US 5,960,483 AGranted

Lavatory having a swivelling bowl

AssigneeKeramik Laufen AG

InventorsSiegfried Delzer, Hans Ulrich Kunz, Holger Kuttenbaum

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Abstract

The lavatory has a housing in which a dish-like bowl having a seat is pivotably inserted. The bowl can be swivelled from a position of use into a flushing position. Furthermore, a cleaning apparatus which serves for cleaning the seat and the bowl with pressurized water in the flushing position is arranged in the housing. This cleaning apparatus has for this purpose a cover which overlaps the spray nozzles serving for cleaning the bowl and seat. In the flushing position, the cover and the bowl together bound a cleaning space which is sealed fluid-tight from the interior of the housing. During the cleaning process, even contaminants adhering stubbornly to seat surface or inner wall of the bowl are removed by the pressurized water and washed in the direction of the feces drain. After the cleaning with pressurized water, the bowl and the seat are dried with cold or hot air, for which purpose the cleaning apparatus is additionally provided with a fan.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A lavatory, comprising:

a housing having a frame opening;
a bowl with a seat supported in the frame opening for swivelling movement between a use position and a flushing position in which the bowl and the seat are cleaned;
a feces drain located in the housing and connectable with the bowl;
a water reservoir located in the housing;
and
a cleaning apparatus for cleaning the bowl and the seat and supported in the housing for pivotal movement between a rest position and an operating position in which the bowl and the seat are cleaned, the cleaning apparatus including a plurality of spray nozzles rotatable about an axis for cleaning the bowl and the seat with water emerging under pressure from the spray nozzles, and a cover for covering the spray nozzles;
wherein the cleaning apparatus is pivoted into the operating position thereof simultaneously with swivelling of the bowl, together with the seat, into the flushing position thereof, and
wherein the cover moves onto the bowl, upon the pivotal movement of the cleaning apparatus into the operating position thereof and the swivelling movement of the bowl into the flushing position thereof, and forms, together with the bowl, a cleaning space which is fluid-tight sealed from the rest of the housing interior.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.