Toilet plunger sanitizing and storage container system

• US 6,383,457 B1
• Filed: 08/16/2001
• Issued: 05/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Movia E. Brown
• Original Assignee: Movia E. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, Movia E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Warden, Sr., Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT
• Application Number:
  US09/932,690
• Time in Patent Office: 264 Days
• Field of Search: 422/300, 422/301, 206/349, 206/209
• US Class Current: 422/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/18 Liquid substances or solutions comprising solids or dissolved gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/26 Accessories or devices or components used for biocidal treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/182 Rigid packaging means

Abstract

A toilet plunger sanitizing and storage container system that includes an innocuous looking, cylinder-shaped, fluid impermeable, main toilet plunger container sealable with a container sealing lid. The system also including a toilet plunger lifter assembly and a quantity of disinfectant solution carried in the lifter assembly. The lifter assembly being sealable along with a plunger assembly within the innocuous looking, cylinder-shaped, fluid impermeable, main toilet plunger container.

Because the toilet plunger is unsanitary after it is used, it would be a further benefit to have a toilet plunger sanitizing and storage container system that included a toilet plunger lifter having a combination plunger and plunger disinfectant holding cup provided with an elongated lifting handle such that, in use, the combination plunger and plunger disinfectant holding cup could be placed under the recently used plunger while the recently used plunger was still positioned above the toilet bowl and preventing any unsanitary drippings from the plunger from dropping onto the toilet seat or area surrounding the toilet while the plunger is transferred back into its innocuous looking, sealable, plunger holding assembly.

Claims

1. A toilet plunger sanitizing and storage container system comprising:

a disinfecting solution;

a cylinder-shaped, fluid impermeable, main toilet plunger container having a plunger container cavity formed therein, a container top opening defined by a container top edge, and a lifting handle indentation defined by the container top edge;

a toilet plunger lifter assembly including a combination plunger/plunger disinfectant holding cup having an exterior sized to slidably fit into the plunger container cavity and a disinfectant solution holding cavity sized to receive a plunger and constructed from fluid impermeable plastic, and a lifter assembly handle having a bottom handle end formed with a top edge of the plunger/plunger disinfectant holding cup, a top lifting handle end oriented perpendicular to the bottom handle end and sized to sealing fit into the lifting handle indentation defined by the container top edge, the quantity of the disinfecting solution positioned within the disinfectant solution holding cavity; and

a container sealing lid including a top cover member having a handle extending from a top surface thereof and a resilient, cylinder-shaped sealing gasket extending from a center of a bottom cover member surface and sized to sealing fit into the container top opening in a manner to seal the plunger container cavity whether the top lifting handle end is or is not positioned in the lifting handle indentation.