US1954448A

US1954448A - Inlaid toilet seat

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Publication number: US1954448A
Application number: US599866A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank B Hackett
Original assignee: Brunswick Balke Collender Co
Current assignee: BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER Co; Brunswick Balke Collender Co
Priority date: 1932-03-19
Filing date: 1932-03-19
Publication date: 1934-04-10
Anticipated expiration: 1951-04-10

Description

pril 10, 1934. F. BY HACKETT 1,954,448

INLAID TOILET SEAT Filed March 19, 1952 E3 @C C;

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A zZ/4 pgp Patented Apr. 10, 1934 Uru'rizp STATES PATi-:NT'oFl-lcs Frank B. Hackett, chicago, nl., as'sigmr u The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, Chicago,

v Ill., a corporation of Delaware v Application March 19,1932, Serial No. 599,866

claims. (ci. 40-2 This invention relates to an improved inlaid toilet seat and has for one of its principal objects the provision of a toilet seat or the like wherein insignia such as letters, designs, or the like are i built into the material of the seat itself in such a way as to be ineffaceable.

, One of the important objects of this invention' is to provide a toilet seat with inlays, of any material or design, incorporated into the surface thereof, which designs or thelike will always be visible on the surface of the seat and which cannot be erased, eradicated or removed, and which at the same time will be capable of use throughout a considerable range of possibilities.

Another ,important object of the invention resides in the provision of a toilet seat having advertising matter or `the like incorporated into the surface thereof, which advertising matter forms an integral portion of the material of the seat itself, and wherein there is employed a novel process of incorporating this matter into the body and surface of the seat.

Other and further importantobjects of the invention will be apparent from the disclosures in the accompanying drawings and following specication.

The invention, in a preferred form, is illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter morefully described.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan View of a portion of a completed toilet seat, showing same as constructed in accordance with the improved process of this invention.

Figure 2 is a view of a portion of a toilet seat core showing the same prepared for the incorporation thereinto of the insignia and subsequent coating, respectively, which form the completed seat.

Figure 3 is a top plan View of one of the inserts or inlays used in the production of the seat of this invention.

Figure 4 is a side elevation of the insert shown in Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on the line.

afford greater strength and is then covered with a composition coating 12 of some material such as rubber or the like which is preferably vulcanized onto the core and which then forms a unitary integral seat structure. Obviously many types of seats may be made along these lines and all may incorporate the ideas of this invention.

In the improved process of this invention the wooden core 10 is first routed out as shown at 14 to a depth of from l/16th to l/Bth of an inch or 65 thereabouts, the shape and dimensions of the routed out area corresponding to a plate or the like 16 which is then inserted thereinto, as best shown in Figure 5, and which plate is integral therewith, and has extending upwardly therefrom a sign, series of letters, a device. or some other insignia, such as illustrated generally at 18, which may be of any shape or design. The height of these devices 18 is such as to vapproximate the thickness of the outer coating 12 of vulcanized 75 rubber or the like which is applied to the core during the process of manufacture.

. In the practice of this invention the plate 16 is inserted into the routed out space 14 and the core, with the plate therein, is then' covered with 80 a layer of uncured rubber or the like, after which the entire structure is placed into a vulcanizing machine and the outer coating is vulcanized, thereby producing a unitary seat structure having the inserts or inlaysv built bodily into the surfacev thereof and extending through the surface and into the core. v

In the further application of the process the vulcanized seat is then finished by sanding, or the like, to a desired degree of smoothness and iinish, whereupon the material of the insignia appears in the covering as distinguished from the material of the coating composition.

'I'he -plate 16 and the material of the insignia or letters 18 are semi-cured hard rubber and dur- 95. ing the vulcanization process this curing is completed and the Vulcanization thereby results in forming the letters or insignia as an unremovable and actually integral part of the hard rubber covering.

Obviously the letters or other insignia are of a different color from the color of the coating, whereby sufficient contrast results, thereby 'affording a readily visible and strikingfdesign which is incorporated into the seat structure in. an un- 105 eradicable manner.

Obviously the location of the letters or other insignia can be at any desired or convenient portion of the surface of the seat, and any desired amount of the area of the seat itself can be used no for this purpose. The insignia. can be used for advertising, identiflcation or other purposes with very good eiIect in any event and the idea itself can be applied tosimilar objects by means of a similar process. Various combinations of colors, or insignia, may be used with considerable effect and striking results.

Iamawarethatmanychangesmaybemade and numerous details of construction varied throughout a wide range without departing from the principles of this invention, and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patent granted thereon otherwise than as necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention- 1. A toilet seat comprising a wooden core and -a vulcanized rubber coating over the core, to-

gether with insgniaincorporated into the coating and forming a part thereof, said insignia comprising a plurality of separate visible portions, all mounted on a single plate, the said plate embedded in the material of the core.

2. A toilet seat comprising a wooden core and a vulcanized rubber coating over the core, together with insignia incorporated into the coating and forming a part thereof, said insignia comprising a plurality of separate visible portions, all mounted on a single plate, the said plate embedded in the material of the core, the plate and insignia composed of semi-cured rubber.

3. A toilet seat comprising a wooden core and a vulcanized rubber coating over the core, together with insignia incorporated into the coating and forming a part thereof, said insignia comprising a plurality of separate visible portions, all mounted on a single plate, the said plate embedded in the material oi' the core, the plate and insignia composed of semi-cured rubber vulcanized in position with the vulcanized coating.

4. A toilet seat comprising a wooden core having routed out portions therein, plates inserted in the routed out portions, each plate having integral therewith upstanding insignia, and a coating for the core of substantially the same thickness as the heighrt of said insignia, said coating and insignia being incorporated into a unitary structure, composed of rubber and vulcanized in position on the core.

5. A toilet seat comprising a laminated Wooden core, a routed out space in the core, a thin plate of semi-cured rubber in the space, a plurality of semi-cured rubber letters integral with said plate and upstanding therefrom, and a coating of rubber enveloping the coreand surrounding and contacting the letters and of substantially the same thickness as the height of the letters, the coating, the letters and the plate being vulcanized by heat and pressure into an integral envelope for the core.

FRANK B. HACKETI.