US20170260764A1

US20170260764A1 - Portable toilet

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Publication number: US20170260764A1
Application number: US15/064,640
Authority: US
Inventors: Nofel Izz
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2016-03-09
Filing date: 2016-03-09
Publication date: 2017-09-14

Abstract

A portable toilet is disclosed. The portable toilet includes a portable toilet seat and a portable cabana. The portable toilet seat includes a foldable base in a shape of conventional toilet seat. The foldable base includes seat members defining an open center for excretion of waste therethrough. Further, the portable toilet seat includes a receptacle removably connected to the seat members for covering operative back position of the open center and to receive the waste excreted through the open center. The portable cabana includes an extendable hollow cylindrical body which is extended up to a predetermined height during operation. Further, an opening is provided at an operative top position and at an operative bottom position of the body to allow accommodation of the portable toilet seat within the body.

Description

FIELD OF INVENTION

The present disclosure relates to the field of portable toilets. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to portable toilets, which are foldable, collapsible and usable at any location.

BACKGROUND

In many underprivileged parts of the world, people are facing challenges on day-to-day basis due to scarcity of toilets or latrines. Still today, many undeveloped countries are facing sanitation problems. Many have to leave privacy of their shelters to perform one of the most basic human needs. They are conditioned to using unhygienic, often unsafe areas for their task.
In other scenarios, such as at construction and recreation sites portable toilets are often used which are normally made of metal sheets or a wooden material. These portable toilets are generally heavy due to which lot of transport difficulties arise during shifting from one place to another. Further, these toilets need septic tanks or a sewage pipe system to be fitted with them which results in increased operational and construction cost. Furthermore, there are no proper disposing solutions for the waste of these portable toilets, which results in increased danger of epidemics.
Sometimes, facilities available in public lavatories are unsanitary and one has to suffer if no other alternative is available. Conventionally, some disposable toilet seats, such as disposable covers are available however there are many disadvantages to these disposable covers.
Thus, there is felt a need to alleviate drawbacks associated with conventional disposable toilet facilities. There is a need to address the demand of toilets that can be cost effective, portable, easy to use and easily available.

SUMMARY

A portable toilet seat is disclosed. The portable toilet seat includes a foldable base configured in a shape of a conventional toilet seat, wherein the foldable base includes seat members defining an open center for excretion of waste therethrough. Each of the seat members includes a first end and a second end, wherein the seat members are connected with each other through a plurality of perforations provided at the first end and the second end of each of the seat members, to enable folding of the foldable base. The portable toilet seat further includes a receptacle removably connected to the seat members for covering operative back position of the open center, wherein the receptacle is configured to receive the waste through the open center.
A portable cabana is disclosed. The portable cabana includes an extendable hollow cylindrical body configured to be extended up to a predetermined height during operation. Further, an opening is provided at an operative top position and at an operative bottom position of the body to allow accommodation for a user within the body. Furthermore, the body is foldable into a predefined shape in an event the user is not accommodating within the body.
A portable toilet is disclosed. The portable toilet includes a portable toilet seat and a portable cabana. The portable toilet seat includes a foldable base in a shape of conventional toilet seat. The foldable base includes seat members defining an open center for excretion of waste therethrough. Further, the portable toilet seat includes a receptacle removably connected to the seat members for covering operative back position of the open center and to receive the waste excreted through the open center. The portable cabana includes an extendable hollow cylindrical body, which is extended up to a predetermined height during operation. Further, an opening is provided at an operative top position and at an operative bottom position of the body to allow accommodation of the portable toilet seat within the body.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS

