Adhesive toilet seat washer and method for installing same

• US 8,118,526 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2007
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David A. Dowling
• Original Assignee: David A. Dowling
• Inventors: Dowling, David A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Saether, Flemming
• Application Number:
  US11/844,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20080050203A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,643 Days
• Field of Search: 411/81, 411/81.2, 411/258, 411/82, 411/82.2, 411/533
• US Class Current: 411/82
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 13/26 Mounting devices for seats or covers hinges A47K13/12
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 11/006 by gluing gluing of plastics material B29C65/48
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 43/00 Washers or equivalent devices; Other devices for supporting bolt-heads or nuts circlips F16B21/18; for indicating tensile load F16B31/02; forming a whole with the bolt or nut F16B33/00; locking bolts or nuts by means of a fixed plate or ring, or washer-like resilient plates F16B39/10, F16B39/24
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/02 by means of fastening members using screw-thread F16B5/0004 takes precedence; construction of screw-threaded connections F16B25/00 - F16B39/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

An adhesive washer for a toilet seat fastener assembly which can be easily installed in the toilet seat fastener assembly without having to cope with the problem of slipping bolts and nuts as they will be securely adhered together. An adhesive toilet seat washer in accordance with the present invention comprises a washer material having an adhesive on at least one side of the washer for adhering to the fastener and holding it in place. In practice, a toilet seat is positioned such that the hole on the toilet seat hinge is directly above the hole on the outer wings of the commode bowl basin and a fastener is inserted through both of the holes in the toilet seat hinge and the commode bowl basin. The washer then is secured against the bottom of the commode bowl basin hole and the fastener, and the adhesive on at least one of the surfaces of the washer acts to hold the fastener in position, thereby maintaining the tightness and security of the fastener assembly.

Claims

1. A washer for toilet seat securement, comprising:

an adhesive toilet seat washer to be placed between the toilet seat and the toilet to prevent the toilet seat fastener assembly from becoming loose, including an aperture for receiving the fastener assembly therethrough, wherein the washer is made of a material made of any sort of thermoset or thermoplastic resin, a foamed agent, a medium or dense foam piece rubber, and combinations thereof;

at least one surface of the washer having an adhesive applied thereto, said adhesive being temporarily detackifiable

prior to installation when contacted with water, but upon tightening, said adhesive becomes semi-permanently adhered,

wherein said adhesive on at least one surface of the washer has an adhesive applied thereto that exhibits a shear strength of from about 1 MPa (N/mm2) to about 75 MPa (N/mm2) and said adhesive is selected from the group consisting of hot-melts, acrylic-types, tackifying resins, acrylic acid esters of monohydric alcohols, alpha-olefins, monoethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomers, a blend of poly (propylene-co-higher 1-olefin), tackifying resin and crystalline propylene containing polymer, mixed block polymer adhesive, block copolymers, pressure-sensitive tape having a plurality of adhesive layers, elastomeric adhesives that include natural rubbers, polychloroprenes (neoprene), acrylonitride butadiene (nitrile), butyl rubber adhesives, styrene butadiene rubber, thermoplastic adhesives that include polyvinyl acetate (PVA), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polyacrylates, polyester acrylics, acrylic solvent cement, cyanoacrylates (superglue), silicone resins, polyamides and acrylic acid diesters, adhesives, polyurethane adhesives, polysulphide rubber adhesives, silicone rubber adhesives, or any combination thereof.

2. The washer of claim 1, wherein the washer is made of a compressible sheeted material having adhesive on both surfaces and release paper on both sides to prevent tackiness during handling.

3. The washer of claim 1, wherein the washer has at least one surface of the washer having an adhesive applied thereto that exhibits a shear strength of from about 2 MPa (N/mm2) to about 10 MPa (N/mm2).