When you flush the crap away and the toilet bowl's water level goes down as it is sucked, how does the water come back up again?
2007-06-19 19:19:32 · 5 answers · asked by jollypig 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Underneath the back of the toilet there is an S-shaped bend in the pipe. When the toilet is flushed, the water level is raised to the point where this bend acts like a siphon, and the contents of the bowl are "flushed" away. Once that happens, however, air will enter the system from the bowl and the siphoning action will stop. This happens before all the water in the tank is used up, so the remaining water fills the bowl until the level comes back up to the "just before the siphon effect" level.
2007-06-19 19:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by TitoBob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most residential toilets have a tank with a float valve and a supply water line. The float valve measures the amount of water that flows into the tank, which is the amount needed to flush the liquid or solid waste into the sewer line. The float valve shuts off the water when that measured amount of water is in the tank.
When you flush the tank a valve on the bottom, known as a flapper valve, releases the water from the tank into the bowl of the toilet. In most potties, the longer you hold the flush handle down the more water is released. The tank usually contains more water than is needed for a flush. You can use less water for a liquid flush and more water for a solid flush.
When the flapper valve drops back into place it stops the flow of water into the bowl and allows the tank to refill.
Most toilets don't suck the matter down, but wash it down by gravity flow. The water from the tank will replace the water that goes down with the liquid or solid waste.
Some toilets use an air pressure flush system instead of a float valve, but the general principle is the same. Measured water supply into the bowl.
2007-06-19 19:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by Warren D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Part of the flushing water is let down late to refill the bowl.
the water sits in an s bend formed in the toilet so that
gasses in the sewer don't come back up into your home.
all plumbing fixtures are equipped with these water traps.
2007-06-19 19:32:40 · answer #3 · answered by wise old sage 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theres an S cuved pipe.
2007-06-19 19:28:56 · answer #4 · answered by andy t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
through the water and plumbing system
2007-06-19 19:24:58 · answer #5 · answered by mary b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