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US 6,640,350 B1Granted
User interactive mat for a urinal
OwnerRichard Deutschinventor
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Abstract
A mat for a urinal. The mat includes a base, a disk with indicia thereon, baffles, hooks, and an optional container. The container receives either a urinal cake or an annunciator. The annunciator includes an activity switch, a signal conditioner, a counter conditioner, a sensor transducer that is exposed to the stream of urine, and an annunciator display that is visible and activates, either visibly and/or audibly, when the sensor transducer is impinged upon by the stream of urine.
Claims20
A user interactive mat for a urinal having a drain, comprising:
- a) a base;
- b) baffles;
- and
- c) hooks;
- wherein said base is for overlying the drain of the urinal;
- wherein said base has throughbores;
- wherein said throughbores are for Permitting a stream of urine to drain therethrough;
- wherein said baffles upstand from said base;
- wherein said baffles are for decelerating the stream of urine impinging thereon;
- wherein said hooks upstand from said base;
- and
- wherein said hooks selectively engage an item;
- further comprising a container;
- wherein said container is selectively engaged in said hooks;
- and
- wherein said container is for selectively receiving an item, wherein said container has a lowermost periphery;
- wherein said lowermost periphery of said container is continuous, ring-shaped, and has tabs;
- wherein said tabs of said container extend intermittently, and radially outwardly, from said lowermost periphery of said container;
- and
- wherein said tabs of said container are selectively received by said hooks, and when encaged thereby, said container is maintained in said central portion of said base, wherein said container has an uppermost periphery;
- and
- wherein said uppermost periphery of said container is continuous, ring-shaped, and spaced above said lowermost periphery of said container, wherein said container has posts;
- wherein said posts of said container are spaced-apart from each other so as to form spaces in said container;
- wherein said posts of said container extend upwardly from said lowermost periphery thereof to said uppermost periphery thereof, where they terminate in hooks;
- and
- wherein said hooks of said posts are inwardly radially facing.
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