Patent ID: 7779489

Claim:
A potty bench, comprising: a base supporting a potty seat formed with a potty seat opening into the base; a basin carried by the base underlying the potty seat opening to collect waste from the potty seat opening; a storage compartment formed in the base; a closure for the storage compartment mounted to the base for movement between an open position opening an access opening to the storage compartment and a closed position closing the access opening to the storage compartment; a lid mounted to the base for movement between an open position relative to the potty seat and a closed position relative to the potty seat; means interacting between the lid and the closure, whereby movement of the lid into its closed position in the closed position of the closure locks the closure in its closed position, and movement of the lid from its closed position to its open position in the closed position of the closure unlocks the closure from its closed position; a splashguard carried by the basin, the splashguard having a shield projecting through the potty seat opening from the basin and upwardly relative to the potty seat, the shield having a urine deflecting face for deflecting urine from above the potty seat into the basin through the potty seat opening; the splashguard comprises a deflectable body; the basin removable from the base through an opening into the base; and the deflectable body interacts with the potty seat in response to movement of the basin away from the base deflecting into the base permitting removal of the basin from the base.