FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to the toilet field.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present invention relates to the toilet field, and in particular, to Chinese
Patent Application No.
CN102864830A published on January 9, 2013.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0003] According to the present invention, a rotary flush toilet piston 3 includes a housing
of a piston 3, a lifting cylinder, and a bearing 5. A bulge 4 is formed around a top
portion of the cylinder. Below the bulge is an outer wall of the cylinder. The bearing
5 is mounted on an outer wall of the top portion of the lifting cylinder. An inner
sleeve of the bearing 5 is fixed on the outer wall of the cylinder. A snap ring 25
is disposed below the inner sleeve of the bearing, to fix the bearing on the cylinder.
An outer sleeve of the bearing 5 is mounted in a bearing slot of the piston. A snap
ring 24 is disposed below the outer sleeve of the bearing to reinforce axial fixation
of the bearing. The piston and the cylinder may rotate relative to each other by means
of the bearing 5. The sealing piston may rotate relative to a toilet opening. A baffle
31 is mounted between the cylinder and the piston housing below the bearing 5. The
rotary toilet piston further includes an impeller located on the piston housing. A
position of the impeller and a corresponding position of a water spraying pipe are
preferentially optimum positions with a highest angle at which water impacting the
impeller is most efficiently used.
[0004] The bearing between the toilet lifting cylinder and the rotary piston may be not
mounted. The original rotary piston having the bearing slot for mounting the outer
sleeve of the bearing is changed to a rotary piston has a shaft hole 20 on an inner
side corresponding to the outer wall of the lifting cylinder. The lifting cylinder
and the shaft hole of the rotary piston are in a complete shaft-sleeve structure,
and can still rotate relative to each other even without a bearing between the shaft
hole and the cylinder, leading to a simple toilet structure.
[0005] The toilet cylinder outer wall and the piston bearing slot or piston bearing hole
may also be in a corresponding truncated cone structure.
[0006] An impeller 6 is mounted on the sealing piston 3. The impeller is fixedly connected
to the piston. At a position on a same horizontal plane as the center of the impeller,
two water spraying pipes 20 are disposed in an interlayer of the cylinder, pipe inlets
are communicated with a cavity of the water spraying cylinder, and pipe outlets are
close to blades. Water outlets 30 are disposed on a lower end of the periphery of
the piston.
[0007] An upper portion of the impeller 6 is fixedly connected to the piston. The impeller
and the connection between the impeller and the piston are located in space inside
the piston. In the space inside the piston, large space is left around and below the
impeller, so that tail water impacting the impeller drops down quickly, thereby reducing
rotation resistance of the impeller. Horizontal planes on which the center of the
impeller and the centers of the water spraying pipes 20 on the cylinder overlap or
are parallel. Nozzles of the water spraying pipes are close to the impeller, and water
flows from the water spraying pipes may all pass through the impeller. A surface of
the impeller that is impacted by water is a cambered surface. There is a small difference
between two included angles formed by a track along which sprayed water impacts the
impeller and the cambered surface, and an included angle between a direction in which
the water impacts the impeller and a time motion direction of impacted points on the
impeller is small. The nozzles of the water spraying pipes need to be close to a rotation
track of the impeller. In this way, potential energy of high-pressure water impacting
the impeller may be more converted into kinetic energy for rotating the impeller.
[0008] According to the present invention, the impeller on the piston may be mounted inside
the piston or on an exterior vertical surface, a side surface, or a bottom surface
of the rotary piston.
[0009] According to the present invention, the impeller further includes an impeller structure
that is not exposed on the piston surface and disposed inside the piston in an inlaying,
miller processing, or casting manner. Relative positions and angles between the water
spraying pipes and the impeller are required the same as the water spraying pipes
and the exposed impeller, both of which need to satisfy that potential energy of high-pressure
water impacting the impeller may be more converted into kinetic energy for rotating
the impeller.
[0010] The impeller 6 is entirely or partially disposed inside the piston. The impeller
is located in a groove 83 on the sealing piston, and the impeller may be as wide as
the groove, or may be narrower than the groove. The groove may be located on a horizontal
surface of the piston, or may be located on a vertical surface of the piston. The
impeller that is entirely or partially located inside the groove helps reduce the
size of the piston to some extent, and helps mount the impeller securer.
[0011] The present invention further includes a toilet rotation drive device. The device
includes a lifting cylinder and a water spraying pipe. An inlet of the water spraying
pipe 20 is communicated with a cavity of the lifting cylinder, and the water spraying
pipe sprays water to the impeller on the rotary toilet piston, to rotate the toilet
piston.
[0012] According to the present invention, the lifting cylinder includes an inner layer
and an outer layer, and is in an integral interlayer structure or a partial interlayer
structure, or in an integral single-layer structure.
[0013] When the toilet water spraying pipe sprays water to the impeller, the impeller is
impacted and rotates, and the water spraying pipe 20, the cylinder 9 in which the
water spraying pipe 20 is located, and the piston 3 rotate reversely under stress.
A rotation speed of the piston 3 and the cylinder 9 may be adjusted by comparing the
weight of the two and controlling friction between the cylinder and a fixed portion
of the toilet. According to the present invention, alternatively, the lifting cylinder
may be fixed, and the rotary piston rotates alone.
[0014] A sealing plate is disposed on a bottom portion of the rotary piston. The sealing
plate may be a plane plate or a cone plate, or in a barrel-like structure. The sealing
plate may be screwed to the piston 3 or connected in another manner. A lower bottom
of the piston may overlap an upper bottom of the sealing plate in a sealed manner.
After connected to the piston, the sealing plate becomes a part of the piston. The
lifting cylinder of the toilet passes through the middle of the sealing plate with
a certain gap 27 left.
