Patent ID: 7490366
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
1. A bolt assembly in combination with a toilet seat assembly with a mounting bracket having at least one aperture therethrough, said bolt assembly allows said toilet seat assembly to be mounted on a toilet bowl flange having at least one corresponding vertical opening, said bolt assembly consisting of: at least one threaded bolt having a threaded exterior surface and an axial threaded bore, an upper end and a lower end, and a collar about the upper end, said collar being larger in diameter than the vertical opening in the flange, and said bolt being substantially longer than the thickness of the flange; at least one nut having a threaded axial opening to cooperate with the threading on the exterior surface of the threaded bolt, said nut being threaded onto the threaded exterior surface at the lower end of the at least one bolt after the at least one bolt has been inserted downwardly into the at least one vertical opening in the flange, the at least one nut securely affixing said at least one bolt to the flange and insuring that the at least one bolt is immovable therein; and at least one screw, being shorter that the at least one bolt, having a threaded shaft to cooperate with the threaded bore and a head which the head of comprises an integral plate having an upper surface and a lower surface and being larger in diameter than the at least one aperture in the mounting bracket and a grip substantially in the form of a rectangular solid integral and disposed on the upper surface of said plate such that when the mounting bracket is placed over the flange and the at least one aperture is directly over the bore in the at least one bolt and the at least one screw is passed through the at least one aperture and threaded into the bore by grasping the head of said screw and rotating said screw in a first direction the mounting bracket and thereby the toilet seat assembly is secured to the flange, and when the head of the at least one screw is grasped and rotated in a second opposite direction and removed from the bore the toilet seat assembly is completely removed from the flange; whereby the toilet seat assembly is easily completely removed for cleaning and is just as easily replaced after cleaning.