Patent ID: 8887320
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: A47K,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A flow projector device, for use with a toilet having a toilet bowl with a toilet bowl rim and an overlying seat, the seat placeable in a use position generally parallel to the toilet bowl rim and supported by the toilet bowl rim, comprising: a base having an upper surface, a lower support surface, an inner end, an outer end, and lateral sides extending between the inner and outer ends, the base positionable between the seat and the toilet bowl rim with the seat in the use position; the upper surface sloping downwardly from the outer end toward the inner end; a return portion extending downwardly from the inner end; an outer barrier extending upwardly from the outer end, the outer barrier comprising a recurved surface configured to redirect urine to the upper surface of the base; the recurved surface having first and second portions, the first portion extending from the base generally upwardly away from the upper surface of the base and the second portion extending from the first portion, the second portion terminating at an outer end at a position directly overlying the upper surface and outward of the seat with no portion of the seat between the outer end and the upper surface; and the recurved surface defining a urine catch/return cavity; whereby urine directed along the upper surface towards the recurved surface can be redirected by the recurved surface directly back onto the upper surface of the base to flow down the upper surface, past the return portion and into the toilet bowl.