Urination deflector

• US 4,716,602 A
• Filed: 09/20/1985
• Issued: 01/05/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Todd Brickhouse
• Original Assignee: Todd Brickhouse
• Inventors: Brickhouse, Todd
• Primary Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sholl, Linda J.
• Application Number:
  US06/778,141
• Time in Patent Office: 837 Days
• Field of Search: 4/144.1-144.4, 4/300.3, 4/301, 4/307, 4/462, 4/237, 4/242, 4/DIG. 5, 229/106, 229/190
• US Class Current: 4/237
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 13/08 Covers with urine funnels
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 4/05 Urine guards

Abstract

A urination deflector for attachment to a toilet seat is formed using a sheet of flexible plastic material which is provided with hook and loop fastening arrangements which maintain the device to the toilet seat and provide for folding of the device into its functional configuration.

Claims

1. Apparatus for being fastened to a toilet seat for containing urinary discharges to the associated tolet bowl comprising a relatively flexible sheet having top and bottom surfaces and which in its unflexed state comprises a main central portion, a pair of side portions and a top portion, the side portions and the top portion being adapted to be bent away from the plane of the main portion to form a flexed functional position, said side portions having upper and lower extensions arranged to wrap around the sides of a toilet seat and having separate flexible straps associated with each side portion for surroundig said side portion extensions and a portion of the toilet seat, thereby fastening the sheet to the toilet seat and forming said main central portion into a cylindrical surface, and a pair of hook and loop fastener sets, one half of each being supported on the top portion and one half on the main portion, so disposed that when the top portion is flexed to its functional position the separate halves are mated and the sheet is locked in its functional position.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the half of each fastener on the top portion is on its top surface and the half of each fastener on the main portion is on its bottom surface and the top portion is folded over the main portion in its functional position.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 in which in the functional position the top portion forms essentially the surface of half of a cylinder upwardly closed and downwardly open, one of whose ends is closed by the main central portion.