Classifications

• • 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
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
  • E03D11/00—Other component parts of water-closets, e.g. noise-reducing means in the flushing system, flushing pipes mounted in the bowl, seals for the bowl outlet, devices preventing overflow of the bowl contents; devices forming a water seal in the bowl after flushing, devices eliminating obstructions in the bowl outlet or preventing backflow of water and excrements from the waterpipe
  • E03D11/02—Water-closet bowls ; Bowls with a double odour seal optionally with provisions for a good siphonic action; siphons as part of the bowl
  • E03D11/06—Bowls with downwardly-extending flanges for the sake of flushing
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
  • E03D11/00—Other component parts of water-closets, e.g. noise-reducing means in the flushing system, flushing pipes mounted in the bowl, seals for the bowl outlet, devices preventing overflow of the bowl contents; devices forming a water seal in the bowl after flushing, devices eliminating obstructions in the bowl outlet or preventing backflow of water and excrements from the waterpipe
  • E03D11/13—Parts or details of bowls; Special adaptations of pipe joints or couplings for use with bowls, e.g. provisions in bowl construction preventing backflow of waste-water from the bowl in the flushing pipe or cistern, provisions for a secondary flushing, for noise-reducing
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
  • E03D11/00—Other component parts of water-closets, e.g. noise-reducing means in the flushing system, flushing pipes mounted in the bowl, seals for the bowl outlet, devices preventing overflow of the bowl contents; devices forming a water seal in the bowl after flushing, devices eliminating obstructions in the bowl outlet or preventing backflow of water and excrements from the waterpipe
  • E03D11/13—Parts or details of bowls; Special adaptations of pipe joints or couplings for use with bowls, e.g. provisions in bowl construction preventing backflow of waste-water from the bowl in the flushing pipe or cistern, provisions for a secondary flushing, for noise-reducing
  • E03D11/135—Supports for bowls
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
  • E03D11/00—Other component parts of water-closets, e.g. noise-reducing means in the flushing system, flushing pipes mounted in the bowl, seals for the bowl outlet, devices preventing overflow of the bowl contents; devices forming a water seal in the bowl after flushing, devices eliminating obstructions in the bowl outlet or preventing backflow of water and excrements from the waterpipe
  • E03D11/13—Parts or details of bowls; Special adaptations of pipe joints or couplings for use with bowls, e.g. provisions in bowl construction preventing backflow of waste-water from the bowl in the flushing pipe or cistern, provisions for a secondary flushing, for noise-reducing
  • E03D11/17—Means for connecting the bowl to the flushing pipe

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a sanitary module comprising a sanitary bowl and a containment structure in which the aforesaid sanitary bowl is accommodated.
• sanitary modules are available on the market including sanitary devices of various types, for example washbasins, shower apparatuses and others, which can be combined and interconnected to create complete furnishings for bathrooms, usually of particular value
• sanitary bowl it is meant a sanitary device that comprises a collector bowl, preferably made of ceramic, but also of other materials such as fiberglass or steel, which serves to collect the excreta of human physiological functions and to convey them to a drain pipe.
• sanitary bowls Two embodiments of sanitary bowls are essentially known, and in particular the so-called “Turkish” sanitary bowls, which have a shape suitable for embedding them in the floor, and sanitary bowls of the “toilet” type, which have a shape suitable for arranging them protruding from the floor or from a wall.
• the sanitary bowls of the “toilet” type are installed so that the upper opening is positioned at an adequate height to allow the person using them an easy sitting, while the lower opening is connected by means of a siphon to a drain pipe communicating with the sewer system.
• the upper opening is delimited perimetrically by an annular collector, called “rim”, which is internally crossed by an annular channel connected to a washing arrangement from which it receives the water for flushing the sanitary bowl.
• rim annular collector
• sanitary bowls of the “toilet” type which are manufactured in sheet metal, preferably but not necessarily in stainless steel sheet, are also known which are preferred to sanitary bowls made of ceramic due to their lower weight, to their greater manageability, to their greater impact resistance and also to their greater ease of installation.
• toilets manufactured of sheet metal are preferably installed in the sanitary modules.
• collector body B with a truncated-conical shape in which, peripherally to the upper opening C, there is an annular collector D in which the annular channel E for conveying the washing water along the internal walls of the collector body B is obtained.
• the annular collector D comprises an upper ring F externally to which the seating surface G and a lower ring H which is peripherally fixed to the outside of the collector body B and on which screw means I fix the upper ring F, are obtained.
