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2. Closet flange - Wikipedia

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   PVC closet flange with steel flange, before installation. closet flange (also known as a toilet flange) is a pipe fitting (specifically, a type of flange) that both mounts a toilet to the floor and connects the closet bend to a drain pipe. The name comes from the term "water closet", the traditional name for a toilet. Closet flanges are ...

3. Plumbing fixture - Wikipedia

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   These are traditionally made out of beeswax. However, their proper sealing depends on proper seating of the water closet, on a firm and secure base (floor), and on proper installation of the closet bolts which secure the closet to the flange, which is in turn supposed to be securely fastened to the floor. [1]

4. Orthometric height - Wikipedia

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   The orthometric height (symbol H) is the vertical distance along the plumb line from a point of interest to a reference surface known as the geoid, the vertical datum that approximates mean sea level. [1] [2] Orthometric height is one of the scientific formalizations of a layman's "height above sea level", along with other types of heights in ...

5. Bidet - Wikipedia

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   In 1980, the first "paperless toilet" was launched in Japan by manufacturer Toto, [20] a combination of toilet and bidet which also dries the user after washing. These combination toilet-bidets ( washlet ) with seat warmers, or attachable bidets are particularly popular in Japan and South Korea, and are found in approximately 76% of Japanese ...

6. Flush toilet - Wikipedia

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   If the toilet is flushed from a tank, a large holding cistern is mounted above the toilet, containing approximately 4.5 to 6 L (1.2 to 1.6 US gallons) of water in modern designs. This tank is built with a large drain 50 to 75 mm (2 to 3 inches) diameter hole at its bottom covered by a flapper valve that allows the water to rapidly leave the ...

7. Diaphragm valve - Wikipedia

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   Many diaphragm valve body dimensions follow the Manufacturers Standardization Society MSS SP-88 [1] However, most non-diaphragm valves used in industrial applications are built to the ANSI/ASME B16.10 standard.

8. Floor and ceiling functions - Wikipedia

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   In mathematics, the floor function is the function that takes as input a real number x, and gives as output the greatest integer less than or equal to x, denoted ⌊x⌋ or floor(x). Similarly, the ceiling function maps x to the least integer greater than or equal to x , denoted ⌈ x ⌉ or ceil( x ) .

9. Sliding door - Wikipedia

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   Sliding doors are commonly found as store, hotel, and office entrances, used in elevators, and used as patio doors, closet doors and room dividers. [7] Sliding doors are also used in transportation, such as in vans and both overground and underground trains. Volkswagen used these doors in the Volkswagen Fridolin produced between 1964 and 1974.