Device and method for storing a child's potty seat
OwnerSueann Galt, Kimberly Ann Conover Rossetti +1inventors
InventorsSueann Galt, Kimberly Ann Conover Rossetti, Frederick Michael Rossetti
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Abstract
A device and method for storing a youth potty seat on an adult toilet assembly. The device includes a support bar, a hook connected to the upper portion of the support bar, and at least one peg attached to the lower portion of the support bar. The hook is effective for hanging the support frame from the upper rim of a toilet tank, and the peg is effective for suspending a child's potty seat. The method comprises hanging the hook from the upper rim of a toilet tank and hanging a youth potty seat from the peg; thereby storing the youth potty seat on the adult toilet assembly. An extension bar may be provided to extend the length of the support bar. Multiple pegs may be used.
Claims5
A method of storing a youth potty seat on an adult toilet assembly, the method comprising:
- a) providing a storage rack adapted to hold at least one youth potty seat, wherein said storage rack includes:
- i) a support frame having an upper end and a lower end, said support frame including a plurality of support studs effective for holding an extender bar;
- ii) a hook connected to the support frame, wherein said hook is effective for hanging the support frame from the upper rim of a toilet tank;
- iii) an extender bar having a plurality of apertures effective for receiving said support frame support studs and further effective for receiving potty seat peg studs to adjustably hold potty seat a peg in selected members of said plurality of apertures;
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- iv) at least one potty seat peg adjustably attachable to the extender bar and effective for holding a youth potty seat, wherein said potty seat peg includes one or more peg studs effective for holding said potty seat peg in the apertures of said extender bar;
- wherein the support frame is positioned forward of said hook and is separated from the hook by a gap sized to allow said extender bar to extend therethrough;
- wherein said storage rack is adaptable to a first position wherein said extender bar extends downward below said support frame without passing through said gap;
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- wherein said storage rack is adaptable to a second position wherein said extender bar extends upward above said support frame and passes through said gap;
- b) selecting to assemble said storage rack in either its first position wherein said extender bar extends downward below said support frame without passing through said gap, or its second position wherein said extender bar extends upward above said support frame and passes through said gap;
- c) connecting said extender bar to said support frame in its selected position by snapping one or more of said support frame support studs into apertures in said extender bar, wherein said extender bar is positioned in either its first position wherein said extender bar extends downward below said support frame without passing through said gap, or its second position wherein said extender bar extends upward above said support frame and passes through said gap;
- d) connecting said potty seat peg to said support frame by snapping one or more of said potty seat studs into apertures in said extender bar;
- e) hanging said storage rack from an adult toilet assembly by hanging the hook of the storage rack from the upper rim of a toilet tank;
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- f) hanging a youth potty seat on the potty seat peg of the storage rack;
- thereby storing the youth potty seat on the adult toilet assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.