Toilet Device of the Pierced Chair Type Including a Box Designed from a Pre-Cut Planar Blank and a Collection Bag

• US 20100180370A1
• Filed: 05/21/2008
• Published: 07/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CLEANIS COMPANY
• Original Assignee: CLEANIS COMPANY
• Inventors: Helewa, Laurent
• Granted Patent: US 8,510,877 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 4/484
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 11/04 Room closets; Chairs with toilet conveniences or specially adapted for use with toilets, e.g. night chairs ; Closets for children, also with signalling means, e.g. with a music box, or the like

Abstract

A toilet device including a box assembled from a flat pre-cut cardboard blank and a urine and faeces collection bag includes (i) a box furnishing by way of folding and consolidation, an opening (2) in its panel (1) serving as a seat, a least two double sidewalls produced by a consolidation of angularly spaced panels (12/10a and 12a/10) and a double wall on the level of the bottom produced by the consolidation of the panels (20, 20a) and (ii) a collection bag impervious to gases and liquids, in particular made of plastic, whose upper peripheral part entirely covers the panel (1) which serves as a seat and whose bottom which contains a gelling agent, dips into the said opening (2), the said bag being fixed during use to the said box by the V slots (70, 71) and half-V slots (70a, 71a).

Claims

1. A readily assembled toilet of the commode type, having at least one pre-cut flat blank without making use of an adhesive, adhesive tape or staples, comprising:

a cardboard box with, in its upper part, a horizontal panel serving as a seat and provided with an opening connecting an internal cavity of the said box to the outside; and

a single-use collection bag for urine and faeces impervious to gases and liquids, which extends through the said opening into a portion of the said internal cavity, the said device which comprises flat panels being interconnected by folding ribs, further comprising;

at least two double sidewalls comprised of panels adjusted into vertical position and consolidated by a set of extension feet and of homologous slots;

a bottom which is a double horizontal wall, comprised of the covering of two panels consolidated by at least one extension foot on one of them and at least one homologous slot on the other;

two V-shaped slots provided on the vertical ribs opposite one another of the said box, the apex of the V being directed downwards and the branches of each V extending obliquely in the direction of the horizontal panel serving as a seat, whose mass of side panels is connected to each of the said vertical ribs, each internal panel of the double side walls comprising a half-V slot, which must be disengaged opposite the branch of the V of the outside panel covering during the formation of the said double walls; and

a collection bag impervious to gases and liquids, in particular made of plastic, whose upper peripheral part completely covers the panel which serves as a seat and whose bottom containing a gelling agent, drops through the said opening into the internal cavity of the said box, the said bag being fastened during use to the said box by the said V slots, by at least one sliding fastener inserted into a hem running along the entire length of the open top of the said bag.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein said panel serving as a seat is polygonal, has an even number 2n of sides and has as vertical symmetrical axis, the axis of the box, n being a whole number equal to, or greater than 2.

3. A device according to claim 2, wherein said panel serving as a seat is connected to at least two series, each of n+1 panels;

to a first series of panels along one folding rib via panel located between panels N°

1 and N°

n+1; and

to at least a second series of panels analogous to the first and angularly offset to the latter at an angle of b 2π

/n, (where n=4, 2π

/3 (where n=3) or π

(where n=2)

4. A device according to claim 2, wherein the number of double side walls goes from 2 (where n=2) to n (where n is greater than 2) and wherein said double walls are formed by the consolidation of a first panel of one series with the last panel of the series which follows angularly.

5. A device according to claim 1, further comprising a cover having a panel (5) connected by a horizontal folding rib to panel serving as a seat and comprising at least one extension foot destined, on the closure of the said cover, to enter perpendicularly into a corresponding slot provided in the said panel serving as a seat.

6. A device according to claim 1, wherein said panel serving as a seat is rectangular or better still, square (n=2) is connected to the said first series comprising three lateral side panels via a fold connecting it to the central panel of the said first series and to the second series opposite angularly offset by an angle π

via fold connecting it to the central panel of the said second series, the double side panels being formed by the consolidation of two at a time of the outermost side panels.

7. A device according to claim 1, wherein said single use collection bag which is impervious to gases and liquids is made of plastic or of a composite material of the type where the outside is of paper or of woven or non-woven fabric and the inside of plastic and by the fact that the said bag contains a gelling agent which swells on contact with water from urine or faeces absorbing the said urine and coating the said faeces.

8. A device according to claim 7, wherein said collection bag also contains a deodorant, to eliminate the unpleasant mephitic odours.

9. A flat pre-cut cardboard blank able to be used for assembling the box of the toilet device of the commode type according to claim 1, comprising:

a square central panel (1) provided with a cover (2) destined to receive following assembly, the said collection bag and if necessary, comprising at least one slot (3, 3a) making it possible to keep a cover (5) in closed position

a first series of three panels (10, 11, 12) with two folding lines which must constitute folding ribs following assembly, one (81) between the panels (10) and (11), the other (82) between the panels (11) and (12), the said first series being connected by a folding line (80) to the said panel (1) which must serve as a seat located between the said panes (1) and (11)

a second series of three panels (10a, 11a, 12a) analogous to the said first series and offset by an angle π

, the outermost panels (10 and respectively 12) of the first series being each provided with an extension foot (51 and respectively 52) destined to enter, for consolidation, the corresponding slot (51a and respectively 52a) arranged in the vicinity of the folding line (82a and respectively 81a) of the outermost panel homologous with the central panel (11a) of the second series on the one hand and the outermost panels (12a and respectively 10a) of the second series, each being provided with another extension foot (53 and respectively 54) destined to enter the corresponding clot (53a and respectively 54a) arranged in the vicinity of the corresponding folding line (81 and respectively 82) of the panels of the first series on the other hand.

a panel (20) connected means of a folding line (83) to centre panel (11) of the first series of panels on the side opposite panel (1) having to serve as a seat and a homologous panel (20a) connected to centre panel (11a) of the second series of panels, the said panels (20, 20a) forming, following assembly, the double wall of the bottom of the box, at least one extension foot (60, 61) provided on one of the two panels (20, 20a) and the corresponding slot (60a, 61a) provided on the other one serving for their consolidation and

a panel (5) connected by a folding line (90) to the said panel (1) which must serve as a seat, the said panel (5) having to serve as a cover able to rotate around the said folding line (90) and arranged in a gap between the first and the second series of panels, the said cover being provided with at least one foot (4, 4a) to enter, on being closed perpendicularly, into the corresponding slot (3, 3a) of the said panel (1).

10. The use of a toilet commode according to claim 1, comprising a collection bag impervious to gases and liquids in which a gelling agent, which swells on contact with water is associated with a to eliminate mephitic odours.