US 6,981,285 B2
Toilet and method of operation
James A. Sigler, Perrysville, Ohio (US); Nathan A. Snyder, Big Prairie, Ohio (US); Robert D. Krieder, Sullivan, Ohio (US); Steven L. Miko, Wooster, Ohio (US); and Randall Thomas, Millersburg, Ohio (US)
Assigned to Dometic Sanitation Corporation, Big Prairie, Ohio (US)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/919,908.
Application 10/919908 is a continuation of application No. 10/258156, granted, now 6,883,188, previously published as PCT/US01/44102, filed on Nov. 27, 2001.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/253113, filed on Nov. 28, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2005/0015872 A1, Jan. 27, 2005
Int. Cl. E03D 11/10 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 4—434 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toilet for a recreational vehicle comprising:
a bowl;
a flushing mechanism to initiate a flush cycle;
a flush valve for releasing waste from the bowl to a waste receiving area;
a water inlet valve to allow water into the bowl; and,
a controller having at least two modes and communicating with the flushing mechanism, water inlet valve and the flush valve;
wherein the first mode comprises a flushing mode and the second mode comprises a service mode,
wherein the flush valve remains open in the flushing mode for a time that is different from a time the flushing valve remains open in the service mode,
wherein in the service mode the water inlet valve can be selectively activated.