US551100A - Water-closet seat - Google Patents

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H. W. SGATTERGOOD. WATER CLOSET SEAT.

Patented Dec. 10

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

(HENRY w. soA'rT Rcoon, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA? wars ac Loser s EAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551,160, dated December 10, 1895. Application filed December 6, 1894.. Serial No. 580,974. (Ho model.)

To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that-I, HENRY \Y. SCATTER- GOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in \Va tor-Closet Seats, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a seat. for the use of children that may be readily applied to water-closet seats without reorganization of any portion of the watercloset seat or cover and that may be attached by any person without artisan skill. I design by my invention to furnish as a merchantable article such a closet-seat.

in carrying out my invention 1 form from sheet metal by means of dies, or from hard rubber, celluloid, veneer, or other sufficiently rigid and thin material, a seat having a hinge at one end by which it may be applied to the ordinary wooden seat of a water-closet, be-

tween the said wooden seat and the lidor cover Where such lid or: cover is employed,

the said seat being adapted to fit within and above the ordinary seat-hole, and preferably having its front portion cut out, so as to avoid being fouled by excreta, all as I will proceed now more particularlyto set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a perspective view of an ordinary watercloset wlt-hmy invention applied. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the seat and cover with the cover closed. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the seat of this-invention. Fig. 4 isa section taken substantially in the plane of line 4 4 of Fig. 3, looking to the right; and

'Fig. 5 is a plan view of a water-closet top with the lid closed and showing the seat of this invention'in position.

The water-closet bowl a. maybe of any approved construction, and its seat I) likewise of usual construction and applied thereto'in any suitable manner.

' c is the ordinary cover or lid, hinged to the seat in any usual manner.

As isunderstood and as is shown in detail in Fig. 2, the ordinary seat b is hinged to the base or back piece d, and the lid or cover 0 is likewise hinged to this same base or back piece, and there is usually a space left between the bottom of the lid and the top of the seat-sufficient to separate the lid and seat to prevent one marring the other, and ordinarily a rubber or other block or cushion eis provided in the front edge of the cover to rest against the seat and thus preserve the cover and seat from superficial contact. I- utilize this space to receive the seat of my invention, which is herein designated -f. This seat f is made necessarily of thin material, so as to fit in the aforesaid space, and I prefer to strike up the seat from sheet metal and finish the same in lacquer or. other material in a solid rials as hard rubber, celluloid, wood veneer,

and the like. The hole f in the seat f is.

obviously of smaller dimensions than the 110101) in the seat b,-and the said hole f is provided with a peripherahflange f turned down so as tbnter the hole I) and extend below the upper surface of the seat, so as to proteet the edges of. the hole in the seat I). In order to avoid the fouling of the seat f by excreta, the front of the hole in said seat f is cut away, as at So far as cutting away the hole of a water-closet seat, as at g, is con.- cerned, Iain aware that that is not original with me. with a projection h, to which a hinge z is applied permanently, and by means ofthis hinge '11- the seatfis readily applied to the seat b by The rear of the seat is provided any one sufiiciently skilled in mechanics to 7 drive a screw.

As already indicated, 1 purpose providing these attachable seats for children as independent articles of manufacture, finished in in siich shape not only that it may be readily applied, but that it may be as readily removed when there is no longer occasion for its use. Obviously in those closet-tops in which the obtained by blocking up the cover-hinge.

\Vhat I claim is As an improved article of manufacture, an

. attachable water closet seat for childrens useconsisting of a seat of thin material, such as sheet metal, provided with a hinge and there- 10 by and by its thinness adapted to be applied to the ordinary watei' clbset scat between the seat and the cover or lid, without any or any material alteration of the ordinary seat, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 15 myhand this 4th day of December, A. I). 1804. W

. HENRY Witnessesf ALFRED W. BARNETT, HENRYMARSH.

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