EP0681631B1 - Geruchverschlussbildende vorrichtung und spülklosettbecken versehen mit einer derartigen vorrichtung - Google Patents

Geruchverschlussbildende vorrichtung und spülklosettbecken versehen mit einer derartigen vorrichtung Download PDF

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EP0681631B1
EP0681631B1 EP94905747A EP94905747A EP0681631B1 EP 0681631 B1 EP0681631 B1 EP 0681631B1 EP 94905747 A EP94905747 A EP 94905747A EP 94905747 A EP94905747 A EP 94905747A EP 0681631 B1 EP0681631 B1 EP 0681631B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
    • E03C1/00—Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
    • E03C1/12—Plumbing installations for waste water; Basins or fountains connected thereto; Sinks
    • E03C1/28—Odour seals
    • E03C1/298—Odour seals consisting only of non-return valve
    • 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
    • E03D11/18—Siphons

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  • the present invention relates to a device forming a siphon intended in particular to be inserted between two sections of a water drainage pipe worn out.
  • siphons having a body having an inlet or upstream port communicating with the upstream section of the pipeline and an outlet or downstream orifice communicating with the downstream section of the pipeline.
  • such a known siphon consists of a hollow body delimiting an ascending tubular part then a downward tubular part joining the orifice of exit. At the junction of the two parts tubular, the body defines an overflow edge located above the inlet.
  • tubular part upward of the siphon constitutes means of retention a fluid cap preventing bad smells appearing in the downstream section cannot be transmitted to the upstream section.
  • the wastewater is discharged to using a relatively large stream of clean water from so that at the end of evacuation the fluid is practically consisting entirely of clean water.
  • Some devices allow time current to use only five liters of water then that before we used seven liters, and even eight liters of water.
  • the cleaning is considered to be correct if it meets standard NF-D-126201 which defines the methods test and specifications to assess the suitability for use of toilet bowls.
  • GB-A-1 063 711 provides a siphon consisting of a flexible pipe, U-shaped seen from above, the upper part formed by the curve of the U can be lowered to allow evacuation by gravity.
  • DE-U-92 02 878 also shows a walled siphon deformable whose downstream end can slide vertically in the drain pipe.
  • the present invention therefore aims to provide a device forming a new type of siphon, the water renewal during drainage worn by a load of clean water is satisfactory and allow its use with a toilet bowl.
  • the present invention relates to a siphon device having a hollow body having an upstream orifice located in the part lower body and communicating with a stretch upstream of a fluid evacuation pipe, retaining means defining an overflow edge and cooperating with part of the upstream section to retain a quantity of fluid forming a fluid plug at the end outlet, and a downstream orifice located in the part lower body and communicating with a downstream section of the drainage pipe, characterized in that the retaining means can be moved between a active position and a retracted position, the device comprising means of displacement controlled means between the two positions.
  • the present invention also relates to a toilet bowl connected to a forming device siphon according to the present invention.
  • Figure 1 there is shown a device 2 forming a siphon according to the present invention.
  • the device 2 comprises a delimited hollow body by a front wall 4, a longitudinal wall 6 having in cross section the shape of a U delimiting two longitudinal walls 6a, 6b and a shaped wall 6c rounded delimiting the bottom of the U.
  • the body has also a rear wall 8 and a cover 10.
  • the front wall 4 has an inlet or upstream orifice 12 provided with coupling means 14 communicating with an upstream section of pipeline (not represented).
  • the upstream orifice 12 is arranged in the part bottom of the front wall 4.
  • the rear wall 8 has an outlet orifice or downstream port 16 located in its lower part (see figures 2 and 5).
  • the downstream orifice 16 is provided with a connecting element 18 communicating with a section downstream of the evacuation pipe (not shown).
  • the body 4 comprises between upstream port 12 and downstream port 16 of retaining means consisting of a membrane 20 elastically deformable.
  • the membrane 20 In the undeformed state, the membrane 20 has a shape U-shaped cross section extending along the longitudinal wall 6 of the body of the device 2.
  • the membrane 20 has at the free ends of the U two edges 20a and 20b fixed, for example by gluing, respectively in the upper part of the wall 6, near the edges 6a and 6b thereof.
  • the membrane 20 has an upstream edge 21 which is folded over the outside of the wall 6 of the body and fixed on the latter via the wall before 4.
  • the membrane 20 also has a downstream edge 22 (see Figures 2 and 5) having the shape of a U located in a plane perpendicular to the direction of flow and near the outlet 16.
  • the distance from the upstream edge to the downstream edge measured along the bottom of the U-shaped wall 6, when the membrane is not deformed is shorter than the vertical dimension of the front wall 4 of the body of the device 2, but larger than the diameter of the inlet 12.
