Mounting ring assembly for a toilet bowl

Claim 1

A mounting ring assembly for a toilet bowl comprising: a vertically oriented tubular member having a predetermined height, said tubular member having a top end and a bottom end; an annular flange extending radially outwardly from the top end of said tubular member; a base plate extending radially outwardly from the outer surface of said tubular member, said base plate being located a predetermined height above the bottom end of said tubular member, a plurality of nail apertures in said base plate; said tubular member, said annular flange, and said base plate being molded as an one-piece member of resinous plastic material; and means for attaching a plurality of bolts to said annular flange that are used to fasten the base of a toilet bowl to said mounting ring assembly comprising a plurality of radially extending open end slot assemblies in the top surface of said annular flange, each of said open slot (as-) assemblies having a bolt head slot and a bolt shank slot, a framework around the open end of said slot having a bottom wall, a pair of laterally spaced side walls, and an end wall, said bottom wall also forming the bottom surface of said bolt head slot, the height of the side walls and end wall of said framework being substantially the same as the thickness of said annular flange.