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The disclosure relates to purification devices and more particularly pertains to a new purification device for maintaining a clean smelling bathroom. The present invention discloses a purification device that filters and freshens air drawn from a bowl of a toilet and which illuminates an area proximate to the toilet.
The prior art relates to purification devices. The prior art does not disclose a purification device that filters and freshens air drawn from a bowl of a toilet and which illuminates an area proximate to the toilet.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing and a plurality of bulbs. The housing defines an interior space and is configured to be mountable to a tank of a toilet so that the housing is mounted to the tank. The bulbs are configured to be mountable to an underside of a seat of the toilet. An opening that is positioned in the housing is configured to vent the interior space. A tube is attached to and extends from the housing to a bowl of the toilet. A battery, a pump, and a filter are attached to the housing and are positioned in the interior space. The battery is operationally engaged to the pump and the bulbs, positioning the bulbs to selectively illuminate an area proximate to the toilet and the pump to draw air from the bowl through the tube. The filter is configured to absorb malodorous compounds in the air to purify the air to maintain a clean smell in proximity to the toilet.
Another embodiment of the disclosure includes an air purification system, which comprises an air purification device, as described in the disclosure above, which is mounted to a toilet.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A hook 22 is attached to and extends from a top 24 of the housing 12, as shown in
A pump 28, a filter 30, and a battery 58 are attached to the housing 12 and are positioned in the interior space 14. The filter 30 is operationally engaged to the pump 28. The battery 58 is operationally engaged to the pump 28 and to the plurality of bulbs 16 and thus is positioned to selectively power the pump 28 and the bulbs 16. The bulbs 16 are configured to illuminate an area proximate to the toilet. An opening 32 that is positioned in the housing 12 is configured to vent the interior space 14. The opening 32 may be positioned in the top 24 of the housing 12, as shown in
A tube 40 is attached to and extends from the housing 12 to a bowl 42 of the toilet 20, as shown in
The filter 30 may be positioned between the pump 28 and the opening 32, as shown in
A pipe 46 is attached to and extends bidirectionally from the tube 40 distally from the pump 28, as shown in
A fastener 52 that is attached to the pipe 46 is configured to selectively couple to the seat 68 of the toilet 20 to couple the pipe 46 to the seat 68 of the toilet 20. Alternatively, the fastener 52 can be used to couple the pipe 46 to a lip 80 of the bowl 42.
The fastener 52 may comprise an adhesive 54, as shown in
A switch 60, which is attached to the housing 12, is operationally coupled to the battery 58 and to one or both of the plurality of bulbs 16, and the pump 28. The switch 60 is configured to be switched to selectively couple one or both of the bulbs 16 and the pump 28 to the battery 58. The switch 60 may comprise a slide switch 64, as shown in
A grate 62 is selectively couplable to the housing 12 to screen the opening 32, as shown in
A sensor 72 is attached to the housing 12 and is operationally engaged to the battery 58 and to one or both of the pump 28 and the bulbs 16. The sensor 72 is configured to detect motion of a user proximate to the toilet 20, positioning the battery 58 to selectively power the bulbs 16 to illuminate the area proximate to the toilet 20 and to power the pump 28 to draw air from the bowl 42 through the tube 40, respectively. Such electronics assemblies are well known to those skilled in the art of sensed device controllers and can include selectors allowing a user to select modes of operations, which may include actuating, upon detection of motion by the sensor 72, only the bulbs 16, only the pump 28, or both the bulbs 16 and the pump 28.
The present invention also anticipates an air purification system 78, as shown in
In one example of use, a user enters a bathroom and motion is detected by the sensor 72, whereupon the battery 58 powers the bulbs 16 to illuminate the area proximate to the toilet 20. The user switches the switch 60 and the pump 28 draws the air from the bowl 42 and pushes the air through the filter 30, which absorbs the malodorous compounds in the air and releases the aroma compound 44 so that the air is both purified and freshened before exiting the housing 12 through the opening 32.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the elements is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
This application is a continuation in part of U.S. application Ser. No. 16/591,775 filed on Oct. 3, 2019 and claims the benefit thereof under Title 35, United States Code, Section 120.
Number | Date | Country | |
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Parent | 16591775 | Oct 2019 | US |
Child | 18074221 | US |