Toilet with efficient water flow path
AssigneeKohler Co.
InventorsClayton C. Garrels, Jeremiah J. Rauwerdink, Randal S. Graskamp
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Abstract
A toilet includes a bowl with a sump and a trapway connecting the sump to an outlet of the toilet. The trapway has a zeta shape and is configured to induce a siphon which provides pressure to suction waste water from the bowl during a flush cycle. A trapway supply conduit is connected to the trapway in a tangential orientation to an upleg region of the trapway. The trapway supply conduit supplies water to the trapway, which follows a contour of the inner surface of the trapway supply conduit and continues in the same direction into the upleg region of the trapway by relying on a fluid flow to follow the curve of a convex surface placed proximate to the flow.
Claims20
A toilet comprising:
- a pedestal;
- a tank supported by the pedestal;
- an inlet passage associated with the pedestal;
- and
- a fluidic device supported by the pedestal and configured to direct water from the inlet passage to a predetermined pattern.
A toilet comprising:
- a bowl having a sump in a bottom thereof;
- an inlet passage formed in the bowl or the sump;
- and
- a fluidic device supported by configured to direct water from the inlet passage to a predetermined pattern.
A toilet comprising:
- a pedestal defining a toilet bowl;
- a tank supported by the pedestal;
- an inlet passage formed in the pedestal;
- at least one fluidic device supported by the pedestal and configured to direct water from the inlet passage to a repeating water pattern;
- and
- a flush canister disposed in the tank and fluidly connected to the inlet passage and the fluidic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.