Adjustable water closet collar

Claim 1

IN A WATER CLOSET COLLAR HAVING A GENERALLY ANNULAR PREFORMED HOLLOW MEMBER WITH AN ELONGATED INLET OPENING AT ITS UPPER END AND A SMALLER OFFSET CIRCULAR OUTLET OPENING AT ITS LOWER END FOR OPERABLY CONNECTING THE OUTLET OF A CLOSET BOWL IN NONCOAXIAL RELATION WITH A CLOSET BEND PIPE BELOW THE BOWL, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING AN INTERNAL FLANGE EXTENDING INWARDLY FROM THE MEMBER BELOW BUT IN PROXIMITY TO THE UPPER END THEREOF AT A POSITION IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE SMALLER OUTLET OPENAT A POSITION IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE SMALLER OUTLET OPENING AND DEFINING A FIRST ELONGATED ARCUATE SLOT THEREIN, THE SLOT DESCRIBING AN ARC SUBTENDING AN ANGLE OF APPROXIMATELY 70*, AND AN EXTERNAL FLANGE EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM THE UPPER END THEREOF FROM A MINIMUM WIDTH AT A POSITION RADIALLY OUTWARD FROM THE CENTER OF THE INTERNAL FLANGE TO A MAXIMUM WIDTH DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE INTERNAL FLANGE TO DEFINE A GENERALLY CIRCULAR OUTER PERIPHERY AND DEFINING A PAIR OF ELONGATED ARCUATE SLOTS SUBTENDING A COMBINED ANGLE OF APPROXIMATELY 205*, ALL OF THE ARCUATE SLOTS HAVING A COMMON CENTER OFFSET FROM THE CENTER OF THE CIRCULAR OUTLET TOWARD THE POINT OF MAXIMUM WIDTH OF THE EXTERNAL FLANGE ALONG THE MAJOR AXIS OF THE ELONGATED INLET OPENING AND BEING FORMED ON EQUAL RADII, THE SLOTS COOPERATING TO PERMIT ENTRY OF DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED FASTENING MEMBERS THERETHROUGH FOR SELECTIVELY MOUNTING THE COLLAR TO THE BOWL IN ANY ONE OF A NUMBER OF RADIAL POSITIONS SUBSTANTIALLY IN EXCESS OF 180*.