Portable toilet assembly

Abstract

A portable toilet assembly has a tent and a pedestal device. The tent is composed of multiple frame loops and a cover mounted on the multiple frame loops together. The tent is collapsible. The pedestal device is composed of an upper armrest frame, a lower holding frame and a receptacle mounted on the lower holding frame. The upper arm frame and the lower holding frame are detachable from each other and respectively foldable. Thereby, the portable toile assembly can be disassembled conveniently and respectively diminished in its parts to ideal portable sizes.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a portable toilet assembly, and more particularly to a portable toilet assembly that is pitched and struck easily and conveniently.

2. Description of Related Art

People camping in wilderness usually feel embarrassed when they have to answer their natural calling because they have to release in an open environment without any covering. Even worse, they have to resolve their natural calling in the rain when the weather is rainy. In order to resolve the foregoing unavoidable problems for people who like wilderness camping, a portable toilet assembly has arisen to provide a private shelter to mitigate or obviate them.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The main objective of the present invention is to provide a portable toilet assembly that is conveniently struck and transported.

Further benefits and advantages of the present invention will become apparent after a careful reading of the detailed description with appropriate reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematically perspective view of a portable toilet assembly in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a foldable tent in the portable toilet assembly in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a pedestal device in the portable toilet assembly in FIG. 1, wherein the pedestal device is composed of a mounting structure and a receptacle;

FIG. 4 is a partially exploded perspective view of the mounting structure in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an operational perspective view of an upper armrest frame in the mounting structure, wherein the upper armrest frame is folded; and

FIG. 6 is an operational perspective view of a lower holding frame in the mounting structure, wherein the lower holding frame is folded.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

A portable toilet assembly in accordance with the present invention comprises a tent and a pedestal device. The tent is composed of multiple frame loops (at least three frame loops) and a cover detachably mounted on the multiple frame loops together. The tent is collapsible. The pedestal device is composed of an upper armrest frame, a lower holding frame and a receptacle mounted on the lower holding frame. The upper armrest frame and the lower holding frame are detachable from each other and respectively foldable. Thereby, the portable toile assembly can be disassembled conveniently and respectively diminished in its parts to ideal portable sizes.

With reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, a preferred embodiment of the portable toilet assembly comprises a tent 1 and a pedestal device 2.

The tent 1 is dome-shaped and has four sides. The tent 1 is composed of four frame loops 11 combined together and a cover 12 detachably mounted over the four frame loops 11. Each frame loop 11 is substantially egg-shaped and has a narrow top, a broad bottom and two side rods connected between the narrow top and the broad bottom. When the frame loops 11 are assembled and connected to each other, each side rod of one frame loop 11 is pivotally connected to a side rod of an adjacent frame loop 11 by sleeves (now shown) or the similar. All the narrow tops of the frame loops 11 are inclined slightly inward, and all the broad bottoms of the frame loops 11 abut the ground. Thereby, a dome-shaped tent frame with the four sides is achieved. The cover 12 is made of waterproof cloth and shaped into a dome shape corresponding to the tent frame. Therefore, the cover 12 has four faces, an entryway 121 formed in one face of the cover 12 and a door leaf 122 covering the entryway 121. The cover 12 further has a zipper 123 attached between edges of the door leaf 122 and the entryway 121 to keep the door leaf 122 on the cover 12 without fluttering with the wind. When the tent 1 is disassembled, the cover 12 is separated from the tent frame and foldable to become a small pack.

With reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, the pedestal device 2 comprises a mounting structure, a receptacle 23, a seat pad 24, and a lid 25. The mounting structure is composed of an upper armrest frame 21 and a lower holding frame 22 detachably combined with each other.

The upper armrest frame 21 comprises two U-shaped arms 211, two T-shaped connectors 212 and an extending rod 213. Each U-shaped arm 211 is a curved tube and has a front end, a rear end and a middle portion extending between the front end and the rear end. Each T-shaped connector 212 has a tube rotatably sleeving the rear end of one U-shaped arm 211 and a short tube vertically attached to a middle periphery of the tube. The extending rod 213 has two ends respectively inserting into the short tubes of the two T-shaped connectors 212 to achieve the upper armrest frame 21. By engaging the T-shaped connectors 212 between the two U-shaped arms 211 and the extending rod 213, the two U-shaped arms 211 enable to pivotal inward to make the upper armrest frame 21 foldable to diminish its size. The folded upper armrest frame 21 is shown in FIG. 5.

