Patent ID: 8336130

Claim:
A toilet device that can be raised or lowered, said toilet device comprising: (a) a generally flat base atop a floor; (b) a toilet bowl disposed above the base via a hydraulic lift cylinder, wherein a first end of the hydraulic lift cylinder is attached to a side of the toilet bowl and a second end of the hydraulic lift cylinder is attached to a top surface of the base; wherein the hydraulic lift cylinder can move the toilet bowl between an up position where the toilet bowl is raised upwardly away from the floor and a down position wherein the toilet bowl is lowered toward the floor; (c) a plurality of telescopic support rods attached to both the top surface of the base and to the toilet bowl, the support rods are for rigidly supporting the toilet bowl above the base in a horizontal plane between an up position where the toilet bowl is raised upwardly in a vertical plane away from the floor and a down position wherein the toilet bowl is towered in a vertical plane toward the floor; (d) a waste pipe fluidly connecting the toilet bowl to a waste line of the plumbing system; and (e) a control device operatively connected to the hydraulic lift cylinder, wherein the control device is moved to a first position to cause the hydraulic lift cylinder to move the toilet bowl to the up position and the control device is moved to a second position to cause the hydraulic lift cylinder to move the toilet bowl to the down position.