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Device for venting odors from a toilet bowl
The present disclosure is directed to an adapter and base plate that may be retrofitted to existing industry standard toilets to provide a capability to vent foul odors from bodily waste deposited into the toilet bowl. The toilet includes a bowl having flush holes disposed around a rim of the bowl for discharging water into the bowl, a water tank for containing a volume of water sufficient to cause the toilet to flush when the volume of water is discharged into the bowl, a flush and refill mechanism for flushing and then refilling the toilet, the flush mechanism controlling a flush valve that covers a drain at the bottom of the water tank. The bowl also includes a water feed conduit connecting the drain to the holes around the rim of the bowl. The adapter is fitted between the water tank and bowl with a first opening receiving the flush valve and a second opening connected to an exhaust fan by plumbing. By means of a gap between flush valve and adapter's first opening exhaust fan is in fluid communications with flush holes disposed around the rim of bowl. Activation of exhaust fan will draw foul odors through flush holes, water feed conduit, adapter, plumbing, and exhaust fan to an appropriate outside destination. Adapter, being of simple construction with angled sides so as to prevent the pooling of water, is incapable of supporting the water tank thus requiring a base plate that surrounds the adapter to support the water tank. The base plate may be translucent to allow LED lighting mounted to adapter to be cast about the bowl.
Device for venting odors from a toilet bowl
The present disclosure is directed to an adapter and base plate that may be retrofitted to existing industry standard toilets to provide a capability to vent foul odors from bodily waste deposited into the toilet bowl. The toilet includes a bowl having flush holes disposed around a rim of the bowl for discharging water into the bowl, a water tank for containing a volume of water sufficient to cause the toilet to flush when the volume of water is discharged into the bowl, a flush and refill mechanism for flushing and then refilling the toilet, the flush mechanism controlling a flush valve that covers a drain at the bottom of the water tank. The bowl also includes a water feed conduit connecting the drain to the holes around the rim of the bowl. The adapter is fitted between the water tank and bowl with a first opening receiving the flush valve and a second opening connected to an exhaust fan by plumbing. By means of a gap between flush valve and adapter's first opening exhaust fan is in fluid communications with flush holes disposed around the rim of bowl. Activation of exhaust fan will draw foul odors through flush holes, water feed conduit, adapter, plumbing, and exhaust fan to an appropriate outside destination. Adapter, being of simple construction with angled sides so as to prevent the pooling of water, is incapable of supporting the water tank thus requiring a base plate that surrounds the adapter to support the water tank. The base plate may be translucent to allow LED lighting mounted to adapter to be cast about the bowl.
Device for venting odors from a toilet bowl
FISHERING PETER (author)
2016-10-20
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC:
E03D
WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES
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Wasserklosetts oder Urinale mit Spülvorrichtungen