1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a low-water-flow toilet and a law-water-flow urinal.
2. Description of the Related Art
Due to designs of bent pipes of sewers and water sealing traps of toilets, conventional toilets having a cistern cannot be washed down thoroughly with less water and left no smell. About 3 L water from the cistern is required to wash down the toilets. Insufficient flush water or slower flow rate cannot achieve the effect of thorough flush but just dilutes the urine. Furthermore, conventional toilet covers and the toilets are not in tight fit, and incomplete flush will surely produce smells. The common toilet is lower than the urinal in the public restroom, thus causing contamination of the toilet seat due to easy spatter of urine outside. The toilet in the family bathroom is often washed with water which has been used to wash clothes, vegetables and the like, but need to be flushed with water in the cistern of the toilet when the stored water is insufficient. People need a low-water-flow toilet which is convenient to use, odor-free, low in price and can be washed down just with little water.
In view of the above-described problems, it is one objective of the invention to provide a low-water-flow toilet and a low-water-flow urinal.
To achieve the above objective, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a low-water-tow toilet comprising: a toilet body comprising a lifting handle; a funnel comprising a lifting handle; a floating ball comprising a pull wire and a pull ring; a toilet seat comprising a rotating shaft; an upper cover comprising a rotating shaft; a fender cover; a nut of the rotating shaft of the toilet seat; and a nut of the rotating shaft of the upper cover.
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The position where a vertical face of an upper end outside the outer water sealing trap is adjacent to the rotating groove matching with two ends of the rotating shaft of the toilet seat is provided with a rotating groove which protrudes outwards and matches with two ends of the rotating shaft of the upper cover. A top face of the rotating groove has the same height as the top face of the outer water sealing trap. A bottom face of the rotating groove is even with the plane of the upper cover below the rotating shaft of the upper cover when the upper cover is closed. Two through holes are opened on the toilet body at a left lower side of the rotating shaft of the toilet seat. Two through holes are arranged on the toilet body below the rotating shaft of the upper cover, and two sides of the upper part of the toilet body are provided with two through holes and equipped with the lifting handle of the toilet body. The upper end of the toilet body is sleeved with the funnel with the lifting handle of the funnel. The funnel is lowered gradually from an inner wall of the toilet body to a lower exit of the funnel. An inner space of the funnel exit is a truncated cone having a bigger upper and small lower, which has slope. The top face of the funnel sleeved on the inner wall of the toilet body has the same height as the top face of the outer water sealing trap. The outer edge of an upper end of the funnel is sleeved in the inner water sealing trap and closed by water stored in the inner water sealing trap of the toilet body to prevent the escape of odors from within the toilet.
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In a class of this embodiment, to prevent urine and flush water accumulated in the toilet from entering into the inner water sealing trap and the outer water sealing trap and reduce flush water during pouring, a plastic fender cover is made, as shown in
In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a low-water-flow urinal for men adopting the characteristic design of the low-water-flow toilet comprising the toilet body with the water sealing traps, the funnel, the floating ball, pull wire, and the pull ring of the floating ball as shown in
The floating ball connected with the pull ring and pull wire has a larger diameter than an inner diameter of the bottle mouth communicating vessel for water passing through, and a nylon pull wire connects the floating ball and the pull ring of the floating ball. The floating ball put at a lower exit inside the funnel having a water sealing trap is in a hollow structure and can be made of glass. A top part of the floating ball is provided with a lifting lug and tied with a nylon pull wire. The nylon pull wire runs across a top face of the water sealing trap at an upper end of the funnel having a water sealing trap, another end of the nylon pull wire is tied with the pull ring of the floating ball which has a smaller weight than that of the floating ball. The pull ring is suspended below the water sealing trap of the funnel having the water sealing trap. The cover edge of the upper cover of the urine storage bottle is inserted into the water sealing trap of the funnel having a water sealing trap and sealed by water stored in the water sealing trap.
