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US 6,629,319 B2Granted
Air ventilation system
OwnerAlbert Simpsoninventor
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Abstract
An apparatus which incorporates an air ventilation system into a standard toilet seat is disclosed. The apparatus would connect a filtration system to the rear half portion of a toilet seat by a plurality of ventilation pathways, which would connect to two primary ventilation pathways located in the rear of a toilet seat, which in turn would connect to the filtration system via a house connection. The filtration system itself would be housed in a box-like container, with the container having two major compartments, a filter compartment and a fan compartment.
Claims2
An air ventilation system for a toilet comprising:
- (a) a toilet, the toilet including a toilet seat and a toilet bowl,
- (b) a ventilation system which which would intake air within a toilet bowl and send the air through to a filtering system,
- (c) a filtering system for filtering air originally from within a toilet bowl, the filtering system further comprising a filter housing having two compartments, an upper compartment and a lower compartment, the filter housing having a divider located between the upper compartment and the lower compartment, the filter system further comprising an upper panel access door to allow a user to have access to the upper compartment within the filter housing, the filter system further comprising a lower panel access door to allow a user to have access to the lower compartment within the filter housing, the filter system further comprising a plurality of apertures located within the divider, the filter system further comprising an exhaust port located on the surface of the lower panel access door, the filter system further comprising a replaceable filter located within the upper compartment, the replaceable filter designed to filter air within the upper compartment before it travels through the plurality of apertures into the lower compartment, the filter system further comprising a squirrel cage fan located within the lower compartment, the squirrel cage fan designed to draw air within the upper compartment through the replaceable filter and the plurality of apertures into the lower compartment, the squirrel cage fan also designed to blow air within the lower compartment out the exhaust port located on the surface of the lower panel access door, the squirrel cage fan including a roller, and the filter system further comprising a means for rotating the squirrel cage fan,
- (d) activating means for starting the ventilation system and the filtering system, and
- (e) power means for supplying power to the ventilation system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.