Wall-mounted flush toilet
AssigneeToto Ltd.
InventorsYuuki Shinohara, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Abstract
A wall-mounted flush toilet includes a ceramic toilet main body including a bowl configured to receive waste and a discharge trap having an inlet connected to a lower part of the bowl and configured to discharge waste from within the bowl, the ceramic toilet main body further includes a skirt that covers outer shells of the bowl and the discharge trap from sides of the outer shells and a rear end formed rearward of the skirt and configured to be fixed to a wall, and the rear end includes a firing pedestal that functions as a pedestal grounded during a firing process in a ceramic molding process.
Claims7
A wall-mounted flush toilet comprising:
- a ceramic toilet main body including a bowl configured to receive waste;
- and a discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the bowl and configured to discharge waste from within the bowl,
- wherein the ceramic toilet main body further includes a skirt that at least partially covers outer shells of the bowl and the discharge trap from sides of the outer shells;
- and a rear end formed rearward of the skirt and configured to be fixed to the wall, and the rear end includes a firing pedestal that functions as a pedestal grounded during a firing process in a ceramic molding process, and
- wherein the firing pedestal is disposed at a predetermined distance or more inside an outer shell on each of left and right sides of the skirt in planar view of the toilet main body,
- the ceramic molding process includes a process of pouring slurry into a molding mold and then demolding to mold a hollow molded body,
- the molded body includes a first wall and a second wall that are formed on opposite sides of a hollow region of the molded body, and
- the predetermined distance is set to a dimension of a single thickness that is a thickness obtained by adding up a wall thickness of the first wall, a thickness of the hollow region, and a wall thickness of the second wall.
A wall-mounted flush toilet comprising:
- a ceramic toilet main body including a bowl configured to receive waste;
- and a discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the bowl and configured to discharge waste from within the bowl,
- wherein the ceramic toilet main body further includes a skirt that at least partially covers outer shells of the bowl and the discharge trap from sides of the outer shells;
- and a rear end formed rearward of the skirt and configured to be fixed to the wall, and the rear end includes a firing pedestal that functions as a pedestal grounded during a firing process in a ceramic molding process, and
- wherein the firing pedestal is disposed at a distance equal to or more than a predetermined distance inside an outer shell on each of right and left sides of the skirt, and a side surface of the firing pedestal forms a smooth curved surface from a top to a bottom of the firing pedestal.
A wall-mounted flush toilet comprising:
- a ceramic toilet main body including a bowl configured to receive waste;
- and a discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the bowl and configured to discharge waste from within the bowl,
- wherein the ceramic toilet main body further includes a skirt that at least partially covers outer shells of the bowl and the discharge trap from sides of the outer shells;
- and a rear end formed rearward of the skirt and configured to be fixed to the wall, and the rear end includes a firing pedestal that functions as a pedestal grounded during a firing process in a ceramic molding process, and
- wherein the firing pedestal is disposed at a distance equal to or more than a predetermined distance inside an outer shell on each of right and left sides of the skirt, and an upper end of a rear end of the firing pedestal in a side view is located lower than a topmost of the toilet main body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.