TOILET SYSTEM

• US 20140223655A1
• Filed: 03/17/2014
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sandra Eileen Dillard
• Original Assignee: Sandra Eileen Dillard
• Inventors: DILLARD, SANDRA EILEEN
• Application Number:
  US14/215,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20140223655A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 4/300.3
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 13/04 Buffers for seats
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 13/24 Parts or details not covered in, or of interest apart from, groups A47K13/02 - A47K13/22, e.g. devices imparting a swinging or vibrating motion to the seats

Abstract

A urine guard is removably positionable on a toilet bowl of the type having vertical interior and exterior edges and a horizontal edge there between. The urine guard has a generally triangular configuration with a long leg above the exterior edge. The urine guard has an apex interiorly of the interior edge at a height beneath the horizontal edge. The urine guard has a vertical wall with a maximum height above the long leg and with a minimum height adjacent to the apex and with no vertical wall at the apex.

Claims

1. A urine guard removably positionable on a toilet bowl of the type having vertical interior and exterior edges and a horizontal edge there between, the urine guard having a generally triangular configuration with a long leg above the exterior edge, the urine guard having an apex interiorly of the interior edge at a height beneath the horizontal edge, the urine guard having a vertical wall with a maximum height above the long leg and with a minimum height adjacent to the apex and with no vertical wall at the apex.

2. The urine guard as set forth in claim 1 and further including:

an attachment assembly extending downwardly to encompass the interior and exterior and horizontal edges of the toilet bowl.

3. The urine guard as set forth in claim 1 and further including:

an attachment assembly extending downwardly to encompass a seal of the toilet bowl.

4. The urine guard as set forth in claim 3 and further including:

an attachment assembly having a downwardly facing recess for the receipt of a finger of the seal.

5. A toilet system (10) for abating the escape of urine and odor from a toilet and from the space between a toilet bowl and a toilet seat and from the space between the toilet seat and toilet lid, the abating of urine and odor being done in a safe, sanitary, clean and economic manner, the system comprising:

the toilet bowl (20) having a generally hemispherical interior surface (22) and a generally hemispherical exterior surface (24) larger than the interior surface, the interior and exterior surfaces forming a horizontal upper edge (26) with an annular configuration, the interior and exterior surfaces forming a lip (28) of a first thickness adjacent to the upper edge, the interior and exterior surfaces beneath the lip having a thin second thickness less than the first thickness, the interior surface forming a horizontal ledge beneath the lip (30), the toilet bowl being fabricated of a rigid ceramic material;

a seal (34) having an annular base (36) positioned upon the lip, the seal having an interior edge (38) positioned upon the lip above the interior surface, the seal having an exterior edge (40) positioned upon the lip above the exterior surface, the seal having a central extent spaced above the lip, the seal having an upstanding finger (42) with a lower end integrally formed with the base above the central extent, the upstanding finger having a lower extent (44) in a linear configuration extending outwardly from the vertical at an angle of less than 15 degrees, the upstanding finger having an upper extent (46) extending outwardly from the vertical at an angle of greater than 15 degrees;

three rotationally spaced coupling projections (50) integrally formed with and extending downwardly from the seal, the coupling projections being circumferentially spaced around the lip, each coupling projection of the three rotationally spaced coupling projections having an inner component (52) terminating in a horizontal segment and encompassing the lip and a portion of the horizontal ledge, each coupling projection of the three rotationally spaced coupling projections having an outer component (54) extending downwardly beneath the horizontal ledge, the seal and the coupling projections being fabricated of an elastomeric material with limited flexibility and resilience, the elastomeric material being chosen from the class of elastomeric materials including plastic and rubber, natural and synthetic, and blends thereof;

a toilet seat (58) pivotally coupled to the toilet at a rearward region (60), the toilet seat movable between a raised position out of contact with the seal and a lowered position in contact with the seal thus urging the central extent of the base in close proximity to the lip of the toilet and pivoting the finger downwardly and outwardly to eliminate any opening between the seat and the toilet for abating odor from the toilet escaping into surrounding environs;

a toilet lid (64) pivotally coupled to the toilet at the rearward region (66), an annular ring (68) extending downwardly from the toilet lid, the toilet lid movable between a raised position out of contact with the toilet seat and a lowered position with the annular ring in contact with the toilet seat, the annular ring being fabricated of an elastomeric material with limited flexibility and resilience, the elastomeric material being chosen from the class of elastomeric materials including plastic and rubber, natural and synthetic, and blends thereof;

a urine guard (72) removably positionable on the toilet bowl, the toilet bowl having a vertical interior edge (68) and a vertical exterior edge (70) and a horizontal edge there between, the urine guard being positionable on a forward section of the toilet bowl, the urine guard having a generally triangular configuration with a long leg (74) above the exterior edge at an elevated height, the urine guard having an apex (76) interiorly of the interior edge at a height beneath the horizontal edge of the toilet bowl, the urine guard having a vertical wall (82) with a maximum height above the long leg and with a minimum height adjacent to the apex and with no vertical wall at the apex whereby urine sprayed outwardly by a young male user will enter the urine guard and fall into the toilet, the urine guard having an attachment assembly (78) extending downwardly to encompass the interior and exterior and horizontal edges of the toilet bowl, the attachment assembly having a downwardly facing recess (80) for the receipt of the finger of the seal, the urine guard being fabricated of an elastomeric material with limited flexibility and resilience, the elastomeric material being chosen from the class of elastomeric materials including plastic and rubber, natural and synthetic, and blends thereof, the urine guard adapted to compress when the seat is lowered to contact the urine guard.