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US 4,380,836 AGranted
Collapsible toilet shelter
OwnerEarl J. Braxtoninventor
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Abstract
A shelter specially adapted to function as a portable toilet is disclosed being collapsible for ease of shipment. Inefficiencies of shipping fully assembled portable toilet shelters are eliminated by a modular construction shelter having foldable walls, a removable roof, base member and commode.
Claims7
A collapsible portable toilet shelter comprising:
- a plurality of upstanding planar wall panels connected along adjacent vertical sides by continuous hinge members such that said wall panels may be adjustably positioned to form a foldably collapsible rectangular enclosure, said rectangular enclosure including a front wall, a back wall, and two side walls, said side walls each including a forward panel and a rearward panel, the forward panels connected to the rearward panels by continuous hinge members enabling the forward and rearward panels to be maintained in an opened position co-planar to each other, or in a collapsed position parallel to each other and parallel to said front wall and said back wall;
- one of said wall panels having a door opening and a door adapted to be moveably disposed over said door opening;
- a removeable roof panel adapted to be mounted on top marginal portions of the wall panels;
- means disposed on the roof panel for retaining said top marginal portions of each wall panel in fixed relation to each other;
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- a removeable base member adapted to retain bottom marginal portions of each wall panel in fixed relation to each other, said base member including:
- a rectangular frame member disposed in a horizontal plane and having the same number of sides as the shelter,
- a commode member mounted on said frame member in spaced relationship from the wall panel having said door opening, and
- a floor extending across the top portion of said frame member not covered by said commode member, whereby said shelter may be erected for use as a portable toilet shelter or disassembled to a collapsed state for shipment.
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