SLIMLINE SHOWER WASTE DEVICE

• US 20100101014A1
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DLP Limited
• Original Assignee: DLP Limited
• Inventors: Stimpson, Robert William
• Application Number:
  US12/532,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20100101014A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 4/613
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 5/0408 specially adapted for showers

Abstract

A slimline shower waste device (10) for an integral waste water outlet (14) of a shower tray or shower former (16), comprises a hollow waste body (38) having a flattened portion (40) which defines a waste water cavity (42): a waste water inlet (44) for waste water now into the cavity (42) and which is provided on the flattened portion (40): and a circular wastewater outlet (46) for waste water flow out of the device (10). The circular waste water outlet (46) has a maximum internal diameter which is greater than a depth of the flattened portion (40).

Claims

1-27. -27. (canceled)

28. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) for an integral waste water outlet (14) of a shower tray or shower former (16), the slimline waste device (10;

110;

210) comprising a hollow waste body (38;

138;

238) having a flattened portion (40) which defines a waste water cavity (42);

a waste water inlet (44;

144) for waste water flow into the cavity (42) and which is provided on the flattened portion (40); and

a circular waste water outlet (46) for waste water flow out of the device (10;

110;

210), the circular waste water outlet (46) having a maximum internal diameter which is greater than a depth of the flattened portion (40).

29. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, wherein the waste water outlet (46) has a maximum diameter which is greater than a depth of the flattened portion (40) at the waste water inlet (44;

144).

30. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, wherein the flattened portion (40) extends around the waste water inlet (44;

144).

31. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, wherein the waste water cavity (42) includes a non-circular outlet which is in liquid communication with the circular waste water outlet (46) of the waste device and an adapter which includes the said circular waste water outlet (46), the adapter being connected or connectable to the non-circular outlet of the waste water cavity (42).

32. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, wherein the waste body (38;

138;

238) is elongate, and a width of the flattened portion (40) is greater than the diameter of the waste water outlet (46) of the waste device.

33. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, wherein the waste water inlet (44;

144) includes a waste water conduit (48;

148) for projection into the waste water outlet (14) of the shower tray or shower former (16), the waste water conduit (48;

148) projecting from the flattened portion (40).

34. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, wherein the flattened portion (40) includes a taper which extends in a converging direction from the waste water outlet (46) of the waste device to or adjacent to the waste water inlet (44;

144).

35. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 34, wherein the said converging taper is in a plane which passes through both the waste water inlet (44;

144) and the waste water outlet (46) of the waste device.

36. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, wherein the flattened portion (40) includes a taper which extends in a diverging direction from the waste water outlet (46) of the waste device to or adjacent to the waste water inlet (44;

144).

37. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 36, wherein the said diverging taper is in a plane which includes or is in parallel to the waste water inlet (44;

144).

38. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, further comprising a waste water trap (54;

154) which defines a tortuous flow path, the trap (54;

154) being external of the flattened portion (40).

39. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 38, wherein the waste water trap (54;

154) includes a cap-like body (58;

158) which extends across and overlaps the waste water inlet (44;

144), the cap-like body (58;

158) having a depending skirt (60;

160) which defines at least part of the tortuous flow path, the cap-like body (58;

158) being spaced from the waste water inlet (44;

144).

40. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, wherein the device (10;

110;

210) is fully or substantially fully positionable within a depth of a shower tray or shower former (16).

41. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, further comprising an integrally formed flange (218) for seating on or in an integral waste water outlet (14) of the shower tray or shower former (16).

42. A slimline shower waste device (10;

110;

210) as claimed in claim 28, in combination with a trap adapter (12) for a waste outlet (14) of a shower tray or shower former (16), the waste device cooperatively shaped to permit assembly to the base (18) of the trap adapter (12).