The present disclosure relates to a juvenile bathroom system. In particular, the present disclosure relates to juvenile potties and to step stools.
A juvenile bathroom system in accordance with the present disclosure includes a child potty adapted to set on a floor away from a toilet so that it can be used easily by a young child during toilet training. In illustrative embodiments, the juvenile bathroom system further includes a footstool adapted to set on a floor and formed to include a downwardly opening potty-storage chamber that is sized to receive and store the child potty therein during use of the footstool to elevate a child above the floor.
In illustrative embodiments, the footstool includes a shell formed to include the downwardly opening potty-storage chamber. The shell includes a horizontal child-support platform and a downwardly extending platform-elevation side wall coupled to a perimeter edge of the child-support platform. A child can sit on and use the child potty during toilet training after the child potty has been removed from the potty-storage chamber by a caregiver and placed on the floor and the unused footstool that formerly held the child potty can be set aside. When not in use, the child potty can be stored in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell without impeding the use of the footstool by a child or adult in a bathroom or elsewhere.
In illustrative embodiments, the shell included in the footstool can be made of a transparent material to allow a caregiver to see that a child potty has been stored in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell while the footstool is arranged to lie in a ready-to-use position on a floor without first having to lift the footstool away from the floor and turn it over to look into the potty-storage chamber.
In illustrative embodiments, the footstool also includes a potty-retainer tab coupled to the shell and arranged to extend into a tab-receiver channel formed in the child potty when the child potty is deposited into the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell to retain the child potty in a stationary position on the footstool. The side wall of the shell includes an interior surface bounding the potty-storage chamber and surrounding a child potty stored therein. The potty-retainer tab is cantilevered to the interior surface of the side wall of the shell. The shell is made of an elastic deformable plastics material and a portion of the side wall is arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the child potty when the child potty is stored in the potty-storage chamber formed in the shell and the potty-retainer tab is arranged to extend into the tab-receiver channel to anchor the footstool to the stored child potty.
In illustrative embodiments, to release the footstool from the child potty, a caregiver applies a squeezing force to opposite front and rear portions of the shell side wall to cause deformation of that side portion of the shell side wall that carries the potty-retainer tab. This side-wall deformation is sufficient to cause the potty-retainer tab to move outwardly away from the child potty to a disengaged position that is withdrawn from the tab-receiver channel formed in the child potty to release the child potty from the footstool so that the footstool can be lifted upwardly leaving the juvenile potty in a stationary position on the floor.
In illustrative embodiments, the shell side wall includes a right side portion extending between the front and rear side portions and carrying a right-side potty-retainer tab and a left side portion also extending between the front and rear side portions to lie in laterally spaced-apart relation to the right side portion and carrying a left-side potty-retainer tab. When the caregiver applies a squeezing force to the front and rear side walls, the front side portion is moved inwardly toward the child potty and the shell side wall is deformed and changes shape to cause the left side and right side portions to move away from one another and from the child potty located therebetween to cause (1) a first potty-retainer tab cantilevered to the right side portion to disengage a companion first tab-receiver channel formed in one side of the child potty and to cause (2) a second potty-retainer tab coupled to the left side portion to disengage a companion second tab-receiver channel formed in a second side of the child potty to release the child potty so that it can be removed from the potty-storage chamber formed in the footstool.
Additional features of the present disclosure will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon consideration of illustrative embodiments exemplifying the best mode of carrying out the disclosure as presently perceived.
