TOILET SEAT WITH AUTOMATIC TURNING COVER
A toilet seat with an automatic turning cover includes a start device, a toilet seat cover, a toilet seat, an elevating arm, a turning arm and a belt. The toilet seat cover and elevating arm are coupled to the start device. A lower end of the turning arm is pivotally coupled to the middle of the elevating arm and fixed to the toilet seat cover, and an upper end is pivotally coupled to a pivotal base and passed through two fulcrums of the turning arm to couple the upper end with the pivotal base. The toilet seat controls the start device to drive the elevating and turning arms to lift the toilet seat independently. The belt is pulled to change the surface of the toilet seat to face towards the front of the toilet seat cover. The start device is controlled to lift both toilet seat cover and toilet seat.
The present invention relates to a toilet seat with an automatic turning cover, in particular to an electric toilet seat that can be lifted and controlled electrically, and whose surface can be turned towards the front while the toilet seat is being lifted.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONA conventional manual lifting toilet seat coupled to a toilet stool includes a toilet seat cover and a toilet seat. The toilet seat cover and the toilet seat are regularly covered onto the toilet stool, and the toilet seat is lifted up manually by hands when the toilet stool is used. Particularly for male urinations, the toilet seat cover is also lifted up to avoid spilling urine on the surface of the toilet seat cover. However, for convenience, male users generally do not lift up the toilet seat cover, and urine may be accumulated at the toilet seat cover and an internal side of the lifted toilet seat. Even if the toilet seat cover is lifted, urine may be spilled from a hollow portion of the toilet seat cover into the internal side of the toilet seat. If the next user needs to sit on the toilet seat cover, the rear side of the cloth of this user may touch the internal side of the toilet seat easily, which is really disgusting. Although toilet seats with an electrically lifted cover are available in the market, yet the toilet seats of this sort can lift the toilet seat only, and the internal side of the toilet seat is still facing towards the front. Therefore, it is unable to overcome the drawback of the cloth being in contact with the internal side of the toilet seat having accumulated urine when a user is sitting on a toilet seat cover. The sanitary problem still exists.
It is an important subject of the present invention to find a way of developing a toilet seat with an automatic turning cover, such that users no longer have to lift a toilet seat and a toilet seat cover by hands, and when the toilet seat is lifted, the surface of the toilet seat will change its direction towards the front to avoid the users' cloth from touching the internal side of the toilet seat.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONIn view of the aforementioned shortcomings of the conventional manual and electric toilet seat, the inventor of the present invention based on years of experience in the related industry to conduct extensive researches and experiments, and finally developed a toilet seat with an automatic turning cover in hope of achieving the sanitary effect.
Therefore, it is a primary objective of the present invention to provide a toilet seat with an automatic turning cover, such that the surface of the toilet seat is changed to face towards the front by means of a design of an electric toilet seat and a turning structure when the toilet seat is lifted by an electric control, so as to achieve the effects of providing a sanitary appearance, preventing the users' cloth from touching the internal side of the toilet seat, providing an easy way of using a toilet stool and keeping the toilet stool clean and sanitary.
To achieve the foregoing objective, the present invention provides a toilet seat with an automatic turning cover, comprising: a start device, having a first rotating portion and a second rotating portion disposed on a base respectively, and a motor for driving and rotating the first rotating portion and the second rotating portion; a toilet seat cover, with a rear end coupled with the second rotating portion of the start device; a toilet seat, having a pivotal base disposed at an internal side of the toilet seat, and the pivotal base having an upper pivoting portion and a belt fixing portion; an elevating arm, with a rear end coupled with the first rotating portion of the start device, and a lower pivoting portion disposed at the middle of the elevating arm; a turning arm, having a long rod with a groove disposed at the middle of the long rod, and a lower end of the long rod being rotably coupled to the lower pivoting portion of the elevating arm, and an upper end of the long rod being rotably coupled to an upper pivoting portion of the pivotal base on an internal side of the toilet seat, an elastic element coupled with the upper end for pushing the toilet seat, an upper axle installed transversally in the groove and proximate to the upper end, and a lower axle is installed transversally and proximate to the lower end; and a belt, with a lower end fixed at the bottom of the toilet seat cover, an upper end passed from the bottom of the lower axle of the turning arm into the groove, through the lower axle and the upper axle, and then from the top of the upper axle and out of the groove, such that the upper end is coupled to the belt fixing portion of the pivotal base on an internal side of the toilet seat to constitute the toilet seat with an automatic turning cover.
