Patents by Inventor Joseph Guy Donohue

Joseph Guy Donohue has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10781580
    Abstract: A strike pad for a toilet bowl has a rigid frame securing a porous and splash-inhibiting target pad and a porous release pad to form a pocket encapsulating a water-soluble product. When the seat is down, the water-soluble product and porous release pad are below the standing water level and the porous and splash-inhibiting target pad is above the standing water level. The target pad fragments and captures the urine stream. On flushing, the swirling high water flows through and rinses both pads, releasing some of the water-soluble product which may be scented, disinfecting or otherwise beneficial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Joseph Guy Donohue
  • Patent number: 6385784
    Abstract: A shield for a toilet has a shaft adapted at one end to be fixed to an inner wall of the toilet bowl. The shaft extends horizontally into the bowl. A sleeve is mounted for rotation on the shaft. An arm extends from the sleeve inwardly and downwardly into the bowl. A strike pad is mounted on the end of the arm in an approximately horizontal position above the standing water level. A lever extending upwardly form the sleeve is engagable against the underside of the seat for angular displacement of the sleeve during rotation of the seat into the down position to move the strike pad to an approximately vertical storage position at the rear of the bowl and is disengagable from the underside of the seat during rotation of the seat to the up position to allow the strike pad to move to an approximately horizontal use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Inventor: Joseph Guy Donohue