Toilet seat lifting assembly

• US 6,351,856 B1
• Filed: 02/09/2001
• Issued: 03/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Anthony G. Browne
• Original Assignee: Anthony G. Browne
• Inventors: Browne, Anthony G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Huson, Gregory L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, HUYEN D
• Application Number:
  US09/780,155
• Time in Patent Office: 389 Days
• Field of Search: 424/61, 424/62, 424/63, 424/64, 424/65
• US Class Current: 4/246.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 13/10 Devices for raising and lowering, e.g. tilting or lifting mechanismsthereby controlling flushing valves E03D5/04; Collapsible or rotating seats or covers

Abstract

A toilet seat lifting assembly for providing a more sanitary and easier way of raising and lifting a toilet seat. The toilet seat lifting assembly includes a lift member being adapted to be securely attached upon a toilet stool and being securely attached to a toilet seat; and also includes a lift activation assembly being connected to the lift member for energizing the lift member to lift the toilet seat.

Claims

1. A toilet seat lifting assembly comprising:

a lift member being adapted to be securely attached upon a toilet stool and being securely attached to a toilet seat; and

a lift activation assembly being connected to said lift member for energizing said lift member to lift the toilet seat;

wherein said lift member includes a hydraulic cylinder embedded in a rim of the toilet stool and extended upwardly therefrom, and a piston being attached to a seal member and being movably disposed in and out of said hydraulic cylinder and being attached to an underside of the toilet seat for lifting the toilet seat.

2. A toilet seat lifting assembly as described in claim 1, wherein said lift activation assembly includes a hose being connected to said hydraulic cylinder, and also includes a hydraulic pump being connected to said hose, and further includes a hydraulic fluid reservoir being connected to said hydraulic pump and to said hose for supplying hydraulic fluid to said hydraulic cylinder.

3. A toilet seat lifting assembly as described in claim 2, wherein said hydraulic pump includes a base housing, and also includes a foot pedal being hingedly attached to said base housing, and further includes a cylinder member being disposed in said base housing and being connected to said hose, and also includes a plunger being movably disposed in said cylinder member, and further includes a linkage member being attached to said plunger and to said foot pedal for moving said plunger within said cylinder member and for urging hydraulic fluid through said hose to said hydraulic cylinder which urges said piston out of said hydraulic cylinder, said hose extending through a wall of said base housing.

4. A toilet seat lifting assembly as described in claim 2, wherein said lift activation assembly further includes a motion-detecting sensor being adapted to mount upon a wall structure which is located behind the toilet, and being connected to said hydraulic pump which is adapted to be securely mounted to a base of the wall structure.

5. A toilet seat lifting assembly as described in claim 2, wherein said lift activation assembly further includes an on/off switch being adapted to be securely mounted upon a wall structure and being connected with wires to said hydraulic pump for the energizing of said hydraulic pump.

6. A toilet seat lifting assembly comprising:

a lift member being adapted to be securely attached upon a toilet stool and being securely attached to a toilet seat, said lift member including a hydraulic cylinder embedded in a rim of the toilet stool and extended upwardly therefrom, and also including a piston and being attached to a seal member and being movably disposed in and out of said hydraulic cylinder and being attached to an underside of the toilet seat; and

a lift activation assembly being connected to said lift member for energizing said lift member to lift the toilet seat, said lift activation assembly including a hose being connected to said hydraulic cylinder, and also including a hydraulic pump being connected to said hose, and further including a hydraulic fluid reservoir being connected to said hydraulic pump and to said hose for supplying hydraulic fluid to said hydraulic cylinder.

7. A toilet seat lifting assembly as described in claim 6, wherein said hydraulic pump includes a base housing, and also includes a foot pedal being hingedly attached to said base housing, and further includes a cylinder member being disposed in said base housing and being connected to said hose, and also includes a plunger being movably disposed in said cylinder member, and further includes a linkage member being attached to said plunger and to said foot pedal for moving said plunger within said cylinder member and for urging hydraulic fluid through said hose to said hydraulic cylinder which urges said piston out of said hydraulic cylinder, said hose extending through a wall of said base housing.

8. A toilet seat lifting assembly as described in claim 6, wherein said lift activation assembly further includes a motion-detecting sensor being adapted to mount upon a wall structure which is located behind the toilet, and being connected to said hydraulic pump which is adapted to be securely mounted to a base of the wall structure.

9. A toilet seat lifting assembly as described in claim 6, wherein said lift activation assembly further includes an on/off switch being adapted to be securely mounted upon a wall structure and being connected with wires to said hydraulic pump for the energizing of said hydraulic pump.