Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toilet coupling
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Application No.: US16252835Application Date: 2019-01-21
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Publication No.: US10995482B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Peter William Swart , John F. Emmerling , Scott W. Stonecipher , Billy Jack Ahola
- Applicant: Kohler Co.
- Applicant Address: US WI Kohler
- Assignee: Kohler Co.
- Current Assignee: Kohler Co.
- Current Assignee Address: US WI Kohler
- Agency: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC
- Main IPC: E03D1/26
- IPC: E03D1/26 ; E03D11/17 ; E03D1/34

Abstract:
A toilet that includes a tank; a bowl; a mounting bracket comprising a base and three mounting locations; a valve having a valve body extending through the tank and an opening in the mounting bracket; a valve nut coupled to the valve body with the base of the mounting bracket retained between the tank and the valve nut; a flexible gasket disposed around the valve nut between the mounting bracket and the bowl; and three fasteners disposed externally to the tank, wherein each fastener extends through one mounting location and a hole in the bowl to couple the mounting bracket to the bowl; where the three mounting locations are arranged to provide both a pitch adjustment and a roll adjustment of the tank relative to the bowl about respective first and second axes in response to adjustment of one or more of the three fasteners.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190153716A1 TOILET COUPLING Public/Granted day:2019-05-23
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