Patent ID: 8266734

Claim:
A bidet usable with a water source and mountable to a toilet, said toilet including a toilet bowl, said toilet bowl defining a bowl inner surface and a waterline defined on said bowl inner surface at an operational level of water in said toilet bowl, said toilet bowl also defining a bowl aperture extending therethrough below said waterline, said bidet comprising: a piston defining a piston passageway extending therethrough, said piston passageway being couplable to said water source for receiving water therefrom, said piston defining a nozzle for releasing water from said piston passageway; said bidet being operatively mountable to said toilet with said piston extending through said bowl aperture and protruding in said toilet bowl, wherein, with said bidet operatively mounted to said toilet bowl, said piston is movable through said bowl aperture between a retracted position and an extended position, said nozzle being substantially adjacent to said bowl inner surface and below said waterline when said piston is in said retracted position and said nozzle being spaced apart from said bowl inner surface and above said waterline when said piston is in said extended position.