Patent Application
20250228417
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The disclosure relates to devices for organizing cleaning and sanitary tools in bathrooms and more particularly pertains to a new device for organizing cleaning and sanitary tools in bathrooms. Organizing devices are useful for keeping bathroom cleaning tools, such as toilet brushes and plungers, near the toilets, for the convenience of those cleaning or maintaining the toilets. It is important for such devices to be relatively sanitary and promote a clean aesthetic, especially in public bathrooms with heavy usage and repeated cleaning routines.
The prior art relates to devices for organizing cleaning and sanitary tools in bathrooms. The prior art does not disclose a bathroom organizer that includes multiple compartments for housing a trash receptacle, a removeable drip tray, and a toilet brush and a toilet plunger.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bathroom sanitation arrangement for organizing bathroom maintenance devices that includes a first compartment, a second compartment, and a third compartment. The third compartment is disposed under the first compartment. The first compartment is disposed next to the second compartment. The first compartment is designed to house a toilet brush and a toilet plunger. The second compartment is designed to house a trash receptacle. The third compartment is designed to house a drip tray. The first compartment and the third compartment are divided by a wall. The wall comprises at least one aperture therein designed to permit passage of liquids from the first compartment to the third compartment. In this manner, a single structure can conveniently house a trash receptacle and bathroom cleaning tools, such as a toilet brush and toilet plunger. The at least one aperture in the wall allows liquids to drip into the drip tray below, thereby maintaining the first compartment in a relatively dry and sanitary condition by minimizing the accumulation of liquids and the corresponding growth of bacteria and fungus or mold. The drip tray keeps the liquids in a separate area that can be relatively easily cleaned by a user to further promote sanitary conditions. The single container also presents a relatively pleasant aesthetic by housing the trash receptacle and the cleaning tools in a relatively concealed manner. Such a design could be useful in all types of bathrooms, and especially public restrooms for the convenience of sanitation or maintenance workers who must frequently clean the restrooms.
It should be understood that the bathroom sanitation arrangement may simply consist of the compartments and the drip tray without the trash receptacle, toilet plunger, and toilet brush. However, in accordance with at least one possible embodiment, the bathroom sanitation arrangement is a kit that also includes the trash receptacle and/or the toilet plunger and/or the toilet brush.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
The first compartment 12 includes a brush receptacle 30 designed to receive and store a brush head 34 of the toilet brush 18. The first compartment 12 also includes a plunger receptacle 32 configured to receive and store a plunger cup 36 of the toilet plunger 20. The second compartment 14 is open on top to permit insertion and removal of the toilet brush 18 and the toilet plunger 20 into and out of the first compartment 12. In the embodiment shown in
The second compartment 14 includes an openable and closable door 38 on one side to permit insertion and removal of the trash receptacle 24. In addition, the second compartment 14 includes a cover 40 positioned in a top portion of the second compartment 14. The cover 40 is pivotable to permit trash to be inserted past the cover 40 and into the trash receptacle 24 below the cover 40.
In accordance with at least one possible embodiment, the first compartment 12 is sufficiently tall to contain the entirety of a toilet brush 18 and a toilet plunger 20 is oriented vertically in the first compartment 12. The first compartment 12 is substantially rectangular and approximately twice the size of the second compartment 14. Each of the brush receptacle 30 and the plunger receptacle 32 includes a cylindrical receptacle integrally formed into the first compartment 12.
In accordance with at least one possible embodiment, the bathroom sanitation arrangement 10 is a kit that includes the trash receptacle 24 and/or the toilet brush 18 and/or the toilet plunger 20.
In use, a user can place the toilet brush 18 and the toilet plunger 20 in the corresponding brush receptacle 30 and plunger receptacle 32, such as after using those tools. Since those tools will likely be covered in cleaning fluids or toilet water, those liquids can pass through the wall 26 via the apertures 28. The liquids will be caught in the drip tray 22, which can subsequently be removed to dump out the liquids. Trash 42 can be thrown away by the user in the trash receptacle 24 via the pivotable cover 40, as shown in
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
