Carriable and modular cabin

Abstract

A carriable and modular cabin is provided with a parallelepipedal body creating a diaphanous space. Right bulkhead and left bulkhead separate the body from respective right and left side compartments. Other cabins can be stacked through the use of anchorages. Two tanks of water are provided including a tank of clean water possessing a submerged pump and a water entrance and a water exit. The second tank of waste water also possesses a submerged pump. The washbasin WC and shower, are located on the inner wall of the body. In the said bulkhead the clean water comes through a duct and is channeled towards the sanitary elements. The bulkhead includes an air conditioning compressor, water heater, and an inverter connected to one or more solar panels. The covers are provided with ventilation grids.

Claims

1. A carriable and modular cabin formed out of a body (2) having a rectangular parallelepipedal configuration, with a right side compartment (4), a left side compartment (4′), a floor, and a ceiling made of composite thermally insulated material, creating a diaphanous space in which different distributions, and different design can be made, as for several doors, windows or glazing (5), is characterized in that it comprises, at its side ends, the two compartments (4, 4′) couplable to the cabin, one with auxiliary sanitary water supply elements and the other with auxiliary electric energy supply elements, each compartment with a bulkhead (3, 3′), the two compartments being protected behind openable respective covers (23) that define an external limit of the compartments (4, 4′) and give respective access to the auxiliary sanitary water supply elements and the auxiliary electric energy supply elements allowing at least one of the replacement thereof or maintenance tasks thereon as modular elements.

2. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, characterized in that the bulkheads (3,3′) are made of a material adapted to support a weight of a structure of the cabin and other cabins (1) that can be stacked on it.

3. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, further comprising two tanks of water under the floor of the rectangular body (2) of the cabin (1), of one of said two tanks of water adapted to contain clean water (6) and the other of said two tanks adapted to contain waste water (7), said two tanks of water virtually occupying the full extent of said floor and in communication with the side compartment (4) in which the auxiliary elements of sanitary water supply are built-in.

4. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 3, characterized in that the tank of clean water (6) possesses a submerged pump (8) to supply a shower (10), a WC (9), and a washbasin (11), the tank (6) possessing a water entrance (12) through one of the sides of the cabin (1) and a water exit (13) through the other of the sides of the cabin (1).

5. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 3, characterized in that the tank of waste water (7), arranged in parallel to the tank of clean water (6) under the body (2) of the cabin (1), is adapted to receive all the water coming from an unloading cistern of a WC (9) and of the rest of said auxiliary sanitary water supply elements.

6. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 5, characterized in that the tank of waste water (7) also possesses a submerged pump (8) with connection to a water exit (13).

7. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 4, characterized in that both the clean water tank (6) and the waste water tank (7) have in their interior a small converging unevenness towards their center, to facilitate gravitational pull of the water contained therein down to the submerged pumps (8), placed at the center of each tank.

8. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 4, characterized in that the auxiliary sanitary water supply elements are located on an inner wall of the body (2) attached to the bulkhead.

9. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 8, characterized in that in said bulkhead (3) a supply of clean water comes, from the tank of clean water (6), through an entrance distribution duct (14) and is channeled towards the auxiliary sanitary water supply elements, with a circuit of exploitation of the clean water (15) that connects the washbasin (11), the WC (9), and the shower (10), where a backpack cistern (16) is adapted to generate the pressure necessary to push waste towards a crushing device that sends crushed waste to the tank of waste water (7).

10. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 9, characterized in that in said bulkhead (3) the clean water comes, from the tank of clean water (6), through an entrance distribution duct (14) and is directly channeled to the auxiliary sanitary water supply elements coupling an exit of a drain of said WC (9) to the crushing device that sends crushed waste to the tank of waste water (7).

11. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, characterized in that the bulkhead (3) of the auxiliary sanitary water supply elements comprises an air conditioning compressor (18).

12. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 11, characterized in that the air-conditioning compressor (18) is installed on a wall of the body (2) attached to the bulkhead (3), and adapted such that water resulting from cooling condensation that it generates when it is operating is channeled toward a WC cistern (9).

13. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, further comprising a water heater (19) installed within its central body (2) and adapted to supply hot water to a washbasin (11) and a shower (10), and connected to an entrance distribution duct (14) that provides clean water from a tank of clean water (6).

14. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, characterized in that the bulkhead opposite to the auxiliary sanitary water supply elements incorporates a current inverter (20) or regulator connected, to one or more solar panels (21) installed on the body (2) of the cabin, and to one or more storage batteries (22), to supply electric energy to the different elemetns of the cabin.

15. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, characterized in that the bulkhead (3) with the auxiliary sanitary water supply elements and the bulkhead (3′) with the auxiliary electric energy supply elements, are also provided with connection to a network of water and energy supply, respectively.

16. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, characterized in that the covers (23) have a smooth and round shape and are provided with one or more of ventilation grids, air openings, or a fan.

17. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, characterized in that the bulkheads (3, 3′) incorporate anchorages (24) for coupling stacked cabins (1).

18. The carriable and modular cabin, according to claim 1, characterized in that the cabin has sizes of around 2.35×7 meters of base and a height ranging from 2.7 to 3 meters.

Description

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) To complement the description of the invention and in order to assist in understanding the characteristics of the invention, attached to this specification, as an integral part thereof, are drawings for illustration that do not limit the purpose of the invention and are described as follows:

(2) The FIG. 1.—It shows a schematic view in perspective and exploded views an example of an embodiment of the carriable and modular cabin, its general configuration and the main parts comprised.

(3) The FIG. 2.—It shows an elevation view of the carriable and modular cabin according to embodiments of the invention; and

(4) The FIG. 3.—It shows a diagram representative of the water circuit comprised in the cabin according to embodiments of the invention.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

(5) As shown in the figures, a non-limitative example of the carriable and modular cabin is depicted that comprises the parts and elements that are stated and disclosed in detail below, according to the numerals adopted, with the list of numeral references below for each element: 1. cabin 2. parallelepipedal body 3. right bulkhead, 3′ left bulkhead 4. right compartment, 4′ left compartment 5. doors, windows, glazing 6. clean water tank 7. waste water tank 8. submerged pump 9. WC 10. shower 11. washbasin 12. water entrance 13. water exit 14. entrance distribution duct 15. circuit of sanitary water exploitation 16. backpack cistern 17. exit distribution duct 18. air-conditioning compressor 19. water heater 20. inverter 21. solar panels 22. storage batteries 23. side covers 24. anchorages 25. partition 26. connection to the water supply network

(6) Thus, as it can be seen in the figures, the cabin (1) is configured out of a body (2) having a rectangular parallelepipedal configuration, made of composite or other suitable thermally insulating material, creating a diaphanous space in which different distributions can be carried out, depending on the application of use in each case, at the side ends of which both right bulkhead (3) and left bulkhead (3′) have been provided that separate them from respective side compartments right (4) and left (4′), providing support, together with the floor and ceiling of the body (2), to the main auxiliary elements necessary for the operation of the cabin (1), concretely, at least, one bulkhead illustratively the right bulkhead (3) provides support to auxiliary elements of sanitary water supply, and the other builkhead, illustratively the left bulkhead (3′) provides support to auxiliary elements of electric energy supply, the bulkheads (3, 3′) being arranged behind respective openable covers (23), that define the external limit of the compartment (4, 4′), and give access to them allowing maintenance tasks and/or their replacement as modular elements.

(7) The said bulkheads (3,3′) are made of a very strong material, as they are supporting the weight of the structure of the cabin and, eventually, the weight of the other cabins (1) that can be stacked on it.

(8) Embodiments of the inventive cabin (1) have different designs, as for the different doors, windows or glazing (5), such as transparent ceilings, for example in the case that they are designed for tourism in wooded areas or having appealing views.

(9) In addition, under the floor of the rectangular body (2) of the cabin (1), two water tanks are provided, one of clean water (6) and another of waste water (7) that virtually occupy the full extent of the floor and communicate with the right side compartment (4) in which the auxiliary elements of sanitary water supply are built-in.

(10) Concretely, the tank of clean water (6) possesses a submerged pump (8) to supply the systems of shower (10), WC (9) and washbasin (11). This tank (6) possesses a water entrance (12) through one of the sides of the cabin (1), to allow its filling, and a water exit (13) for its emptying, located close to the said submerged pump (8), both arranged with a slight tilt angle that facilitates emptying the tank and loading the pump.

(11) It is appreciated that the tank of waste water (7), arranged in parallel to the tank of clean water (6) under the body (2) of the cabin (1), is designed to receive all the water coming from the unloading cistern of the shower (10), where the waste water comes with the rest of sanitary elements such as, WC (9) and washbasin (11), for its further storage until the moment of emptying it, for which it possesses another submerged pump (8) with connection to a water exit (13) outwardly, to proceed to pouring it in a vessel of a tank vehicle, without the use of external pumps.

(12) It shall be pointed out that, to cut costs down, the submerged pump (8) of this tank of waste water (7) is optional, and emptying the tank (7) can be carried out with the same system that is used in the portable WCs, by means of a sucking system.

(13) In inventive embodiments, both tanks (6 and 7), in their interior possesses a slight unevenness converging towards their center, to facilitate that the fluids fall by gravity down to the respective submerged pumps (8), placed at the center. With this, in addition, the gravity center of the cabin (1) is kept as much centered as possible.

