Combination footstool and child potty

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9936843-B2
Application number	US-201414496502-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2014
Priority date	Sep 25, 2013
Publication date	Apr 10, 2018
Grant date	Apr 10, 2018

Abstract

A child potty includes an elevated seat pad for seating a child and a waste collector associated with the seat pad. A platform can lie above the child potty to elevate a child above a floor underlying the child potty.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A juvenile bathroom system comprising
a child potty formed to include a waste-collection chamber and adapted to be set on a floor away from a toilet and
a footstool including a shell formed to include a downwardly opening potty-storage chamber sized to receive the child potty therein and adapted to be set on the floor when the child potty is stored in the potty-storage chamber and a first potty-retainer tab coupled to the shell and arranged to extend in a radially inward direction into a first tab-receiver channel formed in the child potty when the child potty is stored in the potty-storage chamber to retain the child potty in a stationary position in the potty-storage chamber without impeding use of the footstool to elevate children or caregivers above the floor,
wherein the child potty is configured to be set on the floor and used when not received in the footstool,
wherein the child potty includes a waste-collection bowl formed to include the waste-collection chamber and a bowl-support frame coupled to the waste-collection bowl and arranged to extend around the waste-collection chamber and support the waste-collection chamber in spaced-apart relation to the floor when the child potty is set on the floor.

2. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 1 , wherein
the bowl-support frame is formed to include the first tab-receiver channel.

3. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 2 , wherein the bowl-support frame includes a seat pad coupled to the waste-collection bowl and arranged to extend around a top aperture that opens into the waste-collection chamber formed in the waste-collection bowl and a pad-support rim arranged to elevate the seat pad above the floor underlying the child potty to locate the waste-collection bowl between the seat pad and the floor and the pad-support rim is formed to include the first tab-receiver channel.

4. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 3 , wherein the shell includes a horizontal child-support platform arranged to overlie and lie in proximity to the seat pad to cover the top aperture that opens into the waste-collection chamber when the child potty is retained in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell and a platform-elevation side wall coupled to the child-support platform and arranged to extend downwardly from the child-support platform and to surround the waste-collection bowl and the first potty-retainer tab is coupled to the platform-elevation side wall and arranged to extend into the first tab-receiver channel formed in the bowl-support frame of the child potty when the child potty is retained in the potty-storage chamber.

5. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 2 , wherein the shell includes a horizontal child-support platform arranged to cover the waste-collection chamber when the child potty is retained in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell and a platform-elevation side wall arranged to surround the waste-collection bowl and the first potty-retainer tab is coupled to the platform-elevation side wall.

6. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 5 , wherein the bowl-support frame is formed to include a second tab-receiver channel and the footstool includes a second potty-retainer tab coupled to the shell and arranged to extend into the second tab-receiver channel formed in the bowl-support frame when the child potty is stored in the potty-storage chamber to retain the child potty in the stationary position.

7. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 6 , wherein the shell includes an inner surface facing toward the child potty when the child potty is retained in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell and each of the first and second potty-retainer tabs is cantilevered to the inner surface of the shell and arranged to extend inwardly toward the child potty.

8. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 7 , wherein each of the first and second potty-retainer tabs extends along a common reference line.

9. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 5 , wherein the shell of the footstool is made of a transparent material to provide means for viewing an orientation of the child potty retained in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell without inverting the shell of the footstool to peer into the potty-storage chamber formed therein through a bottom aperture that opens into the potty-storage chamber.

10. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 1 , wherein the shell includes a horizontal child-support platform arranged to cover the waste-collection chamber when the child potty is retained in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell and a platform-elevation side wall arranged to surround the waste-collection chamber and the first potty-retainer tab is coupled to the platform-elevation side wall.

11. The juvenile bathroom system of claim 1 , wherein the child potty is formed to include a second tab-receiver channel and the footstool includes a second potty-retainer tab coupled to the shell and arranged to extend into the second tab-receiver channel formed in the child potty when the child potty is stored in the potty-storage chamber to retain the child potty in the stationary position.

12. A juvenile bathroom system comprising
a child potty formed to include a waste-collection chamber and adapted to be set on a floor away from a toilet and
a footstool including a shell formed to include a downwardly opening potty-storage chamber sized to receive of the child potty therein and adapted to be set on the floor when the child potty is stored in the potty-storage chamber and a first potty-retainer tab coupled to the shell and arranged to extend into a first tab-receiver channel formed in the child potty when the child potty is stored in the potty-storage chamber to retain the child potty in a stationary position in the potty-storage chamber without impeding use of the footstool to elevate children or caregivers above the floor,
wherein the child potty includes a waste-collection bowl formed to include the waste-collection chamber and a bowl-support frame coupled to the waste-collection bowl and arranged to extend around the waste-collection chamber and the bowl-support frame is formed to include the first tab-receiver channel,
wherein the bowl-support frame includes a seat pad coupled to the waste-collection bowl and arranged to extend around a top aperture that opens into the waste-collection chamber formed in the waste-collection bowl and a pad-support rim arranged to elevate the seat pad above the floor underlying the child potty to locate the waste-collection bowl between the seat pad and the floor and the pad-support rim is formed to include the first tab-receiver channel,
wherein the shell includes a horizontal child-support platform arranged to overlie and lie in proximity to the seat pad to cover the top aperture that opens into the waste-collection chamber when the child potty is retained in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell and a platform-elevation side wall coupled to the child-support platform and arranged to extend downwardly from the child-support platform and to surround the waste-collection bowl and the first potty-retainer tab is coupled to the platform-elevation side wall and arranged to extend into the first tab-receiver channel formed in the bowl-support frame of the child potty when the child potty is retained in the potty-storage chamber formed in the footstool,
wherein the child potty is adapted to be set on the floor and used when not received in the footstool, and
wherein the platform-elevation side wall is made of an elastic deformable material having an undeformed first shape in which the first potty-retainer tab carried on the platform-elevation side wall is arranged to exten

Assignees

• Dorel Juvenile Group Inc

Inventors

• Marsden Andrew W
• Pina Lynn

Classifications

• A47K11/06 Primary

  Chamber-pots {; Throw-away urinals for non-bedridden persons; Chamber-pots for children, also with signalling means, e.g. with a music box, or the like} · CPC title