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US 6,802,090 B2Granted
Lavatory-toilet combination
OwnerVicki Lee Martininventor
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Abstract
This lavatory-toilet combination allows the user to immediately recycle hand and other lavatory sink water to flush the toilet or to drain in the traditional manner. Besides choosing flush or drain, the user chooses the amount of water over 1.6 gallons and the temperature of that water. This combination eliminates the toilet tank with it's many parts needing repair and replacement. REFERENCES 1,935,779 21 Nov. 1933 Kemach 2,860,348 18 Nov. 1958 McClenahan 3,588,922 29 Jun. 1971 Carfora 3,995,327 7 Dec. 1976 Hendrick 5,228,152 20 Jul. 1993 Fraley 5,522,096 4 Jun. 1996 Brown
Claims9
A low maintenance lavatory basin and toilet bowl combination comprising:
- a tank free toilet bowl, a lavatory basin in adjacent proximity to said toilet bowl, a drain conduit enabling lavatory water to drain to a sewer or to said toilet bowl, a flush conduit sending said lavatory water to the toilet bowl, and a means for controllably diverting said lavatory water from a path to the sewer to a path to the toilet bowl and vice versa, said lavatory basin including a bowl and a drain opening, said lavatory basin including a plurality of ridges spaced incrementally between said drain opening and a top of said basin, each ridge indicating a predetermined quantity of water volumn when water resides at one of said plurality of ridges such that a user upon observation can determine and control the amount of water in the lavatory bowl to be directed to flush said toilet bowl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.