Holder for cleaning and/or colorant products intended to be hooked from the edge of a WC bowl

• US 4,555,819 A
• Filed: 04/20/1984
• Issued: 12/03/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Reckitt & Colman SA A Joint-Stock Company of Frane
• Original Assignee: Reckitt & Colman, Inc. (Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC)
• Inventors: Weiss, Richard, Delagneau, Hubert
• Primary Examiner(s): Turk, Arnold
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ledbetter, Jr., Titus B.
• Application Number:
  US06/606,825
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• Field of Search: 422/255, 422/266, 422/263, 422/264, 422/276, 422/277, 422/278, 422/301, 4/227-231, 4/223, 4/224
• US Class Current: 4/223
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 21/22 using additional holders in conduits, containers or pools for keeping the solid material in place, e.g. supports or receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 9/032 Devices connected to or dispensing into the bowl

Abstract

A holder comprising a sealed container provided to receive a water-soluble active, solid composition and to protect it against the direct erosion by water susceptible to penetrate in the container. The holder including a basin having a predetermined volume arranged at the upper portion of said container and having at least one hole in the bottom thereof, a discharge device for discharging in a water closet (WC) bowl and consisting of two siphon-type systems and of an appropriate hooking system to hook the holder under an edge of a WC bowl.

Claims

1. A support device for solid treatment products which are dispersible or soluble in water and used in block form, for positioning under the rim of a water closet (WC) bowl comprising:

an elongated enclosure, having a bottom and a longitudinal axis, containing at least one solid treatment block;

means to protect said block against direct erosion thereof by flow of water from a WC bowl, said protecting means being a cover fitted to said enclosure;

a deferred action discharge means for directing a predetermined volume of diluted liquid medium into a WC bowl, said deferred action discharge means including at least two siphon systems longitudinally spaced on opposed ends of said enclosure;

a vertical wall integral with said cover extending across the longitudinal axis of said enclosure and extending towards but spaced from the bottom of said enclosure into two compartments containing in one of said compartments said siphon systems and in the other of said compartments, said at least one block, said other of said compartments having its upper end closed by said cover;

means for admitting into said enclosure a predetermined volume of flushing water, said admitting means being positioned in said cover over said compartment containing said siphon systems, and including at least one bowl means for retaining a fraction of the flushing water with the remainder of the flushing water being directed into a WC bowl, and at least one metering orifice formed in said bowl means; and

means to hold said enclosure under the rim of a WC bowl.

2. The device according to claim 1, further characterized by

a separate chamber (E) provided with apertures, said separate chamber being designated to receive a material comprising volatile substances for treatment of the ambient air.