Toilet Apparatus
AssigneeAS America, Inc.
InventorsHitomi Matsumoto, Hiroaki Watanabe, Michitarou Maki, Masashi Kusume
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Abstract
Provided is a compact toilet apparatus. A toilet apparatus (100) comprises: a toilet (10) having a bowl (10A) with a lower end opened to form a discharge port (10M), and a flapper valve (30B) that opens and closes the discharge port (10M); a buffer tank (18) provided below the flapper valve (30B); and a crushing part (12) having an inflow port (12C) communicating with a side surface of the buffer tank (18) below an upper end of the buffer tank (18) in a state where the crushing part (12) is connected to the toilet (10), the crushing part (12) crushing a solid included in sewage (Sew) stored in the buffer tank (18).
Claims12
A toilet apparatus comprising:
- a toilet having a toilet bowl having an opening at a bowl lower end and a flapper valve for opening and closing the bowl opening;
- a buffer tank provided below the flapper valve, and
- a breaking-up part for breaking up waste matter stored in the buffer tank,
- wherein
- the buffer tank comprises an inflow port on a buffer tank side surface and below a buffer tank upper end that communicates with the toilet in a connected state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.