Patent ID: 7743435

Claim:
A self adjusting toilet bolt assembly, for connecting a toilet to a closet flange, the closet flange having reciprocally arranged arcuate course slotted openings passing from a top closet flange surface through the closet flange to a bottom face surface, said slotted openings having an enlarged slot entry region at one course end, said bolt assembly comprising: a threaded stud; an anchor member having an upper body portion and a lower body portion, said lower body portion comprising two spaced apart wall parts extending downwardly of said upper body portion with inner faces of said wall parts spaced facing each other, and a retainer web carried fixedly to a lower terminus of said wall parts, said upper body portion having a threaded through bore passing from at least an upper body portion top end to a location where said upper body portion has a juncture with said wall parts, a first end of said stud being threadedly receivable into said threaded bore, said retainer web having a central opening therein aligned with said upper body threaded bore; a hold down nut threadedly receivable on a second opposite end of said stud; a first washer encircling said lower body wall parts and slidably moveable on said wall parts between said retainer web and the juncture of said wall parts with said upper body part; wherein said upper body portion includes an upper section of cylindrical shape, and a lower section of frusto-conical shape, said first washer being made of a deformable material to enable a non-reversible force passage of said first washer over the lower frusto-conical section thereby to elongate the washer in one direction and laterally minimize the washer in a second direction thereby preventing unintended removal of said first washer from said wall parts but allowing a sliding of said first washer on said wall parts, and connection of the toilet to the closet flange bolt assembly being effected by threading the stud into the anchor member and locating the first washer on the lower body portion proximal the wall parts-upper body portion juncture, followed by inserting the lower body portion through the closet flange slot entry region to locate the retainer web below an underface structure of said closet flange adjacent the flange slotted opening and then sliding said lower body along the flange arcuate opening to a desired location, then receiving an opening in a base part of a toilet bowl around said stud, rotating said stud downwardly in said anchor member to a desired height above a top surface of said toilet bottom part, followed by mounting said hold down nut on said stud and tightening the assembly components together with the hold down nut to affix the toilet bowl to the closet flange.