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US 2006/0218713 A1Published application
Tank ball assembly for toilet
OwnerPo-Hsin Chen, Guan-Chung Cheninventors
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Abstract
A tank ball assembly is disclosed to include a cover stopper mounted with a gasket for closing the drain port of the tank of a toilet, a tank ball coupled to an upright short tubular flange of the cover stopper and rotatable on the upright short tubular flange to adjust the angular position of the air outlet thereof and to further adjust the flushing amount of tank water, and an adjustment screw fastened to a post at the cover stopper and adjustable to approach to the water inlet of the tank ball and to further adjust the flowing rate of tank water into the tank ball.
Claims1
A tank ball assembly comprising:
- a cover stopper, said cover stopper comprising a top wall, a post vertically upwardly extending from the top wall, said post having a top screw hole, an adjustment screw threaded into said top screw hole, a short tubular flange upwardly protruded from the top wall around said post, and a first annular groove and second annular groove extending around the periphery of said short tubular flange at different elevations;
- a gasket attached to the top wall of said cover stopper around said short tubular flange;
- a retaining ring fastened to the first annular groove of said cover stopper to secure said gasket to said cover stopper;
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- a tank ball capped on said short tubular flange of said cover stopper and rotatable on said short tubular flange, said tank ball having a bottom coupling flange coupled to the second annular groove of said cover stopper, a water inlet at a top center thereof and an air outlet at one lateral side thereof, said water inlet having a diameter greater than said air outlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.