Patent ID: 6957450

Claim:
A sanitary system adapted for use in a recreational vehicle to discharge waste to a horizontally offset destination, the sanitary system comprising: a horizontally offset waste storage receptacle to be installed in a stowage compartment of the recreational vehicle, said horizontally offset waste storage receptacle having an inlet; a discharge port having an angular portion to be located at least partially above a floor of the recreational vehicle, wherein the discharge port defines an interior passage directing waste through the floor of the recreational vehicle at an angle relative to a vertical axis in a direction toward the inlet of the horizontally offset waste storage receptacle; and a toilet having a bowl portion with an outlet formed in the bowl portion, and a fitting disposed within a base portion to be secured to the floor of the recreational vehicle, the base portion and the floor of the recreational vehicle cooperate to form an enclosure that has the vertical axis extending through the base portion and the bowl portion, the fitting having one end coupled to the discharge port and an opposite end coupled to the outlet of the bowl portion, the fitting defining an interior passage between the toilet and the discharge port, wherein the fitting is in fluid communication with the discharge port in a manner that allows the angular portion of the discharge port to be located at least partially above the floor of the recreational vehicle in the enclosure, wherein the path from the outlet of the bowl portion to the inlet of the horizontally offset waste storage receptacle does not deviate from the vertical axis by more than forty five degrees.