Patent CA-100180-S (CA)
Title: Plumbing enclosure
Filed: 2002-07-29
Granted: 2004-01-13
Abstract: The present design includes an inner surface portion and an outer surface portion. The inner surface portion has a forward opening, a floor portion, side wall portions, a back wall portion, and a ceiling portion. The upper portion of the back wall portion has a vertically and longitudinally orientated middle portion which is outwardly concave. A surface at the top of this middle portion slopes upward and forward from the concave surface to the vertically planer surfaces located to either side of the middle portion. Below the middle portion a forwardly convex surface extends upward, forward, and inward from the planer of the vertically planer surfaces to the horizontal bottom edge at the bottom edge at the bottom of the middle portion which partially defines a horizontal planer surface extending rearward to the concave surface of the middle portion. The upper portions of the side wall portions each have a vertical planer surface. The ceiling portion has a horizontal planer surface. The upper portions of the back wall portion and the side wall portions, and the ceiling portion, merge with each other at inwardly concave surfaces. The lower portion of the back wall portion has a vertical planer surface from which and outwardly concave surface extends inward and forward towards the center and having a forwardly convex upper edge, from which a horizontal planer surface extends rearwards. In the corners of the back wall portion and the side wall portions each have a forwardly convex surface which extends upward from the floor portion, then upward and outward to a forwardly convex edge, from which a horizontal planer surface extends rearward and laterally. The lower portions of each sidewall portion have an upwardly and laterally extending surface adjacent the forwardly convex surfaces at the back wall corners. The lower portions each also have inwardly convex surface defined by the top by an inwardly convex edge from which a horizontal planer surface extends laterally to the upper side wall portions. The floor portion has a forward horizontal surface which extends rearward to a laterally extending edge from which a surface extends downwards to a horizontal surface which slopes slightly downwards to a circular opening near the center of the floor portion. This slightly sloping horizontal surface mergers with the surrounding vertical surfaces at an inwardly concave surface. The outer surface portion includes a forward vertical planer surface defined by the forward opening and an outer rectangular edge. The rest of the outer surface portion generally takes on the same shape as the inner surface portion.Drawings of the design are included wherein:Fig. 1 is a left, top, front perspective view of a plumbing enclosure embodying our new design;Fig. 2 is a front elevational view thereof;Fig. 3 is a right side elevational view thereof, the left side elevational view being a mirror image of the right side shown;Fig. 4 is a top plan view thereof;Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view thereof taken along line 5-5 of Fig. 2;Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view thereof taken along line 6-6 of Fig. 2;Fig. 7 is a left, top, front perspective view of a second variant, the right side elevational view being identical to that shown in Fig. 3, and the left side elevational being a mirror image of that shown in Fig. 3;Fig. 8 is a front elevational view thereof;Fig. 9 is a top plan view thereof;Fig. 10 is a cross-sectional view thereof taken along line 11-11 of Fig. 9;