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EP0047520A2
EP0047520A2 EP81107020A EP81107020A EP0047520A2 EP 0047520 A2 EP0047520 A2 EP 0047520A2 EP 81107020 A EP81107020 A EP 81107020A EP 81107020 A EP81107020 A EP 81107020A EP 0047520 A2 EP0047520 A2 EP 0047520A2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR, e.g. TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K17/00—Other sanitary equipment not covered by the other groups of this subclass ; Holders for toilet brushes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B91/00—Feet for furniture in general

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  • THE PRESENT INVENTION relates to bathroom cabinets. More particularly, the present invention relates to bathroom cabinets adapted for storing and dispensing sanitary commodities, especially in bathrooms of limited space.
  • the term "bathroom” is used in this specification to encompass rooms containing only a W.C.
  • flush tank cover or lid As a temporary storage spot or support surface for accessories and utilities such as comb and brush, whisk broom, scissors, containers of lotions and cosmetics and so on. It is likewise common practice to assist flush tank cover users by providing various forms of shelves and retaining guards such as are quite popular and are in widespread use. Plastics, rubber and equivalent trays, appropriate fence-like racks and so on are exemplary of the state of the art in use to prevent miscellaneous articles from being displaced from the top surface of the cover and falling into the uncovered bowl of the W.C.
  • Patent publication US-A-3,181,176 which relates to an article-retaining band for flush tanks and which claims in combination a toilet flush tank open at its top and provided with a readily applicable and removable lid, a band having a portion thereof snugly encircling a depending marginal edge portion of said lid, means for detachably applying and retaining said band in position on the lid, said band having a portion cooperating with an upper surface of the lid and transforming the same into an article-confining and retaining tray.
  • patent publication US-A-3,093,832 discloses a cabinet which is self-supporting, by means of a plurality of legs, above the flush tank and is provided with a pivotal access panel to enable access to the space between the cabinet and the flush tank and thereby to the interior of the tank and to the flushing mechanism therein in case of need.
  • cabinets which are self-supported by legs and/or which are adapted for attachment to a wall above the flush tank inherently face their purchaser with the equally disadvantageous choice of either positioning the cabinet at a comfortable accessible height which often will block easy access to the inside of the flush tank, or positioning it high enough to give free access to the flush tank but which high positioning is often too high for comfortable frequent use.
  • Patent publications US-A-2,170,776, US-A-1,861,802 and US-A-2,099,932 describe and claim trays and cabinets having bottom surfaces adapted to be attached to the top of an open flush tank to form the cover thereof.
  • the devices of these publications do not solve the problem of providing a cabinet which can be attached to existing flush tank covers of various sizes, configurations and curvatures, as are found in a majority of homes today and these prior devices involve the manufacture of specifically sized devices to fit specifically sized tanks and/or the wasteful removal of the cover already provided by the manufacturer and paid for by the consumer.
  • Patent publication IL-A-54823 describes and claims a cabinet, especially for storing and dispensing sanitary commodities, characterized in that said cabinet is provided with at least one compartment and at least one latchable door, wherein said latchable door is provided with a shelf attached to the inner side thereof which shelf is provided with a guard wall to form an outwardly openable compartment in the area defined by the inner side of said door, said shelf and said guard wall, for retaining various sized items placed within said compartment and said cabinet is further provided with means for attachment of said cabinet atop a bathroom flush tank as an integral unit with the cover thereof, whereby said cabinet and cover are readily removable as a unit to allow access to a flushing mechanism within the flush tank in case of malfunction.
  • the attachment means is described as being depending latches and/or flanges usually adapted to grip the flush tank cover to which they are to be attached.
  • Some of the latches are of fixed position and, therefore, limit the attachment of a cabinet provided therewith to a flush tank cover of specific corresponding dimensions.
  • Patent publication IL-A-57429 describes and claims a cabinet, especially for storing and dispensing sanitary commodities, said cabinet being provided with at least one compartment and at least one latchable door and being further provided with means for attachment of said cabinet atop a bathroom flush tank as an integral unit with the cover thereof, whereby said cabinet and cover are readily removable as a unit to allow access to a flushing mechanism within the flush tank in case of malfunction, wherein said means for attachment comprise a cushion of yieldably pliable material attachable to the bottom of said cabinet and gluable to the top of said flush tank cover.
