Iota Folding Toilet Concept
Mar-06-14
The Iota toilet concept takes the move toward tiny houses into account with its space-saving, folding feature and improved efficiency.Designed as a final-year project by Gareth Humphreys and Elliott Whiteley, the Iota toilet’s flush mechanism allows the toilet to be folded into an upright position, where it takes up a third less space than its counterparts. A U bend built into the bowl detaches from the waste pipe when the toilet is in the seated position, and folding the toilet back into the upright position automatically activates the flush action and reengages the U bend at the same time.
The designers have entered the Iota concept in the RSA’s Redesign the Toilet competition.
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that idea is the worst
Posted by Logan Nemitz on April 1, 2014
This is a truly horrible design, with a fatal chronic flaw and a lethal acute flaw. The chronic flaw is that the outlet to the sewer cannot be sealed; there must be a gap so the bowl can pivot; and through this gap sewer gases will constantly leak. Yuck!
The acute flaw is when the wussy water-saving flush fails, and you have a bowl full of urine, toilet paper and feces. With a normal toilet the solution is the plunger; but when the bowl is up, you cannot reach inside with the plunger, and when the bowl is down, plunging will merely force the mess into the interior of the toilet and then onto the floor. Double yuck!
Nobody anywhere should ever use this design. Burn the blueprints and go back to the drawing board, with a competent designer this time.
Posted by Nathaniel Hellerstein on April 4, 2014
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that idea is the worst
Posted by Logan Nemitz on April 1, 2014
This is a truly horrible design, with a fatal chronic flaw and a lethal acute flaw. The chronic flaw is that the outlet to the sewer cannot be sealed; there must be a gap so the bowl can pivot; and through this gap sewer gases will constantly leak. Yuck!
The acute flaw is when the wussy water-saving flush fails, and you have a bowl full of urine, toilet paper and feces. With a normal toilet the solution is the plunger; but when the bowl is up, you cannot reach inside with the plunger, and when the bowl is down, plunging will merely force the mess into the interior of the toilet and then onto the floor. Double yuck!
Nobody anywhere should ever use this design. Burn the blueprints and go back to the drawing board, with a competent designer this time.
Posted by Nathaniel Hellerstein on April 4, 2014
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