacle through a laterally extending conduit to a trap which serves two adjacent bathroom modules. In either case, the box in which the trap is located is prefabricated with various water supply and drain pipes already welded to its floor. The box itself serves as a deck beam reinforcing header when it is necessary to cut through one or more deck beams for pipe tree installation. This structure eliminates a great deal of labor in the installation of a shipboard bathroom and provides a bathroom in which the floor is only a very short distance above the deck level.
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Pages 50-59 of publication entitled "Crew Accommodations", Marine Engineering/Log, dated Jun. 1982.
13 sheets of drawings of Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., of Tacoma, Washington, dated 1980-1981.
Bartz C. T.
Blix Trygve M.
Hopeman Brothers, Inc.
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