Combined child commode and amusement device
OwnerVirginia Lynchinventor
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Abstract
A child's commode is combined with an educational work desk or, in another embodiment, with a wheeled simulated riding animal. Both embodiments provide assistance in the difficult task of toilet training a child by giving the child a positive motivation to occupy the commode. A lid may be lowered to cover the commode portion and form a desk seat. In the case of the wheeled riding animal a saddle may be lowered to cover the pot portion for useful play well beyond the potty training age of the child. Both embodiments include a vertically extending, rearward projecting handle for ease of pot removal and cleaning. In the case of the animal simulation, the handle is in the form of a simulated animal tail.
Claims5
A children's toilet training device comprising;
- a seat support for supporting a toy structure and an open commode seat;
- said seat support having an upper surface with an open area to be in communication with said seat;
- a seat cover hinged to said seat support for selectively covering said commode seat;
- a vertically oriented rearwardly facing aperture located in a rear portion of said seat support;
- a waste receptacle supported in an inner cavity in said seat support, said receptacle comprising:
- a pot for collecting excrement from the child;
- an elongated arm connecting said pot to a vertically oriented handle so that said pot may be removed with a single hand from said inner cavity through said rearwardly facing aperture without coming in close proximity with said excrement;
- closure means on said elongated arm, proximate said handle, for covering said rearwardly facing aperture when said waste receptacle is fully inserted into said cavity with said pot in vertical alignment with said open area and with said handle being conveniently accessible outside said cavity;
- wherein when said cover is in an up position the child can sit on said seat to toilet train and when said cover is in a down position the child can sit on said cover to be amused by said toy structure.
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