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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
V-t Industries Inc., Holstein, IA (US);
Joel D. Tyler, Cushing, IA (US);
V-T Industries Inc., Holstein, IA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing a sink basin having a coupled drain assembly for interchangeably coupling a drain and a garbage disposal are described. In an aspect, a sink basin drain assembly includes, but is not limited to, a drain body defining an interior; a collar extending outwardly from the drain body and terminating at an exterior edge and tapering from the exterior edge to an aperture fluidically coupled with the interior, the exterior edge configured to couple with an inwardly extending interior lip on a bottom portion of a flanged drain housing, the collar including a collar seal configured to abut an upper surface of the; and a drain shield including a base and sidewalls extending upwardly from the base, the sidewalls configured to interface with the bottom portion of the flanged drain housing to push the lip against the collar seal.