The aforementioned design of a toilet seat with an automatic turning cover has at least three modes of lifting a toilet seat. Firstly, a user can use the start device to drive the elevating arm and the turning arm to lift the toilet seat independently through an operation of a control box while the belt is pulled to change the direction of the surface of the toilet seat to face towards the front, so as to achieve the effect of keeping the toilet stool sanitary easily. Secondly, the start device can be controlled and driven to lift the toilet seat cover and the toilet seat synchronously when male users urinate, so as to prevent urine from being spilled onto the toilet seat cover and maintain a clean and sanitary toilet stool. Thirdly, the toilet seat or the toilet seat cover can be lifted manually during a power failure.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.
With reference to
The start device 1 as shown in
The toilet seat cover 2 as shown in
The toilet seat 3 as shown in
The elevating arm 4 as shown in
The turning arm 5 as shown in
The belt 6 as shown in
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With the design of a toilet seat with an automatic turning cover of the present invention as shown in
In the first type of the electric operating mode, a user performs the lifting operation through the control box or sensor as shown in
In a second electric operating mode of the present invention, the user performs the lifting operation through the control box or sensor as shown in
In a third mode which is the manual operation of the present invention as shown in
In summation of the description above, the present invention achieves the effect of using the toilet stool easily and sanitarily by changing the direction of the surface of the toilet seat towards the front to avoid the user's cloth from touching the internal surface of the toilet seat 3 when the user uses the design of the toilet seat and the turning structure to electrically control and lift the toilet seat 3. Obviously, the present invention complies with the patent application requirements and the products manufactured in accordance with the present invention can meet the current market requirements.
While the invention has been described by means of specific embodiments, numerous modifications and variations could be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention set forth in the claims.
Claims
1. A toilet seat with an automatic turning cover, comprising:
- a start device, having a first rotating portion and a second rotating portion disposed on a base respectively, and a motor for driving and rotating the first rotating portion and the second rotating portion;
- a toilet seat cover, with a rear end coupled with the second rotating portion of the start device;
- a toilet seat, having a pivotal base disposed at an internal side of the toilet seat, and the pivotal base having an upper pivoting portion and a belt fixing portion;
- an elevating arm, with a rear end coupled with the first rotating portion of the start device, and a lower pivoting portion disposed at the middle of the elevating arm;
- a turning arm, having a long rod with a groove disposed at the middle of the long rod, and a lower end of the long rod being rotably coupled to the lower pivoting portion of the elevating arm, and an upper end of the long rod being rotably coupled to an upper pivoting portion of the pivotal base on an internal side of the toilet seat, an elastic element coupled with the upper end for pushing the toilet seat, an upper axle installed transversally in the groove and proximate to the upper end, and a lower axle is installed transversally and proximate to the lower end; and
- a belt, with a lower end fixed at the bottom of the toilet seat cover, an upper end passed from the bottom of the lower axle of the turning arm into the groove, through the lower axle and the upper axle, and then from the top of the upper axle and out of the groove, such that the upper end is coupled to the belt fixing portion of the pivotal base on an internal side of the toilet seat to constitute the toilet seat with an automatic turning cover.
2. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 1, wherein the motor of the start device drives and rotates the first rotating portion and second rotating portion.
3. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 2, wherein the base of the start device includes a recession disposed at the middle of the base, two circular second rotating portions coupled with the recession, and a circular first rotating portion coupled with the middle of the two second rotating portions, and the motor is coupled into the base.
4. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 1, wherein the toilet seat cover has an opening disposed at the middle of a rear end of the toilet seat cover, and a lower end of the belt is passed through the opening and fixed to the bottom of the toilet seat cover.
5. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 1, wherein the elevating arm is a rectangular arm, and whose rear end is coupled with the first rotating portion of the start device, and an embedding slot corresponding to the turning arm is disposed at the middle of the elevating arm, and the lower pivoting portion is disposed at the middle of the embedding slot, and a movable positioning steel ball is installed in an internal wall proximate to a front end of the embedding slot, and a lower end of the turning arm is rotably coupled to a lower pivoting portion in the embedding slot, and a positioning hole is disposed on a side of the turning arm and corresponding to the positioning steel ball.
6. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 5, wherein the lower pivoting portion is transversally disposed at a pivot in the embedding slot, and the pivot is passed through a lower end of the turning arm.
7. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 1, wherein the pivotal base of the toilet seat includes two protruding bases coupled to an internal side of the toilet seat, and the upper pivoting portion and the belt fixing portion are disposed transversally at transversal rods between the two protruding bases, and one of the transversal rods is passed through an upper end of the turning arm, and the other transversal rod is coupled to an upper end of the belt.
8. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 7, wherein the upper end of the belt is coupled with a latch ring, and the latch ring is latched to the transversal rod.
9. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 8, wherein the latch ring is an elliptical ring.
10. The toilet seat with an automatic turning cover as recited in claim 1, wherein the elastic element is a torque spring.
Type: Application
Filed: May 26, 2009
Publication Date: Dec 2, 2010
Inventor: Hsin-Ching Huang (Pingjhen City)
Application Number: 12/472,258