Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Seat and lid – Hinges
Patent
1998-07-07
2000-02-22
Fetsuga, Robert M.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Seat and lid
Hinges
4248, A47K 1312
Patent
active
060265205
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to a toilet cover assembly comprising a seat and a cover, each being pivotally connected with a bracket about a common axis by means two interspaced hinges, said bracket provided with fastening means for fastening the bracket to a toilet bowl and said toilet cover assembly further provided with means for releasably connecting the cover and the seat with the bracket.
BACKGROUND ART
DE-C2-31 19 622 discloses a toilet cover assembly of the above type, in which the seat and the cover each is provided with two interspaced hinge bearings, the hinge bearings of the cover being slightly more interspaced than the hinge bearings of the seat. The bracket is provided with two hinge pins each displaceable between a position in which they engage each of the adjacent bearings and a position in which they disengage said bearings. The seat and the cover is not hingedly interconnected, when they are detached from the bracket. As a result, when mounting the seat and the cover on the bracket, the hinge bearings of the seat and cover are to be accurately aligned with each other and with the two hinge pins, and at the same time the two hinge pins are to be moved into the engagement position with the hinge bearings. This is not a simple task for a single person.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to provide a toilet cover assembly of the above type facilitating the release and in particular the fastening of the seat and the cover to the bracket.
The toilet cover assembly according to the invention is characterised in that the seat and the cover are pivotally interconnected by means of two interspaced hinges of the pin/bearing type each comprising a hinge member fixedly secured to the seat and a hinge member fixedly secured to the cover, one of the hinge members provided with a protruding pin and the other hinge member provided with a bearing for receiving the pin, said seat hinge members and cover hinge members being arranged such on the seat and the cover respectively that the hinge pins can be brought into and out of engagement with the hinge bearings by axial displacement of the seat relative to the cover when the seat and the cover are detached from the bracket and that the connecting means for releasably connecting the seat and the cover to the bracket are adapted to releasably connect the bracket with an immediately adjacent hinge member and an immediately adjacent cover hinge member respectively. As a result, the seat and cover are easily attached to and detached from the bracket. When connecting the seat and the cover with the bracket, the pin/bearing-type hinges of the seat and the cover are aligned and the seat and the cover are subsequently mutually axially displaced to bring the pins and bearings of the hinges into interengagement. An assembly is thus obtained, wherein the seat and the cover both are arranged correctly relative to each other due to their mutual hinge connection. The assembly of the seat and the cover can then be connected with the bracket without difficulty, the correct mutual position of the seat and the cover as stated ensured by the hinge connection. Correspondingly, when detaching the seat and the cover from the bracket, these are also hingedly interconnected as an assembly and when detached from the bracket the seat and cover can be separated by displacing them axially relative to each other such that the pins and bearings of the hinges are brought out of engagement with one another. Subsequently hereto the seat and the cover can advantageously be cleaned individually prior to being re-interconnected and attached to the bracket as an assembly.
As the seat and the cover each are provided with a hinge member adjacent the bracket, the toilet cover assembly according to the invention is further advantageous in connection with embodiments comprising a damper for damping the movement of the seat and the cover from the raised position to the lowered position in that the damper advantageously may be easily arranged in the bracke
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Fetsuga Robert M.
Pressalit A/S
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