Abstract: A planter box for bathrooms is provided wherein a specially adapted planter structure is constructed for positioning atop the flush tank of conventional commodes in place of the cover therefor. The box includes drainage ports depending from the lower portion thereof for fluid flow communication into the commode tank. The box is constructed to matingly mount atop the commode tank to serve as a lid therefor. The drainage ports thereof are provided with a mesh screen or the like and a replaceable filter to prevent the transfer therethrough of the soil and related material housing the plants therein. A small hand pump is provided in conjunction with the planter box to siphon water from within the commode tank for being dispersed upon the plants within the box. In this manner, selected plants may be displayed and cared for in the bathroom without concern of transferring water thereto and/or the drainage therefrom.

Abstract: A water closet shell comprising a basin component formed in one piece of molded plastics material and a cistern component likewise formed and when assembled defines a water closet unit having a flushing rim section. The flushing rim section is defined by mating an upwardly projecting ridge from the basin with a downwardly projecting ridge from the flushing rim.

Abstract: An apparatus for isolating a ball-cock assembly locatable within a water closet flush tank from fluids contained within the flush tank has independent sleeve means of a material impervious to the fluid within the flush tank which is associated with a fluid riser of the ball-cock assembly and encloses the riser to provide a fluid-tight barrier between the riser and the fluid within the flush tank and mounting means for securing the sleeve means to the flush tank and providing a fluid-tight seal therebetween.

Abstract: A lock member projects perpendicularly from the inner surface of the top of a toilet tank cover into the tank and has a bore formed therethrough. A lock rod passes through the bore through the lock member and bores formed through the front walls of the toilet tank in alignment with the bore of the lock member. The lock rod has a threaded part coupled in the bore through the front wall of the tank and a head having keyholes formed therein for accommodating a special key whereby the lock rod is rotatable by the key to insert it through the bores of the tank and lock member and to remove the lock rod from the bores.

Abstract: An essentially all-plastic toilet includes a plastic bowl, trap, waterway, tank and rim flush retained within an outer plastic housing. Polyurethane foam fills the space between the outer housing and the internal components to provide a rigid and strong, yet light weight structure.

Abstract: A composite water closet and bidet includes a bowl defining a water basin having a rear edge portion on which a storage tank is positioned, in fluid communication with the water basin. A toilet seat having an opening therein is pivotally mounted on the bowl to provide a seating surface on the rim of the bowl. A bidet basin is pivotally mounted on the bowl above the seat and has a peripheral seating flange overlying the seating surface of the toilet seat as well as a basin portion which extends through the opening of the toilet seat into the water basin of the bowl. The bowl rim, toilet seat, and bidet have a generally complementary peripheral configuration to provide a uniform and neat appearance, as well as comfortable seating.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel and original water standpipe for toilet sump tanks, including multiple discharger-silence device water standpipe of sufficiently novel characteristics to distinguish it from the prior art.

Abstract: A toilet for conserving water, the toilet having a water storage chamber which includes an expandable diaphragm wall that on filling under household water supply pressure conforms to a wall of a complimentary air chamber separated from the storage compartment by the diaphragm. The chamber communicating with a gated discharge cavity between a trap and a sewage line, wherein water in the storage compartment is released at a high flow rate into a bowl having sedentary waste water, the waste water being exhausted from the bowl into the discharge cavity by a partial vacuum action generated by the contracting diaphragm concurrent with the introduction of the supply water, the waste water being gated from the discharge cavity into the sewer line on reduction of the vacuum pressure, whereby the supply water replaces rather than flushes the waste water.

Abstract: An end of an inlet tube communicates through a tank wall with a water supply and an inner end of the inlet tube communicates through a float controlled valve with a generally vertically downwardly extending outlet tube. Thus, the tank water level through the float controls closing and opening of the valve admitting water through the inlet tube, through the valve and down the outlet tube flowing into the tank from the outlet tube lower end. The outlet tube is selectively vertically adjustable to adapt to various depths of tank by being formed of telescoped parts normally retaining a determined telescoping by a projection of one part being radially interengaged in a groove of the other part. Depending on the particular construction, the tube part telescoping may be selectively varied by either relative rotation between the parts or by disengaging and reengaging the interengagement between the parts. Through a slot and lock collar arrangement, the tube parts may be totally telescopically separated.

Abstract: A flush tank system includes an elongated tank supported at the opposite ends thereof by a pair of arcuate-shaped rockers which rest on the upper surfaces of a pair of support frames. The tank normally assumes an upright position with one of a pair of relatively slightly curved portions of each rocker resting on top of the support frames when the tank is empty and when the tank is being filled with a fluid such as water through an opening in the top thereof. The non-uniform cross-section of the tank causes the center of gravity of the water to shift laterally to a point at which the opposite rockers roll from the relatively slightly curved portion on which they are resting over a relatively greatly curved portion thereof to the other relatively slightly curved portion, thereby rapidly rotating the tank into a tipped position and pouring the water out of the tank opening.

Abstract: A system is disclosed wherein white waters, i.e., those soapy waters coming from washing stands, showers, wash basins and the like, are carried, through receiving and filtering devices, down to the tank or container of a toilet either at the same level of the building or down to a lower level. By means of the devices employed in this invention cesspools are dispensed within sanitary devices from which white water is obtained, and also water entrance valves and floaters in toilet tanks are dispensed with.