Device for preventing clogging of main sewer lines
OwnerOwen M. Halstadinventor
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Abstract
A device is disclosed for preventing clogging of main sewer lines by containing a potential back-up at the source, namely, the toilet. The device comprises an expansible annular member or ring which is adapted for placement adjacent the discharge tube at the base of the toilet, and is provided with circumferentially-spaced hook-like members which extend upwardly into the discharge tube and are so designed and arranged as to shred or catch material which has been improperly disposed of in the toilet, and without interfering with the normal use of the toilet to eject waste.
Claims8
In combination with a toilet bowl or the like having a substantially vertical discharge outlet at its bottom defined by an annular flange or tube, a device for preventing clogging of sewer lines into which fluid passing through said outlet is discharged, said device comprising an annular member secured to said flange and disposed outwardly of said flange and having a diameter greater than the external diameter of said flange, said member having circumferentially-spaced hooks extending into said discharge outlet, said hooks lying in vertical planes which are perpendicular to the plane of said annular member.
A device for preventing clogging of a sewer line into which fluid passing from a toilet bowl at the bottom of the bowl is discharged, said bowl having a substantially vertical tube at the bottom of the bowl through which said fluid passes to said sewer line, said device comprising an annular member secured to and disposed outwardly of said tube, said member having circumferentially-spaced hooks which extend internally of said annular member and which lie in vertical planes which are perpendicular to the plane of said annular member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.