[0015] The piston structure is described by using an example in which the sealing plate
is in a barrel-like structure. An outer edge of the lower bottom of the piston 3 overlaps
a side surface of the periphery of the sealing plate 65. The lifting cylinder of the
toilet passes through the middle of the sealing plate with a certain gap 27 left.
A tail water spraying pipe 63 is disposed at the periphery of the sealing plate. Tail
water impacting the impeller passes through a water spraying hole 63 on the sealing
plate when rotating with the piston, and may flush the toilet pipe, and some tail
water flows out of the gap 27 to flush the lifting cylinder of the toilet. The sealing
plate is added below the piston, so that the tail water impacting the impeller may
rotationally flush the vertical pipe of the toilet or flush the lifting cylinder of
the toilet, improving water utilization.
[0016] Several water spraying pipes 63 are disposed at the periphery of the sealing plate
65. A groove 61 is formed on the upper bottom, and is communicated with a piston pipe
30. When the piston 3 is securely connected to the sealing plate, the groove 61 is
correspondingly communicated with the water spraying pipe 30 on the piston. The number
of pipes 62 and an angle are designed as required.
[0017] Space inside the sealing plate is preferably in the shape of a cone with the edge
lower than the middle, so that when the toilet piston rotates, tail water impacting
the impeller may all smooth flow out of the water spraying hole 63.
[0018] According to the present invention, a brake hub structure surface with a cylindrical
hole or tapered hole inner wall is disposed inside the toilet piston, a scalable brake
shaft pipe is disposed in the lifting cylinder of the toilet, and the hub structure
surface is friction-fit to a tail end of the shaft pipe. The piston hub structure
surface may also be an arc-shaped inner wall or surface or a plane at another position
on the piston, as long as the inner wall or surface or the plane is friction-fit to
the scalable shaft pipe of the toilet. The friction-fit surface and plane of the toilet
piston include the surface or plane of the sealing plate that is connected with the
piston and becomes a part of the piston.
[0019] There may be one or more horizontal brake devices 67 and vertical brake devices 66
in the rotary toilet piston. The device includes a toilet lifting cylinder 9, a cylindrical
or tapered hole shaped hub structure surface or plane 68 inside the toilet piston,
an outer shaft pipe 156 with an outer side corresponding to a hub and a piston 154
fixedly connected to the outer shaft pipe 156, an inner shaft pipe 157 and a piston
152 fixedly connected to the inner shaft pipe 157, a water inlet 153 of the inner
shaft pipe, and a spring 155. The inner shaft pipe 157 has one end fixedly connected
to the lifting cylinder and communicated with a cylinder cavity, and the other end
sealed. A piston 152 is fixed on an outer end of the sealed end, and the piston 152
may slide on an inner wall of the outer shaft pipe 156 in a sealed manner. The outer
shaft pipe 156 has one end sealed and corresponding to the piston hub, and one end
fixedly connected to the piston 154. The piston 154 may slide on an outer wall of
the shaft pipe 157 in a sealed manner. The water inlet 153 is disposed between the
piston 152 of the inner shaft pipe 157 and the piston 154. The spring 155 is sleeved
between the piston 154 of the outer shaft pipe 156 and the outer wall of the lifting
cylinder. A side on which the outer shaft pipe corresponds to the piston hub is coated
with a layer of wear resistant material 151 corresponding to the piston hub, and the
layer of wear resistant material is preferably of the same arc as the inner wall of
the hub.
[0020] When the toilet is motionless, the piston hub tightly abuts the outer shaft pipe
(156) under the action of the spring. When the water spraying pipe (20) sprays water
to the impeller and the piston rotates, water pressure in the brake inner shaft pipe
causes a gap to form between the piston hub and the outer shaft pipe.
[0021] The brake device is used, so that after the toilet water spraying pipe 20 stops spraying
water, when the piston 3 continues rotating due to inertia, before the piston touches
the toilet opening, water pressure in the brake device decreases, so that the outer
shaft pipe tightly abuts the piston hub, the piston stops rotating relative to the
cylinder, and then the piston rises and seals the toilet opening. In this way, the
friction and wear between the piston between the toilet opening may be reduced.
[0022] The brake device on the toilet lifting cylinder and the water spraying pipe on the
cylinder may be in a same vertical direction on the cylinder, or may be in different
vertical directions.
[0023] According to the present invention, a protruding piston cap shaped structure part
is disposed in the center of the top portion of the rotary toilet piston. A piston
cap in the following specification is short for the rotary piston cap shaped structure
part. The water inlet of the water spraying pipe 30 is disposed in the piston cap,
and a water spraying hole of a branch water spraying pipe 30 is disposed at a position
with a deep concave on an arc surface of the piston housing. A water spraying hole
is formed on the vertical surface around the piston cap, so that when the piston cap
rotates, sprayed water may flush the toilet opening and pipe well.
[0024] The present invention further proposes solutions of spraying water in the toilet
from the inner shaft pipe to the piston cap and sealing between the shaft pipe and
the piston cap, to maximize utilization of high-pressure water.
[0025] A fixed bulge 32 is disposed on a bottom portion of the piston cap, and corresponds
to a fixed bulge 36 on the water spraying outer shaft pipe of the toilet. The two
bulges are in contact after the interlayer cylinder moves down, and seal each other
when there is certain pressure. Sealing may also be implemented when the two bulges
rotate relative to each other.
[0026] A water spraying control valve is disposed on a top end of a toilet water spraying
shaft pipe 2. The valve includes a rotary piston, the shaft pipe 2, a cylinder structure
groove 40 on the top end of the shaft pipe, a piston 39 in the groove, a spring 38,
a piston snap ring 34, and a water inlet 35 on the groove. The rotary piston is a
strut 33 in the piston cap. A top portion of the groove seals the top portion of the
water spraying shaft pipe 2, an interlayer 37 having a certain width is formed between
a groove outer wall and a shaft pipe inner wall, the spring is disposed at a bottom
portion of the groove, a top portion of the spring abuts a lower bottom of the piston
39, and an upper bottom of the piston is fixed in the groove by the snap ring. When
the piston is at a highest position in the groove, a groove wall covered by a piston
outer wall has the water inlet 35, and the strut 33 is located right above the piston.
