These odd... Protrusions in the rim of my buddy's toilet bowl? Original toilet in a 50s-early 60s era house.
Posted May 8, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC
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Looks like it was designed to hold a shallow bowl for a sitz bath, child's training seat, or something like that.
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That makes sense, but the bowl isn't overly huge. I feel like the sitz baths are meant for a normal toilet bowl and this is normal other than the knob things.
It looks like it's meant to support something but they're not solid. It wouldn't support much weight I wouldn't think.
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Often found in hospital toilets as well for similar reasons, sitzbath, or specimen collection "hat".
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As it says in the title, it's the original toilet in the house. The house was built in the late fifties.
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When these toilets with bedpan "horns" end up in houses it's usually because a supplier had them and was looking to get rid of them, so it's possible the house is a tract home and the builder got a deal on a bunch of pink hospital toilets (my grandparents had a 50s tract home with a pink bathroom). Either that or this is not quite the original toilet and the true original met with an accident and this was the only one in the right color that could be come up with on short notice.
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It’s a bedpan holder. Similar to this https://www.wayfair.com/home-improvement/pdx/k-4303-l-0-kohler-wellworth-toilet-bowl-with-pressure-lite-flushing-technology-and-bed-pan-lugs-koh15148.html
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Solved
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Those are tiny cute arms that it has and it uses them to help stuff the bigger ones in its mouth.
It's adorable.
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Designed for use in a hospital to rest a bedpan for easier cleaning. Described on this page partway down. https://toilet-guru.com/hospital.php
I was going to say this: I’m a nurse and this is what all the toilets have.
Had to scroll for a bit but that's most definitely it. Hospital toilet. Solved.
"Had to scroll for a bit"
There were like 8 comments, how small is your screen?
In the article. Linked. By the answer provider.... That was correct... Scrolled a while in the article....
Ah, now that makes sense :P