Housing for portable toilet

Abstract

A housing for a portable sanitary fixture having at least one floor part, at least one roof part, a plurality of side walls, and a plurality of support posts. The floor part is connected to the roof part and/or at least two side walls to each other via at least one support post. The housing has at least three, preferably at least four, and preferably four support posts of which at least one is hollow, and at least one electrically operated functional device or at least one part of at least one electrically operated functional unit is held in an interior of the support post.

Claims

1. A housing for a portable sanitary fixture and comprising: a generally square floor part, a generally square roof part above the floor part, four side walls extending vertically between the floor part and the roof part, four corner support posts at least substantially of plastic, flanking the side walls, extending vertically between corners of the roof part and floor part, and of which two are hollow and one of the hollow support posts is hollow over at least 70% of its length, an electrically operated functional device or at least one part of at least one electrically operated functional unit held in an interior of the one hollow support post, and a battery connected to the device or functional-unit part and in the one hollow support post below the device or functional-unit part.

2. The housing for a portable sanitary fixture according to claim 1, wherein the electrically operated functional device is an exhaust fan for discharging exhaust air from the housing and is contained inside the one hollow support corner post.

3. The housing for a portable sanitary fixture according to claim 2, further comprising: at least one exhaust air conduit for discharging exhaust air from the housing in one of the hollow support posts.

4. The housing for a portable sanitary fixture according to claim 1, wherein the electrically operated functional device is at least one light fixture preferably provided for illuminating an interior of the housing and the at least one light fixture is contained in the one hollow support post.

5. The housing for a portable sanitary fixture according to claim 4, wherein the at least one light fixture has at least one LED.

6. The housing for a portable sanitary fixture according to claim 4, wherein at least one wall delimiting the interior of the one hollow support post accommodating the at least one light fixture has sections that are light permeable so that an interior of the portable sanitary-fixture housing can be illuminated using the light fixture.

7. The housing for a portable sanitary fixture according to claim 1, wherein the electrically operated functional device is an electrically operated heater at least partially accommodated inside the one hollow support post.

8. The housing for a portable sanitary fixture according to claim 1, wherein the electrically operated functional device is an electrically operated fragrance dispenser.

9. The housing for a portable sanitary device according to claim 1, wherein the electrical functional device is solar powered.

10. The housing for a portable sanitary device according to claim 9, further comprising: at least one solar cell for the solar operation of the electrically operated functional device mounted on the roof part of the housing.

11. The housing for a portable sanitary device according to claim 1, wherein the floor part and/or the roof part and/or the side walls are made at least substantially of plastic.

12. A housing for a portable sanitary device, the housing comprising: a lower generally square floor part having corners; an upper generally square roof part having corners; respective support posts at least substantially of plastic and each extending vertically from a respective corner of the floor part to a respective corner of the roof part, two of the posts being hollow and one of the hollow support posts being hollow over at least 70% of its length; respective side walls extending between the posts, roof part, and floor part; an electrically powered device inside the one hollow support post, and a battery connected to the device or functional-unit part and in the one hollow support post below the device.

13. The housing according to claim 1, wherein the roof part, floor part, corner posts, and side walls are rigid, the corner posts each being of one piece.

Description

(1) The invention will be explained in greater detail in the following based on merely one drawing showing one embodiment. The drawing is a schematic representation of the following:

(2) FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a portable sanitary-fixture housing according to the invention or portable-toilet housing;

(3) FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the structure shown in FIG. 1;

(4) FIG. 3 is a partly longitudinal section through a support or corner post of the portable sanitary-fixture housing according to the invention; and

(5) FIG. 4 is a top view of a portable sanitary-fixture housing according to the invention, partially broken away.

(6) The figures show a portable sanitary-fixture housing according to the invention that is configured preferably here as a portable-toilet housing. The portable sanitary-fixture housing or portable-toilet housing preferably here has a floor part 1, a roof part 2, three side walls 3, a door 4, and four support/corner posts 5. Here, the floor part 1 is connected to the roof part 2 via the four corner posts 5 and also the floor part 1 and roof part 2 are connected to each other by the three side walls 3 and by the door 4.