The cross-sectional area of the strut is less than an exposed area of the upper portion
of the piston 39. When the piston moves down when receiving downward pressure of the
strut, the water spraying hole 35 is no longer covered and blocked by the piston,
and may spray water, so that water may enter the water spraying pipe 30 in the piston
cap and be sprayed.
[0027] The water spraying control valve on the top end of the toilet water spraying shaft
pipe 2 may have a second structure, in which the valve is connected to the lower portion
of the rotary toilet piston in a sealed manner, the inner wall of the piston cap shaped
structure part is an annular plane, and when the toilet lifting cylinder and the piston
move down, the valve structure and the piston cap may seal each other in motionless
and rotating states.
[0028] The water spraying control valve structure on the toilet water spraying inner shaft
pipe includes a rotary piston, a shaft pipe 2, a cylinder 59 outside the shaft pipe,
a piston 60, a spring 62, and a water inlet 63. The rotary piston is a piston cap
shaped annular lower bottom part. The shaft pipe is a toilet water spraying inner
shaft pipe with a top end sealed. A top end of the shaft pipe has a small segment
of a truncated cone outer wall, and a cylindrical shaft pipe is below the truncated
cone outer wall. The piston 60 has two inner wall structures: a truncated cone side
surface inner wall and a cylindrical side surface inner wall, and the piston 60 has
a cylindrical side surface outer wall structure. A lower bottom of the cylinder 59
is connected to the shaft pipe outer wall in a sealed manner. The cylinder inner wall
and the piston outer wall are in a cylinder and piston coordination structure. The
piston may move up and down a certain distance in the cylinder, to seal air and water
above and below the piston. The cylindrical inner wall of the piston and the cylindrical
outer wall of the shaft pipe may also seal air and water above and below the piston
60. Below the piston 60 in the cylinder, a sealed and pressured vessel that moves
up and down with the piston and has a changeable volume may be disposed, and pressured
air in the vessel may move the piston up. An interlayer having a certain width is
formed between the cylinder inner wall and the outer wall of the shaft pipe 2, the
spring is located on a bottom portion of the interlayer, and a top portion of the
spring abuts the lower bottom of the piston 60. The truncated cone outer wall of the
inner shaft pipe and the truncated cone inner wall of the piston may coordinate closely
when the spring 62 abuts the piston and the piston is at a highest position in the
interlayer. The piston seals the water spraying hole 63 on the shaft pipe, and the
annular lower bottom of the piston cap is located right above the piston. An outer
diameter of the annular lower bottom of the piston cap is less than an outer diagram
of the piston 60, and a diameter of the piston cap inner wall is greater than a maximum
diameter of the truncated cone side surface outer wall of the water spraying shaft
pipe 2 surrounded by the piston 60. When the piston moves down when receiving downward
pressure of the annular lower bottom of the piston cap 6, the water spraying hole
is no longer covered by the piston, so that sprayed water may enter the toilet piston
water spraying hole. Meanwhile, when the piston is pressured by the annular lower
bottom, sealing may be precisely implemented between the piston and the annular lower
bottom of the piston cap, and when the piston and the shaft pipe 2 rotate relative
to each other, good sealing may also be implemented. A shaft lever 92 is disposed
below the piston 60, a shaft sleeve 93 is disposed on the cylinder bottom portion,
and the shaft lever may move up and down in the shaft sleeve. The shaft lever and
the shaft sleeve may prevent the piston cap from driving the piston to rotate when
the piston cap and the shaft pipe 2 rotate relative to each other. To enable the piston
(60) to flexibly move up and down, certain gaps may be respectively left between the
cylindrical outer wall and the cylindrical inner wall of the piston, the inner wall
of the cylinder (59), and the cylindrical outer wall of the shaft pipe (2). Accordingly,
after water enters the shaft pipe, a little amount of water flows out of the gaps,
resulting in that the toilet wastes water.
[0029] According to the present invention, the toilet lifting cylinder may be an integral
interlayer structure, including a cylinder inner layer and outer layer. A top end
and bottom end of an interlayer between the inner layer and the outer layer are respectively
the cylinder top end and bottom end, and the interlayer top end and bottom end are
totally isolated from the outside in a sealed manner.
[0030] The integral interlayer lifting cylinder includes a lower piston 8, a toilet water
spraying shaft pipe 2, an upper piston 7, and a water inlet 23. An inner wall of the
interlayer structure lifting cylinder is fixedly connected to the lower piston. An
outer wall of the toilet water spraying shaft pipe is fixedly connected to the upper
piston. The toilet water inlet is disposed between the two pistons. The inner wall
of the interlayer lifting cylinder has a water inlet 26, an outer wall has a water
spraying hole 22, and a control valve is disposed on an upper end of the inner shaft
pipe 2.