In a class of this embodiment, a bottle cover communicating vessel, as shown in
A low-water-flow urinal shown in
In a class of this embodiment, the low-water-flow toilet has the structural characteristics of the toilet body, the funnel, the floating ball with the pull wire, the pull ring of the floating ball, the toilet seat, the rotating shaft of the toilet seat, the upper cover, the rotating shaft of the upper cover, the nut of rotating shaft of the toilet seats and the rotating shaft of the upper cover nuts. The fixed toilet is designed according to the structural characteristics and the tight fit mode. The lower exit of the conventional fixed toilet is changed into a circular lower exit. The inner space of the exit is a truncated cone with a big upper and a small lower and has slope. The vertex of the water sealing trap of the conventional toilet is designed at the position when the floating ball matches with the circular lower exit, and the highest level of water stored in the toilet water sealing bend should be lower than the lowest point of the floating ball when the floating toilet matches with the lower exit of the toilet to guarantee the water sealing between the floating ball and the lower exit. The upper end of the traditional toilet is additionally provided with a water sealing trap matching with the cover edge of the upper cover. A rotating groove matching with the rotating shaft of the upper cover is arranged outside the water sealing trap. A rotating groove matching with the rotating shaft of the toilet seat is arranged at the position in the toilet upper cover adjacent to the rotating shaft of the upper cover. Thus, the purposes of water saving and smell prevention are achieved by the floating ball with the pull wire, the floating pull ring, the toilet seat, the rotating shaft of the toilet seat and nuts, the upper cover, the rotating shaft of the upper cover and nuts match with the toilet body of the improved fixed toilet. When the improved fixed low-water-flow toilet stays in the closed state, the protruded-downwards cover edge of the toilet upper cover on the toilet seat is inserted into the toilet water sealing trap and sealed by water stored in the water sealing trap. The toilet upper cover and the toilet seat can be opened and closed freely when rotating from the horizontal state to the vertical state. The toilet body of the improved fixed toilet is still made of porcelain material or hard plastic material.
Advantages of the invention are summarized below. The low-water-flow toilet and the low-water-flow urinal for men achieve the purpose of water saving under the condition of preventing leakage of smells, only have urine of 1 mL or so left on the funnel and the floating ball after flushing of urine based on a plurality of test analyses, and most of the urine is sealed and stored in the urine storage bottle. A common beverage bottle of 500 mL volume is burned or drilled with a small hole with the diameter of phi 3 mm at the center of the bottle cover, and is filled with water, and then the bottle cover is screwed on; squeezing the bottle body can spray the water to 4-5 meters. The funnel and the floating ball can be washed down thoroughly with 50-100 mL water squeezed from the beverage bottle with one or a plurality of small holes, and putting the upper cover of the toilet in place can totally eliminate smells under the condition of no water for washing; the floating ball and nylon pull wire. The pull ring and the bottle mouth communicating vessel have low production cost, three 5 L square-shaped empty oil drums or 2.5 L waste big beverage bottles can be changed into a urinal without a water sealing trap, two of the oil drums or beverage bottles are used as the urine storage bottle and the funnel, and the other is used as the funnel upper cover, and better effect can be achieved using the bottle mouth communicating vessel and the floating ball. The low-water-flow toilet can save 0.5 billion tons of water annually if one family saves one ton of water and 10 percent of the families in China use the low-water-flow toilet. In addition, the low-water-flow toilet solves the problem of emergent urination when there is only one toilet in a house.
The invention is described hereinbelow with reference to accompanying drawings, in which
In the drawings, the following reference numbers are used: 1. Toilet body; 2. Funnel; 3. Floating ball and pull wire; 4. Pull ring of floating ball; 5. Toilet seat; 6. Rotating shaft of toilet seat; 7. Lifting handle of funnel; 8. Upper cover; 9. Rotating shaft of upper cover; 10. Lifting handle of toilet body; 11. Inner water sealing trap of toilet body; 12. Outer water sealing trap of toilet body; 13. Through hole opened on toilet body at left lower side of rotating shaft of toilet seat; 14. Through hole opened on toilet body below rotating shaft of upper cover; 15. Fender cover; 16. Nut of rotating shaft of toilet seat; 17. Nut of rotating shaft of upper cover; 18. Urine storage bottle; 19. Bottle mouth communicating vessel; 20. Funnel having a water sealing trap; 21. Floating ball with pull wire and pull ring; 22. Combined part of funnel having a water sealing trap and urine storage bottle; and 23. Upper cover of urine storage bottle.
For further illustrating the invention, experiments detailing a low-water-flow toilet and a low-water-flow urinal for men are described below. It should be noted that the following examples are intended to describe and not to limit the invention.
