Integral child training toilet

• US 9,119,508 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2014
• Issued: 09/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marcel Reed
• Original Assignee: Marcel Reed
• Inventors: Reed, Marcel
• Primary Examiner(s): WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT
• Application Number:
  US14/332,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20150021963A1
• Time in Patent Office: 412 Days
• Field of Search: 2972501-25616, 297/188.01, 29718808-18813, 445/8, 448/3, 447/9, 490/2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: B60N 2/26 for children B60N2/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2866 booster cushions, e.g. to lift a child to allow proper use of the conventional safety belts
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 7/00 Carriages for children; Perambulators, e.g. dolls' perambulators
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 9/00 Accessories or details specially adapted for children's carriages or perambulators providing for travelling on snow B62B19/00

Abstract

An integral training potty comprised of a child safety seat and waste collection apparatus, allowing a small child to evacuate his or her bowel or bladder. The waste collection apparatus being removable, without disturbing or removing the seated child. The waste collection apparatus optionally having a liner for the waste collection bowl. Alternately, the present invention is an integral training potty comprised of a child'"'"'s stroller and a waste collection apparatus.

Claims

1. An integral child safety seat and training potty, comprised of a molded seat portion and a waste collection apparatus portion;

said molded seat portion being molded from plastic, with a defined back, left side, right side, and base, in which the base has a defined, rigid, top surface, bottom surface, front, back, and two sides;

said base top surface, bottom surface, front, back and two sides defining an interior volume;

said base top surface having an aperture, coverable with a lid;

said aperture having a raised rim capable of supporting a seated child;

said waste collection apparatus portion being comprised of a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface, a back surface, and two side surfaces;

said waste collection apparatus being sized to be slottedly received into the defined volume of said molded seat portion base, wherein the waste collection apparatus has a groove and the molded seat portion base has a slider-rail, through an opening, reversibly, on either the left or right lateral side of the molded seat base;

said waste collection apparatus surface having a waste collection bowl that aligns with the aperture in the molded seat portion top surface;

said waste collection apparatus having integral storage for diaper wipes and ointments; and

said waste collection apparatus being removable from the integral child safety seat and training potty, by pulling a release lever, so that the contents of the waste collection bowl may be emptied and cleaned.

2. The invention described in claim 1, wherein said waste collection apparatus slides into and out of said molded seat base'"'"'s interior volume on a rail-and-guide mechanism.

3. The invention described in claim 2, wherein the waste collection apparatus is held in place with a latch, or other retention mechanism, that, when activated, allows the waste collection apparatus to be removed from the base of the molded seat portion.

4. The invention described in claim 1, wherein a sealing gasket is intimate with both the waste collection apparatus and molded seat portions, sealing the waste collection bowl from the top surface of the waste collection apparatus.

5. The invention described in claim 1, wherein a plastic liner, capable of capturing and sealing waste, fits, intimately, in the waste collection bowl.

6. An integral child stroller and training potty, comprised of a frame and wheel structure, a molded seat portion and a waste collection apparatus portion;

said frame and wheel structure having two pairs of wheels, connected with an axle, to a frame and said frame terminating in a handlebar;

said molded seat portion being molded from plastic, with a defined back, left side, right side, and base, in which the base has a defined, rigid, top surface, bottom surface, front, back, and two sides;

said base top surface, bottom surface, front, back and two sides defining an interior volume;

said base top surface having an aperture, coverable with a lid;

said aperture having a raised rim capable of supporting a seated child;

said waste collection apparatus portion being comprised of a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface, a back surface, and two side surfaces;

said waste collection apparatus being sized to be slottedly received into the defined volume of said molded seat portion base, wherein the waste collection apparatus has a groove and the molded seat portion base has a slider-rail, through an opening, reversibly, on either the left or right lateral side of the molded seat base;

said waste collection apparatus surface having a waste collection bowl that aligns with the aperture in the molded seat portion top surface;

said waste collection apparatus having integral storage for diaper wipes and ointments; and

said waste collection apparatus being removable from the integral child safety seat and training potty, by pulling a release lever, so that the contents of the waste collection bowl may be emptied and cleaned.

7. The invention described in claim 6, wherein said waste collection apparatus slides into and out of said molded seat base'"'"'s interior volume on a rail-and-guide mechanism.

8. The invention described in claim 7, wherein the waste collection apparatus is held in place with a latch, or other retention mechanism, that, when activated, allows the waste collection apparatus to be removed from the base of the molded seat portion.

9. The invention described in claim 6, wherein a sealing gasket is intimate with both the waste collection apparatus and molded seat portions, sealing the waste collection bowl from the top surface of the waste collection apparatus.

10. The invention described in claim 6, wherein a plastic liner, capable of capturing and sealing waste, fits, intimately, in the waste collection bowl.