Toilet Ventilating Device (Patent No: 387591)

Inventor: Churchill, Stanley H.

Location: Edmonton

Comments: see Edmonton Journal May 30, 1963 re: retirement as principle of Forest Heights Elementary School 1934-1963

Description: What I Claim is:

1. A ventilating system for structures having a plurality of rooms equipped with toilet fixtures, comprising individual air passages leading from respective fixtures, a common air passage to which said individual passages run and having an outlet to the structure exterior, and constantly acting air-current inducing means that cause air flow through such passages to and out of such outlet, supplemental means in the individual passages to cause air flow through them from their toilet fixtures, and means to place such supplemental means in action only when the fixture is in use.
2. A system as in claim 1 further characterized by such means to place the supplemental means in action being automatically started stopped.
3. A system as in claim 1, in which individual passages extend vertically, and there are common passages at the plurality of levels and extending horizontally, and a vertical passage leading to the air outlet with which such horizontal passages communicate.
4. A method of ventilating structures having a plurality of toilet fixtures and which is provided with air passages from each fixture to a common passage having an outlet, which includes the act of maintaining a continuous air flow in such passages in the direction of the outlet, and which also includes the act of causing a supplemental air flow in the passages from each fixture only while the fixtures respectively are in use.
5. A system as in claim 1 being further characterized by such means to place the supplemental means in action being automatically started and stopped, and which latter includes an electric switch at the fixture with an exposed current conducting part, and a ground connection from such part.
6. Toilet fixture ventilating apparatus comprising an electrically driven air-moving device, a passage from the fixture to the induction side of said device, an outlet passage from said device, a movable seat for said fixture, an electric switch mounted on the rim of the fixture to be engaged and operated by the seat when weight is applied to the latter said switch including an exposed metal members, and means for grounding the latter.
7. A toilet fixture ventilator comprising an electrically driven air device with inlet and outlet connections, a circuit, an electric switch mounted on the hinged seat of the fixture at a point between its distal edge and its hinged portion and in said circuit, a junction box applied to said seat at its hinged portion, and wires leading from the switch to the box and from the box to the part of the circuit that includes said air-moving device.