The novel features which are believed to be characteristic of the present disclosure, as to its structure, organization, use and method of operation, together with further objectives and advantages thereof, will be better understood from the following drawings in which a presently preferred embodiment of the invention will now be illustrated by way of example. It is expressly understood, however, that the drawings are for the purpose of illustration and description only and are not intended as a definition of the limits of the invention. Embodiments of this disclosure will now be described by way of example in association with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a portable toilet seat in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 illustrates a perspective view of the portable toilet seat during an operative condition, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 illustrates a perspective view of unfolding of the portable toilet in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 illustrates a perspective view of a portable cabana in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 5 illustrates a perspective view of a collapsed portable cabana in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The terminology used in the present disclosure is for the purpose of describing exemplary embodiments and is not intended to be limiting. The terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “including,” and “having,” are inclusive and therefore specify the presence of stated features, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not exclude the presence other features, operations, elements, and/or components thereof. The method steps and processes described in the present disclosure are not to be construed as necessarily requiring their performance in the particular order illustrated, unless specifically identified as an order of performance.
In an event an element is referred to as being “on”, “engaged to”, “connected to” or “coupled to” another element, it may be directly on, engaged, connected or coupled to the other element, or intervening elements may be present. On the contrary, in an event an element is referred to as being “directly on,” “directly engaged to”, “directly connected to” or “directly coupled to” another element, there may be no intervening elements present. Other words used to describe the relationship between elements should be interpreted in a like fashion. Further, the term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
Although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, components, regions, and/or sections, these elements, components, regions, and/or sections should not be limited by these terms. These terms may be only used to distinguish one element, component, region, or section from another region, layer or section. Terms such as “first,” “second,” and other numerical terms when used herein do not imply a sequence or order unless clearly indicated by the context.
The portable toilet of the present disclosure will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which does not restrict the scope and ambit of the disclosure. The description provided is purely by way of example and illustration.
The portable toilet of the present disclosure includes a portable toilet seat and a portable cabana. In an embodiment, the present disclosure describes functioning of the portable seat in conjunction with the portable cabana however the functioning and use of the portable seat and the portable cabana are not limited to each other and both may also be utilized as individual units. The portable seat is foldable and the portable cabana is collapsible, due to which the portable toilet of the present disclosure is convenient to carry and helpful in emergency situations. The portable toilet of the present disclosure is quite useful in rural locations where common amenities are not available or a remote location where toilet facilities are not available. The portable toilet of the present disclosure may also find its utility in urban areas of the third world countries where women, men and/or children may perform their toilet activities in privacy using the portable toilet.
Referring to FIG. 1, a portable seat 100 includes a base 102 and a receptacle 104 connected to the base 102. The base 102 further includes two seat members 102 a and 102 b. For the purpose of description herein, number of seat members is restricted to two however the number of seat members may be increased for merely facilitating a design choice to a person ordinary skilled in the art. The placement of the seat members 102 a and 102 b defines an open center 116 which allows excretion of waste to the receptacle 104 placed underneath the open center 116.
As illustrated in FIG. 1, perforations 106 are provided at ends of the seat members 102 a and 102 b. Specifically, perforations 106 are provided at a first end 108 a and a second end 110 a of the first seat member 102 a. Further, perforations 106 are provided at a first end 112 b and at a second end 114b of the second seat member 102 b. The perforations 106 may also be provided at other locations on the seat members 102 a and 102 b for merely facilitating a design choice to a person having ordinary skill in the art.
In an embodiment, the receptacle 104 is securely connected to the seat members 102 a and 102 b in such a manner to cover operative back position of the open center 116, thereby conveniently receiving all the excreted waste. The receptacle 104 may be extended downwards about the perimeter of the open center 116 (as shown in FIG. 2) and may be securely engaged along the edges of the seat members 102 a and 102 b.
Referring to FIG. 2, a sealed portable toilet seat 200 is illustrated. During operation, the receptacle 104 extends downward (as shown in FIG. 2) to receive waste being excreted by a user. The base 102 is foldable due to perforations 106 provided at the ends of the seat members 102 a and 102 b. The perforations 106 facilitate movement of the seat members 102 a and 102 b in a direction and a manner being desired by the user. Depending on a location of the perforations 106 on the seat members 102 a and 102 b, folding of the seat members 102 a and 102 b may be performed in different manners and styles (as indicated in FIG. 3), thereby rendering storage and carrying of the portable toilet seat 100 easy and convenient.
During operation, when the user is done with excretion of waste, the seat members 102 a and 102 b may be folded to get sealed with each other. In an embodiment, the seat members 102 a and 102 b may be sealed together (as shown in FIG. 2) through a sticker (not shown in figures) pasted on a glue panel (not shown in figures) present on a surface of the seat members 102 a and 102 b.
The portable toilet seat 100 is foldable due to presence of the foldable base 102 therein. Referring to FIG. 3, the foldable base 102 of the portable toilet seat 100 may be folded to possess varying shapes and sizes as shown in FIG. 3. In FIG. 3, unfolding states of the portable toilet seat 100 has been shown. During operation, the user may unfold a first state 300 of the portable toilet seat to obtain a second state 400 of the portable toilet seat and subsequently may unfold the second state 400 of the portable toilet seat to obtain another intermediate state 500 of the portable toilet seat. The intermediate state 500 of the portable toilet seat may be unfolded to finally obtain the portable toilet seat 100 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 illustrates a perspective view of a portable cabana 700 in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The portable cabana 700 includes a hollow cylindrically body 702. The body 702 includes a first opening 704 at an operative top position and a second opening 706 at an operative bottom position. The first opening 704 and the second opening 706 enable a user to enter inside the body 702. In an embodiment, the body 702 includes a room sufficient to accommodate the user sitting in a squat position. Typically, the body 702 is made of a flexible metal wire which may enable the user to increase the room inside the body 702, if required. In another embodiment, height of the portable cabana 700 is adjustable due to flexible metallic wire body 702. The user may adjust the height of the portable cabana 700 as per the requirement.
As illustrated in FIG. 4, the portable cabana 700 further includes a structure 708 attached at an edge of the body 702 in such a manner to provide shade on the user sitting within the portable cabana 700 and/or to act as head covering for protection against external elements. The structure 708 may be attached removably with the body 702. Due to the flexible metallic body 702, the portable cabana 700 may be collapsed during non-operative conditions as shown in FIG. 5.
Referring to FIG. 5, the portable cabana 700 may be collapsed into an exemplary first collapsed state 800 which is a circular form or may be collapsed into another exemplary collapsed state 900 which is a “8” formation. Due to collapsible body 702, it is easy to store and carry the portable cabana 700.
In an embodiment, the receptacle 104 may be a bag or pouch made of a plastic, stiff paper or any other waterproof material. The foldable base 102 may be made of a cardboard or a stiff paper which makes the portable seat 100 bio-degradable, cost effective and easy to dispose.
In an embodiment, the portable toilet seat 100 may be used by a user while squatting within the portable cabana 700 or without the portable cabana 700. In another embodiment, the portable toilet seat 100 may be placed on a conventional pedestal toilet seat.
In an embodiment, the portable toilet seat 100 may be painted with florescent colors which help in usage of the portable toilet seat 100 in absolute darkness conditions too.

Claims

1. A portable toilet seat, comprising:

a foldable base configured in a shape of a conventional toilet seat, said foldable base comprising seat members defining an open center for excretion of waste therethrough, each of said seat members comprising a first end and a second end,

wherein said seat members are connected with each other through a plurality of perforations provided at said first end and said second end of each of said seat members, to enable folding of said foldable base; and

a receptacle removably connected to said seat members for covering operative back position of said open center, said receptacle configured to receive said waste through said open center.

2. The portable toilet seat according to claim 1, wherein each of said seat members are sealed together in an event of folding of said foldable base.

3. The portable toilet seat according to claim 2, further comprising a sticker positioned on a surface of each of said seat members, to enable sealing of said seat members together.

4. The portable toilet seat according to claim 3, wherein said sealing of said members together effectuates sealing of said receptacle.

5. The portable toilet seat according to claim 1, wherein said receptacle is one of: a plastic bag, a waterproof cloth bag, or a stiff paper bag, and wherein said foldable base is made of a cardboard or a stiff paper.

6. A portable cabana, comprising:

an extendable hollow cylindrical body configured to be extended up to a predetermined height during operation,

wherein an opening is provided at an operative top position and at an operative bottom position of said body to allow accommodation for a user within said body, and

wherein said body is foldable into a predefined shape in an event said user is not accommodating within said body.

7. The portable cabana according to claim 6, further comprising a structure disposed above said opening at said operative top position of said body to provide cover to said user accommodating within said body.

8. The portable cabana according to claim 6, wherein said body is made of a flexible metal wire configured to enable folding of said body into said pre-defined shape.

9. The portable cabana according to claim 6, wherein said pre-defined shape is one of a circular form or an eight formation.

10. A portable toilet, comprising:

a portable toilet seat, wherein said portable toilet comprises:

a foldable base configured in a shape of conventional toilet seat, said foldable base comprising seat members defining an open center for excretion of waste therethrough; and

a receptacle removably connected to said seat members for covering operative back position of said open center, said receptacle configured to receive said waste excreted through said open center; and

a portable cabana, wherein said portable cabana comprises:

wherein an opening is provided at an operative top position and at an operative bottom position of said body to allow accommodation of said portable toilet seat within said body.

11. The portable toilet according to claim 10, wherein each of said seat members comprises a first end and a second end with a plurality of perforations provided at said first end and said second end, and wherein said seat members are connected with each other through said plurality of perforations to enable folding of said foldable base.

12. The portable toilet according to claim 11, wherein each of said seat members are sealed together in an event said folding of said foldable base is performed.

13. The portable toilet according to claim 12, further comprising a glue panel positioned on a surface of each of said seat members, to enable sealing of said seat members together.

14. The portable toilet according to claim 10, wherein said portable cabana is foldable into a pre-defined shape in an event said portable seat is not accommodated within said body.

15. The portable toilet according to claim 10, wherein said portable cabana further comprises a structure disposed above said opening at said operative top position of said body to provide shade upon said portable seat accommodated within said body.