Do you know why the lid of many public toilets is U-shaped?

Many of the objects that surround us have peculiarities that we do not know to what reason they obey.If the first time we have seen them, that particularity has been strange, everyday life makes us forget it and leave it to question ourselves about it.In Lifestyle we have seen the reason for the little holes in the pens or in the lollipop sticks and on this occasion we wanted to find out something about an equipment that we use every day in the home and in common places. Do you know why the cover of many public toilets is U-shaped?

Why the cover of many public toilets is U-shaped

Surely You've thought that it was curious to find in many public toilets that U-shaped cover that we rarely see in private house bathrooms.Manufacturing companies usually make them for public toilets for a reason and this is a sanitary regulation that had its origin, apparently, in the state of California.

A rule of this state about plumbing speaks of« Toilet seats «.At point 408.2.1 says that "The toilet seats shall be of plain material and in no case absorbent" and at point 408.2.2 it states that "All toilet seats, except those in private housing units, must be front open or have an automatic seat cover dispenser ».Many states adopted similar standards and, to comply with them, the easiest thing is to install in the public toilets U-shaped covers from there and then His health interest extended this type of cover to many public toilets around the world.

Do you know why the lid of many public toilets is U-shaped?

The U-shape has the functionality of prevent the contact of the genito-urinary areas with the lid avoiding infections, since the open front reduces the surface area in which there may be accidental contact.In the second, it facilitates the feminine hygiene of that area when They go to the service.According to one of the designers of this type of toilet cover, this space is designed so that women can clean the perineal area without touching the seat .

Do you know why the lid of many public toilets is U-shaped?

Once the puzzle is solved, we echo a study that explains which is the cleanest cubicle when you go to a public toilet.They are the first or the last ones because they are the least used ados! Although it may seem a lie, people often enter the middle because of an effect that psychologists call "preference of centrality".

Do you know the reason why the covers of many public toilets were U-shaped? Did you notice it? Do you follow the principle of "centrality preference" when choosing a cubicle in public bathrooms? If you want to know more curiosities about the toilets, we invite you to read the post: 10 curiosities about the toilet that you surely did not know.

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