US 12,129,638 B2
Filtration assembly for reducing malaodors in air and aerosolized waste from toilets
Brian L. Machovina, Coral Gables, FL (US); and Eileen McHale, Avon Lake, OH (US)
Assigned to Hound Tech LLC, Coral Gables, FL (US)
Filed by Brian L. Machovina, Coral Gables, FL (US); and Eileen McHale, Avon Lake, OH (US)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/968,759.
Application 17/968,759 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/968,731, filed on Oct. 18, 2022.
Application 17/968,759 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/362,063, filed on Mar. 22, 2019, granted, now 11,473,286.
Application 17/968,731 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/909,344, filed on Mar. 1, 2018, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/307,330, filed on Feb. 7, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/726,624, filed on Sep. 4, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/465,963, filed on Mar. 2, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0038314 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. E03D 9/00 (2006.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01); E03D 9/05 (2006.01)
CPC E03D 9/005 (2013.01) [A61L 2/10 (2013.01); E03D 9/05 (2013.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assembly for filtering toilet bowl orders comprising:
a first housing disposed in fluid communicating relation with an interior of the toilet bowl,
a fan assembly disposed within said first housing in communicating relation with an exterior thereof,
a filter disposed within said the first housing along a path of fluid flow from the interior of the toilet bowl to an interior of said first housing,
said path the fluid flow extending into and through said first housing to an exterior thereof, concurrent to activation of said fan assembly,
a sterilizing assembly connected to said first housing and including a UV light source; said UV light source operative at a bandwidth in a range destructive to pathogens, and
said sterilizing assembly disposed and structured to direct UV light from said UV light source concurrently onto said path of fluid flow and an exterior of said first housing.