US634580A - Sanitary protector for water-closet seats. - Google Patents

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No. 634,580. Patented 00L :0, I899.

F. E. MILLER & a. .L. WHEELOCK. sAiu'rAnv PROTECTOR FOR WATER CLOSET SEATS.

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No. 634,580. Patented Oct. 10, I899.

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SANITARYPBOTECTOB FOR WATER CLOSET SEATS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Eric FRANK MILLER .AND GEORGE L. WHEELOOK, OF NEW YORK, N Y.

SANITARY PROTECTOR FOR WATER-CLOSETSEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,580, dated October 10, 1899.

Application filed November 14,1898. Serial r... 696,355. (No model.)

To all whom, it ntdy concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK E. MiLLER and GEORGE L. WHEELooK, citizens of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan,

city of New York, and State of New York,

have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Protectors for Wator-Closet Seat-s, of which the following is a specification.

A frequent cause of disease by transmission from one person to anotherby infection or contagion is found in the seats of water-closets and privies, whereat persons afflicted,'with diseases of a private nature-such as venereal diseases, comprising gonorrhea, chancroid, syphilis, and the likeand with diseases such as typhoid and dysentery often leave traces of virus, and if afflicted with vermin leave lice, crabs, drc. Persons fearful of transmission of disease in this manner usually take the precautionato carefully wipeoff the seat before using orelse tear a hole in a piece of newspaper and apply it to the seat, so that it fits around the hole in the latter. If the paper be torn in the least or if the seat be wet enough to saturate the paper the opportunity for the passage of the germs, 850., to the person using the closet is offered. Furthermore, in view of the possibilities of transmission of disease in thedescribed manner some sanitary method of disinfecting the afiiicted part of the body, which is both convenient and desirable, should be resorted to, and even if not wholly efficacious would be welcomed, and hence from a secondary but important point of view the sanitary medium such as forms the subject of the presentinvention is utilizable.

The object of the present invention is to provide a protecting medium which is anti septic or germ-proof and which will either kill or prevent the transfer of the germs, if there be any, from the seat to the person using the closet, the protecting medium being conformed so as to be fitted about the hole in the seat.

' The invention consists to these ends of certain new features to be hereinafter described and then particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of our protecting medium for closet-seats. Fig. 2 is a plan view' showing applied around the hole.

our invention applied to a closet-scat. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the protecting medium on line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is a plan of a blank from which the protecting medium may be made. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the protecting medium made from such blank applied in proper position to acloset-seat. Fig. 6 is a transverse section through a seat, showing the modified form of protecting medium View of another modification, and Fig. Sis an enlarged transverse section thereof.

The fabric used for our sanitary closet-seat protector is preferably parafiin paper, which is bothantiseptic and waterproof; but other material-such as oiled paper, which is not too thick and which can pass off from the closet-bowl to the sewer without clogging the sewer-pipesmay be used.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, B indicates the preferred form of seat-protector, which is of continuous oval or elliptic shape and has a central opening I) to correspond with the hole 0 in seat 0. The front portion 1) is made of such size as to extend from the front edge of the hole in theseat over the front edge of the seat itself, so that'the front portion of the seat will be fully covered at points liable to be rubbed by the genital organs or region thereof. 7 To avoid objections that might be encountered from the sanitary or plumbing departments of cities, the seat-protecting'medium B is made of a plurality of small sections, as shown, which are joined together at at either by a soluble glue or mucilage or they may be connected by compact folds, as shown, which folds will separate more or less easily according to the head of water. Some adhesive substance which will dissolve under the action of the water is preferable, however.

As a modification the protecting medium Fig. 7 is a planmay be formed from a blank of paraffin or other paper, such as A, Fig. 4. The blank A is crimped in such way by a suitable crimping mechanism as to impart a curve thereto and form. a protecting mediumsuch as B, Fig. 5- which is of oval or elliptic shape to conform to that part of the closet-seat 0 around the hole G. Due to the crimping along the inneredge b or in some other way the said edge is turned down, so as to set slightly into the hole 0 and hold the main body of the protecting medium on the seat in proper p0 sition around the scat-hole. The protecting medium is so made that the ends may overlap at a, so that it can be placed around seatholes of various sizes. This form of the inven tion can be used to ad vantage in the country.

A person sitting on a closet-seat provided with the described protecting medium is fully protected against poison virus or germs, as by reason of the im'perviousness of paraffin or oiled paper to moisture the germs cannot pass through the paper, and, furthermore, the paraflin is practically antiseptic, as it belongs to the phenol group. The protecting medium is therefore sanitary in its action and is conducive to health by preventing disease and by relieving certain forms of disease through the medication of the body when using the same.

The modified form of the invention shown in Figs. 7 and 8 is out directly out of paper which is preferably paraffined. The protecting medium 61 shown is semi-elliptic in shape, with a downturned inner edge d, and is applied to one end of the seat-hole. A similar piece may be applied to the other end of the seat-hole, so that the same is quite well protected. The direct cutting of the protecting mediums into desired form is not preferred, as there will be Waste in cutting, and for that reason we may crimp a straight strip, as A, into proper form; but in producing the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 to 3 little waste is necessary.

The paper, Whether parafiined or not, is also impregnated with some disinfecting or medicating liquid, such as carbolic acid, or some pleasant-smelling disinfecting liquid, such as thymol, so that the protecting medium is rendered perfectly safe and eflicacious. The protecting medium if composed of paraflin-paper need only be paraffined on one side, so that the other side, which should be uppermost,

seats, 850., the same being of a shape to con form to the hole of the seat, and being composed of sections of suitable fabric which together form a protecting medium, and which are temporarily connected.

2. A protecting medium for water-closet seats, &c., consisting ofa sheet of suitable fabric, made up of sections connected by an adhesive substance soluble in water.

In testimony that Weclaim the foregoing as our invention We have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

F. E. MILLER. GEO. 'L. WHEELOCK. tVitnesses:

G. FRED MIDDENDORF, J r.. KARL KAELBLY.

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