  • this prior publication discloses a cabinet for storing and dispensing sanitary commodities, the cabinet being provided with at least one compartment; at least one access door giving access to the compartment; and an attachment means depending from a bottom surface of the cabinet for attachment of the cabinet atop a cover of a W.C. flush tank, to form a single unit with said cover; the cabinet and the cover being readily removable as a unit to allow access to a flushing mechanism within the flush tank.
  • one aspect of the present invention provides a cabinet for storing and dispensing sanitary commodities, the cabinet being provided with at least one compartment; at least one access door giving access to the compartment; and an attachment means depending from a bottom surface of the cabinet for attachment of the cabinet atop a cover of a W.C.
  • the cabinet and the cover being readily removable as a unit to allow access to a flushing mechanism within the flush tank;
  • the attachment means comprises a plurality of leg means, the or each leg means having a respective substantially planar surface which is adjustable relative to a plane parallel with the bottom of the cabinet, the cabinet thus being compatibly attachable to W.C. flush tank covers of various sizes, configurations and curvatures.
  • each attachment means is provided with an adhesive layer.
  • each leg means is detachably attachable to the bottom of the cabinet; and a respective cushion of pliable material is attached to the bottom surface of the leg means and is adhesively attachable to the top of the flush tank cover.
  • each leg means is jointed to facilitate the said adjustability and advantageously the joint comprises a ball and socket joint.
  • each attachment means comprises a member detachably attachable to the bottom surface of the cabinet, the member being provided with at least one protruding element extending downwardly therefrom when the member is attached to the bottom of the cabinet, the member and the element being provided with an interconnecting means enabling adjustment of the distance of protrusion of the element from the member.
  • each ball and socket joint is provided on the element of the respective leg means.
  • the cabinet is substantially parallelepipedal.
  • the said door is a swinging door having a shelf attached to the inner side thereof, which shelf is provided with a guard wall to form an outwardly swingable compartment in the area defined by the inner side of the door, the shelf and the guard wall.
  • the cabinet will be made of lightweight plastic to further augment the ease of removal of the cabinet and the tank cover to which it is attached when necessary and will be of such a size that its chosen depth will not substantially exceed the width of a flush tank cover.
  • the present invention further provides such a kit comprising: a cabinet in accordance with the first aspect of the invention and an aligning and supporting means for facilitating the attachment of the cabinet to the flush tank cover; the aligning and supporting means comprising a first portion at least temporarily attachable to the cabinet and at least one second portion adapted to extend, when the aligning and supporting means is attached as said to the tank cover, beyond the furthest extent of the or each leg means, the aligning and supporting means being sufficiently rigid to support the cabinet above the tank cover surface without the or each leg means contacting the tank cover surface; at least parts of the said second portion of the aligning and supporting means being elastically deformable so that, upon application of pressure on the said deformable parts, the or each leg means of the attachment is allowed to make contact with the tank cover surface.
  • the present invention also provides a method of alignably attaching a cabinet having at least two legs to a W.C. flush tank cover surface wherein each of the said legs has a respective adhesive bottom surface, the method comprising the steps of: providing at least one elastically deformable supporting means to extend between the cabinet and the tank cover surface, which supporting means, in a non-deformed state, extends beyond the adhesive surfaces of the legs; aligning the cabinet on the tank cover surface while the cabinet is temporarily supported by the deformable supporting means; and applying pressure to the cabinet to deform the supporting means to allow the adhesive bottom surfaces of the legs to make contact with the tank cover surface in order to adhere thereto.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show a substantially parallelepipedal cabinet 2 having two doors 4, 6 and provided with an attachment means 8 shown in greater detail in Figure 2.
  • the attachment means 8 comprises two rail members 10, each detachably attachable to the bottom surface 12 of the cabinet 2 by insertion of a fixed arm 14 and a springy arm 16 into respective apertures 18 in the bottom 12 of the cabinet 2.
  • Each rail member 10 is provided with two protruding elements 20, extending downwardly from the rail member 10 when attached to the bottom 12 of the cabinet, each element being provided with a respective interlocking ball 22 and a socket 24 forming a ball joint.
  • the ball joint on each element facilitates the displacement of a respective foot 26 provided on the element relative to planes parallel with the bottom of the cabinet.
  • each foot 26 is provided with an adhesive layer to attach the cabinet to the cover of a W.C. tank, and the adhesive is sufficiently strong to ensure that the cabinet and the cover are readily removable as a single unit to allow access to a flushing mechanism within the flush tank, for example in case of malfunction.
  • each protruding element 20 is provided with a respective interconnecting means such as the screw arrangement 28 shown in Figure 2, enabling adjustment of the distance of the foot 26 from the rail member 10.
