US 12,270,189 B2
Toilet assembly
Christopher Helmstetter, Langhorne, PA (US); David Grover, Stockton, NJ (US); Yasuhiro Kondo, Aichi (JP); Douglas Leavitt, Bethlehem, PA (US); and Ronald D. Barndt, Bethlehem, PA (US)
Assigned to AS America, Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US)
Filed by AS America, Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/102,856.
Application 18/102,856 is a continuation of application No. 17/271,865, granted, now 11,591,786, previously published as PCT/US2019/049000, filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/795,491, filed on Jan. 22, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/730,862, filed on Sep. 13, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/725,640, filed on Aug. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0175245 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. E03D 11/18 (2006.01); E03D 11/16 (2006.01)
CPC E03D 11/18 (2013.01) [E03D 11/16 (2013.01); E03D 2201/30 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toilet assembly, comprising
a toilet bowl having a sump outlet;
a wall extending around the bowl from a first rear edge to a second rear edge; and
a trapway,
wherein
the wall, the first rear edge, and the second rear edge define a space within the wall,
the sump outlet comprises a substantially horizontal portion which extends outward from a toilet bowl substantially vertical portion,
the sump outlet substantially horizontal portion and the toilet bowl substantially vertical portion are coupled to the trapway via a sump connection,
the trapway is configured to fluidly couple the sump outlet with a sewer outlet,
the trapway is disposed within the space,
the sump connection comprises a primary seal and a secondary seal, the primary seal being formed with a sump outlet substantially horizontal portion exterior surface and a trapway interior surface, and the secondary seal being formed with a toilet bowl substantially vertical portion surface and a trapway upstream end, or
the sump connection comprises a flexible sleeve coupled to a sump outlet adapter and to the trapway, the sump outlet adapter coupled to the sump outlet substantially horizontal portion exterior surface and to the toilet bowl substantially vertical portion surface, and the flexible sleeve coupled to a sump outlet adapter exterior surface and to a trapway exterior surface, and
the trapway comprises a plastic and the toilet bowl and sump outlet comprise a ceramic.