Toilet Snorkel
Imagine that you're experiencing a blissful moment in the restroom, utilizing your favorite application (the StoolAnalyzer), when suddenly you're faced with danger. The room begins to fill with dark smoke, and you can smell a fire. The toxic smoke begins to choke you but you cannot escape. What would you do?!
If you had a "Toilet Snorkel", you would be able to buy some precious time until help arrived. This ingenious device was patented by William Holmes in 1981.
- Patent name
- Fresh-air breathing device and method
- Publication number
- US 4320756 A
- Filing date
- Feb 25, 1981
- Publication date
- Mar 23, 1982
- Inventor
- William O. Holmes
- Abstract
- The recent rash of fires in high-rise hotels and deaths occasioned thereby has given rise to the need for a breathing device and method for supplying a hotel guest and/or fireman with fresh air until he can be rescued. The device and method of this invention provide for the insertion of a breathing tube through the water trap of a toilet to expose an open end thereof to fresh air from a vent pipe connected to a sewer line of the toilet, to enable the user to breathe fresh air through the tube.
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An ideal stool looks like a torpedo – it should be large, soft, fluffy and easy to pass.
