Pressure toilet with bulk loading siphon assist
AssigneeKohler Co.
InventorsWilliam C. Kuru, Kyle L. Hokel, Luke Benjamin Zimbric
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AssigneeKohler Co.
InventorsWilliam C. Kuru, Kyle L. Hokel, Luke Benjamin Zimbric
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A pressure toilet has a trapway providing “as needed” (bulk dependent) siphon assist. During normal liquid waste or low bulk flushing, no siphon is formed in the trapway, and the water and light waste in the bowl are evacuated solely under the force of the pressurized jet of water. A large volume near or just downstream from the dam is provided to accommodate the blow out from the water jet. Only upon reaching a threshold concentration of bulk waste material in the down leg does the trapway draw a siphon. A horizontal baffle at the lower part of the down leg assists in the accumulation of bulk material of sufficient concentration to establish a siphon in the trapway.
A toilet comprising a bowl and a pressurized water supply with a channel for injecting water under pressure into a trapway, the trapway extending between a bowl opening and an outlet and having an up leg extending upward and rearward from the bowl opening to a water dam region above the bowl opening to a down leg sloping downward and forward to communicate with the outlet, wherein the trapway includes a baffle extending forward from a forwardmost portion of a rear wall of the down leg adjacent a lower portion of the down leg, wherein the toilet effects a siphon if a threshold concentration of bulk waste material is present within the trapway during a flush cycle but does not effect a siphon if the threshold concentration of bulk waste material is not reached in the trapway during the flush cycle, and wherein the trapway has a blow out region having an increased sectional area compared to the up leg, the blow out region is located between the up leg and the down leg, and the increased sectional area is orthogonal to a portion of a wall of the trapway defining the blow out region.
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