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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 01-09-2002 01:03 PM

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These have been available for almost as long as there have been flush toilets. Tell the local plumber that you want a "saluting" or "self rising" toilet seat for the men's room and he should know exactly what you mean. There is a torsion spring that flips the seat up except when someone sits on it. The self riser was invented by no less a man than Thomas Crapper of toilet fame.

Jerry,

I've never seen such a thing in real life. The only time I've ever seen "saluting toilets" was in the movie "No Time For Sergeants", which I saw back in 1988 or 1989. (the reason for all the PLO references in this thread). I need to watch that movie again sometime.

BY the way, check out http://www.theplumber.com/crapper.html , which talks about Thomas Crapper: myth or reality. Many people think that Thomas Crapper invented the toilet, while many claim that it's a myth.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

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Randy Stankey
Film God

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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-09-2002 01:48 PM

The way *I* understand, Thomas Crapper didn't invent the WHOLE commode. He invented the flush mechanism that we use today.

Before then, even when people were rich enough to have indoor plumbing there was still a problem with "sewer gas" comming up into the house through the pipe. There were various methods involving trap doors, etc. to contain the smell yet let the waste go down the drain. Consequently, even people who were rich enough to have indoor toilets didn't really keep them "indoors" per se. They kept them in "ante rooms" near the outside of the house so that the house wouldn't smell like sewer.

Now, the way I believe it happened, Thomas Crapper was the guy who came up with the idea of having a "water trap" in the bottom of the bowl to keep out the sewer gas yet let the waste go down unimpeded.

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Jerry Chase
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From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 01-09-2002 03:33 PM

I spent a little time trying to find these spring loaded seats on the net and was unsuccessful. My best guess is that people have taken the ADA to mean that no toilet seat can be spring-loaded, rather than the handicap accessable toilet cannot be spring loaded. What a load of

Anyway, I found these links:
(Leaving the URLS open so you can see where you are going)
http://www.rustybrain.com/archives/2000/01toiletseatblues.html
http://www.thefactoryoutlet.com/toilet_seat_lifter.htm
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/least_20recently_20used_20cubicle_20indicator

If you want to never trust a toilet seat again go to Snopes.com and search for "salami slicer" Sometimes I think all a terrorist would have to do to panic America is build and deploy some of the devices in our urban legends.

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Evans A Criswell
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Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 01-09-2002 04:26 PM

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If you want to never trust a toilet seat again go to Snopes.com and search for "salami slicer"

I hadn't heard of the "salami slicer". Gee. And I thought that it was bad enough to get ketchup packets and prick the ends of them with a pin and put them under the knobs under the toilet seat, with the pricked ends pointing inward.

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Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

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