Floor drain assembly
AssigneeJay R. Smith Manufacturing Company
InventorDonald E. Priester
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Abstract
An exemplary embodiment providing one or more improvements includes an assembly which fixes and supports a floor drain at the appropriate position before a concrete floor is poured. The assembly is adjustable for floors of varying thickness. The lower or second end of the drain pipe is protected against contamination by wet concrete by a resilient disk. In addition a cavity on the bottom of the floor concentric with the drain pipe is formed. After the concrete floor has hardened and the form removed the resilient disk is removed exposing a clean uncontaminated drain pipe end for connection to a riser pipe.
Claims7
A floor drain assembly for supporting a floor drain and drain pipe during the pouring of a concrete floor on a form comprising:
- a floor drain body,
- a drain pipe having a first and a second end,
- the drain pipe attached at the first end to the bottom of the drain body and extending to the form at the second end,
- a multiplicity of spacer rods,
- the spacer rods attached at a first end to the bottom of the drain body,
- a support plate,
- the spacer rods attached at a second end to the support plate,
- the support plate having a hole through the center of the plate through which the drain pipe extends to the form at the second end of the drain pipe,
- the support plate having legs which extend downward from the circumference of the support plate to the form, the legs holding the plate above the form, thereby forming a cavity between the bottom of the support plate and the form,
- a disk comprised of resilient material,
- the disk inserted into the cavity between the bottom of the support plate and the form,
- the disk having a hole through the center of the disk,
- the hole through the center of the disk having a diameter slightly less than the outside diameter of the drain pipe, and
- the drain pipe force fitted through the hole in the disk at the second end of the drain pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.