US1480516A

US1480516A - Toilet seat

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Publication number: US1480516A
Application number: US441310A
Authority: US
Inventors: Dobson Graham Charles
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-01-31
Filing date: 1921-01-31
Publication date: 1924-01-08
Anticipated expiration: 1941-01-08

Description

Jab. a1, 1924. 1,480,516

G. C. DOBSON TOILET SE'AT Filed Jan. 31 1921 WITNESSES I INVENTOR Patented Jan. 8, 1924.

GRAHAM onARL-Es IDOBSON, on NEW YORK, N.

TOILET SEAT.-

Application filed January 31, 1921. Serial No. 441,310. 7

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, GR HAM CHARLES DOBSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Toilet *Seat, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved toilet seat, which is exceedingly simple and durable in construction and arranged to accommodate either a sectional wood filling or a composition filling.

Another object is to provide a frame hinge connection between the seat, the seat cover and the bowl.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel fea tures of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim. r "A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in

- which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved toilet seat with a portion shown broken out; v

Figure 2 is an enlarged section of one side of the same onithe line 2-2'of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an-inverted plan View of the rear portion of the seat showing the hinge connection; and, v Figure 4 is an inverted plan View of the front end of the toilet seat showing one of the bumpers.

The toilet seat in its general construction consists of a metallic flat frame 10 and a fillingrll made either of wood or of a suitable composition. In case the 'fillingis made of wood, it is formed in sections joined together in the usual manner of making ordinary wooden toilet seats. In either case the filling is of unbroken continuity the same as the metallic frame 10. The metallic frame 10 is provided at its outer and inner edges with annular

mtegral flanges

12 and 13 inclined upwardly and inwardly towards each other, as plainly shown in Figures 1 and 2, and the said:

flanges

12 and 13 fit into, correspondingly shaped annular rabbets 14 and 15 arranged on the sides of the filling llso that the outer faces of the flanges a 12 and 13 are flush with the outer surface filling 11. It-

will be noticed that by'the arrangement described the wooden filling 11 with" its flat under surface rests firmly on the top of the V flat metallic frame 10, and the said filling is held in place by thevinclined flanges: 12 and 13, which'latter prevent any partof the filling, especially if the latter is made of wooden sections, from spreading or coming apart.

In practice, the metallic frame 10 is prefv erably made of aluminum and" the

fianges

12 and 13, are approximately atright angles with the plane of the frame to permit .of

placingthe filling 11 in position on top of the frame 10. When this has'been done, the

flanges 12and 13 are bent inward into the rabbets 14: and 15 to fasten the filling 11 in place without the useof nails, screws, ad hesive substances or other fastening devices.

The metallic frame 10 is-provided atits rear with rearwardly extending brackets 20 fastened in place by screws or s1milarfasten-.

ing means 21 passing through-the metallic frame 10 into the filling 11. The brackets 20 are adapted to be engaged by the usual pintle orpintles to form a hinge connection with the supporting posts attached to-the bowl of the water closet to permit of swing-- ing the toilet seat up or down on the-posts. V The pintle also makes the usual hinge connection 'with the cover for the seat. The under side of the metallic frame 10 is further provided at the sides and the front with rubber-blocks'25 fastened in'place'by suitable screws, nails or other fastening devices 26 extending through the metallic frame 10- as t into the filling '11." The rubber blocks adapted to rest on the top of the bowl. 7

The toilet seat shown and described is i very simple and durable in construction and can be cheaply manufactured.

Having thus described my invention,

presenting curved inner and outer edges 10 and provided in said edges with annularrabhets of a depth and length equal tome thickness and length of the flanges, whereby the flanges lie flush with the filling and the latter secured to the frame Without addi- 15 tional means.

GRAHAM CHARLES DOBSON;