Apparatus for washing sanitary conveniences such as bed pans and the like

Claim 1

Apparatus for washing bed pans and similar articles comprising a housing provided with a chamber, a cover for said chamber, a liquid supply, a plurality of nozzles mounted on the wall of said chamber and connected to said liquid supply whereby the wall of said chamber as well as the exterior surfaces of said articles are sprayed with liquid, a crank-shaped pipe being rotatably journalled in and extending across said chamber, motor means for slowly rotating said pipe, and said pipe being positioned in a generally horizontal plane and having at least one ejector nozzle and means for conducting liquid thereto, said pipe additionally being provided with at least one holder for holding said articles, both said ejector nozzle and said holder being mounted on said crank-shaped pipe, said articles removably held on said crank-shaped being pipe while being sprayed internally with liquid that passes through said pipe by said holders and said ejector nozzle, and one of said nozzles having a central bore for the liquid supply and a connecting channel located substantially transverse thereto, a relatively wide cut-out passage located at an angle with respect to the wall of the chamber and joined to said connecting channel for conducting the liquid supply from said connecting channel through said cut-out passage in the form of a liquid spray whereby the wall of the washing chamber is sprayed with a liquid curtain that covers approximately an angle of 180° .