An Improved Protective Covering for the Seats of Water Closets and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th July, 1893-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Protective Covering for the Seats of Water Closets
and the like.
I, PHILIP GERHard Hendrik Dop, of Bregittestraat 4 Utrecht in the Kingdom
of Holland, Barrister at Law, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention has reference to a simple and inexpensive protective covering for
the seats of water closets and the like.
A protective covering for this purpose according to this invention consists of
suitable sheet material such as paper formed with an opening or perforation to
correspond with the opening in the seat to which it is to be applied, and the edge
portion of which is made of two or more thicknesses of material cut or slit in such a
manner as to form a number of flaps each of which is opposite to the cut or slit
between two of the flaps of the adjacent sheet of material the arrangement being
such that when the covering is applied to a seat the flap portions can be turned
downward so as to completely cover the edge of the opening in the scat.
Protective coverings such as described may each conveniently consist of a single
perforated sheet of paper to which a circular strip of paper may be gummed or
otherwise secured so as to forin a double thickness of material round the edge of the
perforation therein.
My improved protective coverings can be treated with any suitable disinfectant
and may advantageously be made of such a size that a portion thereof can when in
use be caused to hang over the front or outer edge of the seat to which it is
applied.
Dated this 25th day of October 1892
P. G. H. DOP,
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Protective Covering for the Seats of Water Closets
and the like.
I, PHILIP GERHARD HENDRIK DOP of Bregittestraat 4 Utrecht in the Kingdom
of Holland, Barrister at Law, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to a simple and inexpensive protective covering for
the seats of water closets and the like.
A protective covering for this purpose according to this invention consists of
suitable sheet material, such as paper formed with a hole or perforation to corre-
spond with the hole in the seat to which it is to be applied, and the edge portion of
which is made of two or more thicknesses of material cut or slit in such a manner
as to form a number of flaps each of which is opposite to the cut or slit between
two of the flaps of the adjacent sheet of material, the arrangement being such that
when the covering is applied to a seat, the flap portions can be turned downward so
as to completely cover the edge of the hole in the seat.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a plan, and
:-
Fig. 2 a cross section on the line A. B Fig. 1; of a protective covering according

page_text: This covering consists of a thin sheet I of paper formed with a hole 2 there-
through of smaller size than the hole in the seat, to which it is to be applied. To
this sheet and around the hole therein is secured by suitable means such as gum or
paste, a second sheet or strip 3 of paper formed with a hole corresponding approxi-
mately with that in the sheet 1 so that around the edge of the hole in the combined
sheets there will be two strips or layers of paper, one of which, namely that forming
part of the sheet 1, is cut or slit as at 1", whilst the other forming part of the sheet
or strip 3, is similarly cut or slit as at 3", the cuts or slits in the latter being out of
line with those in the former. These cuts or slits serve to divide the material
around the hole into two annular or approximately annular series of flaps, those in
one series covering the cuts or slits between those in the other series. By this
means when the covering is in use, and the flaps are bent downward as indicated in
dotted lines, they will effectually, and completely cover the edge 4 of the hole in
the seat 5 to which the protective covering is applied.
My improved protective coverings can be treated with any suitable disinfectant,
or perfume, and may advantageously be made of such a size that a portion thereof
can when the covering is in use, hang over the front or outer edge of the seat, to
which it is applied as indicated at 1 in Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) A protective covering for the seats of water closets and the like consisting of
perforated sheet material made of two or more thicknesses around the hole therein,
these thicknesses being slit or cut in such a manner as to form two or more series of
flaps that extend completely around the edge of the bole, the flaps in one series
being arranged to overlap those in the other series in a lateral direction substan-
tially as herein described for the purpose specified.
(2.) The improved protective covering for the seats of water closets and the like
consisting of a sheet of paper formed with a hole 2 the edge portion of which is
slit or cut at a number of points 1", and a strip 3 of paper secured to the first sheet
around the hole therein and formed with a number of slits or cuts 3* arranged out
of line with those in the said sheet 1 substantially as described & shown for the
purpose specified.
Dated this 1941 2o. of Lu. 1000