Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Wash receptacles
Patent
1986-07-24
1988-10-18
Artis, Henry K.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Wash receptacles
4624, 4651, 4650, 4286, A47K 104
Patent
active
047776765
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A sanitary appliance comprising an easy accessible chamber, where is situated a mechanism combining the opening/closing of the outlet, the overflow, an air admittance system and a waterseal in an underlying container.
DESCRIPTION
The invention relates to a sanitary appliance such as a washbasin, a bidet, a bath or shower tub, a kitchen or laundry sink, a urinal, which appliance comprises a main basin and an adjacent chamber separated from said basin by a wall, said main basin being provided with an outlet positioned mainly in its side and communicating with said chamber, said chamber being also provided with an outlet, the appliance further comprising an opening and closing device mounted in the chamber and operated from outside the chamber, said device comprising an upstanding pipe movable between a closing position wherein it prevents liquid to flow from the outlet of the main basin directly to the outlet of the chamber and an open position wherein it permits such liquid flow.
Sanitary appliances of this type can be more attractive and give the designer more freedom in his design as the discharge hole in the bottom and especially the tightening plug for closing said hole are absent.
The quick clogging of such hole is at the same time avoided.
A sanitary appliance of this kind is known from British Pat. No. 363.601.
In a chamber having the form of a waste duct provided in a thickening portion of the rear wall of the main basin, a hollow rotatable sleeve valve is mounted.
In open position, said valve assures a direct communication between the outlet in the rear side of the main basin and the outlet in the bottom of the chamber.
By turning the sleeve valve, said communication is prevented.
German Pat. No. 140.899 also discloses a sanitary appliance of the above mentioned type.
The pipe of the opening and closing device is movable up and down.
In its downwards position, it closes the outlet in the bottom of the chamber.
Liquid can only be evacuated through openings in the upper end of the pipe, which openings act as overflow openings. In its upward position, liquid can be evacuated from the chamber through an opening in the lower end of the pipe. Because the chamber is hermetically closed to the exception of the outlets, the water evacuated through the last mentioned opening in the pipe sucks away the air in the chamber so that also a part of the water flows through the overflow openings at the upper end of the pipe.
The problem of both known appliances is the difficulty of cleaning the chamber.
Even if the opening and closing device could be removed from the appliance, the bottom of the chamber is not easily accessible.
If a water seal is directly mounted underneath the chamber, said water seal can pratically not be reached for cleaning through the chamber.
The water seal has to be unmounted from the outside of the appliance, what is not always possible or easy.
The invention has for object to remediate this drawback and to provide a sanitary appliance of the above mentioned type which permits an easy cleaning of the chamber wherein is mounted the opening and closing device and eventually also of a water seal forming container mounted underneath said chamber.
For this purpose, at least a part of the wall separating the chamber and the main basin is removable.
Said part of the wall can be totally removable, for instance by sliding or can be swung away with respect to the remainder of the wall.
In a particular embodiment of the invention, the appliance comprises a container underneath the chamber which communicates with the chamber through the outlet in the bottom of the chamber and the movable pipe of the opening and closing device extends through the outlet into said container and forms with said container a water-seal.
In this form of embodiment, the water-seal can be situated very high and easily hidden by the appliance itself or by for example a foot piece.
In the case of a bath tub, the bath tub can be installed very low above the floor.
This form of embodiment is especially
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