Filtration assembly for reducing malaodors in air and aerosolized waste from toilets
AssigneeHound Tech LLC
InventorsBrian L. Machovina, Eileen McHale-Machovina
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Abstract
An assembly for filtering toilet bowl odors including a first housing respectively disposed in spaced relation to and in fluid communication with the toilet bowl. A conduit connects interiors of the first and second housings in fluid communication with one another. A fan assembly is mounted within said first housing in fluid communicating relation with second housing, via the conduit, and is disposed and structured to define a path of fluid flow extending from an inlet of said second housing, through said conduit and a filter assembly, disposed in the first housing and/or second housing, to the exterior of said first housing, concurrent to activation of the fan assembly.
Claims12
An assembly for filtering odors from a commercial toilet bowl comprising:
- a first housing disposed in spaced relation to the commercial toilet bowl and including a filter assembly,
- a second housing adjacent the commercial toilet bowl and including an inlet disposed in fluid communicating relation with an interior of the commercial toilet bowl,
- said first housing disposed vertically above said second housing and the commercial toilet bowl in supported attachment to a supportive wall,
- said second housing and said inlet disposed in supported attachment to a plumbing fixture, above and rearwardly of the commercial toilet bowl and a toilet seat thereon,
- a conduit extending vertically upward from said second housing to said first housing along and in adjacent relation to the supportive wall;
- said conduit disposed in interconnecting, fluid communicating relation between interiors of said first and second housings,
- a fan assembly mounted within said first housing in fluid communicating relation with said conduit,
- said fan assembly disposed to direct fluid flow from said conduit through said interior of said first housing and outwardly therefrom to an exterior of said first housing, and
- wherein activation of said fan assembly defining a path of fluid flow extending from the commercial toilet bowl, into said inlet, through said second housing and along said conduit into said first housing and through said filter assembly, to the exterior of said first housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.