Compact closet carrier

Claim 1

For a soil line fitting including an apertured face plate and a fitting body having a plumbing fixture discharge connection branch terminating in a vertically elongated opening surrounded by a flange to which the face plate is vertically adjustably clamped to, and with its back face sealed, to said flange, whereby the face plate inlet aperture may be set in communication with said opening at the desired height, from a building floor or slab, of a wall-hung plumbing fixture outlet to be connected to the soil line a said face plate, in combination with fixture mounting studs secured to its front face, and with adjustable support feet secured to the face plate sides; said face plate, as an integral casting symmetrical with respect to a longitudinal vertical plane therethrough, comprising: a main plate having a generally rectangular shape and a flat back face to be clamped to and sealed on said flange, and having said inlet aperture located eccentrically toward one plate end along said longitudinal center plane and surrounded by a threaded cylindrical lip flange on its front face, said main plate having near each lateral margin a pair of aligned longitudinal slots for face plate clamping bolt means there-through engaged with the fitting flange, lateral foot attaching ears extending from said main plate along a transverse center line through said inlet aperture, each ear having a bolt aperture and terminating in an end edge engageable with a flange of a support foot bolted thereto at the said bolt aperture, squared corner formations at the other plate end projecting laterally from the respective sides of the main plate, a forwardly projecting boss formation located on the longitudinal center plane near the other plate end, stud receiving tapped holes in respective said formations and, on said transverse center line, at the respective junctures of said ears with the main plate, said tapped holes in said junctures and corner formations spaced from said center plane and from each other and the inlet aperture corrEsponding to the mounting stud flange apertures of a standard siphon jet bowl, and the tapped hole in said boss formation spaced from the inlet aperture corresponding to the spacing of the mounting flange bottom aperture of a blow-out type bowl whereby the face plate with studs in the juncture tapped holes may be installed in one or the other of the two relatively inverted positions respectively for mounting a siphon jet type bowl with studs also in the corner holes, or for mounting a blow-out type bowl with a third stud in said boss formation.