Heated toilet seat and methods for making same
AssigneeWatlow Polymer Technologies
InventorsTheodore Von Arx, Clifford D. Tweedy, John W. Schlesselman, Ronald E. Papenfuss
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Abstract
A toilet seat comprises a resistive wire sewn to a support material such as a fibrous mat. The wire is preferably sewn in an annular pattern or a sinuated pattern disposed throughout the seat. The heating element can be contained within a toilet seat core, which can have a shell molded thereon to form a toilet seat.
Claims21
A toilet seat comprising a shell and a core, said core comprising an outer surface, said shell comprising a top portion and a bottom portion, and said core further comprising, as a unitary body, a polymeric matrix containing therein a resistive wire sewn to a support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.