Water closet evacuation means

Claim 1

In a conventional water closet mounted in a wall of a building and having a bowl with a lid hingedly mounted thereon, a flush tank, and a water overflow and bowl filler conduit uprightly mounted in said flush tank, said overflow and filler conduit having an inlet and an outlet communicably connected with said bowl of said water closet, that improvement of a ventilator in combination therewith, comprising: a. mounting plate means on the inside of said wall, a conduit means extending through said mounting means and said wall and having an inlet and an outlet, said conduit means having an inlet portion mountable over the upper end portion of said overflow and bowl filler conduit, an air moving means having an inlet and an outlet and mounted in said wall and in operative relation to said conduit means, said inlet of said air moving means connected in gaseous fluid communication to said conduit means outlet and said air moving means outlet discharging through said wall of said building, a control means for said air moving means operatably mountable on said lid, said conventional water closet has a bowl filler conduit from a water source entering said overflow conduit at said inlet thereof, said conduit means inlet end portion has an aperture therethrough to receive said bowl filler conduit, said conduit means has a telescopic portion therein between said inlet end portion and said air moving means, said building has an attic portion, said air moving means outlet is connected in gaseous fluid communication with said attic, said conduit means has a first conduit portion including said inlet end portion, and a second conduit portion including said telescopic portion, said first conduit portion has an inlet portion and an outlet portion, said first conduit inlet portion mounted on said water overflow and bowl filler conduit inlet in overlying relation, said second conduit portion has an inlet portion and an outlet portion, said second conduit inlet portion communicably connected with said first conduit outlet portion and said second conduit outlet portion communicably connected with said air moving means inlet, said air moving means has a blower means having an inlet and an outlet, said blower means being mounted in said wall and having a discharge conduit communicably connected to said blower means outlet and said discharge conduit having an outlet discharging into said attic, said control means has a switch means mounted on said lid, said switch means being electrically connected to a source of electrical power and to said blower means, said switch means in use being closable to activate said blower means when said lid is in said raised position, said switch has a mercury circuit connecting element therein movable to a closed condition when said lid is in said raised position and movable to an opened condition when said lid is in a lowered position, said first conduit inlet end portion has a generally cylindircal sleevelike portion engagable over said water overflow conduit upper end portion, said aperture is an elongated slot lengthwise in said sleeve-like portion open at one end of said sleeve-like portion, said blower means has a squirrel cage fan means powered by an electric motor, said first conduit portion outlet end portion has a generally rectangularly shaped cross-section, said second conduit portion has a generally rectangularly shaped cross-section, said second conduit has a mounted conduit member on its said outlet end portion mountable on said wall and a telescopic member on its said inlet end portion, said telescopic member slidably connected between said mounted conduit member and said first conduit portion outlet portion, said ventilator being constructed and adapted when mounted on said water closet to operate when said lid is raised, thereby actuating said air moving means, and thereby removing gas from said toilet bowl, passing same through said overflow and filler conduit, said conduit means, said air moving means, and discharging same through said wall of said building.