US1097768A - Water-closet seat. - Google Patents

Description

R. ROBERGB.

WATER CLOSET SEAT.

APPLICATION 111L213 JAN.16, 1914,

097 7 Patented May 26, 1914.

R170 UL 30357 5 Inventor Attorneys ne ates.

NITED STATES PATENT orr cn I R AOUL ROBERGE, 0F SHAWINTGAN FALLS, QUEBEC, CAIfIADA, ASSIGNOR TO PHILIPPE LACHANCE & 70., 0F SHAWINIGAN FALLS, QUEBEC, CANADA,

WATER-CLOSET SEAT.

Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater-Closet Seats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

3 vtion, reference should be had to the acconh present application.

Throughout the several figures of the drawings like reference characters desig nate 'the same parts. I

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the water closet seat bowl, withthe seat applied; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the seat down; Fig. 3 is a side View 0 en;

4c is a detail side view of one o the seat springs; Fig. 5 isa plan view of the same; and Fig. 6 is a detail of one of the spring retaining eyes.

The main objects of provide a neat, simply constructed, and

panying drawings forming part of the durable seat for water closets, which will hinged cover 2.

not "fall with sufficient force to cause injury to the bowl of the closet, and which will normally be raised so as not to be dampened or cracked, by sewage or water which is poured into the bowl being spilled upon the seat.

Referring to thedrawings in detail, 1 designates the seat rovided' with the usual oil springs 3 are secured to the back piece 4 by means of rectangular casings 5 placed over the rectangle of inner ends 6 of the springs, and secured to the back,piece; as shown. The outer ends of the springs 3 are passed through screw eyes 7 threaded into seat 1 ateach side of cover Specification oi Letters Patent.

* Application flledlanuary 16, 1914, Serial No. 812,444.

the invention are, to

I Patented Ma 26, 19 14.

2; The springs 3 are so coiled that they ex ert a lifting efiect on the seat 1.

The weight of cover 2 on seat 1 is suflicient,-because of its great leverage as compared with the springs 3, to keep the seat lowered on to the bowl 8, when the cover'is down. Whenever cover 2 is raised the seat is released and the springs 3 act to lift it clear of the bowl, as in Fig. 3.- This avoids any possibility of spilling anything on to the seat when emptying it into the bowl. On the other hand, if the seat and cover be accidentally dropped the springs '3' will act to reduce the shock to a minimum, thus eliminating the great damage which might otherwise be done to the seat and bowl both.

It is thought that the construction, operation, and use of the invention will be clear from the preceding detailed description.

Changes may be made in the construction,

arrangement, and disposition of the several parts of the invention Without in any way departing from'the field and scope ofthe same, and it is meant to include all such within this application wherein only a. preferred form has been disclosed, r

" Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a device of the character described, a bowl, a back piece, a seat hinged'to said back piece and resting upon said bowl, a cover hinged to said back piece, coil springs of just sufficient strength to lift the seat, alone, and having one end formed as a loop and the other as a spring arm', holding clips for,

inclosing said loops to secure the springs to v the aforesaid back piece, and means for slid ably connecting the free ends of the spring arms to the seat. a

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

RAOUL ROBERGE.

Witnessesi 1 P. LAGHANCE," A. BASTIEN.

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