Adjustable toilet bowl

• US 7,426,756 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2006
• Issued: 09/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Moses Clark
• Original Assignee: Moses Clark
• Inventors: Clark, Moses
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips; Charles E
• Application Number:
  US11/471,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20070151012A1
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 442/0, 42521-2522, 466/7
• US Class Current: 4/420
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 11/12 Swivel-mounted bowls, e.g. for use in restricted spaces slidably or movably mounted bowls; combinations with flushing and disinfecting devices actuated by the swiveling or sliding movement of the bowl
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 11/125 Height adjustable bowls
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 11/135 Supports for bowls

Abstract

The subject of the invention concerns an adjustable toilet bowl for public usage,which enables the free regulation of the height of the bowl with respect to the floor.

The toilet bowl is composed of two elements, lower (1) and upper (2). These elements are joined, sliding way, with vertical screws (5) and sleeves with internal thread (14). Screws (5) mounted in the lower element (1), are ended from the bottom with drive element (6) and are fixed by rotary motion to flat bars (4) and (7), to which a flat bar (8) with motor (9) and gear wheel (10) is fixed permanently. Drive elements (6) and (10) are set on the same level. The upper element (2) has an optionally profiled pan (11), permanently joined with a sewage discharge pipe (12), and to the inner upper surface (13) of the upper element (2), sleeves (14) ended with an opening (15) are installed.

Claims

1. Adjustable toilet bowl, comprising a pan set on the floor, fitted with a clean water inlet and used water outlet, flexible used water conduit, separately adjusted lateral supports and a rear support, and a control system for these supports, significant in that it is made of two elements, a bottom (1) and an upper (2) element, which are connected with each other in a sliding manner, at least by two vertical screws (5) and sleeves with an internal thread (14), whereas the screws (5) are set in the bottom element (1), end in a drive element (6), and are fastened by pivots to flat bars (4) and (7), to which there is permanently fixed a flat bar (8) with a motor (9) and a drive element (10), whereas drive elements (6) and (10) are set on one level, while the upper element (2) has a freely profiled pan (11) that is permanently attached to a sewage discharge pipe (12), while sleeves (14) terminating in an opening (15) are installed on the inner upper surface (130 of the upper element (2).

2. The toilet bowl as per claim 1, wherein the drive elements (6) and (10) are gear wheels.

3. The toilet bowl as per claim 1, each screw (5) has a structure in the form of an elongated sleeve, into which a screw with a left-hand thread is introduced at one end and a screw with a right-hand thread at the other, whereas each sleeve has an internal thread and a permanently installed drive element (6).