Jet powered toilet flushing system
AssigneeFluidmaster, Inc.
InventorsMatt Vargas, Tom Stout, Anurupa Rao
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Abstract
A jet powered toilet flushing system, including: a toilet bowl; a reservoir; a fluid conduit between the reservoir and the toilet bowl; a jet inside the reservoir, the jet having a nozzle directed toward an entrance of the fluid conduit; a fill valve that supplies water to the jet; and a flow diverter in the reservoir, the flow diverter positioned to divert water flow: (a) from the jet nozzle into the entrance of the fluid conduit when the reservoir is full, or (b) from the jet nozzle away from the entrance of the fluid conduit and into the reservoir when the reservoir is empty.
Claims21
A jet powered toilet flushing system, comprising:
- a toilet bowl;
- a reservoir;
- a fluid conduit between the reservoir and the toilet bowl;
- a jet inside the reservoir, the jet having a nozzle directed toward an entrance of the fluid conduit such that flow from the jet into the fluid conduit creates a siphon flow pulling water up out of the reservoir through the fluid conduit and then down into the toilet bowl causing a flush, and wherein all of the water passing from the reservoir to the toilet bowl passes through the fluid conduit;
- a fill valve that supplies water to the jet, wherein the fill valve supplies water to the jet prior to the flush commencing, and wherein water from the fill line does not accumulate in the fill valve between flushes but is instead directed straight towards the mouth of the entrance of the fluid conduit when the fill valve is turned on such that the siphon flow is started automatically and without a user pushing a water displacement through the fill valve;
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- a flow diverter in the reservoir, the flow diverter positioned to divert water flow:
- (a) from the jet nozzle into the entrance of the fluid conduit when the reservoir is full, or
- (b) from the jet nozzle away from the entrance of the fluid conduit and into the reservoir when the reservoir is empty.
A jet powered toilet flushing system, comprising:
- a toilet bowl;
- a reservoir;
- a fluid conduit between the reservoir and the toilet bowl;
- a jet inside the reservoir, the jet having a nozzle directed toward an entrance of the fluid conduit such that flow from the jet into the fluid conduit creates a siphon flow pulling water up out of the reservoir through the fluid conduit and then down into the toilet bowl causing a flush, and wherein all of the water passing from the reservoir to the toilet bowl passes through the fluid conduit;
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- a fill valve that supplies water to the jet, wherein the fill valve comprises a fill valve float, and wherein the fill valve supplies water to the jet when the fill valve float is lowered in position, and wherein the fill valve supplies water to the jet prior to the jet causing flushing to commence, and
- wherein water from the fill line does not accumulate in the fill valve between flushes but is instead directed straight towards the mouth of the entrance of the fluid conduit when the fill valve is turned on such that the siphon flow is started automatically and without a user pushing a water displacement through the fill valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.