The detailed description particularly refers to the accompanying figures in which:
An illustrative juvenile bathroom system 10 includes a child potty 12 and a footstool 14 formed to include a downwardly opening potty-storage chamber 16 as suggested in
Footstool 14 changes shape when squeezed in a certain way by a caregiver to unlock child potty anchor lock 18 as suggested in
Child potty anchor lock 18 comprises a first potty-retainer tab 21 that is included in footstool 14 and arranged to engage a companion first tab-receiver channel 121 formed in child potty 12 to retain child potty 12 in a stationary position in potty-storage chamber 16 of footstool 14 as suggested in
Footstool 14 is made of an elastic deformable material that can be squeezed by a caregiver to unlock child potty anchor lock 18 and illustrative squeezing forces are represented diagrammatically by opposing double arrows F1 and F2 in
Child potty 12 includes a waste-collection bowl 30 and a bowl-support frame 32 coupled to bowl 30 and arranged to support bowl 30 in an elevated position above the underlying floor 20 as suggested in
Footstool 14 includes a shell 40 that is formed to include the downwardly opening potty-storage chamber 16 as suggested in
Bowl-support frame 32 of child potty 12 includes a ring-shaped seat pad 34 adapted to seat a child using child potty 12 and a pad-support rim 36 arranged to elevate seat pad 34 above the floor 20 underlying child potty 12 as suggested in
Shell 40 of footstool 14 includes a horizontal child-support platform 42 on which a child may stand and a platform-elevation side wall 44 for elevating the child-support platform 42 above the floor 20 underlying footstool 14 as suggested in
Child potty 12 is formed to include a waste-collection chamber 31 and adapted to set on a floor 20 as suggested in
Child potty 12 includes a waste-collection bowl 30 formed to include waste-collection chamber 31 and a bowl-support frame 32 coupled to waste-collection bowl 30 as suggested in
Bowl-support frame 32 includes a seat pad 34 coupled to waste-collection bowl 30 and arranged to extend around a top aperture 30A opening into the waste-collection chamber 31 formed in waste-collection bowl 30 as suggested in
Shell 40 includes a horizontal child-support platform 42 arranged to overlie and lie in close proximity to seat pad 34 to cover the top aperture opening into waste-collection chamber 31 when child potty 12 is retained in potty-storage chamber 16 formed in shell 40 as suggested in
Pad-support rim 36 is made of an elastic deformable material in illustrative embodiments. Pad-support rim 36 has (1) a normal undeformed first shape shown, for example, in
Child potty 12 further includes a urine deflector 50 coupled to waste-collection bowl 30 and arranged to deflect a stream of urine (not shown) into waste-collection chamber 31 as suggested in
Platform-elevation side wall 44 of shell 40 of footstool 14 further includes a second side portion 44S2 arranged to extend between the front and rear side portions 44F, 44R and lie in spaced-apart relation to a second side face 36S2 of pad-support rim 36 to locate the waste-collection bowl 30 therebetween. Second side face 36S2 is formed to include a second tab-receiver channel 122. Footstool 14 further includes a second potty-retainer tab 22 arranged to extend into the second tab-receiver channel 122 formed in the second side face 36S2 of pad-support rim to retain child potty 12 in the stationary position in potty-storage chamber 16 formed in shell 40 of footstool 14 when platform-elevation side wall 44 is arranged to assume the normal undeformed shape. Second potty-retainer tab 22 is coupled to an inner surface of the second side portion 44S2 of platform-elevation side wall 44 of shell 40 to move therewith to withdraw second potty-retainer tab 22 from second tab-receiver channel 122 during elastic deformation of platform-elevation side wall 44 to change platform-elevation side wall 44 from the normal undeformed first shape shown, for example, in
Shell 40 of footstool 14 is made of a transparent material as suggested in
An assembled juvenile bathroom system 10 in which child potty 12 is stored and retained in the potty-storage chamber 16 formed in footstool 14 is shown, for example, in
In illustrative embodiments, shell side wall 44 includes a right side portion 44S1 extending between the front and rear side portions 44F, 44R and carrying a right-side potty-retainer tab 21 and a left side portion 44S2 also extending between the front and rear side portions 44F, 44R to lie in laterally spaced-apart relation to the right side portion 44S1 and carrying a left-side potty-retainer tab 22. When the caregiver applies a squeezing force F1, F2 to the front and rear side portions 44F, 44R, as suggested in
A caregiver can apply a squeezing pressure (represented by two double arrows F1, F2) to front and rear side portions 44F, 44R of side wall 44 of footstool shell 40, as suggested in
In illustrative embodiments, three feet 101, 102, 103 are included in footstool 14 and coupled to shell 40 as suggested in
This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61/882,266, filed Sep. 25, 2013, which is expressly incorporated by reference herein.
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