Ventilated Patents (Class 4/477)
  • Patent number: 11255097
    Abstract: Transportable sanitary unit, comprising a frame and a number of sanitary facilities supported by the frame, wherein the frame comprises an upper section and a lower section, wherein the upper section comprises an upper cover and upper column sections extending downward from the upper cover and the lower section comprises a bottom and lower column sections extending upward from the bottom, wherein the upper section and the lower section can be moved relative to each other between an upwardly extended operational position having an operational height and a downwardly retracted transport position having a transport height that is lower than the operational height, wherein the upper column sections and the lower column sections can be slid into or along each other over a slide path, between the operational position and the transport position, and in the operational position can be secured one to the other in that position using blocking means, wherein the upper cover and the bottom comprise construction member
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MAD INVESTMENTS BV
    Inventor: Marcel Adriaan Dirk Bikker
  • Patent number: 9309683
    Abstract: A mobile toilet with a ventilation and heat-dissipating device comprises a base and a main body. The base is connected to a bottom of the main body. Ventilation openings are disposed at positions of a lower half portion of a total height of the base and the main body connected together. An exhaust port and a canopy device are disposed at predetermined positions of a top of the main body. The lower ventilation openings naturally guide air into the mobile toilet according to a chimney effect, so that hot air and stinks in the mobile toilet flow upwardly to the exhaust port, thereby heavily exhausting the hot air and the stinks and cooling the mobile toilet by a lot of natural convection. The canopy device blocks external rainwater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Inventor: Daniel Huang
  • Publication number: 20140143945
    Abstract: An improved mobile toilet structure may include a base, four side bars, four sleeve tubes, four panels and a lid. The base has four threaded holes at four corners of the upper side of the base, and a vertical exhaust pipe at one side of the rear portion of the base. The side bar has a first threaded portion on its upper end and a second threaded portion on its lower end. The sleeve tube has an opening on one side and the two margins of the opening extend outwards and form two wing-like structures. Among the four panels, the front one has a board installed in the panel that can be opened and closed, whereas all others may have transom windows opened at their upper portions. The lid is integrally molded, with its size and shape determined by the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: CHI PING PLASTIC CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Chiu Chen, Te-Chung Hung
  • Patent number: 8499371
    Abstract: A portable toilet for marine craft securely located on the deck of a boat and including an inflatable privacy cover. The toilet includes a seat assembly and a box-shaped housing for a portable toilet. The boat seat assembly includes a boat seat, a boat seat back, and a support brace, made up of first and second support members hinged together. The first member connects the boat seat back to the second support member. The inner surface of the second support member defines a seat receiving portion for the boat seat. An inflatable cover is coupled to the boat seat housing and defines a pressurizable interior. A fan forcing air from an exterior of the inflatable toilet shelter to the pressurizable interior operatively inflates the inflatable cover. The inflatable toilet shelter can also have a swivel attached to the bottom for allowing the toilet to be vertically pivoted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Inventor: Mark A. Becker
  • Patent number: 8091157
    Abstract: A modular portable cabana-type restroom includes a roof, base platform, foot portions, side wall panels, a back wall panel, four corner portions and a door. The side wall panels and back wall panel are provided with vertically-disposed hooks for interlocking with complementary slots along the edges of the corner portions. The roof is provided with clips for engaging the corner portions. This permits convenient interlocking removable assembly of the wall panels, corner portions and roof without the use of mechanical fasteners, such as rivets, screws or nuts and bolts. Recesses in the foot portions accept the insertion of the corner portions and corners of the base portion, which are then secured together through formed apertures using a minimum number of mechanical fasteners. This provides for easy assembly and disassembly of the restroom for transport, repair and storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: PolyJohn Enterprises Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel G. Tyler, Jamie P. Kostelyk, Jacob H. Shubinski, Vaughan D. Smith, II, Rodney M. Mullett
  • Publication number: 20090211002