  • the attachment means may be disengaged by flexing the springy arm 16 of each rail member 10 out of the associated aperture 18, or alternatively the ball and socket of each ball and socket joint may be separated.
  • the doors 4 and 6 can be swinging doors having a respective outwardly swinging shelf (not shown) attached thereto and adapted to accommodate a plurality of sanitary tampons with their longitudinal axes in horizontal or vertical array, or one of the doors can be a simple door providing access to a compartment which can accommodate a plurality of aligned sanitary napkins.
  • attachment means shown and equivalents thereof render the cabinet described above compatibly attachable to W.C. flush tank covers of various sizes, configurations and curvatures.
  • the adhesive material on the feet 26 can be protected until attachment by means which are known per se, but the adhesive means can result in difficulties in properly aligning and positioning the cabinets before attaching it to the flush tank cover. These difficulties may be overcome as follows.
  • Figure 3 shows a longitudinal recess in the top surface of the rail member 10 which recess, in conjunction with the bottom surface 12, forms a slot 52, the function of which will be evident from the description hereinafter.
  • Figure 4 shows a preferred aligning and supporting means 54 to be used for the adhesive mounting of the cabinet 2, comprising a first portion 56 which, up to an abutment 58, fits the slot 52.
  • the second portion is in the form of a two-pronged fork with diverging prongs 60. These prongs lie in a plane which, as is best seen in Figure 5, forms an angle larger than 90° with the plane of the first portion 56.
  • the first stage of attaching the cabinet 2 to a W.C. flush tank cover surface 46 is illustrated in Figure 5.
  • Two aligning and supporting means 54 are used, one for each attachment means 8,and are slipped into their respective slots 52 up to the abutment 58.
  • the cabinet 2 with the alignment means 54 thus attached is now put onto the tank cover surface 46 and is temporarily supported by the aligning means 54 above, yet quite near to, this surface 46.
  • the cabinet is thus now easily aligned and positioned.
  • Figure 7 shows a modified aligning and supporting means 39, having a first portion 40 provided with a tang 42 which fits the slot 52 and, when introduced into the slot, keeps the entire means 39 in position relative to the rail member 10 and the bottom 12 of the cabinet.
  • a second portion is in the form of two flat-spring-like wings 44, one on each side of the first portion 40 and integrally attached thereto. These wings 44, which are elastically deformable, the entire aligning means 39 being preferably made from a plastics material, slant outwards and downwards.
  • the wings 44 of the modified aligning means 39 are of such dimensions as to extend beyond the adhesive bottom of the feet 26 and, therefore, prevent the latter from making contact with the flush tank cover surface 46.
  • the two aligning means 39 must be rigid enough to support the weight of the entire structure and to maintain a sufficient distance betwen the adhesive surface of the foot 26 and the tank cover surface 46. Being thus safely supported above, yet quite near to,the tank cover surface 46, the cabinet is now easily aligned and positioned, for example relative to a wall and/or to one or more edges of the tank cover surface 46 itself.
  • FIG 8 Another even simpler aligning means is shown in Figure 8 and comprises a flat spring 62 bent to form a sinuous "C" shape.
  • a first end 64 of the spring 62 is introduced into a slot or catch similar to the slot 52 shown in Figure 3, and the second end 66 of the spring 62 fixed to a base plate 68 for greater stability.
  • the first end 64 may be fitted with another base plate (not shown), making it possible to use the aligning and supporting means without the need to provide a complementary slot such as slot 52.
  • At least one of the doors 4, 6 is a swinging door having a shelf attached to the inner side thereof, which shelf is provided with a guard wall to form an outwardly swingable compartment in the area defined by the inner side of the door, the shelf and the guard wall for retaining items of various sizes placed within the outwardly swingable compartment.
  • the doors of the cabinet have been described as swinging doors with or without attached compartment, but it will be reailized that the doors can also form part of a slidable door if desired.

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IL61043A IL61043A (en) 1979-05-28 1980-09-10 Bathroom cabinet
IL61043 1980-09-10
IL62787A IL62787A (en) 1981-05-05 1981-05-05 Aligning and supporting means and a method for the use thereof
IL62787 1981-05-05

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GB2284148A (en) * 1993-11-25 1995-05-31 Ronald Michael Tarrant Foot assembly for mounting the base of a machine

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US1936008A (en) * 1932-05-24 1933-11-21 Sidney M Cowan Adjustable flush tank cover
US2797816A (en) * 1954-05-21 1957-07-02 Ross Joseph Flush tank utility tray
US3869183A (en) * 1973-09-27 1975-03-04 Jr Mack Frank Shower bath caddy
IL54823A (en) * 1978-05-31 1980-12-31 Raz Zeev Bathroom cabinet

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GB2284148A (en) * 1993-11-25 1995-05-31 Ronald Michael Tarrant Foot assembly for mounting the base of a machine
GB2284148B (en) * 1993-11-25 1997-07-02 Ronald Michael Tarrant Improvements relating to machine mountings

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