[0031] A spring 10 is disposed below the fixed lower piston 8 of the lifting cylinder. A
lower end of the spring abuts a spring support 11, the support is fixedly connected
to the shaft pipe 2, and the support and a lifting cylinder inner wall are also in
a piston and cylinder coordination structure. The toilet shaft pipe and the lifting
cylinder inner wall below the lower piston have no water hole, and the lower piston,
the support, and the lifting cylinder form a volume changeable, sealed, and pressured
cylinder device. The sealed and pressured cylinder has a certain pressured gas, and
always poses an upward elastic force to the lower piston. If the gas in the pressured
vessel is an inactive gas rather than oxygen, the spring in the pressured vessel is
eroded slower. The sealing between the toilet opening sealing piston and the toilet
opening and the upward resilience of the sealing piston may be ensured by the spring
10 or the volume changeable, sealed, and pressured cylinder or both. When the two
elastic forces are both applied, the toilet may be less affected when the spring is
fatigued, and a height between the lower piston and the support 11 when only one type
of resilience is applied, and water erosion of the spring when the spring is used
alone may be reduced. If a lower end of the lifting cylinder has an interlayer structure,
the cylinder inner wall below the lower piston has no water spraying hole, and the
cylinder water spraying hole is on an outer layer of the interlayer, water may continue
to be sprayed to the toilet pipe. If the lower end of the toilet water spraying cylinder
is a single-layer structure, and a cylinder wall between the lower piston and the
support has a water spraying hole, they cannot form a sealed cylinder structure. The
lifting cylinder inner wall below the lower piston in the single-layer structure has
no water spraying hole, and the lower piston, the support, and the lifting cylinder
may form a volume changeable, sealed, and pressured cylinder device.
[0032] The toilet lifting cylinder further has one or more water spraying pipes (20), inlets
of the water spraying pipe is communicated with a cavity of the lifting cylinder,
and the water spraying pipe is fixed on the lifting cylinder. The pipe is provided
with a control valve 56. For water sprayed by the pipe 20 to the impeller, to obtain
a high conversion rate of potential energy of the water, the pipe is bent. Alternatively,
the water spraying pipe may be not provided with a valve.
[0033] When the toilet lifting cylinder is an integral interlayer structure, the interlayer
lifting cylinder includes a water inlet 26 on an inner wall. The water spraying pipe
is communicated with the interlayer of the lifting cylinder, the water spraying pipe
is fixed on an outer wall of the interlayer of the lifting cylinder, and the water
spraying pipe is communicated with the cavity of the lifting cylinder through the
water inlet on the interlayer inner wall.
[0034] The valve 56 mainly includes a valve housing, a valve plug 44, a valve plug hole
41 that is formed by upper and lower parts of the valve housing and through which
the valve plug may pass, a rail 42 fixedly connected to the valve plug, and a spring
43 sleeved over the valve plug between the rail and the valve housing. Upper and lower
cavities are formed by the valve plug hole in the valve, and water entering the interlayer
cylinder enters the upper cavity and is sprayed out from the lower cavity.
[0035] A control device of the water spraying pipe valve 56 includes a lifting cylinder,
an upper piston 7, a bracket 55, a ring 45, and a through hole 57. A lower portion
of the bracket is fixedly connected to a pull rod of the valve. The through hole horizontally
passes through the interlayer lifting cylinder, an upper portion of the bracket is
connected to the horizontal ring through the through hole, the through hole is sealed
by the interlayer, and water in the interlayer cylinder is not sprayed from the through
hole. The through hole is located above the pipe 20 on the lifting cylinder, at which
a structure may be replaced by a single-layer structure, and the through hole horizontally
passes through the lifting cylinder. The size of the through hole satisfies that when
the bracket and the lifting cylinder move up and down relative to each other, the
bracket does not touch a cylinder through hole edge. The ring is located in the lifting
cylinder, an outer diameter of the ring is less than the diameter of the lifting cylinder
inner wall, and an inner diameter of the ring is greater than an outer diameter of
the sealing member 36 on the shaft pipe. After the rotary toilet piston 3 moves down
some distance, the upper piston below the ring may prevent the ring and the bracket
from further moving with the valve 56, but the pipe and the valve may move down further,
to open the valve. A maximum distance that the rotary piston and the lifting cylinder
move down needs to satisfy that when the sealing piston moves down at a maximum distance,
at least a part of the lower portion of the upper piston seals the lifting cylinder
inner wall below the through hole 57, that is, water in the lifting cylinder cavity
cannot be directly leaked from the through hole.
[0036] Alternatively, the valve controlling the water spraying pipe 20 may have the following
structure in which the valve plug has a through hole:
[0037] The valve includes a valve cavity 74, a valve plug 78, a valve plug pull rod 75,
at least one intake pipe 79, at least one outlet pipe 76, a movable bracket 70, a
rail 73, a fixed bracket 71, and a spring 72. The valve plug pull rod is fixedly connected
to the valve plug, the valve plug pull rod passes through a top portion of the cavity,
and the pull rod has a fixed rail. The fixed bracket is disposed outside the valve
cavity. The spring is sleeved over the pull rod between the rail and the fixed bracket,
the pull rod is connected to the movable bracket outside the cavity, and the bracket
is connected to the horizontal ring through the through hole on the interlayer lifting
cylinder. When the valve plug is free from an external force, the valve plug outer
side surface may cover and block at least all intake pipes, or cover and block at
least all outlet pipes, or cover and block all intake and outlet pipes, and the valve
is closed. After the valve plug moves due to an external force, the intake and outlet
pipes of the valve are no longer blocked by the valve plug, and the valve is opened.
The valve is also characterized in that opened and closed states depending on whether
the valve plug receives an external force may be exchanged.
[0038] To reduce resistance of upward and downward movement of the valve plug in the cavity,
the valve plug is provided with a through hole 77 passing through upper and lower
surfaces of the valve plug, so that water above and below the valve plug may be communicated.
[0039] If valve opening and closing have a high sealing requirement, sealing between the
valve plug and the cavity inner wall needs to be implemented very well, and accordingly
causes large friction between the valve plug and the cavity inner wall. To reduce
friction, one or more sealing bulges 82 may be disposed on an outer side of the periphery
of the valve plug, to correspondingly seal the cavity. By placing the valve plug having
the bulge at different positions in the valve cavity, the intake and outlet pipes
of the valve may be blocked or communicated in the valve cavity, to close or open
the valve.