• the toilet A is integrated into a containment structure adapted to realise a sanitary module, which structure is partially represented in figures 2 and 3 and comprises a frame resting on the ground, not represented, which supports a supporting plane L in which there is a through opening M at which the upper ring F for access to the toilet A is fixed.
• the fitter using screw means P or other equivalent fixing means, first fixes the upper ring F to the lower surface of the supporting plane L at the through opening M, as can be observed in figure 3, and then, by means of the aforementioned screw means I, he fixes the lower ring H to the upper ring F. When mounting is completed, the toilet A is thus fixed below the supporting plane L as can be observed in figure 3.
• the module thus composed and in general the sanitary modules of the type described which define the prior art have some recognized drawbacks and limitations.
• a first limitation concerns the fact that the configuration of the elements that compose the toilet A imposes that the mounting operations be carried out by operating below the supporting plane L, and therefore under operating conditions that are ergonomically uncomfortable for the operator.
• the toilet A is rigidly connected to the supporting plane L to which all the stresses produced by a person sitting on the seating surface G of the toilet A are transmitted.
• the supporting plane L is therefore subject to move and this causes the displacement of the toilet A and therefore of the pipes that connect it to the water network and the sewer network, and this entails the joints to be loosened and consequent leaks that require maintenance interventions.
• Patent documents US 2018/238038 and US 2018/008106 are also known, which have the same limitations for mounting, dismounting and the maintenance of the toilet described in the previously examined patent document WO2019186302.
• the present invention intends to overcome the listed drawbacks.
• a sanitary module that comprises a sanitary bowl of the “toilet” type and a containment structure adapted to accommodate it, in which mounting/dismounting the toilet in/from the respective containment structure is performed by operating mainly from the outside and above the same structure.
• Last but not least object is that the sanitary module of the invention has a greater structural stability with respect to sanitary modules equivalent to it.
• the operations of mounting/dismounting the toilet are facilitated since they are performed by operating from the outside and above the containment structure.
• the greater structural stability of the module of the invention reduces the possibility of occurrence of leaks caused by loosening, wear or breakage of the gaskets.
• - figs. 1 to 3 represent different views of a sanitary module of the prior art
• - fig. 4 represents an axonometric view of the sanitary module of the invention
• - fig. 5 represents the exploded view of fig. 4;
• - fig. 6 represents a partially exploded longitudinal section of fig. 4;
• - fig. 7 represents a partial and exploded axonometric view of fig. 4;
• - fig. 8 represents a partial and exploded axonometric cross section of fig. 4;
• - fig. 9 represents the view of the section of fig. 8.
• - fig. 10 represents a detail of fig. 9;
• - figs. 11 and 12 represent two different details of fig. 10.
• the sanitary module subject-matter of the invention is represented in the overall view of figure 4 where it is indicated as a whole with 1 and where it can be observed that it comprises a sanitary bowl indicated as a whole with 2 which is accommodated in a containment structure indicated as a whole with 3.
• the sanitary bowl 2 is of the “toilet” type and comprises a collector body 4 for the collection of human droppings, which identifies an essentially vertical longitudinal direction Y and which has an upper mouth 5 for access to the collector body 4 and a lower mouth 6 configured to be connected, through a drain pipe 6a, to a sewer network.
• annular collector 7 Perimetrically to the upper mouth 5 and externally thereto there is an annular collector 7, visible in the composed form particularly in figures 6 and 9 to 12, in which an annular channel 22 configured to convey washing water coming from supply pipes 25 connected to a water network onto the internal surface 4a of the collector body 4 is defined.
• annular seating ring 8 which is configured so as to allow the person using the toilet to sit comfortably and is arranged in a substantially coaxial position and above the annular collector 7 and the upper mouth 5 of the collector body 4.
• the containment structure 3 which accommodates the sanitary bowl 2, it comprises a frame 9 which supports the collector body 4 and a covering plane 10 which is fixed to the frame 9 and is positioned above and spaced from the annular collector 7.
• the covering plane 10 there is a through opening 11 which is arranged at and above the upper mouth 5 of the collector body 4 when the collector body 4 is fixed to the frame 9.
• the annular seating ring 8 comprises a tubular body
• the annular seating ring 8 also comprises a seating ring 13 which is connected externally to the tubular body 12, protrudes towards the outside of the same tubular body 12, is arranged outside the collector body 4 and is superimposed on an intermediate annular support 19 which is interposed between the annular collector 7 and the covering plane 10 and is arranged so as to rest above the annular collector 7.
