Combination night light and sterilizing holder for toilet articles

• US 4,088,445 A
• Filed: 01/13/1977
• Issued: 05/09/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Douglas G. Ellis
• Original Assignee: Douglas G. Ellis
• Inventors: Ellis, Douglas G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wolk, Morris O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phillips, Roger F.
• Application Number:
  US05/758,942
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: 312/206, 21/83, 21/102 R, 250/455
• US Class Current: 312/207
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 1/09 Holders for drinking glasses, tooth brushes, hair brushes, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/10 Ultraviolet radiation

Abstract

A hollow body member has a plurality of side opening pockets at the upper portion thereof to receive toilet articles such as toothbrushes. The inner ends of the pockets have openings into the interior of the body member providing exposure to sterilizing radiation from an uncoated portion of a light bulb supported within the housing. The light emitted from the coated portion serves as a night light. At the top of the holder is a shelf for supporting containers thereon in inverted relation whereby the containers are also sterilized by the bulb.

Claims

1. A combination night light and sterilizing holder for toilet articles comprising

(a) a hollow body portion having surrounding side walls and a bottom wall,

(b) a top wall on said body member having a vertical opening therein,

(c) radially extending vertical partition means on said top wall around a portion of said opening and forming pockets which are open at their outward ends for receiving toilet articles and which are also open at their inward ends,

(d) means on said cover arranged to limit inward positioning of toilet articles in said pockets,

(e) shelf means on said cover disposed above said vertical opening for supporting a container in inverted relation,

(f) a vertical opening in said shelf means aligned vertically with the opening in said top wall,

(g) a light bulb socket on said bottom wall,

(h) and a sterilizing light bulb in said socket projecting through said opening in the top wall and extending at its upper end to a height adjacent said opening in the shelf means,

(i) said bulb having a lower coated portion serving as a night light,

(j) said bulb having an upper uncoated portion extending from its upper end down to an area adjacent the inward open ends of said pockets to direct sterilizing rays through the open inner ends of said pockets to sterilize toilet articles therein and also to direct sterilizing rays upward through the opening in said shelf means to sterilize a container on the shelf means.

2. The combination night light and sterilizing holder for toilet articles of claim 1 wherein said top wall and said shelf means are inclined downwardly toward the interior of said body member, and drain means in said top wall and shelf means at a lower portion thereof to drain off liquids from a container on the shelf means or toilet articles in the pockets.

3. The combination night light and sterilizing holder for toilet articles of claim 1 wherein said top wall is removable to provide access to the interior of said body member.