Patent ID: 7334273

Claim:
A portable potty comprising: a potty seat; a shell base; at least two hinged legs, each leg comprising an upper segment and a lower segment connected at a hinge pivot point near the center of the leg, said legs being pivotally connected at their bottom ends to the base shell and at their top ends to the potty seat, said legs supporting the potty seat when extended and collapsing the potty when folded, and said legs being wide enough to stabilize the potty seat against forward and backwards motion; and wherein the hinged legs are bowed to the outside to prevent inward folding of the legs under load, and upper and lower segments of the wide hinged legs broaden to the inside as they near the hinge pivot points, terminating in flat surfaces roughly perpendicular to the legs, so that when the legs are in raised position the broadened end surfaces of the hinged leg segments come together at the flats to keep the legs from folding outwards, and wherein the legs abut against raised stop portions of the shell base to prevent side to side shifting of the toilet seat.