The lower holding frame 22 comprises two H-shaped stands and two foldable connecting strips 222. Each H-shaped stand has two feet 221 and a middle bar 224 extending between the two feet 221. The two foldable connecting strips 222 symmetrically connect between the middle bars 224 of the two H-shaped stands. Thereby, the lower holding frame 22 is achieved. Each foot 221 on the H-shaped stand has a top insertion 223 correspondingly and detachably engaging the front end or the rear end of the U-shaped arm 211 of the upper armrest frame 21 by means of wedging. Moreover, each foldable connecting strip 222 is composed of two elongated pieces pivotally combining with each other at a joint and has two distal ends respectively and pivotally engaging the middle bar 224 on the two H-shaped stands. Therefore, the two H-shaped can be pushed close to each other by bending joints of the foldable connecting strips 222 outward as shown in FIG. 6 to diminish size of the lower holding frame 22.

With particular reference to FIG. 3, the receptacle 23 is a hexagonal basin with two side flanges and suspended between the two foldable connecting strips 222 by resting the side flanges on the two foldable connecting strips 222. The receptacle 23 preferably contains a replaceable water-absorbing (or water-retaining) material, such as sand or cotton, and an odor-eliminating agent for hygiene reason. The seat pad 24 is an oval annular ring with a bottom end and has two clips 241 formed at the bottom end to pivotally attach to the middle bar 224 on the H-shaped stand that engages the rear ends of the U-shaped arms 21. Therefore, the seat pad 24 can selectively rest on the extending rod 213 of the upper armrest frame 21 or mount over the receptacle 23. Preferably, the lid 25 is oval corresponding to the seat pad 24 and also has two clips 251 pivotally attach to the same middle bar 224 behind the seat pad 24 to selectively cover the receptacle 23.

Although this invention has been described in its preferred form with a certain degree of particularity, it is understood that the present invention of the preferred form has been made only by way of example and that numerous changes in the details of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts any be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A portable toilet assembly comprising:

a tent 1 having at least three frame loops 11, wherein each frame loop 11 has a narrow top, a broad bottom and two side rods and each side rod of the frame loop 11 is pivotally connected to a side rod of an adjacent frame loop 11 to compose a tent frame; and a cover 12 correspondingly mounted on the tent frame;

a pedestal device 2 received inside the tent 1 and having an upper armrest frame 21 comprising an extending rod 213 with two ends and two arms 211 pivotally and respectively connected to the two ends of the extending rod 213; a lower holding frame 22 detachably attached to the upper armrest frame 21 and composed of two H-shaped stands and two foldable connecting strips 222 extending between the two H-shaped stands; a receptacle 23 mounted on the lower holding frame 22 between the two foldable connecting strips 222; and a seat pad 24 pivotally attach on one of the two H-shaped stands to operationally mount over the receptacle 23.

2. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tent 1 has four frame loops 11 to compose the tent frame with four sides;

the cover 12 has four faces, an entryway 121 defined in one face of the cover 12, a door leaf 122 covering the entryway 121 and a zipper 213 attached between edges of the entryway 121 and the door leaf 122.

3. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two arms of the upper armrest frame 21 are U-shaped arms 211 and each U-shaped arm 211 has a front end and a rear end,

two T-shaped connectors 212 respectively attached between the two ends of the extending rod 213 and the rear ends of the two U-shaped arms 211, each T-shaped connector 212 has a tube rotatably sleeving the rear end of the corresponding U-shaped arm 211 and a short tube attached to a middle periphery of the tube and receiving the corresponding end of the extending rod 213.

4. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the two arms of the upper armrest frame 21 are U-shaped arms 211 and each U-shaped arm 211 has a front end and a rear end,

two T-shaped connectors 212 respectively attached between the two ends of the extending rod 213 and the rear ends of the two U-shaped arms 211, each T-shaped connector 212 has a tube rotatably sleeving the rear end of the corresponding U-shaped arm 211 and a short tube attached to a middle periphery of the tube and receiving the corresponding end of the extending rod 213.

5. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein each H-shaped stand comprises two feet and a middle bar 224 extending between the two feet, each foot has a top insertion 223 to engage the U-shaped arm 211;

each foldable connecting strips 222 comprises two elongated piece pivotally connected with each other and has two distal ends respectively and pivotally attached to the middle bars 224 of the two H-shaped stands.

6. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein each H-shaped stand comprises two feet and a middle bar 224 extending between the two feet, each foot has a top insertion 223 to engage the U-shaped arm 211;

each foldable connecting strips 222 comprises two elongated piece pivotally connected with each other and has two distal ends respectively and pivotally attached to the middle bars 224 of the two H-shaped stands.

7. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the receptacle 23 further contains water-absorbing material.

8. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the seat pad 24 is an oval annular ring with a bottom end and has two clips 241 forming at the bottom end to pivotally engage the middle bar 224 of the corresponding H-shaped stand combining with the rear ends of the two U-shaped arms 211.

9. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 8, wherein pedestal device 2 further has a lid 25 mounted behind the seat pad 24;

wherein, the lid 25 is oval-shaped to correspond to the seat pad 24 and has two clips 251 pivotally engage the middle bar 224 of the corresponding H-shaped stand combining with the rear ends of the two U-shaped arms 211.