American Standard working on uncloggable toilet!

[TheMightyFavog]

http://news.com.com/Can+American+Standard+design+an+uncloggable+toilet/2100-7337_3-5676217.html?tag=sas.email

In one room, 12 toilets are flushing as if under ghostly control; an electronic machine is pulling the virtual levers--and manipulating water temperature and pressure as well. In smaller rooms nearby, one man is alternately flushing cylinders of miso paste, wadded-up paper, and as many as 24 golf balls at a time, while another is inspecting different glazes on ceramic tiles.

Men and machines are testing and retesting the Champion, a low-to-medium priced but technically advanced toilet. American Standard, the world's largest maker of bathroom and kitchen products, has promised consumers that the Champion will never clog


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Analysts say the Champion, which uses a complicated flushing "tower" instead of the familiar flapper and chain, may yet make the company's name synonymous with more upscale products.

[DS1]

1. Build a shit-proof toilet, and the world will build a bigger shitter

;-)

[Squatch]

2. Give me 25...35 minutes...I'll clog it.

[Blue-Jay]

3. I say we let Hedges have a go at it.

uncloggable, my...err...ass.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. I'll clog it but good.

:hurts:

[TheMightyFavog]

4. If you're shitting the equivalent volume of 24 golf balls in one sitting,

something is seriously wrong with you.

[DS1]

6. Either that or you're a broke college student at the all-you-can-eat

Indian Buffet ;-)

[MrsMatt]

5. Sign me up!

I have a seven year-old daughter who has been clogging up our toilets with her "Moby Shits" (as my husband & I affectionately term them) since she got out of diapers.

She's afraid to flush the toilets in private homes after a bowel movement, and with good reason.

[giant_robot]

7. Sounds like a challenge to me.

*gets some bran flakes*

[China_cat]

8. If they want to really test it

Put one in a service station rest room. That'll tell you whether it's cloggable or not.

[jmowreader]

15. Service station restroom toilets are tankless

This toilet won't work there.

[China_cat]

16. Not any that I've ever been in.

[name not needed]

9. This needs to be tested

Someone get me a crave case from White Castle.

[TheMightyFavog]

10. This may be my Wisconsin prejudices showing, but...

Kohler > American Standard

[TheMightyFavog]

11. But then again, nothing can beat the mighty Ferguson!

[Bouncy Ball]

12. This whole thread made me laugh.

And I'm wondering why no one has used that smilie yet.....

[jmowreader]

13. "Working" on it, my ass!

We have been selling Champion toilets for well over a year. They are great toilets. They cost $250 each--$100 for the tank, $150 for the bowl--and everyone who gets one loves it. (This having been said, we don't sell that many of them--they are costly, and people don't want to pay for anything here. "Do you have a broken one you'll sell cheap?" is how too many customers start conversations with me. We sell the shit out of the $45 Mexican toilets, which are better than a bucket.)

What makes the toilet work so well isn't necessarily the flushing tower, but the combination of the "comfort/ADA height" bowl (which holds the water higher than on a regular toilet) and the enlarged hole to let the water run from the tank to the bowl.