Filtration assembly for reducing malaodors in air and aerosolized waste from toilets
AssigneeHound Tech LLC
InventorsBrian L. Machovina, Eileen McHale
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Abstract
An assembly for filtering toilet bowl odors including first and second housings 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 the 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.
Claims20
An assembly for filtering toilet bowl orders comprising:
- a first housing disposed in fluid communicating relation with an interior of the toilet bowl,
- a fan assembly disposed within said first housing in communicating relation with an exterior thereof,
- a filter disposed within said the first housing along a path of fluid flow from the interior of the toilet bowl to an interior of said first housing,
- said path the fluid flow extending into and through said first housing to an exterior thereof, concurrent to activation of said fan assembly,
- a sterilizing assembly connected to said first housing and including a UV light source;
- said UV light source operative at a bandwidth in a range destructive to pathogens, and
- said sterilizing assembly disposed and structured to direct UV light from said UV light source concurrently onto said path of fluid flow and an exterior of said first housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.