Patent Application
20210317645
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The disclosure relates to plumbing trap devices and more particularly pertains to a new plumbing trap device for integrating a plumbing trap into a variety of plumbing geometries.
The prior art relates to plumbing trap devices. The prior art discloses a plumbing trap that has a slidably adjustable section. The prior art discloses a plumbing trap that has an adjustable diameter for accommodating a variety of plumbing geometries. Additionally, the prior art discloses a plumbing trap that includes a flexible section to enhance clearing blockages from the plumbing trap. The prior art discloses a plumbing trap that comprises a plurality of slidably adjustable sections. The prior art discloses a plumbing trap that has a plurality of flexible sections for integrating into a variety of plumbing geometries. The prior art also discloses a plumbing fixture that includes a hinged lock for quick disassembly.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a plumbing trap that has an inlet and an outlet for plumbing into an existing sewer system of a building. The plumbing trap is curved between the inlet and the outlet to trap water for inhibiting back flow of sewer gasses through the plumbing trap. The plumbing trap has a plurality of threaded sections thereon. The threaded sections are spaced apart from other thereby facilitating the plumbing trap to be cut between a selected pair of the threaded sections. In this way the plumbing trap has an adjustable length to facilitate the plumbing trap to be integrated into a variety of plumbing geometries.
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
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The plumbing trap 12 may be comprised of schedule 40 PVC pipe, with a variety of diameters, such that the plumbing trap 12 conforms to Uniform Plumbing Code. The plumbing trap 12 has an outer surface 20 extending between the inlet 14 and the outlet 16. Additionally, the plumbing trap 12 has a bend 22 positioned closer to the outlet 16 than the inlet 14 to define an elongated portion 24 of the plumbing trap 12 extending between the inlet 14 and the bend 22. The inlet 14 is spaced above the outlet 16 and each of the threaded sections 18 extends around a full circumference of the outer surface 20.
The threaded sections 18 are positioned on the elongated portion 24 of the plumbing trap 12. In this way a respective one of the threaded sections 18 can threadably engage a plumbing fitting for fluidly coupling the inlet 14 to a sink drain 25. The threaded sections 18 extend from the inlet 14 toward the bend 22. The outer surface 20 is threaded adjacent to the outlet 16 wherein the outlet 16 is configured to threadably engage a plumbing fitting 26 for fluidly coupling the outlet 16 to a sewer line 28.
In use, the plumbing trap 12 is positioned in a proposed installation location to identify the length to which the elongated portion 24 should be cut. The elongated portion 24 is cut between a respective pair of threaded sections 18 to trim the elongated portion 24 to the required length to match the existing plumbing geometry. In this way the plumbing trap 12 can be easily installed into a variety of plumbing geometries without requiring existing plumbing to be modified.
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 element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
