US1573619A - Toilet-seat cover - Google Patents

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Feb. 16 1926. 1,573,619

P. J. LEMMER TOILET SEAT COVER Filed Dec. 21, 1921 Patented Feb. 1926.

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Application filed December 21, 1921. Serial No. 523,892.

To all whom it may comm:

Be it-known that I, PAUL JJLEMMER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at,

Danbury, in the county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, ha ve-invented a new and useful Toilet-Seat Cover; and I do hereby declare the following-to be a full, clear,-and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same.

The-invention relates to toilet seat covers and has for its object to provide a device of this character adapted tobe disposed on a toilet seat in such amanner as to prevent contact of the body of the user with the toilet seat or with. the hopper.

Also to form .the cover from relatively pliable material, such for instance. as paper. and to provide the cover;with' members extending downwardly into the hopper and in position where they will be engaged by water during a flushing operation in such a manner that the cover will be dragged into the hopper, and from its position on the seat.

A further-object is to provide a toilet seat cover comprising a member adapted to be disposed on the toilet seat and having an opening registering with the opening in the seat,-said member at its rear side being split and provided with a downwardly extending water engaging drag, by means ofwhich drag the cover is pulled into the hopper during a flushing operation.

With the above and other objects in view the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings, described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the Y drawings:

Figure 1 is a-perspective'view of a conventional form of hopper showing a seat cover applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view through the upper end of the hopper, the toilet seat and the cover.

' Figure 3 is abottom perspective view of the cover.

Figure 4 is a detail, perspective sectional view on an enlarged scale through one side of the cover showing .a portion of the seat and hopper in dotted lines.

' the annular member.

Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to Figuresv 1 to 4 inclusive, the numeral 1 designates a conventional form of hopper and 2 a hopper seat disposed there on. The hopper 1 1s flushed adjacent its- Itear side 3 by means of a down rush of water from the flushing pi e 4, which discharges water through the toilet seat cover 6 comprises a substantially annular member 7 formed from paper or thin scharge pipe '5. The' cardboard, said annular member being split at its rear end and having its ends ,8 and 9 overlapped. as clearly shown in Figure 3, the purpose of which will presently appear. Secured to the under side of the annular member 7 and extending downwardly through the opening 2 of the toilet seat 2,

and into the mouth of the hopper is a skirt 10, which prevents contact ofthe body of the user with the inner edge of the seat 2 or with the inner side of the hopper. The

skirt 10 is preferably formed from thin paper such for instance as tissue paper and is preferably adhesively joined to the underside of the annular 'member 7 by means of integral spaced flanges 11 carried by the skirt, which flanges are adhesively joined to Securedto the skirt 120 adjacent the end 8 of the'cover 6 is a downwardly extending drag member 12, which memberextends downwardly into the chamber of the hopper and at a point where water during a flushing operation after leaving the discharge port 5, will engage the drag member 12 and drag the end 8 of the annular member 7 into the hopper where it will be engaged by the down flowing water and the seat cover as a whole dragged into the hopper. By providing this dragging means it will not be necessary for the operator to touch the cover and it will be seen that if the operator should. forget to remove the cover,'the fl'ushing operation would remove' the same. g

From the above it will be seen that a toilet seat cover is provided, which cover will pre-' vent contact of the users body with 'the seat of the hopper, and one wherein during a .flushing operation of the hopper the cover will be dislodged from its position on the seat by' the down ,rushing water.

The seat cover 6 maybe formed from any kind of material, paper or cloth, and may be parafiined or otherwise water proofed, thereby preventing the user from coming into contact with any moisture on the seat or hopper. extending water engaging member carried The invention having been setforth what by one of the adjacent ends of the cover is claimed as new and useful is and downwardly extending annular member A toilet seat cover formed from pliablenmadjacent the split and adapted to be engaged 5 terial and having a centrally disposed openby Water during a flushing operation'where- 1 ing, said cover being split, thereby forming by the cover will be moved withits ends in, adjacent ends a downwardly extending anadvance of the main body of the cover. nular member carried by the inner edge of In testimony whereof I have signed'my the cover and having a split in registration 'i iame to this specification.

10 with the split in the cover and a downwardly PAUL JOSEPH LEMMER.

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