Urinal Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
A urinal is a specialized toilet designed to be used only for urination, not defecation, and almost always by a standing male. Advantages over a full-function toilet include: it is smaller, uses much less water, and the regular version is for regular adults at a convenient higher height.It often contains a urinal cake contained within a plastic mesh guard container or a plastic mesh guard without a urinal cake. The plastic mesh guard is designed to prevent foreign solid objects such as cigarette butts or paper fron being flushed and possibly causing a plumbing stoppage.
The use of urinal cakes is largely due to the fact that many users of the fixtures do not bother to flush when finished using the fixture. This is often because of fear of touching the handle which is located too high to kick (with toilets, users often kick the flush lever to avoid perceived or real possibilities of infection from touching it). Accordingly, automatic sensor operated flush systems are commonly used on urinals, in which urinal cakes are no longer needed or used.
The term may also apply to a small building or other structure, in which such toilets are contained.
Urinals for women, which involve specialised funnels, have been introduced, with some success, at outdoor events (where standard indoor plumbing might not be available, most recently at the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset.
A more recent revolution with urinals are urinals that do not use water at all. Sloan Valve Company has created the first urinal that does not use water but uses a cartridge filled with a special sealant liquid.
Urinals are usually associated with a commercial, industrial, or high capacity men's washroom, where they are used, together with toilets, for high throughput capacity, as part of an efficiently designed washroom architecture.
For this reason, one seldom finds an individual urinal. Instead, large numbers of them are installed along a common supply pipe and drain. Individual single-user facilities usually do not have a urinal, and instead have just one toilet.
Often, one or two of the urinals, typically at one end of a long row of urinals, will be mounted lower than the others, for use by children, or by the disabled.
See also Public toilets.
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Urinals in the news
In early March of 2004 the National Organization for Women (NOW) took offense to the new urinals Virgin Atlantic Airways decided to install in the Virgin Atlantic clubhouse at JFK Airport in New York, New York. The urinals in question were shaped like an open pair of red lips. The toilet in question is visible here. The press statement from NOW can be viewed here. After receiving many angry phone calls from female customers Virgin Atlantic Vice President John Riordan called NOW to apologize. NOW's response to the statement can be viewed here. The ironic twist in this story is that the urinal in question was designed by a woman. The company that manufactures them is called "Bathroom Mania!" they also sell less offensive products including a flower pot shaped toilet and a hammock style bathtub. More information on the urinal in question can be found here.External links
