Drain

• US 4,694,513 A
• Filed: 01/22/1987
• Issued: 09/22/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Floyd G. Kiziah
• Original Assignee: Floyd G. Kiziah
• Inventors: Kiziah, Floyd G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sholl, Linda J.
• Application Number:
  US07/006,019
• Time in Patent Office: 243 Days
• Field of Search: 4/286, 4/288, 4/613, 4/650, 4/652, 285/4, 285/302, 285/192, 285/189, 285/158, 52/302
• US Class Current: 4/288
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 2005/0413 for height adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 5/0408 specially adapted for showers
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 5/0409 Devices for preventing seepage around the floor drain

Abstract

A drain for a tile-covered concrete floor over a plywood form base. The drain has an annular internally screw-threaded base member with a bottom flange that can be nailed or screwed to the form base, an annular body member threadedly received in the base member and having its lower end fitting with a drain pipe, a membrane and a dished membrane retainer overlying a top flange on the body member, a clamping ring screwed onto the outside of the upper end of the body member above the membrane retainer, and an annular strainer support screwed into the upper end of the body member and providing a seat for a strainer plate.

Claims

1. A floor drain for use in a floor of solidified poured material overlying a temporary sub form base comprising:

a base member having a tubular, upstanding, internally screw-threaded tubular segment and a horizontal bottom flange extending laterally outward from said tubular segment for attachment to the form base;

a body member having an externally screw-threaded annular wall which threadedly engages said internally screw-threaded tubular segment of said base member, a smooth-walled cylindrical lower projection extending down below said annular wall at the lower end of said body member, said lower projection having a smaller inside and outside diameter than the inside diameter of said annular wall, an annular upper projection extending up above said annular wall, said upper projection having internal and external screw threads and having a smaller inside and outside diameter than said annular wall, and an annular top flange extending horizontally outward past the upper end of said annular wall;

a deformable annular membrane overlying said top flange and the upper end of said body member laterally outward from said upper projection;

an annular membrane retainer overlying said membrane across and beyond its entire extent;

a ring overlying said membrane retainer for part of its lateral extent, said ring having internal screw threads which threadedly engage said external screw threads on said upper projection of said body member and holding said membrane retainer down to clamp said membrane against the top of said body member;

and an annular strainer holder having an externally screw-threaded lower end segment threadedly engaging said internal screw threads on said upper projection of said body member, said strainer holder having an annular flange on its upper end extending laterally outward beyond its screw-threaded lower end segment and across the top of said ring, said flange on the strainer holder presenting an upwardly-facing annular seat for receiving a perforated strainer.

2. A floor drain according to claim 1 wherein:

said upper end of said body member has small openings therein which communicate with the interior of said body member inside its annular wall;

and said membrane and said membrane retainer have small openings therein which complement said openings in said upper end of the body member.

3. A floor drain according to claim 1 wherein:

said lower projection on the body member is slidably insertable onto a drain pipe having an outside diameter matching the inside diameter of said lower projection;

said lower projection on the body member is slidably insertable onto a drain pipe having an inside diameter matching the outside diameter of said lower projection;

and said body member presents a downwardly-facing horizontal surface encircling said lower projection for engagement with the upper end of a drain pipe having an inside diameter matching the outside diameter of said lower projection.

4. A floor drain according to claim 3 wherein:

said body member has a readily severable web closing the upper end of said lower projection for engagement with the upper end of a drain pipe having an outside diameter matching the inside diameter of said lower projection.

5. A floor drain according to claim 4 wherein:

said web has a peripheral annular lip of generally V-shaped cross-section attaching it to the inside of the upper end of said lower projection.

6. A floor drain for use in a floor of solidified material overlying a form base comprising:

a base member having an upstanding internally screw-threaded segment and attachment means at the lower end of said upstanding segment for attaching the base member to the form base;

a body member having an externally screw-threaded annular wall which threadedly engages said upstanding segment of said base member, an annular lower projection extending down below said annular wall for attachment to a drain pipe, an annular upper projection extending up above said annular wall and having a smaller inside and outside diameter than said annular wall, and an annular top flange extending horizontally outward past the upper end of said annular wall;

a deformable, membrane overlying said top flange and the upper end of said body member laterally outward from said upper projection;

clamping means operatively engaging the outside of said upper projection on said body member for clamping said membrane against the top of said body member;

and an annular strainer holder having a lower end segment operatively engaging the inside of said upper projection on said body member, said strainer holder at its upper end extending across the top of said clamping means, a flange on the strainer holder presenting an upwardly-facing seat for a perforated strainer.

7. A floor drain according to claim 6 wherein said clamping means comprises:

an annular membrane retainer overlying said membrane across substantially its entire extent;

and a ring overlying said membrane retainer for part of its lateral extent and operatively coupled to said upper projection on said body member for vertical adjustment thereon.

8. A floor drain according to claim 7 wherein said ring threadedly engages the outside of said upper projection on said body member.

9. A floor drain according to claim 8 wherein said strainer holder threadedly engages the inside of said upper projection on said body member.