Method and arrangement for controlling flush water volume
OwnerJorge Maercovichinventor
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Abstract
A flush water volume control arrangement includes a replacement member for interchangeably replacing a conventional pusher member and for being slidably coupled with a valve body, wherein the replacement member has a sized configuration different from a sized configuration of the conventional pusher member and is adapted for being actuated by a flush actuator to push at a flushing shaft so as to complete a flushing operation with a relatively low volume of water lower than the volume of flush water through the conventional pusher member.
Claims32
A flush system, comprising:
- a valve body having a water inlet and a water outlet;
- a valve seat supported in said valve body between said water inlet and said water outlet, wherein said valve seat is adapted to move between a normal idle position that water is blocked to flow from said water inlet to said water outlet and a flushing position that said water is allowed to flow from said water inlet to said water outlet so as to complete a flushing operation;
- a flushing shaft extended from said valve seat to move said valve seat between said idle position and said flushing position, wherein said flushing shaft defines a first position and a second position;
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- a flush water volume control arrangement, which comprises:
- a flush actuator movably coupled with said valve body;
- a first pusher member slidably supported at said valve body and alignedly extended towards said first position of said flushing shaft, wherein when said flush actuator is actuated to shift said first pusher member, said first pusher member is actuated to push at said first position of said flushing shaft to complete said flushing operation with a relatively high volume of water;
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- a second pusher member, which is a replacement member to replace said first pusher member to slidably support at said valve body, wherein said second pusher member is alignedly extended towards said second position of said flushing shaft, such that when said flush actuator is actuated to shift said second pusher member, said second pusher member is actuated to push at said second position of said flushing shaft to complete said flushing operation with a relatively low volume of water.
The flush system, as recited in claim 5, wherein said second pusher member comprises an enlarged second biasing base actuated by said actuator handle and an elongated second driving member extended from said second biasing base at a position that said second pusher end of said second driving member is aligned to said second position of said flushing shaft.
A method of for controlling flush water volume, comprising the steps of:
- (a) selectively coupling one of first and second pusher members at a valve body of a flush system in a replaceably interchangeable manner, wherein said first and second pusher members have different sized configurations;
- (b) when said first pusher member is slidably coupled at said valve body, actuating a flush actuator to shift said first pusher member, wherein said first pusher member is actuated to push at a first position of a flushing shaft to complete a flushing operation with a relatively high volume of water;
- (c) replacing said first pusher member with said second pusher member to slidably couple at said valve body, wherein when said flush actuator is actuated to shift said second pusher member, said second pusher member is actuated to push at a second position of said flushing shaft to complete said flushing operation with a relatively low volume of water.
A flush water volume control arrangement for a flush system which comprises a valve body, a valve seat supported in said valve body to move between a normal idle position and a flushing position, a flushing shaft being actuated to move said valve seat between said idle position and said flushing position, a pusher member slidably aligned with said flushing shaft, and a flush actuator detachably coupling with said valve body for shifting said pusher member to actuate said flushing shaft so as to complete a flushing operation with a predetermined volume of flush water, wherein said flush water volume control arrangement comprises:
- a replacement member for interchangeably replacing said pusher member and for being slidably coupled with said valve body, wherein said replacement member has a sized configuration different from a sized configuration of said pusher member and is adapted for being actuated by said flush actuator to push at said flushing shaft so as to complete said flushing operation with a relatively low volume of water lower than said volume of flush water through said pusher member.
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