Flush toilet
AssigneeToto Ltd.
InventorsShu Kashirajima, Yuuki Shinohara
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Abstract
A flush toilet is provided, which can advance timing for startup of a siphon action that discharges waste, and can efficiently discharge waste from a water discharge trap conduit. A flush toilet of the present invention has a bowl section, a water discharge trap conduit connected to a lower portion of the bowl section, and a jet spout port that is opened toward the water discharge trap conduit, in the lower portion of the bowl section, and the jet spout port includes an outlet flow path in which a bottom surface extending toward an outlet of the jet spout port and toward a bowl section bottom surface in the lower portion of the bowl section, and a ceiling surface extending toward the outlet and having an inclination toward an upper direction than an inclination of the bottom surface are formed.
Claims5
A flush toilet of a siphon type that is washed by flushing water supplied from a flushing water source, comprising:
- a bowl section including a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, and a rim section formed on an upper edge of the waste receiving surface;
- a water discharge trap conduit that is connected to a lower portion of the bowl section to discharge waste;
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- a jet spout port that spouts water toward an inlet of the water discharge trap conduit,
- wherein the water discharge trap conduit includes a rising conduit extending diagonally upward from the inlet,
- wherein the jet spout port includes an outlet flow path having an outlet bottom surface extending downwardly toward an outlet of the jet spout port and toward a bowl section bottom surface in the lower portion of the bowl section, and a ceiling surface extending toward the outlet of the jet spout port, and
- wherein the ceiling surface of the jet spout port has an inclination which is smaller than a downward inclination of the outlet bottom surface and a virtual line along the ceiling surface at the outlet of the jet spout port extends between a lowest point at a top at the inlet of the rising conduit of the water discharge trap conduit and a center of the inlet.
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