Portable venting commode

• US 6,779,204 B1
• Filed: 11/17/2000
• Issued: 08/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Egor Ciotic
• Original Assignee: Egor Ciotic
• Inventors: Ciotic, Egor
• Primary Examiner(s): WIEKER, AMANDA FLYNN
• Application Number:
  US09/715,456
• Time in Patent Office: 1,376 Days
• Field of Search: 425/4, 448/2, 421/7, 421/3
• US Class Current: 4/482
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 11/04 Room closets; Chairs with toilet conveniences or specially adapted for use with toilets, e.g. night chairs ; Closets for children, also with signalling means, e.g. with a music box, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 13/307 Seats with ventilating devices

Abstract

A portable venting commode apparatus includes a chute attached to a toilet seat that is inserted into a conventional type of flush-type toilet. A modified tapered chute is described along with a seal mechanism. A DC brushless fan motor and flexible vent hoses are used to conduct offensive smelling vapors through an opening in the toilet seat, through a vent assembly and out of the area. A modified stand alone apparatus that does not cooperate with the flush-type toilet is described that includes a removable container for collecting the urine and fecal matter therein that is later emptied when needed. The fan is used to expel the vapors under positive pressure through one of the vent hoses to a distal location.

Claims

1. A portable venting commode, comprising:

(a) a portable frame structure;

(b) a toilet seat attached to said portable frame structure; and

(c) means for venting vapors to a distal location that is disposed outside of a room where said portable frame structure is disposed and wherein said means for venting includes a flexible hose, and wherein a first end of said flexible hose is attached to said portable frame structure and wherein an opposite second end of said flexible hose is adapted to exhaust said vapors to said distal location that is disposed outside of the room where the portable frame structure is disposed; and

wherein

said means for venting vapors to a distal location includes said flexible hose and a fan that is powered by a DC motor and wherein said fan is attached to said second end of said flexible hose and wherein said fan is adapted to generate a negative pressure in at least a portion of said flexible hose that is disposed intermediate said portable frame structure and said fan and wherein a discharge side of said fan includes means for venting said vapors to a location that is outside of the room in which said portable frame structure is disposed; and

wherein said portable frame structure is adapted for placement over a conventional fixed-mount flush-type of toilet; and

including a second fan that is powered by a DC motor and wherein said second fan is attached to said portable frame structure.

2. The portable venting commode of claim 1 wherein said flexible hose includes means for generating a positive pressure in at least a portion of said flexible hose that is disposed intermediate said fan and said portable frame structure.

3. The portable venting commode of claim 1 wherein said toilet seat includes an opening therein, wherein said opening is adapted for cooperating with said means for venting vapors.

4. The portable venting commode of claim 1 including a chute attached to said toilet seat.

5. The portable venting commode of claim 4 wherein said chute includes an opening at a distal end with respect to an end where said chute is attached to said toilet seat, and wherein said chute is adapted to discharge human waste matter into said flush-type of toilet, and wherein said chute includes a portion thereof that is cylindrical in shape.

6. The portable venting commode of claim 4 wherein said chute includes an opening at a distal end with respect to an end where said chute is attached to said toilet seat, and wherein said chute is adapted to discharge human waste matter into said flush-type of toilet, and wherein said chute includes a portion thereof that is conical in shape.