    Abstract: A portable toilet satellite station comprising an enclosure having a front wall, rear wall, side walls and a roof. The enclosure further having an inside area at least partially defined by the front wall, rear wall, side walls and the roof. The portable toilet satellite station further including a toilet having a holding tank. The portable toilet satellite station further including a heating system in communication with the holding tank. The heating system is capable of producing warmed air that can be directed through the heating pipe and into the holding tank and preferably also the inside of the enclosure to warm a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventor: Christopher T. Norgaard
  • Patent number: 7455582
    Abstract: The solar powered fan for a portable enclosure includes an electrical fan, which is pivotally mounted within the interior region of a portable edifice, such as that associated with a portable toilet facility. The pivotal mounting of the fan allows for selective user adjustment of the angular position of the fan with respect to the roof of the housing. Mounted on the roof, exterior to the enclosure, is a hollow housing having at least one solar panel mounted to an upper surface thereof. The solar panel charges a rechargeable battery received within the hollow housing which, in turn, is in electrical communication with the electrical fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Inventor: Cory G. Barrett
  • Patent number: 6681413
    Abstract: A portable restroom facility has a housing. The housing has a door opening for entering and exiting the housing. A removable waste storage container is stored within the housing for holding bodily waste. When the removable waste storage container is full or partially full, the removable waste storage container can be removed and a new clean removable waste storage container can be inserted into the housing. Thus, a waste drainage truck does not need to visit each facility and drain each portable restroom facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventor: Paul E. Weiss
  • Patent number: 6233749
    Abstract: A portable toilet stool or bowl, upper opening of which is effectively closed by an air-curtain formed by currents of air flowing all over said opening, so that the smell of feces evacuated into the stool does not freely rise into the air from the upper opening, and the smell is forcibly subjected within the stool, to deodorizing and/or decomposition, and discharged into the air or circulated within the stool for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Atsugi Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Sasaki, Tetsuo Sakuma, Haruhiro Arisa, Atsumi Fujita
  • Patent number: 5671487
    Abstract: A portable and mobile toilet includes a case for removably placing a bowl therein, and four elongate walls and an upper cover collapsibly combined together. The case, the bowl and the upper cover have an outer layer and an inner layer to form an inner hollow cavity for a gas to fill therein when the toilet is to be combined together for use. The upper cover is placed on the four walls when in use, and is closed on the case when collapsed. The four walls are made of a flexible opaque material, able to be rolled up and stored in the case when collapsed. Ropes and nails are provided to secure the upper cover and the case stably to keep the toilet secured on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Inventor: Jen-Yue Chen
  • Patent number: 4922557
    Abstract: The waste material holding tank located within a portable, outdoor toilet cabana is vented to atmosphere by a vent pipe extending upwardly from the tank to the roof of the toilet cabana. A small, electrical blower fan is mounted upon the upper, open end of the vent pipe for sucking air from the holding tank and blowing the air to outside atmosphere. A solar energy panel is mounted upon the roof of the cabana near the fan and is electrically connected to the fan. The panel generates electrical energy in response to a predetermined level of sunlight for electrically energizing the fan. Thus, the fan circulates air through the holding tank during the items that the sun is shining upon the cabana, to reduce the solar heat build-up in the holding tank for reducing the generation of noxious odors caused by heat induced reactions in the waste material in the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Poly-John Enterprises Corp.
    Inventors: George W. Harding, Rodney M. Mullett
  • Patent number: 4894872
    Abstract: A waterless sanitation system with ventilation. A toilet within a building is located over a pit having a solids holding basket suspendedly mounted within a liquids holding tank. A plurality of air inlet pipes extend externally of the building downwardly through the basket and into the liquids holding tank with a plurality of apertures provided on the pipes allowing the air to enter both the basket and tank. An exit pipe extends upwardly from the tank through the basket and through the roof of the building. A plurality of apertures in the exit pipe allow the gas within the tank and basket to escape. An exhaust fan is provided to pull the air downwardly through the inlet pipes and the gas outwardly through the exhaust pipe. The inlet pipes have mouths oriented to catch the wind assisting the flow of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Outdoor Sanitation Corp.
    Inventors: Charles M. Anderson, Jr., Stephen C. Cline