Self-locking toilet seat cover
AssigneeBRK Brands, Inc.
InventorsCraig S. Scherer, David C. Brown, Michael C. Thuma
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Abstract
A lock for use with an associated toilet having a rim portion and a generally outwardly oriented, depending surface, and having a seat cover thereon includes a releasably engageable receiving member and locking member. The receiving member has a housing and a pivotably connected mounting member. The mounting member is mountable to the rim portion of the bowl on the depending surface thereof. The housing includes at least one lock receiving element therein. The releasably engageable locking member has an elongated cover retaining element and at least one biased locking element. The locking element includes a releasing member thereon for releasing the locking member from the lock receiving element.
Claims9
A lock attachable to a toilet bowl and an associated seat cover for locking the seat cover to the bowl, the lock comprising:
- a first housing and a separate second housing wherein each of the housings is substantially rigid and carries a latching portion, and wherein each of the housings carries an attachment element adapted to attach the respective housing to one of a portion of the bowl and a surface of an adjacent portion of the seat cover whereby the latching portions of the two housings are located adjacent to one another when the seat cover is moved to a position adjacent to and effective to close the bowl;
- first and second releasably engagable latch elements wherein the first latch element is carried by the first housing at the respective latching portion and the second latch element is carried by the second housing at the respective latching portion with the two latch elements adapted to lockingly engage one another when the housings are located adjacent to one another thereby holding the seat cover closed against the bowl;
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- a two-part release mechanism carried by one of the housings and coupled by at least one unlatching member to the respective latch element wherein the two parts of the release mechanism are both movable toward one another and in response to relative movement of both parts toward one another the at least one unlatching member disengages the latch elements from one another enabling the seat cover to be opened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.