Patent ID: 8490223

Claim:
A toilet comprising: a bowl configured with a receptacle to receive waste, with a secondary chamber, and with an opening formed in the receptacle to allow the waste to pass from the receptacle to the secondary chamber; a rinse pump configured to turn on to add a small amount of rinsing water for cleaning the bowl; a flexible self cleaning gasket configured around the opening formed in the receptacle; a bowl valve configured with a sealing part having a substantially rounded shape, configured to rotate to a closed position that creates a sealed effect between the sealing part and the flexible self cleaning gasket trapping the waste and rinsing water in the receptacle of the bowl and sealing odors in the secondary chamber, and configured to rotate to an open position that sweeps the sealing part to be swept across the flexible self cleaning gasket and allowing the waste to pass from the receptacle to the secondary chamber; and a solenoid configured to rotate the bowl valve from the closed position to the open position, and vice versa.