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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7155749 | Toilet seat cover dispenser system A cartridge has lower and upper plates, vertically oriented front, rear and side plates and a rotatable cylindrical core supported adjacent to its ends between the side plates. A roll of paper constitutes covers attached to the core. A free end extends through the o... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7051383 | Powered lift toilet seat A powered lift toilet seat including a toilet seat for sitting on, a back support for supporting a back of a person sitting on the toilet seat, and an actuator connected to the toilet seat and the back support by a linkage device for raising and tilting the toilet s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7003814 | Bobbin assembly for a sleeve dispensing toilet seat A bobbin assembly is provided that is suitable for dispensing webbed material using a power driven coupling in a toilet seat assembly having a housing with wall portions. The bobbin assembly comprises an extruded thermoplastic hollow tube having a plurality of splin... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6966076 | Low maintenance hygienic toilet seat A toilet seat assembly for mounting to the toilet bowl can be assembled and disassembled by aligning vanous components of the assembly at predetermined angles with respect to one another. The toilet seat assembly includes a housing defining a cavity for receiving a ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6959963 | Disposable sanitary seat cover A disposable sanitary seat cover includes a base sheet having a seat cover area provided with passages that are adapted for providing an opening through the seat cover area for a child's legs. Passages are provided on the seat cover area through which a safety belt ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6757917 | Low maintenance hygienic toilet seat The present invention provides a toilet seat assembly that can be assembled and disassembled without the use of tools by aligning various components of the assembly at a predetermined angle with respect to one another. Another aspect of the invention includes a syst... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6308346 | Hygienic toilet seat An improved electromechanical assembly advances a tubular protective covering around a toilet seat. The covering is stored on a reel, and pulled off from the reel as it is replaced, and the used covering is taken up on a second reel. An activation button ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6212693 | Sanitary toilet seat A sanitary toilet seat is provided which has an integral toilet seat covering material dispenser and disposal device. The device moves a predetermined length of sanitary seat covering material from a dispensing port to a disposal port each time a motor is... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5561867 | Sanitary toilet seat apparatus An apparatus for providing a protective sheet or substrate on the upper surface of a toilet seat includes a supply storage container disposed at a first end of the toilet seat to store a supply of individual protective sheets, each having an opening, and ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5551096 | Disposable toilet seat cover apparatus A disposable toilet seat cover apparatus includes a continuous, flexible, biodegradable base sheet which has two side edges, a leading edge, a top side, and a bottom side. The base sheet includes a plurality of sets of perforations positioned at predeterm... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5437906 | Sanitary toilet seat covers A toilet seat cover adapted to substantially enclose a toilet seat is disclosed which allows a user to quickly and easily expose a sanitary surface. The toilet seat cover comprises a base slip cover to conform to the shape and size of a toilet seat thereb... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5381984 | Tubular body, especially as a core element, and roll with a core element A core element (14) for a roll of wound-up web material, especially a lavatory seat protection cover, is described. The core element is made in the form of a tubular body having two ends, each with a respective end stopper (16). The core element (14) cont... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5253372 | Apparatus for dispensing measured lengths of tubular films onto an armature An apparatus for dispensing measured lengths of a sleeve material upon an armature, especially adapted for dispensing a plastic cover upon a toilet seat, includes a source of sleeve material fed onto the armature and collected upon a take-up reel. The cov... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5203036 | Apparatus for delivering laying paper for closet seat An apparatus for delivering paper for a water closet seat has; a lid whose rear end is rotatably supported by a box secured to the upper rear of a closet bowl: the closet seat being under the lid with the rear end thereof being rotatably and vertically mo... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5107549 | Disposable toilet seat cover A disposable toilet seat cover is disclosed, the cover being designed to fit over and around horseshoe or U-shaped toilet seats. The cover is tubular in design with open ends and is composed of a biodegradable material for immediate disposal in the toilet... | 04/28/1992 |
| 4887321 | Sanitary toilet seat cover A novel toilet seat cover is provided herein. The cover comprises a water-impermeable, very light weight, easily disposible paper, the paper being in the form of a porous paper coated only on the reverse side thereof which is adapted to face the toilet bo... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4839929 | Auxiliary toilet seat An auxiliary toilet seat has a bench type seat supported by two vertical legs. Horizontal mounting flanges on the lower ends of each vertical leg are utilized to permanently attach the auxiliary toilet seat in front of a conventional toilet in a public re... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4627117 | Paper cover for lavatory seat A paper cover for a lavatory seat of a toilet bowl is proposed which is a paper web in a roll form formed with a plurality of perforations at regular intervals. Every second perforations are discontinuous or are provided with a cut at at least one side. T... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4566648 | Device for applying and conveying a protective cover for a toilet seat With a device for applying and conveying a hose-shaped protective covering for a toilet seat, the unwinding spool is supported by a switch tube which passes through it and which transmits the movement of a push button, protruding from the housing, to a sw... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4297750 | Toilet and cover A toilet assembly including a hinged toilet seat with a rigidly connected coaxial housing containing a roll of paper toilet seat covers sheets the paper being transversely perperated so that the covers can be readily detached, and the housing having a lon... | 11/03/1981 |
