Patent Application
20210254324
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The disclosure relates to ventilation devices and more particularly pertains to a new ventilation device for removing odors from a toilet bowl.
The prior art relates to ventilation devices. The prior art discloses a ventilation fan that includes a plurality of panels each being pivotally coupled to a fan. The prior art discloses a variety of ventilated toilets that each includes a toilet seat with a plurality of air passages therein and a pump for urging air into the air passages to ventilate a toilet bowl. Additionally, the prior art discloses a toilet ventilation assembly that includes an intake that has a slot therein for receiving a pivot for a toilet seat. The prior art also discloses a ventilation device that includes a pump and an intake that is positionable between a toilet bowl and a toilet seat.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pump that is mountable to a toilet bowl and an intake that is mountable between the toilet bowl and a toilet seat on the toilet bowl. The intake has an air passage is integrated therein and the intake is fluidly coupled to the pump. In this way the pump urges air inwardly through the air passage to suctionally remove odors from the toilet bowl. A motion sensor is coupled to the pump and the pump is turned on when the motion sensor senses motion. A filter housing is in fluid communication with the pump and a filter is removably positioned in the filter housing for removing odors from the air.
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
An intake 28 is provided that is mountable between the toilet bowl 14 and a toilet seat 29 on the toilet bowl 14. The intake 28 has an air passage 30 integrated therein such that the intake 28 is in fluid communication with an interior of the toilet bowl 14. Moreover, the intake 28 is fluidly coupled to the pump 12 such that the pump 12 is in fluid communication with the interior of the toilet bowl 14. The pump 12 urges air inwardly through the air passage 30 to suctionally remove odors from the toilet bowl 14.
The intake 28 has a top side 32, a bottom side 34 and a front side 36, and the air passage 30 extends through the front side 36. The bottom side 34 has an air hole 38 extending upwardly into the air passage 30. Additionally, the intake 28 has a pair of fastener apertures 40 each extending through the top side 32 and the bottom side 34. The fastener apertures 40 are spaced apart from each other a pre-determined distance thereby facilitating each of the fastener apertures 40 to be aligned with a respective one of a pair of existing bolts 42 on the toilet seat 29. In this way the intake 28 can be fastened to the toilet bowl 14 with the existing bolts 42 in the toilet seat 29. Moreover, the intake 28 is oriented such that the front side 36 faces an interior of the toilet bowl 14.
A control circuit 44 is coupled to the pump 12 and the control circuit 44 is in electrical communication with the pump 12. The control circuit 44 receives a motion input and the control circuit 44 turns on the pump 12 when the control circuit 44 receives the motion input. A motion sensor 46 is coupled to the pump 12 to detect motion proximate the toilet bowl 14. The motion sensor 46 is positioned on the forward wall 20 of the pump 12 to sense motion of a person approaching the toilet bowl 14. The motion sensor 46 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 44 and the control circuit 44 receives the motion input when the motion sensor 46 senses motion. The motion sensor 46 may comprise an electronic motion sensor, such as an infra-red motion sensor or the like.
A power supply 48 is removably positioned in the pump 12, the power supply 48 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 44 and the power supply 48 comprises at least one battery. A filter housing 50 is in fluid communication with the pump 12 to receive air from the pump 12. The filter housing 50 has a filter slot 52 extending therein and the filter housing 50 has an input 54 and an exhaust 56. An intake pipe 58 is fluidly coupled between the air passage 30 in the intake 28 and the inlet 16 of the pump 12 to transfer air between the intake 28 and the pump 12.
An exhaust pipe 60 is fluidly coupled between the exhaust 18 in the pump 12 and input on the filter housing 50 to transfer air between the pump 12 and the filter housing 50. A filter 62 is provided and the filter 62 is removably positioned in the filter housing 50. The filter 62 is in fluid communication with each of the input 54 of the filter housing 50 and the exhaust 56 in the filter housing 50. Additionally, the filter 62 is insertable into the filter slot 52 in the filter housing 50. In an alternative embodiment 64 as is most clearly shown in
In use, the pump 12 is turned on when a person approaches the toilet bowl 14 to begun suctionally removing air from the interior of the toilet bowl 14. In this way any odors produced as a result human waste being present in the toilet bowl 14 are removed from the toilet bowl 14. Additionally, the filter 62 removes the odors from the air as the air passes through the filter 62. In this way the odors commonly associated with a restroom can be removed at the source of the odors. The filter 62 can be removed and replaced whenever the filter 62 becomes dirty.
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.
