WALKING AID COMBINED WITH A TOILET SEAT

• US 20100243011A1
• Filed: 10/12/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Li-Hua Lin
• Original Assignee: Li-Hua Lin
• Inventors: LIN, Li-Hua
• Application Number:
  US12/577,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20100243011A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 135/66
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0161 Size reducing arrangements when not in use, for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1633 Seat A61H2201/0149 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 3/00 Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about apparatus for helping babies to walk A47D13/04; orthopaedic devices for correcting deformities of, or supporting, limbs A61F5/0102; exercising apparatus for the feet or toes A63B23/10; stairways or ramps E04F11/00

Abstract

A walking aid includes a support, a toilet seat, and a fixing member. The support has left and right frames, and a front frame interconnecting the left and right frames. The toilet seat is mounted pivotally on the support and has a seat plate defining a seat hole. The toilet seat is changeable between a stored position in which the seat plate is entirely supported by the front frame, and a use position in which the seat plate is supported by the left, right and front frames. The fixing member fixes the toilet seat to the support.

Claims

1. A walking aid, comprising:

a support having left and right frames, and a front frame interconnecting said left and right frames;

a toilet seat mounted pivotally on said support and having a seat plate defining a seat hole, said toilet seat being changeable between a stored position in which said seat plate is entirely supported by said front frame, and a use position in which said seat plate is supported by said left, right and front frames; and

a fixing member for fixing said toilet seat to said support.

2. The walking aid of claim 1, wherein said toilet seat further includes a bag holding ring that is adapted to hold a bag and that is attached detachably to a bottom side of said seat plate around said seat hole.

3. The walking aid of claim 2, wherein said toilet seat further includes a ring retainer having a retaining groove, said bag holding ring being fitted detachably in said retaining groove.

4. The walking aid of claim 1, wherein said seat plate has first and second connection portions disposed on two opposite sides of said seat hole, said first connection portion having a pivot connection element pivotally connected to said support, said fixing member having a main rod section lying below said seat plate and fixed to a bottom side of said seat plate, and two fixing rods that project oppositely from two opposite sides of said second connection portion, that are connected respectively to two ends of said main rod section, and that are connectable to said front frame, or said left and right frames.

5. The walking aid of claim 4, wherein each of said left and right frames has front and rear upstanding rods, and a transverse rod interconnecting said front and rear upstanding rods, said fixing rods being connected respectively to said transverse rods of said left and right frames when said toilet seat is at said use position.

6. The walking aid of claim 4, wherein said front frame includes upper and lower rods each having two ends connected respectively to said left and right frames, said fixing rods being connected to said upper rod when said toilet seat is at said stored position.

7. The walking aid of claim 6, wherein said pivot connection element is a C-shaped clamp disposed on said bottom side of said seat plate and clamping rotatably said lower rod.

8. The walking aid of claim 4, wherein said fixing rods are connected telescopically to said main rod section.

9. The walking aid of claim 1, wherein each of said left and right frames has front and rear upstanding rods, a handle rod, and a transverse rod, said handle rod and said transverse rods interconnecting said front and rear upstanding rods, said front frame having upper and lower rods each having two ends connected respectively to said front upstanding rods, said toilet seat being mounted on said front frame when said toilet seat is at said stored position.

10. The walking aid of claim 9, wherein said left and right frames are foldable over said front frame.

11. A toilet seat mountable on a walking aid, comprising:

a seat plate defining a seat hole, and having first and second connection portions disposed on two opposite sides of said seat hole, said first connection portion having a pivot connection element adapted for pivot connection with the walking aid; and

two fixing rods projecting oppositely from two opposite sides of said second connection portion and each having a fixing element adapted to be fixed detachably to the walking aid.

12. The toilet seat of claim 11, further comprising a main rod section lying below said seat plate and fixed to a bottom side of said seat plate, said fixing rods being connected respectively to two ends of said main rod section.

13. The toilet seat of claim 11, further comprising a bag holding ring that is adapted to hold a bag and that is attached detachably to a bottom side of said seat plate around said seat hole.

14. The toilet seat of claim 13, further comprising a ring retainer having a retaining groove, said bag holding ring being fitted detachably in said retaining groove.

15. The toilet seat of claim 11, wherein said seat plate is a foldable seat plate that has at least two seat halves foldably connected to each other.