Toilet bowl cleaning apparatus
OwnerTom Saylor, Victor Carrasquillo +2inventors
InventorsTom Saylor, Victor Carrasquillo, Tim Lautze, Ernie Campora
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Abstract
Apparatus for cleaning a toilet bowl includes a flexible, deformable conduit having a position memory. Spacers project from the conduit and bear against an inner wall of the toilet bowl to maintain pressurized water exit apertures in the conduit spaced from the inner wall and oriented toward flush water exit holes in the toilet bowl.
Claims16
Apparatus for selective releasable connection to a toilet bowl having a toilet bowl side wall defining a toilet bowl interior and a toilet bowl rim attached to said toilet bowl side wall and projecting over said toilet bowl interior, said toilet bowl defining flush water exit holes for directing flush water into said toilet bowl interior under said toilet bowl rim, said apparatus for cleaning said toilet bowl at the location of said flush water exit holes and comprising, in combination:
- a conduit having a conduit interior, said conduit for positioning in said toilet bowl interior under said toilet bowl rim and for extending substantially the full length of the perimeter of said toilet bowl side wall, said conduit defining a plurality of outwardly directed, spaced apertures communicating with said conduit interior;
- spacer structure connected to said conduit for frictionally engaging said toilet bowl side wall and cooperable with said toilet bowl side wall when said conduit is positioned in said toilet bowl interior to maintain said conduit at a predetermined position relative-to said toilet bowl side wall with said outwardly directed, spaced apertures thereof generally oriented toward said flush water exit holes;
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- a water supply pipe connected to said conduit for delivering pressurized water to said conduit interior from a source of pressurized water whereby said pressurized water exits said outwardly directed, spaced apertures and is directed toward said toilet bowl in the vicinity of said flush water exit holes.
In combination:
- a toilet bowl having a toilet bowl side wall defining a toilet bowl interior and a toilet bowl rim attached to said toilet bowl side wall and projecting over said toilet bowl interior, said toilet bowl defining flush water exit holes for directing flush water into said toilet bowl interior under said toilet bowl rim;
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- apparatus for cleaning said toilet bowl at the location of said flush water exit holes and comprising, in combination:
- a conduit having a conduit interior positioned in said toilet bowl interior under said toilet bowl rim and extending substantially the full length of the perimeter of said toilet bowl side wall, said conduit defining a plurality of outwardly directed, spaced apertures communicating with said conduit interior;
- spacer structure connected to said conduit frictionally engaging said toilet bowl side wall and cooperable with said toilet bowl side wall to maintain said conduit at a predetermined position relative to said toilet bowl side wall with said outwardly directed, spaced apertures thereof generally oriented toward said flush water exit holes;
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- a water supply pipe connected to said conduit for delivering pressurized water to said conduit interior from a source of pressurized water whereby said pressurized water exits said outwardly directed, spaced apertures and is directed toward said toilet bowl in the vicinity of said flush water exit holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.