Laid-on paper cut-off system for toilet seat
AssigneeNihon-Isued Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroyuki Juushi
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Abstract
Laid-on paper delivered from a laid-on paper roll and laid on a toilet seat can be easily separated after use, not requiring hands. A toilet is provided with a delivery roller part for clamping the laid-on paper from a laid-on paper roll, the laid-on paper having perforated lines to cut off the laid-on paper for each amount of use, and the delivery roller part pulling out the laid-on paper by the rotation thereof and delivering the laid-on paper onto the toilet seat. A rear portion of the toilet seat is vertically movably provided and upwardly urgingly supported by springs in a rear part of the toilet. A brake mechanism for stopping the rotation of the delivery roller part due to the lowering motion of the toilet seat is also provided.
Claims12
An apparatus for a toilet, comprising:
- a toilet seat having a front end and a rear end, said seat being positioned on a generally horizontal surface of a toilet;
- a paper roll having a roll of paper thereon which paper is to be dispensed onto said toilet seat, the roll of paper having perforated lines extending transverse to said roll such that individual toilet seat covers can be removed from the paper roll;
- a delivery roller mechanism clamping the paper from said paper roll and arranged so as to deliver and individual cover onto said toilet seat upon rotation of said roller mechanism;
- wherein said rear end of said seat is vertically movably mounted between a raised and a lowered position and supported on said toilet by springs upwardly biasing said rear end above said horizontal surface with said front end resting on said horizontal surface;
- a brake mechanism mounted adjacent said rear end of said seat and being engageable with said delivery roller mechanism;
- said brake mechanism being operably connected to said toilet seat such that a lowering motion of the rear end of said toilet seat from said raised position to said lowered position causes said brake mechanism to engage with said delivery roller mechanism and stop said rotation thereof, such that when a user sits on said cover overlying said seat, downward movement of said seat and cover with said cover clamped between the user and said seat at one location and said paper roll being engaged by said braking mechanism said cover will be separated from said roll.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.