Chemical Holder In Seat Patents (Class 4/229)
  • Patent number: 11920336
    Abstract: A toilet that includes a tank configured to hold water from a water supply; a reservoir fluidly connected to the tank and configured to hold a cleaning compound comprising a chemical compound and water from the water supply; and an actuator configured to control a flush cycle of the toilet upon a first activation, the actuator including at least one nozzle fluidly connected to the reservoir and configured to discharge an amount of the cleaning compound external to the tank upon at least one of the first activation or a second activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: Michael Luettgen, William Kuru, Clayton Garrels, Peter W. Denzin
  • Patent number: 11819170
    Abstract: Toilet seat cleaning devices, methods and systems are described. Toilet seat cleaning systems may include a toilet, a toilet seat, a sensor, and a fluid dispenser. Toilet seats may include a flow way, at least one opening and at least one surface whereon fluids from a fluid dispenser may be communicated. Fluid dispensers may include a fluid container and a dispenser mechanism. Methods of using toilet seat cleaning systems may include a user influencing the activation of a dispenser mechanism; the dispenser mechanism influencing the communication of fluid from a fluid container to a flow way; the fluid being communicated through the flow way and out of at least one opening and onto at least one surface of a toilet seat; and the fluid on the at least one surface of the toilet seat being engaged by the user in order to clean the toilet seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUFULOO PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventor: Robert T. Poleki
  • Patent number: 11242192
    Abstract: A spray canister device includes a canister containing a liquid product, a canister housing having an opening, a chassis element, and a tray slidably coupled to the chassis element. The canister includes an actuator cap and is positioned in the canister housing such that a nozzle of the actuator cap is positioned proximate the opening. The canister housing, and the canister positioned therein, may be engaged with the tray via at least one protruding member. Once engaged, the tray may be slidably moved along the chassis element between a retracted position and an extended position to facilitate relative movement between the canister and the canister housing to compress the actuator cap of the canister and spray the liquid product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Whole Bath, LLC
    Inventor: Jacqueline Sylvia
  • Patent number: 9376794
    Abstract: A simple and inexpensive plastic assembly snaps over the rim of a toilet bowl. The deodorizer/disinfecting embodiment container hangs outside the toilet bowl. It is supported by a rim clamp inside the toilet bowl. One model simply clips on clips off for disposable use. Other models have a container with a refillable top. An adjustable exit tube nut adjusts to various different toilet rims. When the user sits on the toilet seat, a diaphragm is compressed which forces air into the container and deodorant/disinfectant into the toilet bowl. The diaphragm needs to be made of neoprene or any flexible material with sufficient memory to return to its original non compressed shape after compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Inventors: James W. Page, Linda P. Page
  • Patent number: 8122522
    Abstract: The invention relates to metering dispensers for release of a product into a WC bowl of a toilet, comprising a fixing region which is constructed in order to fix the metering dispenser in the region of the toilet, in particular under a WC lid, and a storage container for accommodating the product. Such metering dispensers have the problem that the product can be metered only inaccurately and not very variably. This problem is solved according to the invention in that the storage container is constructed for accommodation of pre-portioned products and a delivery device which is constructed in order to deliver at least one pre-portioned product from the storage container into the WC bowl is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Symrise AG
    Inventor: Jan Looft
  • Patent number: 8079094
    Abstract: A dispenser discharging antibacterial, self-drying disinfectant solution is suspended from an inside wall of a public rest facility stall to transport the solution through a length of tubing to an inlet port at a rear or side surface of a non-porous and non-absorbent toilet seat in filling a hollow therein below an opening in the top surface of the seat in introducing the disinfectant solution to be spread about the top surface in cleansing it of any generally sexually transmitted germs, viruses and bacteria that might be present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. DiPano
  • Publication number: 20110004987
    Abstract: A soft toilet seat with warm water cleaning equipment includes a supporting frame, a toilet seat and a toilet seat device lid, wherein the seat is attached to the front edge of the supporting frame, and the lid is hinged to the supporting frame. The seat has an inner layer formed of hard plastic material, at least a soft pad is provided on the surface of the inner layer, and an outer layer is enclosing both the inner layer and the soft pad in a perfect hermetical state. The seat has lighting equipment installed at its edge for supplying a tender moody illumination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventor: Allen DENG