[0040] To reduce friction and reduce a movement distance of the valve plug, the valve plug
may be a structure with two horizontal bulges 80. The two bulges have two vertical
sealing bulges 81 respectively connected to upper and lower horizontal bulges, and
the two groups of sealing bulges do not intersect. The valve plug having two horizontal
bulges and two vertical bulges separates the valve cavity into two partitions, so
that the intake and outlet pipes of the valve are blocked or communicated in the valve
cavity. When the valve plug receives no external force and is motionless, pipe openings
of the intake and outlet pipes of the valve in the cavity are respectively located
in the two partitions, and the valve is closed. When the valve plug moves due to an
external force, the intake and outlet pipes of the valve are no longer blocked by
the bulges of the valve plug, and the valve is opened.
[0041] The bulge and the valve plug may be one piece made of a same material or different
materials, or the bulge may be a piston ring or a sealing washer that is friction-fit
to the cavity, wear resistant, and may be mounted on and detached from the valve plug.
When a detachable piston ring, sealing washer, or sealing strip is used, a corresponding
groove needs to be formed on the valve plug. The valve may have one or more pairs
of intake and outlet pipes, and the intake and outlet pipes may be located on a same
plane, or may be located on different planes.
[0042] The water spraying pipes 20 are preferably distributed horizontally and uniformly.
The pipes are bent after extending out of the interlayer cylinder, to implement a
desirable angle between a water spraying track of the nozzle and the cambered surface
of the impeller, and a large rate of conversion from potential energy of water into
kinetic energy for rotating the impeller.
[0043] The lower portion of the shaft pipe fits an inner wall of a toilet stabilization
and sealing pipe 19 by using bearings (12, 15), a sealing sleeve 16 is disposed between
the bottom portion of the shaft pipe and the sealing pipe inner wall, the shaft pipe,
the sealing sleeve, an inner wall of a lower portion of the sealing pipe, and a lower
bottom of the toilet pipe form a vessel 29, and an intake pipe 17 is disposed below
the toilet.
[0044] In addition to a simple shaft-sleeve structure sealing sleeve, the type of the sealing
sleeve further includes oil seal, water seal, mechanical sealing, or the like.
[0045] Alternatively, the shaft pipe 2 may be directly fixedly mounted in the vessel 29
in a sealed manner, so that the shaft pipe cannot rotate, and the bearings (12, 15)
between the shaft pipe and the stabilization and sealing pipe are not disposed.
[0046] The foregoing describes main invention solutions of the present invention, and the
following describes a third invention solution for the control valve on the top end
of the water spraying inner shaft pipe, the toilet piston cap structure, and a connection
structure between the water spraying pipe 20 and the lifting cylinder 9 in the entire
invention.
[0047] The water spraying control valve of the toilet water spraying shaft pipe includes
a toilet water spraying inner shaft pipe 2, a rotary piston 3, a bottom up cylinder
structure drum 47, an annular piston 48, a snap ring 52, a spring 49, and a water
inlet 50. The rotary piston is a part of an annular lower bottom 54 of the piston
cap, an outer wall of the drum and the piston 48 are in a piston and cylinder coordination
structure, and a lower opening of the drum is connected to an inner wall of the shaft
pipe in a sealed manner. The outer wall of the drum and the shaft pipe inner wall
form an interlayer 51 having a certain width. The spring is located at a bottom portion
of the interlayer, a top portion of the spring abuts a lower bottom of the piston
48, and an upper bottom of the piston is fixed in the groove by the snap ring. When
the piston is at a highest position in the interlayer, the drum covered by a piston
inner wall has the water inlet 50, and the annular lower bottom of the piston cap
is located right above the piston. The cross-sectional area of the annular lower bottom
of the piston cap is less than an exposed area of the upper portion of the annular
piston. When the piston 48 moves down when receiving downward pressure of the annular
lower bottom, the water spraying hole 50 is no longer covered by the piston, and may
spray water, so that water may enter the water spraying hole 29 and be sprayed from
the water spraying pipe 30. Meanwhile, when the piston 48 is pressured by the annular
lower bottom, sealing may be precisely implemented between the piston and the annular
lower bottom, and when the piston and the strut rotate relative to each other, good
sealing may also be implemented.
[0048] The upper portion of the lifting cylinder in which the toilet water spraying pipe
20 is located is a single-layer cylinder, and the lower portion is an interlayer cylinder.
The pipe is located in the single-layer cylinder, the pipe inlet is communicated with
a single-layer cylinder cavity, and the outer wall of the pipe is fixed on the cylinder
in a sealed manner.
[0049] Alternatively, the lifting cylinder in which the toilet water spraying pipe 20 is
located may be entirely a single-layer structure, the pipe inlet is communicated with
a single-layer lifting cylinder cavity, and the outer wall of the pipe is fixed on
the outer wall of the cylinder in a sealed manner. The pipe opening is located above
the piston 7 when the toilet is motionless, and the position also satisfies that when
the toilet lifting cylinder moves down, the position of the pipe opening below the
piston ensures that water in the water spraying cylinder may enter the water spraying
pipe.
[0050] The lifting cylinder in which the toilet water spraying pipe 20 is located may be
entirely an interlayer lifting cylinder, the water spraying pipe is fixed on the outer
wall of the interlayer of the lifting cylinder, the water spraying pipe is directly
communicated with the cylinder cavity, the water spraying pipe passes through the
lifting cylinder outer layer, and the water spraying pipe is fixed on the cylinder
outer layer in a sealed manner, preventing leakage.
[0051] The lifting cylinder is fixedly connected to the water spraying pipe 20, preventing
leakage. The connection surface between the lifting cylinder inner wall and the water
spraying pipe is smooth, on which the upper piston 7 on the toilet cylinder inner
wall may move smoothly.
