EP1730362B1 - Hidden rectal cleaning apparatus and bidet - Google Patents

Hidden rectal cleaning apparatus and bidet Download PDF

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EP1730362B1
EP1730362B1 EP04749275A EP04749275A EP1730362B1 EP 1730362 B1 EP1730362 B1 EP 1730362B1 EP 04749275 A EP04749275 A EP 04749275A EP 04749275 A EP04749275 A EP 04749275A EP 1730362 B1 EP1730362 B1 EP 1730362B1
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Osman Er
Kamil Alis
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Eczacibasi Yapi Gerecleri Sanayi ve Ticaret AS
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
    • E03D9/00—Sanitary or other accessories for lavatories ; Devices for cleaning or disinfecting the toilet room or the toilet bowl; Devices for eliminating smells
    • E03D9/08—Devices in the bowl producing upwardly-directed sprays; Modifications of the bowl for use with such devices ; Bidets; Combinations of bowls with urinals or bidets; Hot-air or other devices mounted in or on the bowl, urinal or bidet for cleaning or disinfecting

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  • This invention is related to the hidden bidet and rectal cleaning apparatus, which are used in the closets for hygienic purposes.
  • the closets including the rectal cleaning pipes and bidets of rectal cleaning purposes are produced since longtime.
  • the pollution of the outer surface of the rectal cleaning and bidet pipes during the utilization causes aesthetic and hygienic problems. It exists also the mobile rectal cleaning and bidet systems in the prior art, which operate according to different principles in order to overcome these problems.
  • the mobile rectal cleaning pipes and bidets are installed to the closet or closet cover and in case of usage; they move forward within the body and become active. Therefore, the pollution of the outer surface is prevented to great extent.
  • the movement of the cleaning pipe or bidet pipe is provided by electrical engine located in the body and stimulated by a gear connected to this engine.
  • electrical engine located in the body and stimulated by a gear connected to this engine.
  • the electrical engine is switched on and then the cleaning or bidet pipe comes out of the body.
  • the cleaning pipe or bidet enters into the body by the help of the electrical engine.
  • JP-A-61117340 shows a rectal cleaning pipe and a bidet according to the preambles of claims 1 and 10.
  • This invention aims to provide the cleaning of the outer surface of the hidden rectal cleaning or bidet system which serves to do hygienic washing as well as the cleaning-bidet pipe within this system during the process of opening by the washing water pressure for usage and of closing after the usage by the spring.
  • FIG. 1 water arrives via three-way valve located in closet system into the mentioned rectal cleaning apparatus (A).
  • the water comes to the three-way valve from the main water access valve.
  • One of the spout of the mentioned three-way valve is connected to the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) and the other one to the bidet (B) (bidet (B) is shown in the figures 5-6 ) through different feeding drains (23).
  • the feeding drain (23) is connected to the upper body water access (1) and lower body water access (13) by the help of a T piece (22).
  • the user can switch the rectal cleaning or bidet by the help of three-way valve which provides the continuous flow and functions as the deflection valve.
  • the bidet (B) When the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) is in active mode, the bidet (B) is in passive mode or vice versa.
  • the main water access valve When the main water access valve is closed the water flow to the three-way valve is prevented.
  • the three-way valve is only used to change the direction of water flow.
  • the invented rectal cleaning apparatus (A) has two different water access point as being upper body water access (1) and lower body water access (13) and is composed of a upper body (2) and a lower body (15) fixed to the upper body.
  • the upper body water access (1) which is at upper body (2) ensure the movement of the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) while the lower water access (13) which is at lower body (15) let the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) to do the cleaning function.
  • the empty cylindrical lower body (15) of the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) includes the rectal cleaning pipe (16) which operates as a washing element that can move forward within the lower body by the water pressure, the pressure spring (6) which helps the rectal cleaning pipe (16) to return to the passive mode following the washing operation and the pieces used for the impermeability purposes such as impermeable felt (5), mobile stopper (3), o-ring (10) and gasket (18).
  • the lower empty cylindrical body (15) of the mentioned rectal cleaning apparatus (A); is composed of one or more lower body connection lug (17) at one end, the lower body protrude a (8) resulted by the narrowing of the diameter near the other end, in addition to this, lower body protrude b (9) resulted by a second narrowing of diameter on which one of the pressure spring (6) ends leans and at the other end, the lower body stopper (12) resulted again by a narrowing of diameter, the lower body pipe exit (30), the lower body o-ring operation surface (26) located between the lower body protrude b (9) and lower body stopper (12), the lower body water access (13) linked to the lower body o-ring operation surface (26), the front hole (25) where the pressure spring (6) is located, the back hole (24) near the upper body and the fixing strut (21) which is in the form of a protrude snag outside the lower body (15) and which facilitate the installation of the rectal cleaning apparatus (
  • the empty cylindrical upper body (2) of the mentioned rectal cleaning apparatus (A) with one closed one open end which is connected to the lower body (15) includes the upper body water access (1) and one or more upper body connection lugs (31) located at the open end of the upper body (2) and linked to the lower body connection lugs (17).
