1930's urinal tank?

[Branden]

I just picked up this tank, and know nothing about it except its a Standard, and its stamped Sept 12 1930 on the back. It has an odd tube with two smaller copper tubes coming off the top. Can these internals be replaced with something close to original?

 

[CountryBumkin]

We need a picture!

 

[Sponsor]

 

[Gary Swart]

Wow, just what I always wanted! An 85 year old urinal tank that I could restore from my home. There's got to be a story here.

 

[hj]

What makes you think it is a urinal tank?

 

[Flapper]

What makes you think it is a urinal tank?

the title?
edit: wait who are you replying to?

 

[Branden]

Yes, it is an urinal tank, and yes I'm going to also grab one of the urinals to go in my pool bathroom. This isn't your average urinal, they are huge, and go all the way into the floor. I will post a picture of a urinal on Monday when I go back to work.

 

[Gary Swart]

Yeah, I sure wouldn't want an average urinal tank either.

 

[Branden]

This is the two urinals that the tank fed..

 

[hj]

Usually they were "automatic" and flushed periodically day and night.

 

[Branden]

Usually they were "automatic" and flushed periodically day and night.

Really? In the 1930's they had auto flush.... I didn't know that. So is that what you think that mechanism is?

 

[hj]

They would NOT have had a pull handle since it flushed two urinals. When the tank got to a certain level the mechanism caused it to flush.