Self-priming siphon tube for use with a toilet tank and bowl for maintaining a steady trickle flow of water through a supplying and unheated service line associated with the tank and bowl and method for installing the same

A self-priming siphon tube for maintaining a trickle flow of fluid through a tank reservoir and bowl of a toilet, comprising:

• a plurality of first, second and third fluidly interconnected and substantially parallel lengths of conduit;
• and
• an open end of said tube corresponding to an interconnection between said second and third lengths of conduit being inserted into an overflow tube associated with the tank reservoir, a further open end of said tube being submerged within the reservoir;
• a trickle flow of fluid to be drawn from the tank reservoir, by vacuum pressure, into said siphon tube and discharged into the bowl.

A method for installing and priming a siphon tube for maintaining a trickle flow of fluid through a tank reservoir and bowl of a toilet, a water supply line being in fluid communication with the tank by virtue of a ball cock valve supported upon an inlet cylinder and an overflow line extending from the cylinder into the reservoir, the tank reservoir fluidly interconnecting with the bowl by an overflow tube secured to a base of the reservoir, said method of installation comprising the steps of:

• providing an elongated and interiorly hollowed body having first, second and third fluidly interconnecting and parallel extending lengths;
• inserting an interconnecting end established between said second and third extending lengths into the overflow tube and concurrently submerging a further end associated with said first extending length into the tank reservoir;
• securing a further extending end associated with said third extending length to an end of the overflow line;
• flushing the toilet;
• and
• vacuum drawing a trickle flow of fluid the tank reservoir, into said first length, and out said interconnecting end inserted into the overflow tube, the ball cock valve occasionally activating to draw fluid from the supply line into the tank reservoir.