Patent ID: 6081936
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
In combination with a toilet including a toilet bowl and a toilet seat and a hinge mounting therefore allowing said toilet seat to be pivoted between a lowered position resting atop a rim surface of said toilet bowl to a raised position upright with respect to said toilet bowl; an arrangement for raising and lowering said toilet seat, said arrangement comprising:a fulcrum defined by said hinge mounting, the weight of said toilet seat on one side of said fulcrum and a counterbalancing weight to the rear of said fulcrum;means for shifting said counterbalancing weight supported by said toilet seat relative to said fulcrum with said seat in a lowered position so as to cause said toilet seat to thereafter pivot up on said fulcrum from a resulting imbalance thereof, and also for shifting said counterbalancing weight relative to said fulcrum with said toilet seat in said raised position so as to thereafter cause a pivoting down of said toilet seat.