(7) Advantageously and here, the corner posts 5 are equipped at their upper and lower ends with tongues 13 for a tongue-and-groove connection to the floor part 1 and to the roof part 2. Preferably here, both the floor part 1 as well as the roof part 2 has a groove 14 for receiving the respective tongue 13 of the corner post 5. Furthermore, it is recommended and here that the corner posts 5 be equipped on the edges facing side edges of the side walls 3 with grooves 15 for a tongue-and-groove connection to the side walls 3. In this way, three side walls 3 are connected to the corner posts 5 via tongue-and-groove connections. Moreover, the floor part 1 and the roof part 2 are also each provided on each of edges associated with upper and lower edges of the side walls 3 with a respective groove 16 in which the side wall 3 can engage. Therefore, a side wall 3 engages with the lower edge thereof via a tongue-and-groove connection in the associated groove 16 of the floor part 1 and with the upper edge thereof in an associated groove 16 of the roof part 2. As described, the side walls 3 engage with the side edges thereof in the grooves 15 of the corner posts 5. Also, it is within the scope of the invention that the corner posts 5 are one-piece plastic parts extending vertically and longitudinally.

(8) Moreover, the front face of the portable sanitary-fixture housing according to the invention carries the door 4 that is pivotally attached to a corner post 5 via hinges (not shown). Preferably here, both a toilet bowl 17 and a urinal 18 are provided in the portable sanitary-fixture housing.

(9) According to the invention, the hollow support or corner post 5 has an empty interior 6 in which at least one electrically operated functional device 7 is contained.

(10) Preferably here, the interior 6 extends over at least one portion of the vertical length L of the associated corner post 5. According to one embodiment and here, the electrically operated functional device 7 is an exhaust fan 8 for discharging exhaust air from the housing according to the invention. Advantageously and here, a ventilation device 9 of the exhaust fan 8 is in the interior 6 of the hollow corner post 5 of the housing as a part of the electrically operated functional device 7. Furthermore, the corner post 5 preferably here has openings 19 that connect the interior 6 to the interior 11 of the portable sanitary-fixture housing so that exhaust air can be pulled out of the interior 11 of the housing by the ventilation device 9. An exhaust air conduit 10 preferably attached to the ventilation device 9 can release the exhaust air in the upper region of the corner post 5 to the exterior of the portable sanitary-fixture housing. Here, the interior of the corner post 5 is configured such that, along with accommodating the ventilation device 9, free space is left in the interior 6.

(11) According to an especially preferred embodiment and here, the electrical functional device 7 or the exhaust fan 8 provided here is configured to be solar powered. To this end, here, there is at least one solar cell unit 12 for the solar power of the exhaust fan 8. In this case, the solar cell unit 12 is preferably here on the outer face of the housing, and specifically it is recommended and here that the solar cell unit 12 is on the roof of the housing or on the roof part 2 of the housing. Advantageously here, the solar cell unit 12 is integrated into the upper face of the roof part 2 so that the upper side of the solar cell unit 12 is flush or substantially flush with the upper face of the roof part 2. It is here recommended that a buffer battery 20 is furthermore provided for powering the exhaust fan 8. Preferably here, the buffer battery 20 is in the same corner post 5 in which the exhaust fan 8 or the ventilation device 9 is also held. Preferably here, the buffer battery 20 in this case is positioned with respect to the vertical length L of the corner post 5 in the lower quarter of the length L.

(12) It is within the scope of the invention that electrically operated functional devices or parts of electrically operated functional devices are several of the support or corner posts 5 of the portable sanitary-fixture housing according to the invention. Thus, an exhaust fan 8 or a ventilation device 9 of an exhaust fan 8 could be accommodated for example in a corner post 5, and an electrically operated functional device in the form of a light fixture could be accommodated in another corner post 5 for example.