Patent ID: 8196228

Claim:
A protective toilet seat cover comprising in combination: a) a sheet of foldable flexible material having an overall size to cover a toilet seat, b) the sheet having a top panel defining a through opening to register with and overlie the toilet bowl, c) the sheet having opposite side panels configured to hang downwardly at opposite sides of a toilet bowl, the side panels having upright front edges, d) the sheet having a front panel configured to freely hang downwardly at the front of the toilet bowl, e) the front panel having spaced edges that extend upwardly and sidewardly to define front panel upper portions separate from the side panels, and that hang in protective overlying relation to front edges of the side panels, f) and wherein the front panel spaced edges are locally curved away from the side panels and extend toward one another and in a straight path toward an end of said opening, said cover further characterized in that when deployed in a flat plane, each said curved edge is located between said opening and one of said side panel front edges, and wherein each said front panel curved edge is convex toward and is contiguous to a locally concavely curved edge of a side panel, in said flat plane, g) there being forwardly extending, generally parallel cuts between the front panel and the side panels, forwardly of said convex and concavely curved edges thereby defining contiguous forwardly extending side panel and front panel edges in said flat plane.