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US 5,398,348 AGranted
Water urinal
AssigneeToto Ltd.
InventorsYukio Tashiro, Noriyuki Matsui, Ryuzo Fukuda, Manabu Hirahara, Naoki Tsukamura
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Abstract
A water urinal has a urinal body which includes a housing with an opening on its upper portion for receiving a valve used to supply flushing water to the urinal. The valve is attractively concealed within the body of the urinal and eliminates the necessity of embedding a valve in the wall surface on which the urinal is mounted. A cover, which covers and provides access to the valve receiving space within the urinal body, allows maintenance of the urinal without having to remove the urinal from the wall or break an opening in the wall.
Claims11
A urinal comprising:
- a urinal body-having an upper portion, a lower portion, a back portion adapted to be mounted against a vertical wall and a front portion defining a urinal inlet opening facing away from said wall, said body including a housing defining a housing space having an access opening for accessing said space, said housing provided on the upper portion of said urinal body, said housing and said urinal body being formed as a one piece construction of the same material, said access opening opens in a direction towards the front portion of said urinal body;
- a valve, disposed in said housing space, for supplying flushing water into a bowl portion of said urinal body said valve being adapted to be connected to a water supply pipe projecting from said wall, said housing comprising means for enabling said valve to be installed in said housing space by said valve having been inserted from a rear side of said housing space;
- a control device having a sensor for sensing the presence of a user and for actuating said valve, said control device disposed in a front portion of said housing space such that said sensor is positioned adjacent said access opening;
- said valve positioned rearwardly of said control device;
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- a cover mounted over said access opening for opening and closing access to said opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.