  • the rectal cleaning pipe (16) of the mentioned rectal cleaning apparatus (A) is composed of the water exit drain (14), the protrude spring dwelling surface (7) located in the middle of the rectal cleaning pipe (16) on which one of the pressure spring's (6) end leans; the rectal cleaning exit nozzle (20) linked to the water exit drain (14) which is located at one end of the rectal cleaning pipe (16), the o-ring d rain (27), the gasket slot (32), the water access hole (11) which links the water flow coming from the lower body water access (13) to the water exit drain (14) and located between the o-ring drain (27) and gasket slot (32), impermeable felt dwelling surface a (33) and impermeable felt dwelling surface b (34) and the pipe backward stopper (4).
  • the o-ring drain (27) of the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) which is located within the rectal cleaning pipe (16) in which the o-ring (10) is located; is at the position to ensure the gasket (18) leaning the lower body stopper (12) when the rectal cleaning pipe (16) becomes active mode (fully open) in the position to be equivalent to the o-ring operation surface (26) and also when the gasket slot (32) where the gasket (18) is located within the rectal cleaning pipe (16) and the rectal cleaning pipe (16) becomes active (fully open).
  • the mobile stopper of the mentioned rectal cleaning apparatus (A) has a long cylindrical body and a mobile stopper protrude (37) which divide this body into two part as mobile stopper long part (35) and mobile stopper short part (36) and which protects the water pressure at the back hole (24) by preventing the water flow from the back hole (24) to the water exit drain (14).
  • the mobile stopper long part (35) is placed at the drain backward stopper (4) side of the water exit drain (14).
  • the rectal cleaning pipe (16) opening fully due to the water coming from the upper water access (1) sit on the lower body o-ring operation surface (26) of the o-ring (10) and lower body stopper (12) of the gasket (18) in a impermeable way and when the water access hole (11) and lower body water access (13) on the rectal cleaning pipe (16) overlap, the water coming from the lower body water access (13) gets out from the rectal cleaning exit nozzle (20) by passing through the water exit drain (14).
  • the rectal cleaning exit nozzle (20) is mono-porose and the water gushes without spreading.
  • the closure or getting into passive mode of the mentioned rectal cleaning apparatus (A) happens by the interruption of the water pressure coming from the feeding pipe (23) by decreasing the its flow.
  • the water of which the pressure is decreased located in the upper hole (24) comes to the T piece (22) through upper body water access (1) and upper body water flow hose (28) by being pushed backwards by the pressure spring (6) and then arrives to the lower body water flow hose (29) and lower body water access (13).
  • the pressure spring (6) push the rectal cleaning pipe (16) backwards, the o-ring (10) split from the lower body o-ring operation surface (26) and the gasket (18) split from the lower body stopper (12).
  • the operation methods of the bidet (B) and the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) are identical and all the mechanical parts which constitutes the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) and bidet (B) are same except few difference.
  • the invented bidet (B) different from the rectal cleaning apparatus (A), there exists no protrude spring dwelling surface (7) like in the rectal cleaning pipe (16) at the middle of the bidet pipe (39).
  • the bidet pressure spring (40) leans to the bidet pressure spring dwelling surface (38) which looks to the front hole (25) of the impermeable felt dwelling surface a (33).
  • the lengths of the rectal cleaning pipe (16) and bidet pipe (39) that gets out are different.
  • the bidet pipe (39) moves forward more than the rectal cleaning pipe does (16).
  • Another difference between the rectal cleaning apparatus (A) and bidet (B) is that the bidet pressure spring (40) of bidet (B) is longer than the pressure spring (6) in the rectal cleaning apparatus (A).
  • the difference of bidet exit nozzle (19) from the rectal cleaning exit nozzle (20) is that the bidet exit nozzle (19) has an angle and the water jets due to the little holes of the nozzle.
  • the rectal cleaning exit nozzle (20) has a mono-porose form and the water gushes out without spreading.
  • the rectal cleaning pipe with the feathered form (45) shown in Figure 8 there are spring dwelling surface (7) and a spring protrude (43) on which one or more pressure springs (6) in the form of snag lie, located between the o-ring drain (27).
  • the spring protrude (43) is composed in the way to tolerate the diameter difference between the pressure spring (6) and the rectal cleaning pipe with the feathered form (45). In other words, by composing passage space tolerance between the inner diameter of the pressure spring (6) and the outer surface of the spring protrude (43), the pressure spring (6) axis and the rectal cleaning pipe with the feathered form (45) overlap.
  • the pressure spring is prevented to move in radial direction and generating noise during the operation in the surfaces where the pressure spring (6) sit, in the lower body protrude b (9) and spring dwelling surface (7) due to the pivotal crookedness therefore it operates easier.
  • the spring protrude (43), apart from the rectal cleaning pipe with the feathered form (45) can be applied to the rectal cleaning pipe (16) alternatively.
  • the rectal cleaning pipe with the feathered form (45) can be composed without the spring protrude (43) as shown in Figure 8 .
  • the spring protrude (43) can also be used in the bidet (B).
  • the spring protrude (43) is composed on the bidet pipe (39) or bidet pipe with feathered form between the bidet pressure spring dwelling surface (38) and o-ring drain (27).

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  • Water Supply & Treatment (AREA)
  • Bidet-Like Cleaning Device And Other Flush Toilet Accessories (AREA)
  • Orthopedics, Nursing, And Contraception (AREA)
  • Devices For Medical Bathing And Washing (AREA)
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