EP0864288B1 - Toilet with incorporated platform for the feet with height adjusting possibilities - Google Patents

Toilet with incorporated platform for the feet with height adjusting possibilities Download PDF

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EP0864288B1
EP0864288B1 EP97923105A EP97923105A EP0864288B1 EP 0864288 B1 EP0864288 B1 EP 0864288B1 EP 97923105 A EP97923105 A EP 97923105A EP 97923105 A EP97923105 A EP 97923105A EP 0864288 B1 EP0864288 B1 EP 0864288B1
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lavatory
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Jorge Samper Cherto
Salvador Ciurans Ribas
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K17/00—Other equipment, e.g. separate apparatus for deodorising, disinfecting or cleaning devices without flushing for toilet bowls, seats or covers; Holders for toilet brushes
    • A47K17/02—Body supports, other than seats, for closets, e.g. handles, back-rests, foot-rests; Accessories for closets, e.g. reading tables
    • A47K17/028—Foot- or knee-rests
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
    • E03D11/00—Other component parts of water-closets, e.g. noise-reducing means in the flushing system, flushing pipes mounted in the bowl, seals for the bowl outlet, devices preventing overflow of the bowl contents; devices forming a water seal in the bowl after flushing, devices eliminating obstructions in the bowl outlet or preventing backflow of water and excrements from the waterpipe

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  • the present specification refers to a lavatory having an incorporated platform for placing a person's feet with height adjustment and locking
  • the evident purpose of wich is to be used like a conventional lavatory, destined to allow an user to carry out a normalized movement of the bowels, having, at the same time, a platform, which qualified to be adjusted in height, facilitates in a restricted sense the user's movement of the bowels in the event of said user suffers with constipation, so obtaining a softening of this anomaly, and, consequently to faclitate the user's movement of the bowels, since according to the incorporated platform, on which a user places his/her feet, he/she can flex the legs, modifying the customary position with a most natural position for the human body, so obtaining that the height and inclination of feet, facilitated by platform, aid to a movement of bowels in the strict sense.
  • the platform is destined to configure a posture thanks to wich the muscles of the abdominal packet generates an anal sphincter loosening, so making easy the movement of the bowels.
  • the present invention will find application in the industry devoted to the manufacture of lavatories and similar sanitation material.
  • this element involves to make use of it in a reliable manner, moving it away once the movement of the bowels has finished, and placing it again front of the lavatory when a user having the above mentioned characteristics needs to go to the lavatory in order to carry out a new movement of the bowels.
  • US Patent 2250060 discloses a footstool adapted for use with a sanitary closet comprising a structure, which is separate from the lavatory, comprising two footrests with a connecting frame which may be fixed to the ground.
  • the lavatory having an incorporated platform for placing a person's feet with height adjustment and blocking as proposed by the invention is configured like an element capable of being used, on the lines of its characteristics, like a conventional lavatory allowing the platform incorpored on which a person's feet are placed, to be used, so relaxing the muscles of the abdominal packet, which involves the anal sphyncter to be relaxed, and making easy the movement of the bowels of those persons suffering with constipation.
  • the lavatory having an incorporated platform for placing a person's feet with height adjustment and blocking of the invention is constituted by a practically conventional lavatory, having incorporated a platform which, beeing placed in front of the lavatory, in a fixed or auxiliary way, allows the movement of the bowels of persons having constipation problems who need to be helped to relax the anal sphincter.
  • the invention is constituted by a lavatory having an adjustable heigh platform, having openings or cavities made in the thickness of the lower walls of the lavatory for adjusting and hooking the platform, having an appropiate inclination angle to the horizontal.
  • the platform has appropiate dimensions, in order to allow the user's feet to be adequately positioned, flexing in consequence his/her feet, and, then, obtaining that the muscles of the abdominal packet be in an appropiate condition to relax the anal sphincter.
  • the lavatory will be used in a conventional manner, the platform remaining in a position leant and fully located on the area of the front surface of the lavatory, without protruding of the lavatory.
  • the lavatory of this invention having an incorporated platform for placing on a person's feet, with height adjustment and blocking, is constituted by a lavatory, on which and at the lower zone, channels are made in the thickness of the walls, in which steel guides (1) are incorporated, which adopt a "U" shape, having a support (2) sliding inside the guides (1) and relying on platforms or trays (3) and (4), where feet are supported, when platform protrudes forward of the lavatory, on service position.
  • the trays (3) and (4) can be retracted towards the lavatory zone, on resting position, reducing its usage space, and so the lavatory is like a conventional lavatory, without protruding platforms, when used by a person who does not suffer with constipation.

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EP97923105A 1996-10-03 1997-05-28 Toilet with incorporated platform for the feet with height adjusting possibilities Expired - Lifetime EP0864288B1 (en)

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ES09602319U ES1036455Y (es) 1996-10-03 1996-10-03 Water con plataforma incorporada para los pies con regulacion de altura y fijo: (samciu)
ES9602319U 1996-10-03
PCT/ES1997/000135 WO1998014107A1 (es) 1996-10-03 1997-05-28 Inodoro con plataforma incorporada para los pies con regulacion de altura y fijo

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EP0864288A1 EP0864288A1 (en) 1998-09-16
EP0864288B1 true EP0864288B1 (en) 2001-11-14

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AT (1) ATE208586T1 (es)
DE (1) DE69708262T2 (es)
ES (1) ES1036455Y (es)
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WO (1) WO1998014107A1 (es)

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ES1037938Y (es) * 1997-07-24 1998-11-01 Castillo Lozano Benjamin Soporte de pies perfeccionado, aplicable en inodoros.
DE102016009308B4 (de) 2016-08-01 2019-02-28 Lara Ducks Vorrichtung zur Einnahme einer entspannten Defäkationsposition und ein Verfahren hierzu
CN112384114B (zh) 2018-05-11 2022-10-04 科勒公司 马桶的脚架结构
DE202019000073U1 (de) 2019-01-10 2019-02-11 Christel Michel Mobile, therapeutische Fußstütze

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US2250060A (en) * 1938-11-01 1941-07-22 Finlay Reginald Gedye Footstool adapted for use with sanitary closets
US2698440A (en) * 1953-04-14 1955-01-04 Robert J Lyons Water closet device
US4466140A (en) * 1983-03-28 1984-08-21 Minoru Sakamoto Adjustable toilet bowl seat and footrest
US4584725A (en) * 1985-07-15 1986-04-29 Debra Oliver Retractable squat-facilitation toilet footrest
GB8803239D0 (en) * 1988-02-12 1988-03-09 Flowers C C Toilet bowl

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WO1998014107A1 (es) 1998-04-09
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ES1036455U (es) 1997-08-16
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