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US 12,758,061 B2Granted
Hygienic toilet accessory
AssigneeHelpeetech Ltd
InventorsZur Ostfeld, Oz Ostfeld
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Abstract
A hygienic toilet accessory comprises a hollow housing member which is attachable to a toilet related element and which is configured with an elongated slit, and a toilet isolating sheet which is intermittently extendable through and retractable into said slit and which has a weighted distal edge, said sheet dimensioned to completely cover a central opening of a toilet seat when extended to an extreme position and to prevent discharge of aerosols from the toilet underlying therebelow.
Claims34
A hygienic toilet accessory, comprising:
- a) a hollow housing member which is attachable to a toilet related element and which is configured with an elongated slit;
- b) a toilet isolating sheet which is intermittently extendable through and retractable into said slit, said sheet dimensioned to completely cover a central opening of a toilet seat when extended to an extreme position and to prevent discharge of aerosols from the toilet underlying therebelow;
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- c) a sanitization assembly attached to a distal region of said sheet, said sanitization assembly comprising means for automatically sanitizing the toilet seat during extension or retraction of the sheet, or during extension and retraction of the sheet.
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A method for sanitizing a toilet seat, comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a motor driven post about which is wound a toilet isolating sheet and a sanitization assembly attached to a distal region of said sheet;
- b) detecting, by signal generating detection apparatus, presence of a user who has accessed a toilet;
- c) in response to said detected presence, transmitting a trigger signal from said detection apparatus to a communication module in data communication with a driver of said motor;
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- d) activating said motor in response to transmission of said trigger signal, to cause said sheet to be linearly displaced relative to a toilet seat and said sanitization assembly to automatically sanitize a portion of the toilet seat underlying said sanitization assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.