• the annular seating ring 8 is obtained by plastic deformation of a metallic sheet so that the tubular body 12 and the seating ring
• tubular body 12 and the seating ring 13 may consist of distinct elements which are joined together by means of connection means of various kind.
• the intermediate annular support 19 there are shaped housings 19a which accommodate spraying nozzles 30 that are associated with the annular seating ring 8 externally to its tubular body 12 and which, through slits 31 made in the tubular body 12, allow water to be sprayed towards the inside of the collector body 4 for washing the intimate parts of the person sitting on the toilet. Therefore, when the annular seating ring 8 is fixed above the intermediate annular support 19, the spraying nozzles 30 are accommodated in the shaped housings 19a.
• the intermediate annular support 19 is crossed by pipes 32 which supply the spraying nozzles 30 and which receive the washing water from the water network to which they are connected by means of collector means 33.
• the intermediate annular support 19 therefore performs the functions of housing the spraying nozzles 30 and the pipes 32 and of discharging the weight of the person sitting on the annular seating ring 8 onto the frame 9.
• the seating ring 13 of the annular seating ring 8 is shaped so as to define externally an annular seating surface 13a having a truncated-conical shape whose generatrices 13b are convergent towards the longitudinal axis Y identified by the collector body 4, and thus towards the inside of the same collector body 4, as can be observed in particular in figure 10.
• the external perimeter edge 13c of the seating ring 13 is arranged adjacent to the internal perimeter edge 11a which delimits the through opening 11 present in the covering plane 10.
• a sealing gasket is interposed between the aforesaid edges.
• annular collector 7 As regards the annular collector 7, it comprises:
• a shaped counter ring 21 which is placed above the flat ring 20 and which has an annular appendage 21a protruding towards the inside of the collector body 4, and the mentioned annular channel 22 is defined between the flat ring 20 and the shaped counter ring 21.
• annular slit 23 is defined which puts the annular channel 22 in communication with the inside of the collector body 4.
• annular appendage 21a is comprised between the shaped edge 20a and the stretch 12a of the tubular body 12 which protrudes inside the collector body 4 and is spaced from both along the direction incident the longitudinal direction Y identified by the collector body 4.
• the end 21b of the annular appendage 21a and the end 12b of the stretch 12a of the tubular body 12 which protrudes inside the collector body 4 are aligned with each other according to the direction incident the longitudinal direction Y identified by the collector body 4. Furthermore, in the flat ring 20 there is at least one through opening 24 which puts the annular channel 22 in communication with a pipe 25 connected to a water supply network for washing the collector body 4.
• the flat ring 20, the shaped edge 20a and the collector body 4 constitute a single monobloc body and are obtained by plastic deformation of a flat sheet metal, and furthermore the shaped counter ring 21 and the flat ring 20 are connected to each other by at least one perimeter welding 26.
• the flat ring 20, the shaped edge 20a and the collector body 4 can be elements that are separated one another and connected by welding or other connection means.
• the mounting of the sanitary module of the invention is simpler than the mounting of the mentioned module of the prior art.
• the operator after having arranged the frame 9 in the predestined assembly site and by operating from the outside and above it, by means of fixing means 14, consisting for example of screws, fixes to the frame 9, in the following order, the flat ring 20 with the shaped counter ring 21 and above it the intermediate annular support 19.
• the tubular body 12 of the annular seating ring 8 is radially spaced from the annular appendage 21a of the shaped counter ring 21 and therefore the annular seating ring 8 does not transmit any stress to the collector body 4 and hence to the pipes, preserving the integrity of the gaskets and the occurrence of incipient leaks.
• the fitter completes the mounting by interposing the sealing gasket 18 between the external perimeter edge 13c of the seating ring 13 and the internal perimeter edge 11a which delimits the through opening 11 present in the covering plane 10.
• the covering plane 10, contrary to the prior art, is therefore not subjected to any stress since all possible stresses are discharged onto the frame 9 which rests on the ground and is structured to absorb the stresses, it being made of metal profiles having high stability and mechanical strength.
• the covering plane 10 can be made of any material, preferably of stainless steel.
• the covering plane 10 there may be through openings, indicated as a whole with 50 and visible in figures 4 and 5, for access to containers located below the covering plane 10 or valve operating members, not represented and not described, which regulate the flow of the washing water to the collector body 4 and/or to the spraying nozzles 30.

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