Toilet Snorkel?

[Jim Bow]

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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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[bluedog225]

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There are things worse than death.

[Rich Jones]

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Fresh air? There's an awful amount of sewer gas in those lines.

[Jimmy W]

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Yes, sewer gas is exactly why the water trap is there.

[L.W. Baxter]

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good trick to put in the bag.

maybe for the next jason bourne movie i make.

[Breakaway]

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I may be wrong, but I believe the drain needs a trap below a toilet. The toilet water trap itself is not sufficient. Anyway, my house is plumbed like that.


Kevin

[John B]

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That guy looks like he's got stomach cramps .

[L.W. Baxter]

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i'm gonna want a longer hose. maybe with a check valve on it.

[John B]

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We all know you shouldn't blow up a toilet.

[Gordon Bartlett]

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I may be wrong, but I believe the drain needs a trap below a toilet. The toilet water trap itself is not sufficient. Anyway, my house is plumbed like that.


Kevin

I'll have to disagree with you here. I have never seen a trap downstream from a toilet. The toilet is the trap. Every code I have ever seen shows it just like the picture.
I'm not suggesting yours doesn't have another trap, but I don't think it is supposed to have another trap.

[Splodge]

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Sewer gas lamp, not far from where I live.

[Rich Jones]

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I'll have to disagree with you here. I have never seen a trap downstream from a toilet. The toilet is the trap. Every code I have ever seen shows it just like the picture.
I'm not suggesting yours doesn't have another trap, but I don't think it is supposed to have another trap.

Exactly.
But a lot of houses (mine included) have a trap in the sewer line just as the line leaves the house.
This traps all sewer gas from entering the house from the septic system.

[Brian Palmer]

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Exactly.
But a lot of houses (mine included) have a trap in the sewer line just as the line leaves the house.
This traps all sewer gas from entering the house from the septic system.

Mine also has a trap in the basement just above the floor where the line goes out to the street. Even if there were no trap, there may not be enough oxygen in the air in the line. It would have the same hazard as other confined spaces that contain waste gases.

[JayInOz]

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I'd suggest a longer breathing tube and poke it out a window. Toilet snorkel sounds like some sort of alien creature living in the sewers

[UCanoe_2]

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Regardless of whether or not there is a trap where the sewer line exits the building, the sewer system needs to have a vent to outside air in order to drain properly. That's what those little plastic pipes are that poke through the roof of your house, and that's what #15 is in the illustration.

The snorkel will work even if there is no fire. Somebody try it and let me know.