(14) In the preferred embodiment, the right bulkhead (3) that separates the compartment of that same side (4), serves as support to the systems and elements of sanitary water supply, and the sanitary elements to which it is led, such as the WC (9) shower (10) and washbasin (11), being in the inner wall of the body (2) attached to the bulkhead (3), normally separated from the rest by means of some partition (25).

(15) Concretely in the bulkhead (3), the clean water arrives, from the tank of clean water (6), through a distribution duct entrance (14) and it is channeled towards the sanitary elements, preferably with a circuit of exploitation of sanitary water (15) (device available in the market) that connects WC (9) shower (10) and washbasin (11).

(16) It is sought to exploit the shower (10) and washbasin (11) waste water by channeling it up to a system of WC (9) with a backpack cistern (16) independent from a built-in crushing pump, that is explained hereafter, and that serves to store the water exiting from the shower and the washbasin for its use when flushing the loo.

(17) This way, the water of the shower and the washbasin is recycled to push the waste of the WC.

(18) This backpack cistern (16) generates, by itself, the pressure necessary to push the waste towards a crushing device that sends it to be crushed through the related exit distribution duct (17) toward the tank of waste water (7) with which it is connected, located under the floor of the body (2) of the cabin (1).

(19) Preferably, the cistern (16) is supplied by four sources to keep its level: shower (10), washbasin (11) tank of clean water (6) and, optionally from the condensation water of an air-conditioning compressor (18) with which, optionally, the cabin (1) is also provided in the right bulkhead (3) of the right compartment (4).

(20) In inventive embodiments lacking the circuit of exploitation of sanitary water (15), the cabin (1) will possess, in the right compartment (4) of water supply, a common WC cistern, coupling to the exit of the drain of the WC (9) and a crushing pump that pushes the waste up to the tank of waste water (7).

(21) In other inventive embodiments the cabin also contemplates, preferably, the incorporation of a water heater (19) installed within the central body (2) thereof, close to the sanitary elements, to provide hot water service to the washbasin (11) and the shower (10), for which it is also connected to the entrance distribution duct (14) that provides clean water from the tank of clean water (6).

(22) In other certain embodiments the water heater (19), for example, is an electrically operated instant water heater which only uses energy upon the taps' demand.

(23) In still other embodiments the air conditioning compressor (18) is directly installed in the bulkhead (3), more concretely, on the wall of the body (2) attached on the bulkhead (3), so that the water resulting from the cooling condensation that it generates when it is operating is channeled towards the cistern of the WC (9), with the objective of reusing the water and preventing it from dripping outwardly from the cabin (1) where it can fall on the land or on other cabins (1) located below.

(24) The air-conditioning compressor (18), preferably, is a small size and low consumption equipment, because the inner sizes of the body (2) that constitutes the useful space of the cabin (1) are small, in some embodiments around 20 m2.

(25) In some embodiments the opposite bulkhead, in this case the left bulkhead (3′) incorporates a current inverter (20) or regulator connected to one or more solar panels (21) installed on the body (2) of the cabin, and to one or more storage batteries (22) to supply electric energy to the different apparatuses of the cabin, including the electric apparatuses installed in the right bulkhead (4), and one or more sockets that the user can use.

(26) In other embodiments the right bulkhead (3) with the systems of sanitary water supply just as the left bulkhead (3′) with the systems of electric energy supply, could be also provided with connection to the water supply network (26) and electric energy supply network, respectively, as an alternative option if it is wished so for comfort or other circumstances.

(27) It is appreciated that behind both bulkheads (3, 3′) the body (2) of the cabin (1) possesses, as it was already said, respective side covers (23) that define the outer limit of the compartments (4, 4′) in which are incorporated the functional auxiliary elements, the covers (23), preferably, are smooth and round shaped to protect the elements.

(28) In some inventive embodiments the covers (23) shall be provided with ventilation grids and/or air openings for cooling the elements, even, when required, with some fan (elements not represented) to avoid electric components overheating.

(29) In other embodiments the bulkheads (3, 3′), that, as it was said constitute very strong structural parts of the cabin (1) incorporate anchorages (24) for coupling stacked cabins (1), being in addition to those which support the weight of the upper units.

(30) In still other embodiments the cabin has sizes, around 2.35×7 meters of base and a height ranging from 2, 7 and 3 meters, measurements that make it suitable to be carried in ordinary carriage means.

(31) The nature of this invention being sufficiently disclosed, as well as the manner of implementing it, it is not considered necessary to extend any longer its explanation in order that any person skilled in the art understands its extent and the advantages resulting from it, and it is stated that, within its essence, it can be implemented in other embodiments that differ in detail of those mentioned herein for example purposes, and to which shall also apply the protection sought provided that its main principle is not altered, changed or modified.