Training urinal attachment for conventional toilets

A training urinal attachment mountable to a bowl of a toilet, said training urinal attachment comprising:

• a generally down-curved resiliently collapsible shell formed of a resiliently flexible material having a memory shape, said resiliently collapsible shell comprising:
• an intake opening that receives a flow of urine from a standing child;
• a discharge opening that directs said flow of urine into a collection area of a bowl of a toilet;
• and
• a tapered passage that constrains said flow of urine from said intake opening to said discharge opening;
• said intake and discharge openings being aligned along a common line of sight extending at an inward and downward angle through said passage so that said discharge opening is visible through said intake opening for use as a target by a standing child;
• at least first and second suction cups mounted to a lower side of said resiliently collapsible shell proximate said intake and discharge openings and facing towards one another, that engage inner and outer vertical sides of a rim of said bowl of said toilet so as to detachably mount said resiliently collapsible shell thereto;
• and
• a horizontally flattened bottom wall portion located intermediate the intake opening and the discharge opening, that rests atop a horizontal upper side of the rim of the bowl of the toilet so as to support and stabilize the shell thereon;
• whereby, in response to said seat of said toilet being lowered said shell of said urinal attachment compresses to a collapsed configuration between a lower side of said seat and an upper side of said rim of said bowl, and in response to said seat being raised said shell expands to an erected configuration in which said intake opening extends upwardly above said rim of said toilet to receive a flow of urine from a standing child.

A method for training a standing child to urinate into a toilet, said method comprising the steps of:

• providing a resiliently collapsible shell comprising:
• an intake opening that receives a flow of urine from a standing child;
• a discharge opening that directs said flow of urine into a collection area of a bowl of said toilet;
• and
• a passage that constrains said flow of urine from said intake opening to said discharge opening;
• mounting said resiliently collapsible shell to said toilet so that said shell is positioned over an area of a rim of said bowl that is covered by a seat of said toilet when lowered;
• lowering said seat of said toilet to said rim of said bowl so that said seat compresses said resiliently collapsible shell to a collapsed configuration in an area between a lower side of said seat and an upper side of said rim of said bowl;
• and
• raising said seat of said toilet away from said rim of said bowl so that said resiliently collapsible shell expands to an erected configuration in which said intake opening extends upwardly above said rim to receive said flow of urine from a standing child.