  • Publication number: 20100269247
    Abstract: A water jet injector for a sanitary self-cleaning toilet seat device includes a foothold having a connector to connect with an external duct; a pipe installed at the front edge of the foothold and having two chambers; and two jet pipes each installed in its corresponding chamber and having a nozzle provided at the top edge of the jet pipe with a water outlet. The jet pipes are movable to and fro to clean the contaminated parts of the user's body with the cleaning water jet. Besides, a shade is stretched out of the pipe to cover the top edges of said nozzles so as to prevent the nozzles from being dirted by the soil and the user's body from being wetted by the residual water in the pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventor: David CHEN
  • Patent number: 7727465
    Abstract: A system and method for extracting active elemental iodine from the contact of water with stored crystal iodine and for introducing the extracted elemental iodine into a water supply line and/or otherwise making the extracted elemental iodine available for an intended use. The system operates by allowing a portion of the water entering from a water supply line to be redirected to a first housing where it makes contact with stored crystal iodine causing to extract active elemental iodine. The iodinized water leaves the first housing and enters a second housing where it makes contact additional stored crystal iodine to help stabilize the elemental iodine concentration. The system can be designed to provide the elemental iodine in more than one potency concentration through the use of a metering valve and different travel routes for the elemental iodine out of the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Inventor: Spyros J. Papageorge
  • Patent number: 7445759
    Abstract: A system and method for extracting active elemental iodine from the contact of water with stored crystal iodine and for introducing the extracted elemental iodine into a water supply line and/or otherwise making the extracted elemental iodine available for an intended use. The system operates by allowing a portion of the water entering from a water supply line to be redirected to a first housing where it makes contact with stored crystal iodine causing to extract active elemental iodine. The iodinized water leaves the first housing and enters a second housing where it makes contact additional stored crystal iodine to help stabilize the elemental iodine concentration. The system can be designed to provide the elemental iodine in more than one potency concentration through the use of a metering valve and different travel routes for the elemental iodine out of the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Inventor: Spyros J. Papageorge
  • Patent number: 6745417
    Abstract: A toilet stool capable of using comfortably without cleaning is provided. The toilet stool comprises a main body 10, a seat 11, a cover 12, injection means 41 and 42, and a control means. The main body 10 can preserve stool temporarily therein. The seat 11 is formed on the main body 10. The cover 12 performs opening and closing operations by rotating about a horizontal axis with respect to the main body 10. The injection means 41 and 42 perform a cleaning operation by injecting pressure liquid for cleaning. The control means causes the injection means 41 and 42 to perform the cleaning operation on the condition that the cover is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Inventor: Hideo Sumino
  • Patent number: 6622315
    Abstract: A toilet bowl deodorizing, disinfecting and washing apparatus. In one variation, the apparatus includes a flexible enclosure that contains a bellows, a high-pressure reservoir, a liquid reservoir, and a plurality of nozzles. The bellows, liquid reservoir, and nozzles are selectively placed in fluid communication with the high-pressure reservoir. In use, the flexible enclosure is disposed beneath a toilet seat (or is itself a toilet seat). Deodorizing/disinfecting/washing liquid, which is contained in the liquid reservoir, is admitted to the high-pressure reservoir. When a person sits on the flexible enclosure, the bellows compresses air that is admitted to the high-pressure reservoir, thereby pressurizing the deodorizing/disinfecting/washing liquid that is contained therein. As the person gets off the flexible enclosure, the high-pressure reservoir is connected to the nozzles such that pressurized deodorizing/disinfecting/washing liquid is dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Inventors: Ilya Feygin, Mark Rozentsvayg
  • Patent number: 6582668
