Toilet bowl mounting assembly

Abstract

A toilet bowl mounting assembly includes a toilet bowl holder and a guiding frame. The toilet bowl holder has an abutting surface and two extending arms with a first positioning structure. The abutting surface is adapted to abut an internal circumference of a front side of a bottom portion of a toilet. The two extending arms are spaced and extend away from the abutting surface in an extending direction. The guiding frame includes two guiding arms and a connecting rod connecting two guiding arms. Two ends of each of the guiding arms are disposed with a second positioning structure and a restricting column. Each of the second positioning structures is detachably engaged with one of the first positioning structures to restrict the guiding frame from moving relative to the toilet bowl holder in the extending direction. A method of positioning the toilet by using the toilet bowl mounting assembly is provided herewith.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A toilet bowl mounting assembly, which is adapted to position a toilet, wherein a bottom portion of the toilet has two mounting holes; the toilet bowl mounting assembly comprises:
 a toilet bowl holder comprising an abutting portion and two extending arms, wherein the abutting portion has an abutting surface that is adapted to abut against an inner circumference of a front side of the bottom portion of the toilet; the two extending arms are connected to the abutting portion and are spaced apart from each other; the two extending arms extend away from the abutting portion in an extending direction that is away from the abutting surface; each of the two extending arms has a first positioning structure; and   a guiding frame comprising two guiding arms and a connecting rod, wherein each of two ends of the connecting rod is connected to one of the two guiding arms; each of the two guiding arms has a first end and a second end that is opposite to the first end; the first end of each of the two guiding arms is disposed with a second positioning structure, and the second end of each of the two guiding arms is disposed with a restricting column;   wherein each of the second positioning structures is detachably engaged with one of the first positioning structures to restrict the guiding frame from moving relative to the toilet bowl holder along the extending direction.   
     
     
         2 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first positioning structure of each of the two extending arms comprises a plurality of restricting structures, and the plurality of restricting structures are arranged along the extending direction; the second positioning structure of each of the two guiding arms is a protruding column; each of the protruding columns is engaged with one of the restricting structures on each of the two extending arms to restrict the guiding frame from moving relative to the toilet bowl holder along the extending direction. 
     
     
         3 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the toilet bowl holder further comprises a strengthen rod that is connected between the two extending arms, and the strengthen rod has a fixing hole. 
     
     
         4 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 3 , wherein each of the two extending arms has a perforation, the perforations are long holes, and the fixing hole of the strengthen rod is circular. 
     
     
         5 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein a distance between the two extending arms is gradually increased along the extending direction. 
     
     
         6 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the abutting portion has a bottom surface, a connecting surface, and a curve surface; the bottom surface is adapted to touch a mounting surface; the connecting surface connects the two extending arms; the curve surface constitutes the abutting surface; the curve surface gradually approaches to the connecting surface in a direction from the bottom surface to a top of the abutting portion. 
     
     
         7 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein each of the two extending arms has a first section and a second section, and the first section is located between the abutting portion and the second section; the first section of each of the two extending arms has a perforation; the second section of each of the two extending arms has the plurality of restricting structures. 
     
     
         8 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the plurality of restricting structures comprises a plurality of restricting recesses or a plurality of restricting holes. 
     
     
         9 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the toilet bowl holder is defined to have a central plane, and the central plane passes through a middle line of the abutting surface and is perpendicular to a bottom surface of the abutting portion, which contacts with a mounting surface; the plurality of the restricting structures on one of the two extending arms is symmetrical to the plurality of the restricting structures on the other one of the two extending arms about the central plane. 
     
     
         10 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 5 , wherein the abutting portion has a bottom surface, and the bottom surface is a flat surface that is adapted to touch a mounting surface; the first end of each of the two guiding arms has a first elastic section, and the protruding column is disposed at the first elastic section of each of the two guiding arms, and the first elastic sections of the two guiding arms could be elastically deformed along the horizontal plane that is parallel to the bottom surface, thereby adjusting the distance between the two protruding columns. 
     
     
         11 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 10 , wherein the second end of each of the two guiding arms has a second elastic section, and the restricting column is disposed at the second elastic section of each of the two guiding arms; the two second elastic sections are deformable along the horizontal plane; each of the two guiding arms further comprises a middle section, and the middle section is connected between the first elastic section and the second elastic section; a width of the first elastic section is smaller than a width of the middle section, and a width of the second elastic section is smaller than the width of the middle section. 
     
     
         12 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 10 , wherein a distance between the horizontal plane and a bottom end of each of the restricting columns is defined as a first height; a distance between the horizontal plane and a bottom end of each of the protruding columns is defined as a second height; a distance between the horizontal plane and the extending plane is defined as a third height; the first height is greater than the third height, and the second height is smaller than or equal to the third height. 
     
     
         13 . The toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein a distance between the two guiding arms of the guiding frame is gradually increased along the extending direction. 
     
     
         14 . A toilet bowl holder, comprising:
 an abutting portion having an abutting surface, wherein the abutting surface is adapted to abut against an inner circumference of a front side of a bottom portion of a toilet;   two extending arms connected to the abutting portion and spaced apart from each other; the two extending arms extend away from the abutting portion in an extending direction; each of the two extending arms has a first positioning structure.   
     
     
         15 . The toilet bowl holder as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein the first positioning structure comprises a plurality of restricting holes that is arranged along the extending direction. 
     
     
         16 . The toilet bowl holder as claimed in  claim 15 , wherein the abutting portion is an arc-shaped body, and the abutting portion has a bottom surface, a connecting surface, and a curve surface; the bottom surface is adapted to touch a mounting surface; the connecting surface is connected to the two extending arms; the curve surface constitutes the abutting surface, and the curve surface gradually approaches to the connecting surface in a direction from the bottom surface to a top of the abutting portion. 
     
     
         17 . A method of positioning the toilet by using the toilet bowl mounting assembly as claimed in  claim 1 , comprising following steps:
 A) inserting each of the two restricting columns on the guiding frame into one of the two mounting holes of the toilet;   B) adjusting a position of the toilet bowl holder along the extending direction to allow the abutting surface of the toilet bowl holder to abut against the inner circumference of the front side of the bottom portion of the toilet, and engaging the first positioning structure with the second positioning structure to restrict the guiding frame from moving relative to the toilet bowl holder in the extending direction;   C) turing the toilet bowl mounting assembly upside down and putting the toilet bowl mounting assembly on the mounting surface to allow each of the two restricting columns of the guiding frame is inserted into one of the two slots of the toilet flange on the mounting surface, thereby positioning the toilet bowl holder;   D) putting the toilet on the mounting surface to allow the inner circumference of the front side of the bottom portion of the toilet to be abutted against the abutting surface of the toilet bowl holder.   
     
     
         18 . The method as claimed in  claim 17 , wherein in the step C, after the toilet bowl mounting assembly is positioned, the toilet bowl holder is fixed to the mounting surface. 
     
     
         19 . The method as claimed in  claim 18 , wherein in the step C, after the toilet bowl holder is fixed to the mounting surface, the guiding frame is removed.