American toilet design?

[Clare Snyder]

Picture a 3 gallon bucket with a quart of water in it. Add a gallon and a half. Will it run over? No. Now if you are STUPID and don't wait for the water level to drop before flushing again, things CAN get ineresting. "INERTIAL flush would possibly be more accurate than syphonic, the level of water in the bowl is rapidly raised to above the level of the trap and rushes out through the trap. The trap is a restriction which increases the velocity of the water flowing through it, which "pulls" the rest of the water and the "load" out with it, while a slower flow of water from the tank or cistern replentishes the water level to refill the gas trap to prevent sewer gas recursion.

[Max Demian]

Rabbits have to as that is how their digestive system works. (Like a reflex radio.)

[Commander Kinsey]

Rabbits are a lot lower in the food chain than I am.

[Commander Kinsey]

It's just that what I saw on Quora showed a photo of a toilet where there's no way another cistern full would have got into the bowl if it was blocked at the U bend. The bowl looked like a British toilet, plus a cistern of water extra.

[Commander Kinsey]

This is what I'm seeing:

American:

Note the significant difference in the water level. If my British toilet had as much water as the American one, I'd be concerned to flush it in case the water didn't go through the U bend and ended up on the floor. It looks like it's blocked. Why would you want water that high?! Crap comes out of your ass and SPLOOSH! Water all over you. No thanks.

[rbowman]

That's what Trump was bitching about. Even worse are low flow shower heads that you find in many motels. Last year I stopped at an older motel in Grand Coulee WA that had a shower that could strip paint off a Ford pickup. It was great! Most of them feel like a mouse with prostate problems pissing down your back.

[rbowman]

We'll amend the instructions for the Brits. The toilets at Yellowstone National Park really do have instructional signs. They try to convey that you sit on the seat. You do not stand on it and squat.

[Ed Pawlowski]

We had that problem in the ladies room in the shop. Some of the Asian ladies stood on it and squatted. Normal for them.

[Col Boyce]

Not for the faint of heart but the Wiki link is safe.

[alan_m]

The European continental style toilets with a platform at the front of the bowl may prevent splashback when you have a dump because the shit remains on the platform for inspection! If paper is not first put down on the platform the flush moves the shit to the outlet leaving skid marks.

When having a piss it's OK when aiming the stream at the bowl outlet but once the stream ends up in a dribble than it hits the platform and it results in urine splashback!

[Bob Eager]

You forgot the Human Centipede.

[John]

"Commander Kinsey" [e-mail]> wrote in news:op.0c0f15nnwdg98l@glass:

[Roger Hayter]

Did you ever come across WRAS in your work? Building regs require an air break for toilets. A check valve is insufficient. Could be done with a separate header tank plus or minus a pump, but it is a lot more expense and things to go wrong.

[Max Demian]

You mean you eat rabbits?

[Max Demian]

The flush doesn't feed directly into the "toilet water" - at least not usually. Doesn't the bowl provide the air break?

The drinking water is already contaminated by the foetid dishcloths hanging from the spout.

[Cindy Hamilton]

That's a sample of 1. There are 350 million toilets in the U.S.

Cindy Hamilton

[Cindy Hamilton]

That's an ancient toilet. I haven't seen one with that much water in it in 20 years. That's the result of the government regulation on flush volume that you think is so intrusive. Less water in the both the cistern and the bowl.

The second picture looks like the toilet at work. My toilet at home has about 2 cm more standing water.

Cindy Hamilton

[Tim+]

No. That have the “normal” amount of water in the U-bend.

There’s some truth to that. Siphonic systems are still common in the US. Some of the water from the flush tank is directed down the soil pipe behind the first u-bend creating suction that draws the waters and stools from the pan down and around the U-bend. After the U-bend has been “sucked dry” it’s refilled by water descending from the flush tank in the conventional way. There are other siphonic systems but they operate in similar ways.

Some reading for you here.

I’ve never seen a pan that is “fuller” than a normal non-siphonic pan before the flush (except when the soil pipe is partially blocked).

It makes for a quiet powerful flush but uses more water, which is why I imagine you can’t buy a new one in the UK.

Tim

[Roger Hayter]

Not according to the regulations. Consider explosive diarrhoea.

[Bill Wright]

Thank you Dr Speed.

Bill