Resilient universal drain insert
OwnerHeidi Graham, Kathryn Butcher Feinstoneinventors
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Abstract
An apparatus (100), including: a sheet (102) composed of a resilient material and configured to be flexed and then installed in a trapway of a toilet where the sheet takes on an installed shape in which a resilience of the resilient material biases the sheet outward against the trapway; at least one snare (104) protruding from a first side (142) of the sheet and thereby radially into the trapway once installed and configured to snare select items being flushed down the trapway; and a retention feature (106) extending from the sheet and configured to catch on a perimeter of an inlet of the trapway and thereby aid in holding the apparatus in place.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a sheet composed of a resilient material and which is configured to be flexed and then installed in a trapway of a toilet where the sheet takes on an installed shape in which a resilience of the resilient material biases the sheet outward against the trapway;
- at least one snare protruding from a first side of the sheet and thereby radially into the trapway once installed and configured to snare select items being flushed down the trapway;
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- a retention feature extending from the sheet and configured to catch on a perimeter of an inlet of the trapway and thereby aid in holding the apparatus in place.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a sheet composed of a resilient material and configured to be curled and installed in a trapway of a toilet, wherein when installed a resilience of the resilient material expands the sheet outward to engage the trapway and to form a curled shape;
- a plurality of snares integrally formed in the sheet that form an array that extends along both a length and a width of the sheet so that when installed in the trapway, snares of the plurality of snares are disposed at a plurality of locations along a drainage direction of the trapway and a plurality of locations around a circumference of the trapway and protrude radially into the trapway to snare material moving in the drainage direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.