Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Flush closet seat assist to raise user
Patent
1996-03-11
1997-01-14
Recla, Henry J.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Flush closet seat assist to raise user
297DIG10, A47K 1310
Patent
active
055927033
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus is provided for moving a toilet seat between a lowered position immediately above a toilet bowl and a raised position above the toilet bowl to assist a physically disabled person to use a toilet. The apparatus includes a toilet seat having a passageway therethrough, a baseplate positioned about the base of a toilet bowl, and a pair of fluid power cylinders supporting the toilet seat for vertical movement between a lowered position immediately above the toilet bowl and an raised position from which the person can easily move between a standing position and a position at least partially supported on the toilet seat. Each of the cylinders has a piston rod extending downwardly therefrom and connected to the baseplate. Fluid lines provide pressurized fluid to the cylinders through the passageway in the toilet seat. Control means deliver the pressurized fluid to the cylinders to raise the toilet seat from the lowered position to the raised position, and exhaust pressurized fluid from the cylinders to lower the toilet seat from the raised position to the lowered position whereby a physically disabled person is assisted down to and up from a seated position immediately above the toilet bowl.
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Drenner, Jr. George L.
Jones David L.
Eloshway Charles R.
Mobility Plus, Inc.
Recla Henry J.
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