Citations:S-bend


 * 2007, Clara Greed, Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets, Routledge (ISBN 9781136396182), page 40
 * THE PROBLEM OF PUBLIC TOILETS when most people depended upon nightsoil collection. ... first modern lavatory using water (the self-emptying slop  pan); in 1775 Alexander Cummings, a watchmaker, patented the U-Bend and the  S-bend.
 * 2001, Paul Dowswell, Everyday Life, Heinemann/Raintree (ISBN 9781588102126)
 * Then in 1775, Alexander Cumming invented the S-bend. This allowed a small amount of water to sit at the bottom of the toilet bowl, and it kept smells from the  pipe behind the toilet from seeping into the house. In 1 778, Joseph Bramah ...
 * 2000, Anna Johnson, Three Black Skirts: All You Need to Survive, Workman Publishing (ISBN 9780761122364)
 * Girly accoutrements (like Q-tips, cotton balls, tampons, and rejected love letters) tossed blithely into the bowl can result in a major blockage down in the S-bend of  your toilet. Clearing it out ranks among the messiest jobs for the handywoman, ...
 * 1985, Julia K. Gitobu, Principles and Practices of Home Management
 * The fittings leading from such points as the kitchen sink, the wash basins in the toilet and bathroom and toilet bowl are required to have a U-bend or S-bend with  a trap deep enough to hold clean water which acts as a seal preventing smells ...
 * 1999, Ruth Binney, Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Association, The origins of everyday things, Reader's Digest Association (ISBN 9780276423208)
 * Victorian catalogues displayed elaborate examples of washbasins, towel rails, showers, toilets, bidets and cabinets with ... a valve, or stink-trap; — a pipe with  an S-bend that trapped water and stopped noxious smells rising from the drain.