Portable personal toilet facility device

• US 6,081,943 A
• Filed: 02/03/1997
• Issued: 07/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Codi Garcete
• Original Assignee: Codi Garcete
• Inventors: Garcete, Codi
• Primary Examiner(s): Fetsuga, Robert M.
• Application Number:
  US08/792,773
• Time in Patent Office: 1,247 Days
• Field of Search: 4/476, 4/483, 4/484
• US Class Current: 4/476
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 11/02 Dry closets, e.g. incinerator closets
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 50/30 Against vector-borne diseases, e.g. mosquito-borne, fly-borne, tick-borne or waterborne diseases whose impact is exacerbated by climate change

Abstract

A portable personal toilet facility device that is easily and conveniently carried by one person comprises a case, a seat with an opening, a disposable container detachably attached to the seat effective to receive a waste deposited through the opening, and at least one compartment effective to store the disposable container. The case has a closed configuration that is effective to store the disposable container, the seat, and the waste, without spillage of solids and liquids, and without release of odors, in any orientation position of the case relative to the ground.

Claims

1. A portable personal toilet facility device comprising:

a case;

a seat with an opening effective to allow a waste to pass through said opening;

a disposable container detachably attached to said seat, said disposable container effective to receive said waste deposited through said opening;

said case consisting of a top and a bottom;

first means for sealing said top to said bottom;

at least one compartment in said top effective to store new and used supplies; and

second means for automatically sealing said disposable container connected to said top and said bottom, such that when said top is closed against said bottom, said case has a closed configuration effective to store said new and used supplies, said seat, and said waste, without spillage of solids and liquids, and without release of odors, in any orientation position of said case relative to the ground.

2. A portable personal toilet facility device according to claim 1 wherein said top includes a partition effective to separate one of said at least one compartment from another of said at least one compartment.

3. A portable personal toilet facility device according to claim 1, further including a privacy shield stored in said at least one compartment.

4. A portable personal toilet facility device according to claim 1, further comprising third means for supporting said top in a substantially vertical position when said case is in an open configuration.

5. A portable personal toilet facility device according to claim 4, wherein said second and third means are interconnected.