US1155260A

US1155260A - Sanitary seat-cover.

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Publication number: US1155260A
Application number: US78963213A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry F W Meyer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-09-13
Filing date: 1913-09-13
Publication date: 1915-09-28
Anticipated expiration: 1932-09-28

Description

H. F. W. MEYER.

SANITARY SEAT COVER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13. 1913.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

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HENRY F. W. MEYER, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

SANITARY SEAT-COVER.

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. W. MEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Seat-Covers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to protecting devices for toilet seats; and it has for its primary object the provision of a device of this character which will forma sanitary covering for the seat when applied thereto and one which maybe folded on predetermined lines whereby it may be arranged initially to assume a comparatively compact package, and further one wherein the folds will serve under their expansive action or tendency to separate fromone another to cause the protector to readily assume its intended positionfor application tothe seat.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a protecting device of this character which may be constructed of destructible and soluble material and treated to a suitable antiseptic solution.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the protector applied to the seat; Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing the protector in a partly unfolded position so as to illustrate definitely the different lines of fold; Fig. 3

is a similar view, showing the protector completely folded; and Fig. l is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the folded protector arranged within a suitable transparent con- 7 tainer.

.With a view of providing a protector which will be applicable to toilet seats or.

like places, one which will be soluble and having the required properties topermit of its destruction after use and when discharged into the waste water, and further, one which employ a member 1 of suitable material,

such as paper that may be readily dissolved in water. The member is cut from a predetermined outline according to the design Specification of Letters Patent.

'I'claimis: As a newi artlcle ofymaiiufacture, a cover Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

I Application filed September 13, 1913. Serial No. 789,632.

of the seat to which it is to be applied and when completed it'is provided with a central opening 2. The body of the material is scored or. suitably formed on lines 3 whereby the portions 4 between said lines may be folded against each other. These lines are formed around both sides of the protector and around the end 5 while at the end 6 the body of the protector has formed thereon a line of fold? and a companion line of fold 8, the latter being arranged in converging relation in the direction of the opening 2 and disposed with such regard to the line of fold 7 so that an intervening substantially key-stone portion 9. is formed between said lines 8. This construction is such that the part 9 will form a housing or protector for the portions 4 when the latter are folded along the lines 3 previously described. The lines 3 defining the portionstconverge in the direction of the opening 2 but to a less defolds, while serving to render the sides of the package compact to the maximum degree, are principally designed for the purpose of facilitating the application of the device to the seat. As vvthe folds around the sides and through the-end 5 oftheprotector are identical, it is obviously-understoodthat during the. operation ofu'nfolding the device for use, the variousportions 4; between the lines 3, will tend to separate" from. each- 1 other, and, as a consequence, ithedewice as a? whole will ;quickly assume afflatand distend- '{ed condition, where it will smiglyan'd .u'ni-' formly .restagainst' the seat;

Havingthus described my inventiomwhat for toilet seatscomprising a thin' sheet of paper of oval contour having an oblong central opening, the material being accordion folded around two sides and one end on predetermined score lines, the opposite end of the material being folded on In testimony whereof I 'aflix my signature predetermined score lines and forming a in presence of two witnesses. housing receiving said sides and first end in folded position, the device being adapted to HENRY E 5 assume a flat condition upon removal of Witnesses:

the said sides and end from within the JAMES A-.-KoEHL,

housing. BENNETT S. JONES. I