[0052] The opening of the water spraying pipe 20 is located below the piston 7 in the cylinder
when the toilet is motionless, and the position satisfies that when the toilet lifting
cylinder moves down, the opening of the pipe 20 is at such a preferred position below
the piston 7 that when the rotary piston is close to the bottom end, the water spraying
pipe 20 starts to spray water. Alternatively, the pipe opening may be not at the preferred
position but between the upper and lower pistons of the lifting cylinder.
[0053] In a technical solution proposed by the inventor and published before the earliest
priority date of the present invention, the toilet piston, the lifting cylinder, and
the inner shaft pipe are all integral, rotation and water intake structures at the
bottom end of the toilet are complex, and the toilet is high, making it inconvenient
to manufacture, mount, and maintain the toilet. According to the previous invention
solution, water in the toilet opening sealing piston and the water spraying shaft
pipe connected to the piston need to rotate at the same time, and because there are
many toilet water spraying shaft pipes, and good sealing needs to be implemented and
accordingly brings frictional resistance, the piston has large rotation resistance,
and the toilet needs much high-pressure water.
[0054] Compared with the disclosed toilet patent solution, the present invention requires
rotation of only the piston, which greatly reduces the rotation resistance of the
piston, so that water with same pressure may rotate the toilet piston faster, and
urine and feces on the piston receive a larger centrifugal force when rotating with
the piston, making it convenient to flush the toilet; in addition, tail water may
flush the toilet pipe.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0055]
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an interlayer structure lifting cylinder
when a toilet is motionless.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an interlayer structure lifting cylinder
when the toilet sprays water.
Fig. 3 is a schematic sectional view of an impeller in a toilet piston 3.
Fig. 4 is a horizontal cross-sectional view of a bracket and ring structure of a water
spraying pipe valve control device.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a valve 56.
Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of sealing between a toilet water spraying
inner shaft pipe and a piston cap.
Fig. 7 shows a third solution for the toilet water spraying inner shaft pipe control
valve and a piston cap structure.
Fig. 8 shows a second solution for connection between a toilet lifting cylinder and
a water spraying pipe 20.
(The toilet structure and component not shown in Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are the same as
those in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5)
Fig. 9 is a structural diagram when a toilet water spraying pipe valve plug has a
valve plug through hole.
Fig. 10 is a structural diagram of a horizontal bulge of the toilet water spraying
pipe valve plug.
Fig. 11 is a structural diagram when the toilet water spraying pipe valve plug has
a vertical bulge.
Fig. 12 is a schematic cross-sectional view of an impeller mounted in a piston groove
(the impeller is as wide as the groove).
Fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of water spraying of a toilet when an impeller
on a sealing piston is mounted in a groove (the impeller is narrower than the groove).
Fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of water spraying of a toilet when an impeller
on a sealing piston is mounted in a groove (the impeller is narrower than the groove).
Fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram when a toilet piston is separated from a
sealing plate (having a second toilet water spraying shaft pipe control valve).
Fig. 16 shows a toilet having a rotary toilet piston brake device and a toilet piston
sealing plate structure (having the second toilet water spraying shaft pipe control
valve).
Fig. 17 is a schematic structural diagram of the toilet piston brake device.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiment 1
[0056] In this embodiment, the water spraying pipe 20 of the toilet rotation drive device
has a valve and a valve control device. The water spraying pipe is communicated with
the lifting cylinder cavity through the lifting cylinder interlayer and the water
inlet 26, and the pipe opening may move below the upper piston 7 when the cylinder
moves down a certain distance.
[0057] When water enters the toilet, high-pressure water first enters the vessel 29 through
the pipe 17, and then enters the shaft pipe 2, and enters space between two pistons
(7, 8) through the water inlet 23. Meanwhile, the water reaches the cylinder interlayer
through the water inlet and enters the inner shaft pipe 157 of the brake device, or
directly enters the inner shaft pipe 157 of the brake device. The water also reaches
the lifting cylinder interlayer through the water inlet 26, and water is gradually
sprayed from the water spraying hole 22 to the toilet pipe inner wall. Due to high
water pressure, water reaching the shaft pipe 157 enters space between the piston
152 and the piston 154 through the water inlet 153, so that the piston 154 and the
shaft pipe 156 connected to the piston 154 compress the spring 155 and move, to form
a gap between the piston hub and the shaft pipe 156. Because a water intake velocity
in the shaft pipe 2 is much greater than a water spraying velocity, pressure between
the two pistons increases quickly, water pressure causes the lower piston 8 and the
connected lifting cylinder and the rotary toilet piston 3 to move down quickly. After
the bracket 55 and the ring 45 connected to the valve 56 touch the upper piston 7,
they cannot move down further, but the interlayer lifting cylinder and the pipe 20
and the valve 56 that are connected still move down further, so that the valve and
the valve plug receive forces in upward and downward directions and the valve is opened,
water in the interlayer is quickly sprayed from the pipe 20 to the impeller 6, and
the impeller and the toilet piston 3 start to rotate when impacted by high-pressure
water.
[0058] Meanwhile, when the piston 3 moves down, the ring 45 quickly passes through the sealing
member 36 on the water spraying shaft pipe 2 and the shaft pipe top end control valve.
When the piston 39 touches the strut 33 in the piston cap, the strut further moves
to a specified position, and the piston 39 also moves down a specified distance, the
bottom portion of the piston is pushed by the spring 38, and the water spraying hole
35 on the groove 40 in the shaft pipe is all exposed. Moreover, the sealing member
36 and the sealing member 32 of the piston cap form a sealed structure, and after
water is sprayed from the water spraying hole, the water is sprayed to the toilet
pipe through the water spraying hole 29 and the pipe 30. The toilet water spraying
inner shaft pipe is sealed by the toilet piston cap, so that the sealing member 36
on the shaft pipe may be not disposed. The sealing member 46 is added onto an inner
wall of the lower portion of the piston cap, the shaft pipe top end outer wall may
be smoothly inserted into the sealing member, and they are in a shaft and sleeve coordination
structure. When the outer wall of the upper portion of the shaft pipe 2 enters the
sealing member 46 when the piston 3 moves down, the outer wall of the shaft pipe 2
and the sealing member may seal each other in motionless and rotating states.