    Abstract: A buoyant dispensing device for dispensing a material into a body of water. An inner receptacle contains the material and has apertures to permit the material to escape therefrom. A housing having an outer receptacle houses the inner receptacle therein and has corresponding apertures. The inner and outer receptacles are rotatable and fixable with respect to one another to enable a varying degree of overlap between the apertures to control the amount of material dispensed therethrough. Vanes circumscribe the receptacles and corresponding spokes and guard rings interconnect the receptacles and the vanes and keep the receptacles spaced a predetermined distance from other objects. The vanes absorb an impulse force from the body of water and impart the impulse force to the receptacles in the form of a rotational reaction force whereby the dispensing device rotationally and linearly displaces itself within the body of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Inventor: Ivan L. Green
  • Patent number: 6330723
    Abstract: A compressible, air freshening toilet seat adapted for being secured to a toilet bowl includes a cushioning top layer, a rigid bottom layer, an inner periphery, an outer periphery, a compressible chamber, and a plurality of receptacle structures. The top layer is formed of a resilient, cushioning material. The bottom layer has sufficient rigidity for supporting a body weight of a user, and is fixedly attached to the top layer about the peripheries. The chamber is enclosed and defined by the top layer, the bottom layer, and the peripheries. Each of the receptacle structures has an open first end with a retaining lip, and is defined at a predetermined location within the top layer or the bottom layer. Each of the receptacle structures is dimensioned and configured for receiving and removably containing an air freshening element and for permitting a sufficient amount of air freshening agent from the air freshening element to be directed into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Inventor: Peter D. Orgias
  • Patent number: 5383237
    Abstract: A new and improved toilet seat deodorizer apparatus includes a flexible, resilient air pump assembly shaped substantially in the form of a toilet seat, a connector assembly for connecting the air pump assembly to a toilet bowl, and an odor dispenser assembly connected to the air pump assembly. The odor dispenser assembly includes a first screened end in direct communication with air contained within the flexible, resilient air pump assembly and includes a second screened end in direct communication with air which is outside the air pump assembly and the odor dispenser assembly. When a person sits upon the flexible, resilient air pump assembly, a quantity of air is pumped from inside the air pump assembly, through the odor dispenser assembly, to outside the odor dispenser assembly to room air in the room in which the toilet is located. Rigid support members are connected to the flexible, resilient air pump assembly for supporting the air pump assembly a predetermined spaced distance from the toilet bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Inventor: David B. Baker
  • Patent number: 4980931
    Abstract: A self sterilizing toilet seat is provided that includes a built-in mechanism in which detergent, water and air can respectively wash and dry the toilet seat. The built-in mechanism is so constructed that it can only operated when the toilet seat is placed in a down position onto a rim of a toilet bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Inventor: Chaskel Meisels
  • Patent number: 4790039
    Abstract: A portable toilet is equipped with a toilet seat having a cover thereon which is capable of delivering a charge of sanitizing and/or deodorizing fluid onto the upper surface thereof. A source of sanitizing and/or deodorizing fluid is periodically energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: W. W. Scarborough
    Inventor: Lane L. Speer
  • Patent number: 4525880
    Abstract: A portable and foldable toilet seat is disclosed which comprises a thin shell having curved edges which snugly fits over the top of a permanent toilet seat to prevent slippage and includes a stack of disposable liners within said shell. After use, the liner in contact with the permanent toilet seat is peeled away from the stack of liners and appropriately disposed of. The seat may then be folded into a compact quarter oval shape devoid of any contamination from the permanent toilet seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Inventor: Joseph Bass
  • Patent number: 4344194
    Abstract: A toilet seat and lid assembly having air ventilating and deodorizing equipment concealed in the lid, and one or more air passages extending through the seat in seriatim with one or more air conduits providing air communication between the closet bowl and an air chamber which houses the air ventilating and deodorizing equipment in the lid, whereby such equipment is effective to remove odorous air in the bowl, and to deodorize the removed air before expelling it to the ambient atmosphere when the toilet is in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Inventor: Raymond H. Pearson
  • Patent number: 4193144
    Abstract: The invention provides a plastics lavatory seat which has an internal channel or cavity for containing liquid disinfectant and/or deodorant of the phenolic or cationic kind, the liquid and the plastics being compatible and the plastics being permeable to and capable of absorbing the liquid so that a hygienic seat is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Inventor: Ronald McNally