Unitary assembly for attachment to a toilet for ventilating the same

For use with a toilet having a bowl provided with a base formed internally with a discharge passage to be connected to a piping for communication with a sewer line and provided with a trap above said passage and with an upper rim on which a seat is adapted to rest with the seat being hinged to the bowl by hinge means between the rear lip of the bowl rim and the seat and with a normal pool of water being in the bowl above the trap so as to provide a water seal to prevent any gases from entering into the bowl from the sewer line;

• a unitary venting assembly comprising a hollow air scoop having a flat bottom wall adapted to sit on the rear lip of the bowl between the hinge means, means for mounting said scoop on the rear lip with said bottom wall being sealingly engaged with the surface of the rear lip, said air scoop having an arcuate open front end that conforms with the curvature of the rear of the bowl and communicates with the interior of the bowl so that gases from the bowl flow into the open end of the air scoop which has a closed rear end portion, a hollow duct extending laterally from the rear end portion and through which the bowl gases flow, said duct having an integral outer terminal end portion extending downwardly, a power driven suction blower unit supported by and suspended from the downturned end portion disposed in immediate communication therewith, an electric motor structurally supported by and suspended from the blower unit with the downturned end portion, the blower unit and the motor being serially arrayed in a vertical line, said blower unit having an integral outwardly tapered outlet laterally extending therefrom and having an open outer end, an elongated flexible exhaust tube having an end attached to and communicating with the open outer end of the outlet, said exhaust tube having a flat side to be adhesively affixed to the face of the rear wall of the bowl with the tube having an outer free end portion located within the trap and having its flat face adhesively secured against the walls of the trap said free end portion having an opening in communication with the water in the pool so that a water seal is provided in the free end portion to prevent sewer gases from gaining access thereto.