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US 4,432,451 AGranted
Bathroom accessory
OwnerOneida O. Hooserinventor
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Abstract
A bathroom accessory in the form of a canister for convenient storage of extra rolls of toilet tissue and a suction type plunger device, the compactness being provided by providing that the plunger handle is nested in the hollow core of the tissue rolls being stored, and a lifting means for the stored rolls being provided which is actuatable entirely from the exterior of the device even though it has a roll-raising effect throughout an extended range of lifting movement for the rolls.
Claims10
A cannister device for storage of toilet tissue in rolled form, comprising:
- a generally cylindrical enclosure housing, of an internal diameter large enough to accommodate the diameter of a roll of toilet tissue;
- the housing being open at its upper end, and provided with a slot extending downwardly from its upper end continuously a length at least as long as the length of a roll of said tissue;
- tray-support means located inwardly of the housing;
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- a movable tray member supported by said tray-support means, and inwardly of the housing;
- the tray member having a lug which extends outwardly of the slot of the housing when the tray member is positioned in the housing, and providing a manually graspable handle for the tray by which it and a roll of tissue supported thereon may be raised to an upward position such that the roll of tissue may be grasped from above the upper end of the housing without reaching downwardly into the housing.
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A cannister device as a bathroom accessory, comprising:
- an enclosure housing open at both ends,
- the housing accommodating an associated suction type plunger device, having a suction cup and a handle, stored within the housing in an upright position in which the plunger device handle extends upwardly,
- the housing also accommodating a roll of toilet tissue positioned therein in a manner that the axis of the roll is upright, and the roll is above the suction cup of the associated plunger device,
- thereby providing for the enclosed storage of a roll of toilet tissue and an associated suction type plunger device, with the handle of the associated plunger device extending through the core of the rolled tissue being stored in the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.