Improvements in and relating to Water-closet Seats.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Water-closet Seats.
1, HENRY WILSON SCATTERGOOD, a citizen of the United States of America,
residing at 336 Mauheim Street Germantown in the City and County of
Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, one of the United States of America,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide a seat for the use of children, that may
be readily applied to water closet seats without reorganization of any portion of
the water closet seat or cover, and that may be attached by any person without
artisan skill. I design by my invention to furnish as a merchant article such a
closet seat.
In carrying out my invention, I form from sheet metal by means of dies, or
from hard rubber, celluloid, veneer, or other sufficiently rigid and thin material, a
seat having a hinge at one end by which it may be applied to the ordinary wooden
seat of a water closet, between the said wooden seat and the lid or cover where
such lid or cover is employed, the said seat being adapted to fit within and above
the ordinary seat hole, and preferably having its front portion cut out so as to
avoid being fouled by excreta, all as I will proceed now more particularly to set
forth and finally claim.
In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, in the several figures
of which like parts are similarly designated,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ordinary water closet with my invention
applied.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the seat and cover, with the cover closed.
Figure 3 is a top plan view of the seat of this invention.
Figure 4 is a section taken substantially in the plane of line 4-4 of Figure 3,
looking to the right; and
Figure 5 is a plan view of a water closet top with the lid closed and showing the
seat of this invention in position.
The water closet bowl a may be of any approved construction, and its seat b
likewise of usual construction and applied thereto in any suitable manner. c is
the ordinary cover or lid hinged to the seat in any usual manner.
As is understood, and as is shown in detail in Figure 2, the ordinary seat b is
hinged to the base or back-piece d, and the lid or cover c is likewise hinged to this
same base or back-piece, and there is usually a space left between the bottom of
the lid and the top of the seat sufficient to separate the lid and seat to prevent one
marring the other, and ordinarily a rubber or other block or cushion e is provided
in the front edge of the cover to rest against the seat and thus preserve the cover
and seat from superficial contact. I utilize this space to receive the seat of my
invention, which is herein designated f. This seat fis made necessarily of thin
material so as to fit in the aforesaid space, and I prefer to strike up the seat from
sheet metal and finish the same in lacquer, or other material, in a solid color, or
grained, or to imitate wood, or other finish; but I may employ in the construction
of this seat such other hard and rigid materials as hard rubber, celluloid, wood
veneer and the like. The hole f¹ in the seat fis, obviously, of smaller dimensions
than the hole b¹ in the seat b, and the said hole f' is provided with a peripheral
flange turned down so as enter the hole 6 and extend below the upper surface

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of the seat so as to protect the edges of the hole in the seat b. In order to
avoid the fouling of the seat f by excreta, the front of the hole in said seat fis
cut away, as at 9. So far as cutting away the whole of a water closet seat, as at
is concerned, I am aware that this is not original with me. The rear of the seat is
provided with a projection h to which a hinge i is applied permanently, and by
means of this hinge i the seat f is readily applied to the seat 6 by any one
sufficiently skilled in mechanics to drive a screw.
As already indicated I purpose providing these attachable seats for children as
independent articles of manufacture, finished in various styles to conform to the
general finish of water closet tops, ready to be applied by any person, skilled or
otherwise, to a water closet already installed. Obviously, these seats may be
furnished with the ordinary water closet tops.
By means of my invention I am able to furnish, at small cost, this serviceable
article, and in such shape not only that it may be readily applied, but that it may
be as readily removed when there is no longer occasion for its use.
Obviously in those closet tops in which the lid or cover fits flush to the seat, the
necessary space between the lid or cover and seat for the reception of the child's
seat may be obtained by blocking up the cover hinge.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim, is :-
As an improved article of manufacture, an attachable water closet seat for
children's use consisting of a seat of thin material, such as sheet metal, provided
with a hinge and thereby and by its thinness adapted to be applied to the ordinary
water closet seat between the seat and the cover or lid, without any or any material
alteration of the ordinary seat, substantially as described.
Dated this Tenth day
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents..