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- the present invention relates to certain new and useful to one which is both portable and miniature in nature and primarily adapted to be used in the home for training boys, ranging up to five or six years old, how to use it.
- Another object of the invention is to provide a portable miniature urinal which has a nail hole or equivalent means whereby the urinal may be attached to and suspended from a vertical wall at desired elevation and, if necessary, changed in its elevated position from time to time.
- Novelty is, in addition, predicated on a urinal cabinet construction which employs a simple and practical semicircular member as a so-called splashboard and has a dished apertured basin at the bottom thereof with the apertures arranged to empty into a readily insert-able and removable fluid trapping and collection drawer.
- Figure 3 is a vertical section at right angles to Figure.
- Figure 4 is a transverse section on the horizontal line 4-4 of Figure 2, also looking in the direction of the ararrows.
- the over-all box-like cabinet is denoted, as a structural unit, by the numeral 6.
- This cabinet may be'some eighteeninches high, twelve inches wide and of a depth 'of several inches more or less. Any suitable materials, preferably lightweight in character, may be employed in constructing the parts which go to make up the completed cabinet.
- the cabinet is somewhat open at the back, the side which goes against the bathroom wall or other surface (not: shown). is a flat horizontal bottom wall 8, vertical side walls 10 and 12 and a flat top wall 14.
- the front wall is provided with opening means 16 toward the bottom to accommodate an insertable and removable sliding drawer 18. Rectangular opening means at the top affords access to the substantially semi-circular shield or splashboard 20.
- the vertical portions of the front wall represent narrow r the top 14 with a keyhole slot 28 by which the cabinet may be hung on a nail or other headed fastener secured to a bathroom wall or other support.
- This device may be employed by resting the flat bottom 6 on the floor and it may then be increased in elevated position as the child grows by supporting the same on a nail driven into the wall or other surface.
- the preliminary trap is in the form of a dished basin 30 and this has its downwardly declined portion resting against an upstanding wall or shield 32.
- These features 30 and 32 serve to trap the liquid and the receptacle portion of the sliding drawer 18.
- the latter is of appropriate capacity and is here shown as rectangular in form and it is slidably mounted on a partition or shelf 36 as best shown in Figure 2.
- Appropriate guides and stops 38 are provided to hold the drawer in a position where it lines up with the discharge holes 34.
- the front wall of the drawer is provided with a retaining latch 40 and a pull knob 42 which is arranged to also operate or control the latch.
- the numeral 44 designates appropriate horizontal brace means for the shield or splashboard 20. It will be noticed in this connection that portion of the top 14 overhangs the chambered portion of the cabinet and this provides a suitable handle whereby the device may be picked up and moved from room to room, or utilized for carrying the urinal to and from an automobile, assuming that the urinal may be desired for use when travelling.
- a portable trainee-type urinal for use by children in the home and, if desired, in an automobile or the like comprising a portable small-sized sheet material cabinet extremely light in weight and such that it may be easily picked up,
- said cabinet being rectangular in general shape and cross-section, said cabinet being self-standing partially open at the back and embodying a flat bottom wall, flat vertical side walls and a fiat top wall all of the same crosssectional size, and a flat front wall, a vertically disposed semi-circular splash shield supported within the enclosing confines of said walls and provided at its lower portion with a horizontal dished liquid trapping and disposal basin vertically spaced above said bottom wall, said top wall covering the upper end of said shield and overlying said basin and being in vertically spaced relation and providing a balanced carrying handle, said front wall having opening means exposing said shield and basin, the vertical edge portions of said opening means projecting partly over and beyond the adjacent edge portions of said shield and the lower edge portion of said opening means projecting to a plane above said basin, a shelf fixed in the lower portion of said cabinet, located directly beneath said basin, and spaced above said bottom Wall, guide means mounted atop said shelf, and a slidable liquid trapping and disposal
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J R. GOSSETT PORTABLE MINIATURE URINAL Filed Nov. 20, 1950 John R Gasser! INVEN TOR.
United States Patent 2,769,982 PORTABLE MINIATURE URINAL John R. Gossett, Orange City, Fla., assignor of one-half to Corrine E. Gossett, Orange City, Fla.
Application November 20, 1950, Serial No. 196,673 1 Claim. 01. 4 110 The present invention relates to certain new and useful to one which is both portable and miniature in nature and primarily adapted to be used in the home for training boys, ranging up to five or six years old, how to use it.
Although custom may not be universal in any sense of the word, it is perhaps a somewhat general procedure, it is believed, to train small children, after having passed the infant stage, to use a portable pot and such practices are commonly started, it is submitted, at an early stage in the life of such youngsters. It is also common practice to teach small ones, as soon as is reasonably possible, to use regular flushable toilets. Many and varied styles of so-called trainee seats are employed, these being utilized in conjunction with the customary toilet seat.
There has long existed a need, it is believed, to bring into use a miniature trainee-type urinal for boys. It is therefore an object of the instant invention to provide just such a device, one which is easy to pick up and carry from place to place, one which acquaints users with the practice of standing up and using a urinal similar to those commonly employed in mens toilets in ofiices, factories, hospitals and elsewhere.
Considered from a structural standpoint, novelty is predicated on a simple and economical urinal construction which is characterized, generally speaking, by a boxlike cabinet having a flat bottom which may be placed for suitably erected maintenance on a floor in a bathroom or the like but which is also susceptible of self-standing use when carried, let us say, in an automobile or the like.
Another object of the invention is to provide a portable miniature urinal which has a nail hole or equivalent means whereby the urinal may be attached to and suspended from a vertical wall at desired elevation and, if necessary, changed in its elevated position from time to time.
Novelty is, in addition, predicated on a urinal cabinet construction which employs a simple and practical semicircular member as a so-called splashboard and has a dished apertured basin at the bottom thereof with the apertures arranged to empty into a readily insert-able and removable fluid trapping and collection drawer.
Then, too, novelty is predicated on the front wall construction wherein the vertical panel-like side portions have inner edges which preferably overhang or project beyond the adjacent surfaces of the splashboard to assist in directing back splash downwardly toward the aforementioned basin.
Furthermore, it was desirable in the adopted construction to employ a shelf and guides on the shelf to securely accommodate and hold the insertable and removable drawer, whereby to permit the latter to be withdrawn to conveniently dispose of the contents of same.
Other objects and advantages will become apparent from the following description and the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein like 2,769,982 Patented Nov. 13,1956
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2 taken on the plane of line 3+3 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows; and, Figure 4 is a transverse section on the horizontal line 4-4 of Figure 2, also looking in the direction of the ararrows.
Referring now to the drawings by reference numerals and accompanying lead lines, the over-all box-like cabinet is denoted, as a structural unit, by the numeral 6. This cabinet may be'some eighteeninches high, twelve inches wide and of a depth 'of several inches more or less. Any suitable materials, preferably lightweight in character, may be employed in constructing the parts which go to make up the completed cabinet. The cabinet is somewhat open at the back, the side which goes against the bathroom wall or other surface (not: shown). is a flat horizontal bottom wall 8, vertical side walls 10 and 12 and a flat top wall 14. The front wall is provided with opening means 16 toward the bottom to accommodate an insertable and removable sliding drawer 18. Rectangular opening means at the top affords access to the substantially semi-circular shield or splashboard 20.
The vertical portions of the front wall represent narrow r the top 14 with a keyhole slot 28 by which the cabinet may be hung on a nail or other headed fastener secured to a bathroom wall or other support. This device may be employed by resting the flat bottom 6 on the floor and it may then be increased in elevated position as the child grows by supporting the same on a nail driven into the wall or other surface. The preliminary trap is in the form of a dished basin 30 and this has its downwardly declined portion resting against an upstanding wall or shield 32. These features 30 and 32 serve to trap the liquid and the receptacle portion of the sliding drawer 18. The latter is of appropriate capacity and is here shown as rectangular in form and it is slidably mounted on a partition or shelf 36 as best shown in Figure 2. Appropriate guides and stops 38 are provided to hold the drawer in a position where it lines up with the discharge holes 34. The front wall of the drawer is provided with a retaining latch 40 and a pull knob 42 which is arranged to also operate or control the latch. The numeral 44 designates appropriate horizontal brace means for the shield or splashboard 20. It will be noticed in this connection that portion of the top 14 overhangs the chambered portion of the cabinet and this provides a suitable handle whereby the device may be picked up and moved from room to room, or utilized for carrying the urinal to and from an automobile, assuming that the urinal may be desired for use when travelling.
A careful consideration of the foregoing description in conjunction with the invention as illustrated in the drawings will enable the reader to obtain a clear understanding and impression of the alleged features of merit and novelty suflicient to clarify the construction of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
Minor changes in shape, size, materials and rearrangement of parts may be resorted to in actual practice so long as no departure is made from the invention as claimed.
Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:
A portable trainee-type urinal for use by children in the home and, if desired, in an automobile or the like comprising a portable small-sized sheet material cabinet extremely light in weight and such that it may be easily picked up,
handled and hand-carried from place to place, said cabinet being rectangular in general shape and cross-section, said cabinet being self-standing partially open at the back and embodying a flat bottom wall, flat vertical side walls and a fiat top wall all of the same crosssectional size, and a flat front wall, a vertically disposed semi-circular splash shield supported within the enclosing confines of said walls and provided at its lower portion with a horizontal dished liquid trapping and disposal basin vertically spaced above said bottom wall, said top wall covering the upper end of said shield and overlying said basin and being in vertically spaced relation and providing a balanced carrying handle, said front wall having opening means exposing said shield and basin, the vertical edge portions of said opening means projecting partly over and beyond the adjacent edge portions of said shield and the lower edge portion of said opening means projecting to a plane above said basin, a shelf fixed in the lower portion of said cabinet, located directly beneath said basin, and spaced above said bottom Wall, guide means mounted atop said shelf, and a slidable liquid trapping and disposal drawer mounted on said shelf and held in a liquid receiving and collecting position beneath said basin by said guide means said drawer being removable for dumping by way of an opening provided therefor in said front wall, and said basin having drainage holes therein located above and in proper drainage relation to said drawer.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 911,103 Wolfond Feb. 2, 1909 2,147,588 Zinkil et a1. Feb. 14, 1939 2,153,866 Hess Apr. 11, 1939 FOREIGN PATENTS 563,245 Great Britain Aug. 4, 1944
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US3533109A (en) * | 1967-08-08 | 1970-10-13 | Masakichi Kishimoto | Apparatus for automatically discharging urine |
US5044020A (en) * | 1990-07-31 | 1991-09-03 | Lewandowski David G | Urinal for convenience and training of juvenile males |
US5388279A (en) * | 1994-06-13 | 1995-02-14 | Rasmussen; Estelle B. | Toddler urinal |
US5822804A (en) * | 1997-01-17 | 1998-10-20 | Hauflaire; Marcia | Portable male toddler urinal |
US6000943A (en) * | 1998-09-21 | 1999-12-14 | Dawson; Loretta | Training urinal and commode |
GB2396806A (en) * | 2003-01-04 | 2004-07-07 | Mark Anthony Mcgrath | Urinal for boys |
US20050166307A1 (en) * | 2004-01-30 | 2005-08-04 | Russell Parks | Clip-on training urinal |
US6938278B2 (en) | 2004-01-30 | 2005-09-06 | Russell Parks | Clip-on training urinal |
US20070283486A1 (en) * | 2006-06-12 | 2007-12-13 | Corbin John H | Splash-free, water-conserving urinal |
US9339155B1 (en) * | 2014-04-29 | 2016-05-17 | Byrd F. Parker | Portable urinal |
USD766406S1 (en) | 2015-04-29 | 2016-09-13 | Deborah Hooker | Urinal potty trainer |
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