US 12,134,885 B2
Plumbing fixture with electro-chlorinating device
Clayton C. Garrels, Kohler, WI (US); William Kalk, Sheboygan, WI (US); and William C. Kuru, Plymouth, WI (US)
Assigned to Kohler Co., Kohler, WI (US)
Filed by Kohler Co., Kohler, WI (US)
Filed on Jan. 15, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/743,096.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/844,285, filed on May 7, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/794,753, filed on Jan. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0232200 A1, Jul. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. E03D 9/03 (2006.01); C02F 1/461 (2023.01); C02F 1/467 (2023.01)
CPC E03D 9/037 (2013.01) [C02F 1/46109 (2013.01); C02F 1/4674 (2013.01); C02F 2303/04 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electro-chlorinating device, comprising:
a housing, comprising:
a reservoir;
an inlet port fluidly coupled to the reservoir;
a pair of electrodes coupled to the housing such that at least a portion of each electrode of the pair of electrodes is disposed within the reservoir; and
a discharge device fluidly coupled to the reservoir, the discharge device configured to be fluidly coupled to a flush tank, the discharge device configured to release a fluid surrounding the pair of electrodes into the flush tank toward a bottom of wall of the flush tank through a leg to a release port at an entrance to a flush valve of the flush tank in response to a movement of water through the flush valve of the flush tank, wherein the discharge device comprises at least one of a siphon or a venturi in response to the movement of water through the flush valve of the flush tank.