Aromatic drain device

• US 7,887,697 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2006
• Issued: 02/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mark A. Mangrum
• Original Assignee: Mark Mangrom
• Inventors: Worth, Thomas W.
• Primary Examiner(s): POPOVICS, ROBERT J
• Application Number:
  US11/382,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20070262006A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,742 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 210/164
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/126 Installations for disinfecting or deodorising waste-water plumbing installations
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 2005/0416 with an odour seal
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 5/0407 Floor drains for indoor use
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 5/041 Accessories therefor

Abstract

An aromatic drain device comprising a perforate retaining device defining a volume for retaining an aromatic media therein, the retaining device releasably secured to a removable drain cover and positioned to extend below the drain cover into the cavity defined by the floor drain wall.

Claims

1. An aromatic device attachable to a drain cover for providing a pleasant fragrance for masking or elimination of odors emanating from a floor drain comprising:

a perforated retaining device having a wall defining an open top adjacent the drain cover, the wall extending downwardly from the drain cover terminating in a closed end defining a bottom supporting a cylindrical aromatic solid having an axial opening therethrough;

a threaded bolt having a head and a free end, the free end extending downwardly through a one of a plurality of openings in the drain cover;

the aromatic solid axial opening encircling a portion of the threaded bolt free end passing therethrough;

the threaded bolt free end passing through the bottom and engaging a nut for releasably securing the retaining device under the drain cover.

2. A method of eliminating odors emanating from a floor drain comprising:

passing a threaded bolt free end downwardly through a drain cover opening;

inserting a cylindrical aromatic solid having an axial opening therethrough into a perforate retaining device positioned to extend below the drain cover, the retaining device having a bottom and further defining a volume therein;

passing the threaded bolt free end through the aromatic solid axial opening;

engaging a nut with the threaded bolt free end thereby releasably attaching the retaining device to the drain cover;

engaging the drain cover with the floor drain.