Method for displaying toilet training materials and display kiosk using same

• US 6,896,521 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2002
• Issued: 05/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Incorporated (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Incorporated (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Inventors: Wears, David Jon, Underhill, Richard Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Fernstrom, Kurt
• Application Number:
  US10/192,133
• Publication Number:
  US 20020177111A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,050 Days
• Field of Search: 434/365, 434/367, 434/369, 434/258, 434/259, 434/260, 434/377, 434/382, 434/392, 434/247, 206/581, 40/1, 401/242, 401/244, 401/24, 406/05, 406/06
• US Class Current: 434/365
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine

Abstract

A method for displaying toilet training materials which includes the steps of providing a supply of at least two different types of toilet training materials, each type of toilet training material associated with at least one of a plurality of toilet training steps; providing a display having at least two regions, each of the regions associated with one of the toilet training steps; and housing the toilet training materials within the region having an equivalent toilet training step. Various embodiments of the display in the form of an in-store kiosk are illustrated.

Claims

1. A display for vending toilet training materials comprising:

a supply of at least two different types of toilet training materials, each type of toilet training material associated with at least one of a plurality of toilet training steps;

a display structure having at least two regions, each of the regions associated with one of the toilet training steps, the toilet training materials being housed within the region associated with the corresponding toilet training step; and

insignia within each of the at least two regions identifying the corresponding toilet training step.

2. The display of claim 1 comprising at least three regions, three of the regions associated with one of three toilet training steps, and wherein the insignia identifies a first region as associated with a readiness step, a second region as associated with a transitional step, and a third region as associated with a coaching step.