Lavatory sanitation bodies

Claim 2

A lavatory body for use in a basin of a toilet bowl, elevated urinal, or the like, said body comprising an upper rim-engaging portion shaped to engage with the rim of said basin and a lower apertured treatment material holding portion having side walls on all sides thereof defining the margins of a compartment containing a quantity of solid soluble treatment material which was molded in situ therein and which can become a softened, slightly flowable mass, said lavatory body having a basinengaging lip means for engaging the basin to divert flush water into said compartment where it makes direct contact with the solid treatment material thereby to partly dissolve a portion of the material and to enable said dissolved portion to be carried by the flush water into said basin, at least one of said side walls having drain openings occupying various elevations thereof and being sufficiently large to permit water and dissolved treatment material to drain into the basin but so small as to prevent the softened treatment material from passing therethrough.

Claim 3

The lavatory body of claim 1 wherein said treatment material holding portion is open at the top, and said upper rim-engaging portion is hook-shaped and includes a wall section which overlies the open top of said treatment material holding portion and is apertured so the treatment material remaining in said compartment can be viewed to determine the amount of treatment material, if any, remaining therein.

Claim 4

A lavatory body for use in a basin of a toilet bowl, elevated urinal, or the like, said body comprising a holder having an upper hook-shaped rim-engaging portion shaped to hook over the rim of said basin and a lower compartment-forming, open-top, trough-like portion having a compartment containing a quantity of solid soluble treatment material which was molded in situ therein and can become a softened, slightly flowable mass, said trough-like portion having a free edge which constitutes a basin-engaging lip means for engaging the basin to divert flush water into said compartment where it makes direct contact with the solid treatment material thereby to partly dissolve a portion of the material and to enable said dissolved portion to be carried by the flush water into said basin, and end walls for confining a softened mass of said solid treatment material in said compartment, the end walls having drain openings occupying various elevations thereof and being sufficiently large to permit water and dissolved treatment material to drain into the basin but so small as to prevent the softened treatment material from passing therethrough.

Claim 5

A lavatory body for use in a basin of a toilet bowl, elevated urinal, or the like, said body comprising a holder having an upper hook-shaped rim-engaging portion shaped to hook over the rim of said basin and a lower compartment-forming, open-top, trough-like portion having a compartment containing a quantity of solid soluble treatment material which was molded in situ therein and can become a softened, slightly flowable mass, said trough-like portion having a free edge which constitutes a basin-engaging lip means for engaging the basin to divert flush water into said compartment where it makes direct contact with the solid treatment material thereby to partly dissolve a portion of the material and to enable said dissolved portion to be carried by the flush water into said basin, and end walls for confining a softened mass of said solid treatment material in said compartment, the end walls having drain openings occupying various elevations thereof and being sufficiently large to permit water and dissolved treatment material to drain into the basin but so small as to prevent the softened treatment material from passing therethrough.

Claim 6

The lavatory body of claim 3 wherein said trough-like portion has spaced main side walls, one of which terminates at the top thereof in said basin-engaging lip means and the other of which joins an upwardly extending section of said upper rim-engaging portion of the holder which section overlies and covers the open top of the trough-like portion and has perforations through which the treatment material remaining in said compartment can be viewed to determine the amount of treatment material, if any, remaining therein.