Coupling member for toilet seat device with warm-water sprays
View Patent ↗To provide a coupling member for fixing a toilet seat device with warm-water sprays on a toilet bowl that is able to prevent a bolt from being screwed too tightly. A coupling member for fixing a toilet seat device with warm-water sprays on a toilet bowl is constituted and characterized by comprising a circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion 70 that is inserted into a mounting hole 14 formed at a rear portion of a toilet bowl 10 , a bolt 60 that is inserted into the aforementioned circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion 70 and that has a threaded portion 62 and a stopper portion 64 formed respectively on a lower side and an upper side, and a nut 80 that is provided on the aforementioned circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion 70 and screwed on the aforementioned threaded portion 62 and that moves upward by a rotational operation in one direction from an upper side of the aforementioned bolt 60 so as to enlarge the aforementioned circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion 70 in a circumferential direction.
1. A coupling member comprising a circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion that, when it is extendedly located at an inside of a mounting hole formed on an installation portion at a rear portion of a toilet bowl via a predetermined member at a side of a toilet seat device with warm-water sprays, is used for coupling it to the toilet bowl so as to be positioned inside the mounting hole,
a resin-made washer that is located on the predetermined member and on which an upper end portion of the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion is secured via a hole formed on the predetermined member,
a bolt that is rotatably inserted into the resin-made washer and the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion and inserted into the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion and that has a threaded portion formed on a lower side thereof and a stopper portion formed on an upper side of the threaded portion adjacent thereto in addition, and
a nut that is provided on a lower side of the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion and screwed on the threaded portion and that moves in an upward direction by a rotational operation in one direction from an upper side of the bolt so as to enlarge the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion in a radial direction, wherein the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion enlarged in the radial direction is elastically engaged with an inner peripheral surface of the mounting hole, and
wherein the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion is sealingly engaged with the inner surface of the mounting hole when the nut is screwed and moved on the threaded portion of the bolt so as to be engaged with the stopper portion.
2. A coupling member as recited in claim 1 , in which the predetermined member is a plate which is fixed on the installation portion of the toilet bowl and on which the toilet seat device with warm-water sprays is detachably fitted.
3. A coupling member as recited in claim 1 , in which the extended location at the inside of the hole of the predetermined member is made in a loosely fitted manner.
4. A coupling member for the toilet seat device with warm-water sprays as recited in claim 1 , in which the stopper portion is constituted by making a diameter of a portion above the threaded portion of the bolt larger than the threaded portion.
5. A coupling member as recited in claim 1 , in which the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion bulges out in the radial direction even when the nut is screwed into a lowermost portion of the threaded portion of the bolt.
6. A coupling member as recited in claim 1 , in which the circular cylindrically-shaped elastic deforming portion, the resin-made washer, the bolt and the nut are constituted as an assembled body.