  • the distance from the edge upstream of the downstream edge at the edges 20a and 20b can be different from that measured at the bottom of the U, the downstream edge 22 then not being in a plane vertical.
  • the downstream orifice 16 is located opposite inside the U formed by the membrane 20 when the membrane is in the non-deformed state (see Figure 2).
  • inlet orifice upstream port 12 is always located inside the U formed by the upstream edge of the membrane 20.
  • the body of the device 2 according to the present invention also comprises means of displacement retaining means which consist of means of deformation of the membrane 20.
  • the deformation means comprise a rod or pallet 24 located inside the body between the membrane 20 and wall 6c forming the bottom of the body.
  • the rod 24 is fixed on a shaft 26 extending perpendicular to the direction of flow of the fluid.
  • the shaft 26 is rotatably mounted around its axis by means of a bearing (not shown) arranged in a hole (not shown) in the wall 6c and has one end protruding outside the body.
  • the shaft 26 may have its other end mounted in another bearing arranged in the hollow body of the device 2.
  • a handle is attached to the end of the shaft 26 projecting outside the body of the device 2, and constitutes means for actuating the rod 24 by manual rotation of the shaft 26.
  • a spring 30 is arranged between the lever 28 and an external point of the body of the device 2 so to recall the lever 28 to the position in which the rod 24 deforms the membrane 20, position shown in broken lines in Figure 6.
  • the rod 24 extends perpendicular to the axis of the upstream orifice 12, roughly parallel to the front wall 4 as shown in FIG. 3, and deforms the membrane 20.
  • the diaphragm 20 When the rod 24 is in the latter position, the diaphragm 20 is deformed so that it has a fold 20c (see Figures 3 and 4) extending roughly in a vertical plane passing through the axis of the upstream orifice 12, the fold being slightly inclined to the vertical.
  • the edge 22 of the membrane extends approximately in a horizontal plane which is located above the orifice from the fact that the length of the edges 20a and 20b of the membrane is greater than the diameter of the orifice edge 12 the edge 22 then constituting an edge of overflow.
  • the rod 24 When the lever 28 is in the position shown in solid lines in Figure 6, the rod 24 extends along the bottom of the longitudinal wall 6 U-shaped towards downstream port 16 as shown in Figure 5. The length of the rod 24 is longer small than the vertical dimension of the front wall 4 the body of the device 2.
  • Such a toilet bowl 40 equipped with a device 2 according to the invention is shown in the Figure 7. It has a water inlet 42 under pressure opening into the bowl 44 itself and comprising a timed valve 46 fitted with a button pusher 48.
  • the inlet 42 of water under pressure opens into an O-ring 50 arranged in the upper part of bowl 44 (see also Figure 8), the O-ring 50 being pierced with holes 52 regularly spaced at its periphery.
  • An annular cover 54 protects and hides the part top of the O-ring 50.
  • a control button 56 is arranged at the rear of the bowl to activate the timed valve 46.
  • control button 56 is integral with a rod 58 slidably mounted in a vertical tubular part 60.
  • Part 62 extends above the push button 48 of the timed valve 46.
  • a spring 64 is arranged between the bottom of the tubular part 60 and part 62 so as to recall the latter to a position distant from the push button 48 as shown in FIG. 7.
  • Rod 58 has one end projecting downward from the bottom of the tubular part 60, this end being mechanically connected to handle 28 of so that a downward translation of the rod 58 is transformed into rotation of the lever 28 around of the axis of the shaft 26.
  • This mechanical connection can be of any type currently known in the processing technique of movements.
  • this link mechanical can be hidden at the level of its part mechanical can be hidden at the level of its part lower by the bowl and its upper part by a chest comprising a compartment intended for receive for example paper or products from cleaning.
  • the controller 28 is actuated in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 7, the means for retaining a fluid plug 70 of the device 2 according to the invention then being retracted (see Figure 5) if the plug 70 flowing directly in the downstream section.
  • the spring 30, associated with the spring 64 recalls practically immediately the lever 28 towards its position in which the membrane 20 is deformed and constitutes means for retaining a plug such as the plug 70, the protruding part 62 then moving away from the button pusher 48 and releasing it. This then returns to its closed position of valve 46. This return takes place over a predetermined time interval of so that a predetermined amount of clean water has been supplied through valve 46.
  • This predetermined amount of water cleans the walls of the bowl as well as the membrane but is only used practically not to evacuate the cap 70, this one being already evacuated, which allows to have a quantity reduced predetermined water.
  • the toilet bowl can be a usual toilet bowl whose order is adequately connected to the handle 28, or that the shape of the hollow body may be different from that described.

