US888821A - Sanitary toilet-seat. - Google Patents

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No. 888,821. PATENTED MAY 26, 1908. J. A. KLEINE.

SANITARY TOILET SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27.1901.

.IOIIN A. KLEINE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SANITARY TOILET-SEAT.

Application filed May 27, 1907.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JonN A. KLEINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Toilet-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a sanitary covering for water closet seats to prevent contagion and otherwise protect the user.

More particularly, the object is to provide a package of the sanitary coverings which can be suitably suspended adjacent to the closet and so that when a covering is detached from the package it will at the saine time be torn to remove a stub and adapt the covering for proper application to the seat.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a package of the coverings suspended from the side wall of a closet compartment. Fig. 2 is a detail per spective view of the holder cap. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the end of the holder. Fig. 4 is a plan view showing the covering ap lied to a closet seat. Fig. 5 shows the b ank. Fig. 6 shows the blank folded. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a package of the coverings. Fig. 8 shows the covering opened and before it is torn. Fig. 9 is a sectional view on the line 9-9 of Fig. 4. Fig. 1() is a top plan view showing another means for suspending the package. Fig. 11 is a front elevation of Fig. 10.

In ractice I rovide a blank 11 consisting of a s eet 12 ig. 5) of tissue or other suitable paper or material of a size to form a covering for the seat and folded twice upon the lines 13 and 13 as shown in Fig. 6. A num ber of folded sheets are arranged in a package and then the package is cut in a suitabtle manner to provide each sheet with elongated radial openings 14 (Fig. 8) on the lines of fold and a central stub section 15. The package of coverings may be fastened together by a sta le 16 passing through holes 17 in the stu s (Figs. 7, 8) or by stitching through the stubs.

The package is sus ended in a suitable manner on the side wal 18 of a closet compartment and in the drawings I have shown a sim le suspension means which consists of a hol er made in the form of a housing 19 sha ed to receive the stubs 15 and carried by a p ate 20 which is fastened to the wall.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Serial No. 375,787.

The housing has a slot 21. in its lower edge to accommodate the neck 22 of the coverings (Fig. 7) and` the package is held in place in the housing by a cap 255 on the end thereof (Fig. 2). This cap is provided with a revoluble locking plate 24 on its inner side and a handle 25 on its outer side connected to the locking plate, and the plate has projections 26 which enter recesses 26 (Fig. 3) in the inner walls of the housing to lock. the cap in place.

In F 10 and 11 I have shown another suspension ineans which comprises a rod 27 carried by a wall plate 28' and having a removable screw head 29. The holes 17 (Fig. 8) in the stub section aline when the sheet is folded and a package of these sheets may be fastened by a staple 16 or by a wire running through these holes. .In this adaptation of the invention the staple may be removed and the package slipped on to the rod 27 and secured in place by the screw head 29. If the package is stitched or wired the holes will be left free to receive the rod. I prefer to provide the plate 28 with guides 30 adjacent to the rod 27 to engage the lower inclined edges 15 of the folded sheet and prevent the pack age and the individual sheets thereof from swinging laterally on the rod. These guides, in the construction shown in Figs. 10 and 11, correspond in practical effect to the lower sides 19 of the housing shown in Fig. 1.

A sheet can be readily detached from the package for use by pulling down on it sufficient to tear the sheet at the neck 22 and separate it from the stub 15 which remains in the housing 19 or on the rod 27. The sections 31 ofthe sheet between the openings 14, which sections have been connected at their inner ends by the stub 15, will be disconnected when the stub is thus removed from the sheet to forin flaps which will swing down within the opening 32 ofthe seat 33, as shown in Figs. 4 and 9.

The openings 14 may be variously formed in the sheet, it being only essential that they shall be so arranged as to provide a plurality of [laps which are held together at their inner ends by the stub while the sheet is suspended, which stub is separated from the sheet when the latter is detached from the ackage for use so that the flaps may swing reely down into the opening of the closet seat.

The invention is simple in character and constitutes an inexpensive and effective sanitary covering' fer eloset seats which will eempletely protect the user from direct Contact With. the seat.

What l claim and desire te secure by Let- 5 ters .Patent is:

A sanitary covering ler water eleset seats eenssting elE :L sheet folded twiee upon itself and provided with a plurality of mdiel openings te ierm liep 10 a stub sections therebetween, and seetlen connecting the inner ende` ef

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