Toilet bowl splatter shield

A shield for a toilet having a bowl with a standing water level therein and a seat hinged to said bowl for rotation between a down position on a rim of the bowl and an up position angularly displaced from the rim of the bowl comprising a shaft adapted at one end thereof to be fixed to an inner wall of the bowl with said shaft extending horizontally into the bowl above the standing water level, a sleeve mounted for rotation on said shaft, an arm extending from said sleeve inwardly and downwardly into the bowl to an end thereof above the standing water level, a strike pad mounted in an approximately horizontal position on said end of said arm and a lever extending upwardly form said sleeve, said lever being engagable against an underside of the seat for angular displacement of said sleeve in response to force exerted on said lever by the seat during rotation of the seat into the down position to move said strike pad to an approximately vertical position at a rear of the bowl and disengagable from the underside of the seat during rotation of the seat to the up position to permit angular displacement of said sleeve in response to gravitational force exerted ons aid strike pad to return said strike pad to said approximately horizontal position.