Squat-type water closet
AssigneeJosam Manufacturing Co.
InventorsGeorge J. Flegel, Roger L. Mielbeck, Patrick J. Pizarek
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Abstract
A squat-type water closet self-supporting in environment of installation, especially in a poured or pre-cast slab-type floor, without need of boxing, is provided by a bowl casting having a horizontal cast flange for anchored support on a rough slab or other environmental structure, and a flush rim casting gasketed to a seat on and defining with the bowl top margin a flushing water passage and peripheral bowl-flushing slot; the rim opening being level with floor and defining the visible closet opening; a vitreous coat and/or full porcelain enamel being applied to wetted and visible surfaces; the two members being shaped for casting without coring; and flashing-securing means being optional.
Claims12
A squat-type water closet for installation in and substantially level with a floor and providing at the floor surface an elongated opening, comprising:
- a bowl member having
- a waste outlet or discharge opening from the bowl bottom and having a discharge connection formation for connecting to a soil line,
- a bottom sloping downwardly inwardly and from front to back to the outlet,
- outwardly extending horizontal flange means for bowl-supportive engagement with environmental structure, and
- an integral flange having on its top region an upraised peripherally continuous seat formation, a flushing rim member having its outer periphery complementarily shaped and sloped to be matingly received within said seat formation continuous with a seal interposed between said rim member and seat formation to define the effective top opening of the water closet, and
- said flushing rim member being downwardly open and cooperating with the bowl member top region to form a flush water passageway and defining with the top margin of the bowl opening a slot substantially continuous about the bowl top periphery to discharge water in a substantially peripherally continuous sheet down the bowl inside surface for flushing the bowl interior, a flushing water supply connection integrally formed on one of said members providing an inlet to said flush water distribution passageway, said flushing water supply connection communicating with said flush water passage through an inlet-restricting orifice at one end of the closet whereby to increase the velocity of said flush water in said passage, one of said members supporting a V-shaped divider baffle with vertical apical edge aligned with the orifice axis for dividing incoming flushing water to flow bilaterally down the passageway along each side of the water closet, and
- means for securing said flushing rim member sealed to the seat formation on the bowl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.