Toilet is a magic tool for squatting. It solves the problem of numbness in the long-term squatting. More and more people tend to squat on the toilet, but do you know? The toilet in the United States is different from that in China.
see the difference at a glance
Manufacturers will leave a gap on the toilet. What is the use of this gap? Is it for the convenience of women or men?
For safety
The design of American toilets usually uses the u-shaped structure , which will reveal a small gap at the front end of the toilet lid.
Many people have questions, can the odor in the toilet be transmitted through this gap?
actually doesn't. American toilets adopt siphon structure. The pipes connecting the sewer are s-type structure, and there is always clean water staying in the pipes to prevent odors, mosquitoes and dirty things from entering the toilet and ensure that the toilet has no odor.
Symphoto toilet structure
Therefore, toilets with this structure will not produce odor on the contrary, on the contrary, there are many advantages.
First, the exposed gap will make everyone safer when going to the toilet.
Americans have a more burly figure than other races, and there are more overweight people, both men and women have larger buttocks.
The major cause of weight loss in the United States
If you cover the toilet with your hips, and then the closed toilet structure is adopted, it is easy to cause "stuck butt" .
This is easy to understand. For example, when you discharge part of the gas from the closed plastic bottle and quickly cover the bottle mouth with a piece of paper, the piece of paper will feel a suction force from the bottle, as if it is "stickled" to the bottle mouth.
This is because the air pressure in the bottle is not equal to the air pressure of outside .
When witnessing the miracle
Same thing, those Americans with wide bodies and fat bodies like to change positions in order to sit steadily when going to the toilet, which can easily cause gas inside the toilet to be discharged. After the buttocks seal the toilet mouth, they get stuck inside.
At this time, it is not easy to get out of the toilet, because there are still many filthy in the toilet. If you are not careful, you may "wear golden armor all over your body."
Previously, a 400-pound big brother got stuck in the toilet while using the plane to the toilet.
This is really embarrassing.
can't be pulled out. Later, the plane landed urgently and found the local firefighter. Finally, the toilet was broken, and the eldest brother was saved. At this time, the eldest brother's buttocks were blue and purple, and it seemed that he suffered a lot.
is visible. For Americans, especially Americans with big hips, it is very important to have an notch to exchange with external gases.
For hygiene
As early as 1955, the US official stipulated that when manufacturing toilets, a gap must be left in front of the toilet. In addition to safety factors,
also makes Americans feel that the gap is necessary in terms of hygiene.
says that foreigners are very qualities, but in fact, it may not be.
Because when using the toilet, many American men don’t like to flip the toilet ring cover and urinate directly on it.
During the excretion process, urine will inevitably spill on the toilet .
Real man, just sit down and urinate
When someone wants to get on a large size, he looks at the pile of urine in front of the circular cover, who dares to put his buttocks? Even if
wipes the surroundings cleanly, it still leaves a shadow in his heart, which is not friendly to the image of the public toilet and the user.
In the mid-last century, such things often happened in public toilets in the United States, which aroused dissatisfaction among the people.
The US government also often calls on everyone to protect the cleanliness of public facilities, but no one could listen. In desperation, the designer had to design the toilet ring cover into a U-shaped shape. Although the
U-shaped cover cannot eliminate male bad behavior, it can at least reduce the urine spilled on the U-shaped cover, making those who urgently need large sizes feel less dirty.
No one can avoid using a public toilet
In addition, such a design structure can make people squat more comfortable.
When people sit down, the curves formed by their legs and hips are U-shaped structures, and the U-shaped structure designed by the toilet just fits the human body structure. When people sit down, they feel more comfortable.
pelvic structure of women and men
People's habits
In the early days, almost all toilets were squatted, and Western countries squatted usually had a gap in front of them.
At that time, the designers considered the many conveniences that the gap could bring. After
toilet appeared, the designer was also considering whether to use a closed structure or a notched type.
At the beginning, the designer adopted a closed style because since the toilet is an innovative invention, it also needs to reflect novelty in some aspects.
However, the first closed toilets produced in the market, , was not very sales in , probably because this thing is too new, which makes it difficult for everyone to accept.
Toilet
Later, the designer tried to design a toilet with a gap, and once it was sold, it was snapped up by consumers.
Because the toilet with a gap meets people's understanding of toilets , after using it many times, people found that the toilet was so easy to use, so they slowly changed their habit of squatting.
Until now, both closed toilets and notched toilets can be accepted by people. Why does
adopt closed-end?
my country has never had the habit of sitting in the toilet since ancient times. Even today, with such advanced technology, many people still insist on squatting.
Therefore, the design of public toilets in my country is also a planning layout with squat toilets as the main and toilets as the auxiliary.
squat toilet structure
public toilet toilets are mainly used for some disabled people and the elderly with mobility difficulties. If you open a hole in front of the toilet, it will definitely be detrimental to the safety of special groups.
Moreover, my country's demand for toilets is not as high as that of the United States. Whether the toilet is designed to be closed or not, it doesn't matter to our consumers.
On the contrary, a closed toilet can also bring convenience to Chinese people to a certain extent.
For example, when using a closed toilet, when we use our buttocks, we can "seal" the odorous overflow so that the smell of the entire bathroom will not be too bad.
Humans cannot stop the movement of molecules
development history
China's toilet history has appeared for a long time, and the prototype of toilets appeared as early as Han Dynasty .
The emperor at that time was the most noble person. He thought that squatting while going to the toilet would lose face, so he asked his subordinates to build a simple toilet.
Every time the emperor finishes going to the toilet, the eunuch in the palace will be cleaned up.
People make this toilet "tiger" . In order to prevent the odor from leaking out when the emperor is going to the toilet, the designer designed the caliber to be very small, but the emperor often sprinkles excrement outside, which is extremely embarrassing.
Tiger: You are really rude
Later, the people imitated the emperor's "tiger" and used wood to make toilets, and brushed with vermilion paint to waterproof.
This thing is popular among the rich, and ordinary people can only use their own dung buckets as toilets.
Of course, modern toilets were introduced to China from the West.
As early as the Middle Ages, the West developed the prototype of modern toilets. At that time, Westerners stored excrement in buckets, which was extremely odorous and extremely unhygienic. They had to be dumped in designated places frequently, which was very troublesome.
To solve this problem, Westerners established , the drainage pipeline for , which is today's sewer, which makes it more convenient to use the toilet.
Early Western toilet pipes
Later, Western colonists brought toilets to the east, and a toilet craze arose.
In the collision between toilet culture and traditional squat toilets, people seek their own needs, and today's toilets have a variety of forms.
Even a small toilet has a long history of , and we have to sigh at the historical background contained in the development history of mankind.