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  1. Geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung mit einem hohlen Hauptteil, das eine zuflußseitige Öffnung (12) aufweist, die sich im unteren Abschnitt des Hauptteils befindet und mit einem zuflußseitigen Stück einer Flüssigkeitsabflußkanalisation in Verbindung steht, eine Rückhalteeinrichtung (20), die eine Überlaufkante bildet und mit einem Abschnitt des zuflußseitigen Stücks zusammenwirkt, um bei Beendigung der Entleerung eine einen Flüssigkeitspfropf bildende Flüssigkeitsmenge zurückzuhalten, und eine abflußseitige Öffnung (16), die sich im unteren Abschnitt des Hauptteils befindet und mit einem abflußseitigen Stück der Abflußkanalisation in Verbindung steht,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Rückhalteeinrichtung (20) zwischen einer aktiven Stellung und einer Freiflußstellung verstellbar ist, wobei die Vorrichtung eine Einrichtung (24, 26, 28, 30) zum willkürlichen Verstellen der Rückhalteeinrichtung zwischen den beiden Stellungen umfaßt.
  2. Geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß in der Freiflußstellung der Rückhalteeinrichtung die Flüssigkeit zwischen der zuflußseitigen Öffnung (12) und der abflußseitigen Öffnung (16) etwa geradlinig fließt.
  3. Geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Rückhalteeinrichtung von einer elastisch verformbaren Membran (20) gebildet ist, und die Verstelleinrichtung eine Einrichtung zum Verformen der Membran ist.
  4. Geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 3,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Membran (20) in der Freiflußstellung nicht verformt ist und ihre Längserstreckung in der Fließrichtung liegt, wobei ihre Längsabmessung, gemessen in der Nähe des Hauptteilbodens, größer ist als der Durchmesser der zuflußseitigen Öffnung (12).
  5. Geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Membran (20) in einer zur Fließrichtung lotrechten Ebene die Gestalt eines U hat, dessen Schenkel mit ihren Enden am Hauptteil befestigt sind, wobei die Membran (20) einen U-förmigen zuflußseitigen Rand (21) aufweist, der an einer Wand (4) des Hauptteils befestigt ist, welche die zuflußseitige Öffnung enthält, die sich im Innern des U befindet, wobei der abflußseitige Rand (22) der Membran frei ist.
  6. Geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 5,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Membran (20) in der nicht verformten Freiflußstellung einen U-förmigen abflußseitigen Rand (22) aufweist, der in einer zur Fließrichtung lotrechten Ebene und in der Nähe der abflußseitigen Öffnung (16) angeordnet ist, wobei die abflußseitige Öffnung dem Innern des U gegenüber angeordnet ist.
  7. Geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung nach den Ansprüchen 3 bis 6,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verformungseinrichtung eine Stange (24) aufweist, die auf dem Hauptteil um eine Achse (26) drehbar angeordnet ist, welche zur Fließrichtung lotrecht ist und sich unterhalb der Membran (20), in der Nähe der zuflußseitigen Öffnung (12) befindet, wobei sich die Stange (24), wenn sie ihre Ruhestellung unterhalb der Membran einnimmt und die Membran nicht verformt, in einer etwa mittleren Ebene der Membran zur abflußseitigen Öffnung (16) hin erstreckt, wobei die Verformungseinrichtung eine außerhalb des Hauptteils angeordnete Einrichtung (28, 30) zum Betätigen der Stange aufweist.
  8. Geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 7,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Betätigungseinrichtung (28, 30) an der Achse (26) zum Drehen der Stange (24) befestigt ist und einen Hebel (28) und eine Rückstelleinrichtung (30) aufweist, welche letzteren in die aktive Stellung der Membran zurückstellt.
  9. Abortbecken, das an eine geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung gemäß einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche angeschlossen ist, mit einer manuellen Betätigungseinrichtung für das Einleiten einer vorbestimmten Menge Entleerungs- und Reinigungs-Reinwassers,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die manuelle Betätigungseinrichtung mit der Betätigungseinrichtung für die Einrichtung zum Verstellen der Rückhalteeinrichtung der geruchverschlußbildenden Vorrichtung in ihre Freiflußstellung verbunden ist, wobei die manuelle Betätigungseinrichtung und die Betätigungseinrichtung des Geruchverschlusses etwa gleichzeitig betätigt werden.
  10. Abortbecken, das an eine geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung angeschlossen ist, nach Anspruch 9,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Betätigungseinrichtung in die aktive Stellung der Rückhalteeinrichtung vor Beendigung der Einleitung der genannten vorbestimmten Reinwassermenge zurückgestellt wird.
  11. Abortbecken, das an eine geruchverschlußbildende Vorrichtung angeschlossen ist, nach Anspruch 9 oder 10,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die genannte vorbestimmte Wassermenge mit einem Verzögerungsventil gesteuert wird, die in eine Druckreinwasser-Zuführungskanalisation eingebaut ist, welche im Innern des Beckens mündet.
EP94905747A 1993-01-27 1994-01-27 Geruchverschlussbildende vorrichtung und spülklosettbecken versehen mit einer derartigen vorrichtung Expired - Lifetime EP0681631B1 (de)

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FR9300920A FR2700791B1 (fr) 1993-01-27 1993-01-27 Dispositif formant siphon et cuvette de toilettes munie d'un tel dispositif.
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PCT/FR1994/000102 WO1994017256A1 (fr) 1993-01-27 1994-01-27 Dispositif formant siphon et cuvette de toilettes munie d'un tel dispositif

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