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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: howard1990 on September 02, 2012, 05:26:32 PM
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OKAY!
i spent ALL DAY researching this...
found NOTHING
the tag on this portable toilet reads
THE
STEVENSON CO.
STEVENSON CONN.
SANI TOP
SPRAY UNIT
PATENTED
thats it.... not a word more anywhere on the damn thing!
its gotta be some sort of portable toilet.. but i cant find any info about it
PLEASE HELP ME IF YOU CAN!
pics below
the glass bottle mounts to the lid and apparently drips something.... i dont know...
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another picture
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Looks looks a cludgie to me...and i think it self explanetary,...its for parking your bum!...and the pipe at the back connects to the drainage system, and the dripper thingy drips disinfectant down the hole...and the black bucket...you fill that wi watter and slosh it down after you know what!....simple
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i thought it was that simple.. the problem is there is no info on it anywhere... like it doesnt exist.
mabe its not a toilet? waste goes into the black bucket inside the white part.. but whats with the hole? you pull the bucket out, its too tall to be drainage... i am so confused.
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well i can tell you that if its a camping toilet as i think it is,, there would be a hose connected to the pipe and would be run outside of a tent,, the bottle would have oil of mint like we used at some parks, that way with the lid down and the smell going outside,, the mint oil would make it tolerable !! little odor !!
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makes scene, thanks
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Boats and RV's have similar ones, although on a boat you should unload it when you get back to shore in a proper disposal area. The bucket may have been used to flush it out or down in an RV to a connected sewage outlet. Usually don't want to do number 2's in these things unless you really have to.
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Boats and RV's have similar ones, although on a boat you should unload it when you get back to shore in a proper disposal area. The bucket may have been used to flush it out or down in an RV to a connected sewage outlet. Usually don't want to do number 2's in these things unless you really have to.
I don,t know Kevin...when a number 2 is imminent,any hole will do...i,ve even been known to hide behind the odd bush or two....especially after a night on the sauce,and faced with the long walk home.... ;D
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bigwull, you are absolutely right, when mother nature calls all the rules are broken!
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i think the black bucket fits inside,, then lift the lid to remove and dump,, wash and replace afterward !! wouldnt want to remove the hose and haul the whole thing out every time !!
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You have hit it on the Head, Mart....thats exactly what its for...in 2005 i visited my Aunt and Uncle,in the Ukraine...and one day one of my cousins took me to where my father had been brought up,it was a But & Ben...one room for living in and next door was for the animals...at the bottom of the garden there was a wooden box..the size of a broom cupboard...inside was a box with a hole in it..under the hole was the remains of a 5gal ICI empty paint tin...this was the toilet,...at the back there was a little door, when said tin was full, it was my dads job to empty the tin...when i asked my cousin....where did they put the refuse....her answer put me off eating pork...for a long time.....
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lol !! i was raised camping and such !! some of my family had outdoor toilets till the sixties !! hated going to visit that aunt and uncle !!
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I remember these as being a device offered to bridge the transition between the time period of the outhouse and the modern bathroom. When advanced age made using a traditional chamber pot too difficult for Grandma, this was quite the improvement. The unit would be vented through the wall, similar to a modern dryer.
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At my Aunts place in the Ukraine...they still have this "outside toilet"....and they still recycle the waste....and they still eat pork.....
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Someday I'll have to post a photo of our "TV stand". It's an early walnut combination chair table with the extra option of a toilet chamber under the chair seat. Sounds gross, but it's actually a stylish piece of old furniture.
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I think Rauville is right, the unit would be vented through the wall and that's why the hole is there. Makes sense to me from where it is located...
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I have one in the hall, it doubles as a telephone table
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That's just as bad as a "Johnny on the Spot"! My husband and I have a ton of jokes for this because he's does construction. We joke about the winter time, or who goes first is the luckiest!
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Someday I'll have to post a photo of our "TV stand". It's an early walnut combination chair table with the extra option of a toilet chamber under the chair seat. Sounds gross, but it's actually a stylish piece of old furniture.
I definitely want to see this! :)
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This was written in the late 1960’s after construction of Interstate 79 began in West Virginia, …… click n' enjoy. ;D ;D ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHCmAg-bzo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHCmAg-bzo)
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Someday I'll have to post a photo of our "TV stand". It's an early walnut combination chair table with the extra option of a toilet chamber under the chair seat. Sounds gross, but it's actually a stylish piece of old furniture.
i have restored a few of those !! most are very nice !! did one out of rosewood with caned seat !! till you lifted the seat looked like a very nice chair. porcelain toilet part just dropped down in the hole, so it was almost unseen !!
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anyone know anything about the company?
or what time period it may be?
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anyone know anything about the company?
or what time period it may be?
whats to know...they make portable toilets that save guys like me hiding behind bushes.....
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no record of the company but that is not unusual for small companies that were absorbed into larger ones !! you might try the chamber of commerce or the historical society in that town to see if they have info !! as for date,, somewhere between 40`s and 60`s i think !! cant get closer than that !!
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no record of the company but that is not unusual for small companies that were absorbed into larger ones !! you might try the chamber of commerce or the historical society in that town to see if they have info !! as for date,, somewhere between 40`s and 60`s i think !! cant get closer than that !!
thanks mart.. il look into that