Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Seat
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-19
2001-05-15
Huson, Gregory L. (Department: 3751)
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Seat
C004S236000, C004S240000, C004S241000, C004S246100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06230335
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A common problem, especially in public toilets, is the failure of male urinators to raise the toilet seat to a vertical position before urinating. As a consequence, such seats are frequently found to be unsanitary, as a result of being soiled by a previous user while urinating from a standing position. Various attempts and practices have been urged in an effort to eliminate this unfortunate and highly disagreeable practice, but to date no satisfactory solution has been found.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
My invention consists of providing a unique mounting for the toilet seat which effectively eliminates the above problem. I have designed a rubber or elastomeric hinge which can be used to mount the toilet seat upon the toilet bowl so as to be maintained normally in an upstanding or vertical position. Thus, if the user wished to utilize the seat, it is a simple matter to swing same to a horizontal orientation. Upon release by the user, the toilet seat is caused, by the inherent memory of the rubber hinge mounting, to return to its prior vertically extending position. The hinge is designed to extend in a planar vertical fashion and to be connected to the under surface of the toilet seat in parallel abutting relation. When the seat is swung to a horizontal position, the rubber hinge is caused to flex out of its plane, thereby inducing stress within the body of the hinge, which urges the seat toward a vertically extending out-of-way position. Upon release, the hinge forces the seat upwardly and, at the same time, relieves the previously induced stress within the hinge.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
In considering this invention, it should be remembered that the present disclosure is illustrative only and the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims.
The primary object of the invention is to provide a mounting for a toilet stool-seat which will insure that such a seat, when not in use, is oriented in a vertical position to thereby obviate the long-experienced problem of toilet seats being left in a soiled condition by non-thinking users of the toilet. As indicated above, I have accomplished this by designing a rubber hinge which is fixedly secured to the under side of the toilet seat and extends parallel thereto, so that when it is mounted upon the toilet stool so as to extend in a vertical direction while not under stress, stress will be induced within the hinge when the seat is swung to a horizontally extending position. This stress, in turn, causes the toilet seat to return to and remain at a vertically extending position, as soon as the seat is released from its horizontally extending position.
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Huson Gregory L.
Huynh Khoa D.
Schroeder & Siegfried P.A.
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