The shape, structure, and weight characteristics of components of a low-water-flow toilet are described as follows. A toilet body 1 is sleeved with a funnel 2. The toilet body 1 can hold 5-20 L liquid under the condition that a floating ball in a floating ball with a pull wire 3 floats on the liquid stored in the toilet body below the lower exit of the funnel 2. Repeated tests prove that the inner space at the lower exit of the funnel 2 is a truncated cone with a big upper and a small lower and has the slope of 1-5 degrees, and is in tight fit with the floating ball in the floating ball with the pull wire 3, and the contact face of both has the diameter of phi 60 mm. After the floating ball in the floating ball with the pull wire 3 falls freely, 3-9 drips of water (about 1-3 mL) are trickled in to form a water sealing layer of 12-15 mm high, and the complete water sealing layer of 8 mm can be visually, clearly remained after 48 hours, thereby achieving the effect of preventing the leakage of smells under the state of normal pressure. The floating ball with the diameter of phi 60 mm-phi 70 mm and the weight of 30-50 g matches with the lower exit of the funnel 2. The floating ball in the floating ball with the pull wire 3 floats after water is poured in with a certain amount remained, and falls when water runs off completely. When the inner space stays in the static state without leakage, water is slowly poured in and the inner space can hold 4-10 mL water, and increasing the weight of the floating ball can increase the volume of accumulated water. The outer water sealing trap 12 is poured with water till 10 mm high, which is only about 60 mL, and pouring water into the inner water sealing trap 11 till 10-20 mm high can achieve the expected effect.
In a bottle mouth communicating vessel 19 of the low-water-flow urinal for men, its inner diameter for water passing through is compared by water tests within the range of phi 14 mm-phi 38 mm: a 2.5 L empty beverage bottle is utilized, a bottle cover communicating vessel with the inner diameter of phi 14 mm is taken for tests, and completely pouring out 2.5 L of water from the bottle mouth with the inner diameter of phi 14 mm needs 80 seconds, 30 seconds from the bottle mouth with the inner diameter of phi 20.4 mm, and only 7 seconds from the bottle mouth with the inner diameter of phi 38 mm. According to the tests, to reduce the water pouring time, the inner diameter of the bottle mouth communicating vessel 19 for water passing through and the bottle mouth part in the combined part 22 of the urine storage bottle and the funnel having a water sealing trap should approach or be up to 38 mm. The low-water-flow urinal for men can be adjusted the placement or hanging height according to the height of users.
The toilet body 1 of the low-water-flow toilet with 2-3 mm wall thickness made of hard plastic has the entire weight of about 2 kg together with other components, totally satisfying the strength requirement for normal use, and alternatively, the toilet body 1 can be made of stainless steel sheets. The funnel 2, the floating ball in the floating ball with the pull wire 3, a toilet seat 5, an upper cover 8, a fender cover 15, a urine storage bottle 18, the bottle mouth communicating vessel 19, the funnel 20 with a water sealing trap, the combined part 22 of the funnel having a water sealing trap and the urine storage bottle, the upper cover 23 of the urine storage bottle and the floating ball in the floating ball, the pull wire and pull ring 21 can be made of plastic material. The toilet body of the fixed low-water-flow toilet and the toilet body 1 of the movable toilet can alternatively be manufactured by the technology of steel sheets coated with porcelain enamel. The bottle cover communicating vessel can be made of common carbon steel pipes or plastic material.
While particular embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications may be made without departing from the invention in its broader aspects, and therefore, the aim in the appended claims is to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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2010 1 0135415 | Mar 2010 | CN | national |
This application is a continuation-in-part of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2011/000319 with an international filing date of Feb. 28, 2011, designating the United States, now pending, and further claims priority benefits to Chinese Patent Application No. 201010135415.1 filed Mar. 30, 2010. The contents of all of the aforementioned applications, including any intervening amendments thereto, are incorporated herein by reference. Inquiries from the public to applicants or assignees concerning this document or the related applications should be directed to: Matthias Scholl P. C., Attn.: Dr. Matthias Scholl Esq., 14781 Memorial Drive, Suite 1319, Houston, Tex. 77079.
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Parent | PCT/CN2011/000319 | Feb 2011 | US |
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