Child's toilet training chair
OwnerDiana Dorfman Deutschinventor
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Abstract
A child's toilet training chair includes a seat supporting structure and an adjustable seat that can be positioned at an acute angle relative to the horizontal. The front section of the seat is pivotally attached to a front portion of the supporting structure and the rear portion of the seat is provided with at least one engagement member that releasably mates with one of a plurality of vertically-spaced receiving elements in the chair back.
Claims17
A toilet training apparatus, which comprises a stationary rigid seat supporting structure and a separate adjustable seat, wherein:
- said seat supporting structure includes opposed side portions and a rear portion attached to said side portions, said seat supporting structure terminating in a depending base portion and configured to be supported on a flat surface, said rear portion of said seat supporting structure including a backrest extending upwardly from said depending base portion;
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- said adjustable seat has a central opening, a forwardmost edge and a rearwardmost portion extending between said side portions of said supporting structure and to said rear portion of said seat supporting structure, said seat being pivotally mounted to said side portions of said seat supporting structure by pivotal mounting means proximate said forwardmost edge, said rearwardmost portion of said seat being configured to selectively lockingly engage one of a plurality of correspondingly configured and generally vertically spaced apart mating recesses in said rear portion of said seat supporting structure, a lowermost mating recess in said rear portion of said seat supporting structure being positioned to support said seat at an acute angle with respect to the flat surface, so as to accommodate a user in contact therewith in a low squatting position;
- a distance from the flat surface to said forwardmost edge of said seat remaining substantially constant when said seat is moved from one of said mating recesses to another in said rear portion of said seat supporting structure.
A self-supporting toilet training chair for use by a user in a plurality of positions which includes at least one squatting seated position, said chair including a seat supporting member and a seat, wherein:
- said seat has a generally planar upper seating surface having a generally central opening, the underside of said seat being adapted to releasably retain a waste receiving receptacle below said central opening, said seat having a forwardmost edge and an opposed rear portion, and
- said seat supporting member has opposed side portions and a rear portion which includes an immovable backrest, said seat supporting member terminating in a base portion configured and dimensioned to position said seat supporting member on a flat surface, said immovable backrest extending continuously upwardly from said base portion, said seat supporting member being configured to receive said seat in pivotally mounted attached relation to said side portions by pivotal mounting means, said seat being removably and securely engageable with a lowermost one of a plurality of vertically spaced recesses in said rear portion of said seat supporting member, whereby said seat assumes a position which is declined from said forwardmost edge to support the user in the squatting position on said seat.
A self-supporting toilet training chair for use by a small child in a squatting seated position, said chair including a seat supporting member and a seat, wherein:
- said seat has a generally planar upper seating surface having a generally central opening, the underside thereof being configured and adapted to releasably retain a waste receiving receptacle below said central opening, said seat having a forwardmost edge and an opposed rear portion, and
- said seat supporting member has opposed side portions and a rear portion which includes an immovable backrest, said seat supporting member terminating in a base portion configured to position said seat supporting member on a flat generally horizontal surface, said immovable backrest extending upwardly from said base portion, said seat supporting member being structured and dimensioned to receive said seat in pivotally mounted attached relation to said side portions and to securely lockingly engage said rear portion of said seat in one of a plurality of vertically spaced mating recesses in said rear portion of said seat supporting member, a lowermost mating recess in said rear portion of said seat supporting member being located such that when said seat is engaged in said lowermost mating recess, said seat is relatively steeply declined from said forwardmost edge to support the user in a squatting position on said seat,
- a distance from the flat generally horizontal surface to said forwardmost edge of said seat being substantially constant when said seat is moved from one to another of said mating recesses in said rear portion of said seat supporting structure.
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