[0059] When the rotary toilet piston rotates, tail water impacting the impeller reaches
the sealing piston bottom portion, and because the piston rotates, the tail water
receives a rotation centrifugal force and is sprayed from the piston water spraying
hole 31. When water flushing the toilet is drained, water pressure between the upper
piston 7 and the lower piston 8 decreases quickly, and when pressure between the two
pistons (7, 8) decreases to some extent, pressure between two pistons (152, 154) of
the brake device also decreases to some extent. When the elastic force of the spring
155 is greater than the pressure between the two pistons (52, 54), the spring pushes
the shaft pipe to touch the piston hub inner wall harder and harder, and finally the
piston hub and the interlayer cylinder remain relatively motionless, and almost motionless
relative to the toilet opening. In addition, the resilience of the spring 10 pushes
the lower piston 8 and the connected lifting cylinder and the piston 3 to move up
to a position in the motionless state. During upward movement, water between the upper
piston and the lower piston is pushed by the two pistons out of the cylinder water
spraying hole, and the two sealing members (13, 14) form a sealed structure. After
the pistons are motionless, lower end tail water in the piston 3 flows out from the
gap 27 between the piston bottom portion and the lifting cylinder, and flushes the
lifting cylinder to some extent.
[0060] When the lifting cylinder and the sealing piston get back to the motionless state,
the spring of the shaft pipe upper end control valve also pushes the piston 39 back
to the motionless state, and the spring in the valve 56 also pushes the valve plug
back to the motionless state.
Embodiment 2
[0061] In this embodiment, the water spraying pipe 20 of the toilet rotation drive device
does not have a valve and a valve control device. The water spraying pipe is directly
connected to the lifting cylinder cavity, and the pipe opening may move below the
upper piston 7 when the cylinder moves down a certain distance.
[0062] When water enters the toilet, high-pressure water first enters the vessel 29 through
the pipe 17, and then enters the shaft pipe 2, and enters space between two pistons
(7, 8) through the water inlet 23. Meanwhile, the water reaches the cylinder interlayer
through the water inlet and enters the inner shaft pipe 157 of the brake device, or
directly enters the inner shaft pipe 157 of the brake device. The water also reaches
the lifting cylinder interlayer through the water inlet 26, and water is gradually
sprayed from the water spraying hole 22 to the toilet pipe inner wall. Due to high
water pressure, water reaching the shaft pipe 157 enters space between the piston
152 and the piston 154 through the water inlet 153, so that the piston 154 and the
shaft pipe 156 connected to the piston 154 compress the spring 155 and move, to form
a gap between the piston hub and the shaft pipe 156. Because a water intake velocity
in the shaft pipe 2 is much greater than a water spraying velocity, pressure between
the two pistons increases quickly, water pressure causes the lower piston 8 and the
connected lifting cylinder and the rotary toilet piston 3 to move down quickly. When
the water spraying pipe 20 of the lifting cylinder outer wall moves below the piston
7, high-pressure water starts to enter the pipe 20 and is sprayed to the impeller
6, the impeller and the sealing piston 3 start to rotate, and the lifting cylinder
and the connected shaft pipe are impacted by water and start to rotate reversely relative
to the impeller.
[0063] When the sealing piston 3 moves down, when the annular piston 48 of the shaft pipe
top end control valve touches the annular strut 54 in the piston cap, the strut further
moves to a specified position, and the piston 48 also moves down a specified distance,
the bottom portion of the piston is pushed by the spring 49, and the water spraying
hole 50 on the bottom up drum 47 in the shaft pipe is all exposed. Moreover, the lower
bottom of the annular strut 54 and the annular piston form a sealed structure, and
after water is sprayed from the water spraying hole, the water is sprayed to the toilet
pipe through the water spraying hole 29 and the pipe 30.
[0064] When the toilet piston rotates, tail water impacting the impeller reaches the bottom
portion of the piston 3, and because the piston rotates, the tail water receives a
rotation centrifugal force and is sprayed from the piston water spraying hole 31.
When water flushing the toilet is drained, water pressure between the upper piston
7 and the lower piston 8 decreases quickly, and when pressure between the two pistons
(7, 8) decreases to some extent, pressure between two pistons (152, 154) of the brake
device also decreases to some extent. When the elastic force of the spring 155 is
greater than the pressure between the two pistons (52, 54), the spring pushes the
shaft pipe to touch the piston hub inner wall harder and harder, and finally the piston
hub and the interlayer cylinder remain relatively motionless, and almost motionless
relative to the toilet opening. The resilience of the spring 10 pushes the lower piston
8 and the connected lifting cylinder and the sealing piston 3 to move up to a position
in the motionless state. During upward movement, water between the upper piston and
the lower piston is pushed by the two pistons out of the water spraying hole, and
after some while, the two sealing members (13, 14) form a sealed structure. After
the pistons are motionless, lower end tail water in the rotary piston flows out from
the gap 27 between the piston bottom portion and the lifting cylinder, and flushes
the lifting cylinder to some extent.
[0065] When the interlayer lifting cylinder and the rotary piston 3 get back to the motionless
state, the spring of the shaft pipe upper end control valve also pushes the piston
48 back to the motionless state.
1. A rotary toilet piston, comprising a housing of a piston (3), a lifting cylinder,
and a bearing (5), wherein the bearing (5) is mounted on an outer wall of a top portion
of the lifting cylinder, an inner sleeve of the bearing is fixed on an outer wall
of the cylinder, an outer sleeve of the bearing is mounted in a bearing slot of the
piston, and the piston and the cylinder may rotate relative to each other by means
of the bearing.
