Child's toilet training chair
OwnerDiana Dorfman Deutschinventor
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Abstract
A child's toilet training chair includes a seat supporting structure and an adjustable seat that can be positioned at an acute angle relative to the horizontal. The front section of the seat is pivotally attached to a front portion of the supporting structure and the rear portion of the seat is provided with at least one engagement member that releasably mates with one of a plurality of vertically-spaced receiving elements in the chair back.
Claims11
A progressive toilet training apparatus for use by a small child that includes a stationary, rigid seat-supporting structure and a separate adjustable seat;
- the seat-supporting structure having back and side portions terminating in a depending base portion configured to support the apparatus on a flat surface;
- the adjustable seat having a central opening, and extending between the side portions and to the back portion, and pivotally mounted proximate the forward edge in engagement with the opposing side portions, and the rear portion of the seat being configured to engage one of a plurality of corresponding mating recesses in the back of the supporting structure, the lower most recess being in the base portion of the back of the supporting structure, the rear portion of the seat engaging in the lower most recess to accommodate a user in contact with the seat in a low-squatting position;
- the distance from the flat surface to the leading edge of the seat remaining substantially constant when the seat is moved from one to another of the mating recesses in the back portion.
A self-supporting toilet training chair for use by a small child in a squatting seated position, the chair including a seat supporting member and a seat, the seat comprising a general planar upper seating surface having a central opening, the lower surface configured to releasably retain a receptacle below the central opening, the seat having a front edge and an opposing rear portion,
- the seat supporting member having immovable back and side portions that terminate in a base portion configured to stably position the supporting member on a flat surface, the supporting member configured to receive the seat in pivotally-mounted relation between the side portions and to securely engage the rear portion of the seat in a lowermost recess in the base portion of the back in which position the seat is steeply declined from the front edge toward the base portion to orient the user in a squatting position on the seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.