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US 4,360,934 AGranted
Sanitary device
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNoriakira Ishigami, Takahisa Hasebe, Takeyoshi Kaminishizono
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Abstract
A sanitary device of the type associated with a toilet bowl and having an extendable and retractable spray arm is provided with a hot water supply tank having a heating element therein. The pressure of the cold water supply forces the heated water through the spray nozzle and a partition is provided within the tank between the cold water inlet and the hot water outlet to prevent cold from being inadvertently forced through the hot water outlet.
Claims4
A sanitary device comprising:
- tank means for holding a supply of hot water,
- nozzle means having inlet means at one end thereof adjacent one side of said tank and outlet means at the opposite end thereof adjacent the bottom of said tank an an opposite side thereof with said outlet means adapted to be positioned in a toilet bowl,
- an inlet opening in the top of said tank adapted to be connected to a source of cold water under pressure,
- an outlet opening in the top of said tank,
- pipe means connecting said outlet opening to said inlet means for said nozzle means,
- partition means disposed in said tank and extending downwardly from the top wall of said tank intermediate said inlet opening and said outlet opening into engagement with said nozzle means with opposite side edges of said partition disposed in engagement with two sidewalls of said tank and
- heating means located in said tank on the same side of said partition as said outlet opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.