Passenger trains usually have toilets, and the on-board lavatory takes many forms. The simplest train toilets are those called Drop Chute Toilets or Hopper Toilets. The term "Drop Chute Toilet" is obviously descriptive: the toilet bowl opens into a vertical open-bottomed chute or tube about 4...
The main town on Mykonos is called Χορα orHorain the usual Greek pattern of naming the primary town on an island "The Town". Most of the Hora is a pedestrian-only zone of narrow lanes. Beautiful Greek island architecture: smoothly curving walls painted a brilliant white, stone pathways...
More surprising than the lack of water is the presence of a shelf in older toilets. I can hear you asking, “A shelf?! Like to put things on?” My answer is yes, a small platform inside your toilet bowl to put something very specific on. BM. Excrement. A #2.Scheiße. What I ...
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during the re-filling of the cistern or toilet tank, as long as the toilet fill valve is open to allow water to enter the toilet, most designs use a small diameter tube to direct a portion of the incoming water down the cistern tank overflow tube (see sketch above) and into the toilet...
Liquid waste (urine) was collected in such a unit, which was worn by an astronaut and had roll-on cuffs to provide personal sanitary protection. The urine was transferred through a tube to a tank, then vented into space. Transferred from NASA Johnson Space Center A19770900000 Fecal ...
When air enters the tube, the siphoning action stops. Dual flush toilets employ a larger trapway (the hole at the bottom of the bowl) and a wash-down flushing design that pushes waste down the drain. Because there's no siphoning action involved, the system needs less water per flush, ...
“I don’t think this was just some low-level functionary pressing a key on a keyboard,” said Matthew Dresden, a China international property lawyer at Harris Bricken in Seattle, who examined the case. “But the value of this trademark is not at the level that it would be even a mean...
In a moment of whimsy, I used a clear plastic tube for the drain. I guess my bad taste offended whoever in the other world oversees such things, because the rest of my experience with this toilet was a nightmare. The problems were two-fold. First, the grinding of the waste released ...
Down Street is one of those abandoned tube stations on the Piccadilly line, which you can sometimes visit onTfL's Hidden London tours(orwatch our video). Its platforms have shunned trains since 1932, but the space was briefly used as a government bunker during the second world war. These ...