2. A rotary toilet piston, comprising a toilet piston whose inner side is provided with
a shaft hole (20), and a lifting cylinder, wherein a top portion of the toilet lifting
cylinder and the shaft hole of the piston are in a complete shaft-sleeve structure,
no bearing is disposed between the shaft hole and the cylinder, and the piston and
the cylinder may rotate relative to each other by means of the bearing (5), so that
a toilet structure is simple.
3. The rotary toilet piston according to claim 1, wherein the piston further comprises
an impeller(6) located on the piston.
4. The rotary toilet piston according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the piston further comprises
a sealing plate(65) on a bottom portion of the piston, the sealing plate is connected
to the bottom portion of the piston (3), and the toilet lifting cylinder(9) passes
through the middle of the sealing plate with a certain gap (27) left.
5. A brake device for controlling the rotary toilet piston according to claim 1, comprising
a toilet lifting cylinder, a cylindrical or tapered hole shaped hub structure surface
inside the toilet piston or a piston plane or surface, an outer shaft pipe (156) and
a piston (154) fixedly connected to the outer shaft pipe (156), an inner shaft pipe
(157)and a piston (152) fixedly connected to the inner shaft pipe (157), a water inlet
(153) of the inner shaft pipe, and a spring (155), wherein the inner shaft pipe (157)
has one end fixedly connected to the lifting cylinder and communicated with a cylinder
cavity, and the other end sealed, the piston (152) is fixed on an outer end of the
sealed end, the piston (152) may slide on an inner wall of the outer shaft pipe (156)
in a sealed manner, the outer shaft pipe (156) has one end sealed and corresponding
to a piston hub, and one end fixedly connected to the piston (154), the piston (154)
may slide on an outer wall of the shaft pipe (157) in a sealed manner, the water inlet
(153) is disposed between the piston (152) of the inner shaft pipe (157) and the piston
(154), and the spring (155) is sleeved between the piston (154) of the outer shaft
pipe (156) and an outer wall of the lifting cylinder (9).
6. A drive device for driving the rotary toilet piston according to claim 1 to rotate,
wherein the device comprises a toilet lifting cylinder and a water spraying pipe (20),
the water spraying pipe is fixedly connected to the lifting cylinder with an inlet
communicated with a lifting cylinder cavity.
7. The drive device according to claim 6, characterized by further comprising a valve control apparatus of the water-jet pipe having a valve,
wherein the control apparatus comprises the lifting cylinder, a support (55), a circular
ring(45), a through hole (57), and an upper piston (7), a lower part of the support
is fixedly connected to a lever of the valve of the pipe, the through hole penetrates
horizontally the lifting cylinder, an upper part of the support penetrates the through
hole to connect to the circular ring, the size of the through hole may satisfy that
when the support moves up and down relative to the lifting cylinder, the support does
not contact the periphery of the through hole of the lifting cylinder, the circular
ring is located inside the lifting cylinder, an outer diameter of the circular ring
is less than a diameter of an inner wall of the lifting cylinder, an inner diameter
of the circular ring is greater than an outer diameter of a seal (36) on a shaft tube,
and in the last distance of a toilet rotary piston(3)moving downward, the upper piston
(7)below the circular ring can prevent the support and the circular ring from moving
downward.
8. A water-jet control valve of the rotary toilet piston according to claim 1, characterized by comprising a rotary piston, a shaft tube (2), a cylinder (59) outside the shaft pipe,
a piston (60), a spring (62) and a water inlet (63), wherein the rotary piston is
a cap-shaped annular lower part of the piston, the shaft pipe is a section of a toilet
water jetting internal shaft pipe with one end being sealed, a top end of the shaft
pipe is provided with a section of a circular truncated cone outer wall, the cylindrical
shaft pipe is below the circular truncated cone outer wall, the piston(60) comprises
two inner wall structures, that is, a circular truncated cone side inner wall and
a cylindrical side inner wall, the piston (60) has a cylindrical side outer wall structure,
the bottom of the cylinder (59) is connected to an outer wall of the shaft pipe (2)
in a sealed manner, an inner wall of the cylinder(59) and an outer wall of the piston
(60) form a coordinative cylinder-piston structure, the piston can move up and down
in the cylinder for a certain distance, the inner wall of the cylinder and the outer
wall of the shaft pipe (2) form an inter layer of a certain width, the bottom part
of the inter layer is the spring, an upper part of the spring holds against a lower
part of the piston (60), when the spring(62) holds against the piston (60) and the
piston is in a highest position in the inter layer, the circular truncated cone outer
wall of the internal shaft pipe can closely coordinate with the circular truncated
cone inner wall of the piston (60), the piston seals the water jetting hole (63) of
the shaft pipe, an annular lower part of a piston cap is located right above the piston,
an outer diameter of the annular lower part of the piston cap is less than an outer
diameter of the piston (60), and a diameter of an inner wall of the piston cap is
greater than a greatest diameter of the circular truncated cone side outer wall of
the water jetting internal shaft pipe (2) surrounded by the piston(60).
9. A rotary piston, characterized by comprising a housing of a piston, and further comprising a sealing plate (65), wherein
the piston may connect to the sealing plate by means of a screw or in other manners,
a lower part of the piston and an upper part of the sealing plate may coincide in
a sealed manner, and after the sealing plate is connected to the piston, the sealing
plate becomes a part of the piston.
10. A water-jet pipe of a rotary piston, characterized by comprising a piston, wherein the piston comprises a sealing plate (65), a circle
of trench (61) is formed on the bottom of the sealing plate and is in communication
with a pipe (30) of the piston, and when the piston (3) and the sealing plate are
pressed tightly, the trench (61) is in communication with the water-jet pipe (30)
correspondingly.