US Patent Issued to Sloan Valve on Dec. 16 for "Air inducer assembly for pressurized flush tank" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,770, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sloan Valve Co. (Franklin Park, Ill.).

"Air inducer assembly for pressurized flush tank" was invented by Alexander Blank (Plymouth, Mich.) and Jasris Jasnie (Washington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air inducer assembly includes a housing having a chamber, an outlet located downstream from the chamber for connection to an inlet of a flush tank, a water inlet and an air inlet in communication with the chamber, and a tube extending into the chamber and toward the outlet. The tube has a passage therethrough extending from the air inlet through the tube to place the air inlet in communic...