Blow out toilet with low water volume usage
AssigneeAcorn Engineering Company
InventorsV. Walter Hafner, Keith D. Marshall
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Abstract
An improved blow out toilet having remarkably low water volume usage. The toilet is of the type having a toilet bowl including a rinse ring having a rinse water nozzle directing water therein and a trap including a flush water nozzle. The improvement includes the reshaping of the toilet bowl and the reduction in size and reshaping of both the rinse water orifice and the flush water orifice.
Claims8
An improved blow out toilet of the type having a toilet bowl, a trap affixed to the base of the bowl and leading downwardly, then curving upwardly to a straight portion at an angle of about 45 and then curving to approximately a horizontal orientation, which trap permits water to fill the bowl to a predetermined level, a rinse water outlet ring near the top of the interior of the bowl, said rinse water outlet ring having rinse water outlet openings, a rinse water nozzle including an orifice with its outlet directed into the rinse water outlet ring, a flush water nozzle including an orifice positioned in the trap below the predetermined water level and aimed rearwardly therein and a flush valve and piping providing a predetermined volume of water to e less than 1.6 gallons simultaneously to said nozzles when opened, wherein the improvement comprises:
- a shallow angled toilet bowl base smoothly shaped that no more than about 0.66 gallon of water is held in the bowl and trap while providing an area of water coverage of at least about 10".times.12";
- a generally frusto-conically shaped ring at the base of the shallow angled toilet bowl providing a transition between the bowl and the trap;
- a rinse water nozzle orifice between 0.21 and 0.26 inch in diameter;
- a flush water nozzle orifice between 0.21 and 0.26 inch in diameter, said flush water orifice being mounted in the top of the trap at the beginning of the straight portion thereof.
An improved blow out toilet of the type having a toilet bowl, a trap affixed to the base of the bowl and leading downwardly, then curving upwardly to a straight portion at an angle of about 45 and then curving to a slight downward angle, which trap permits water to fill the bowl to a predetermined level, a rinse water outlet ring near the top of the interior of the bowl, said rinse water outlet ring having rinse water outlet openings, a rinse water nozzle including an orifice with its outlet directed into the rinse water outlet ring, a flush water nozzle including an orifice positioned in the trap below the predetermined water level and aimed rearwardly therein and a flush valve and piping providing a predetermined volume of water simultaneously to said nozzles when opened, wherein the improvement comprises:
- a shallow, generally frusto-conically shaped toilet bowl base having an angle between about 20 and 35 with respect to the horizontal and placed with respect to the trap so that no more than about 0.66 gallon of water is held in the bowl and trap;
- a smoothly shaped transition ring at the base of the shallow angled toilet bowl providing a transition between the bowl and the trap;
- a rinse water nozzle orifice between 0.21 and 0.26 inch in diameter;
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- a flush water nozzle orifice between 0.21 and 0.26 inch in diameter, said flush water orifice being mounted in the top of the trap at the beginning of the straight portion thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.