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Toilet seat coverRelated Patent Categories: Baths, Closets, Sinks, And Spittoons, Cover For Seat, Specific Material, Plastic Or RubberToilet seat cover description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060168715, Toilet seat cover. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] This application claims priority based on U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/648,545, entitled "Toilet Seat Cover," and filed Jan. 31, 2005. BACKGROUND [0002] The present invention relates to hygienic covers, and more particularly, but not exclusively, relates to a flexible hygienic cover for use on a toilet seat. [0003] The use of hygienic covers on toilet seats has become commonplace. Nonetheless, there is an ever-present challenge to provide reusable flexible hygienic toilet seat covers. Thus, there is a need for additional contributions in this area of technology. SUMMARY [0004] In one embodiment, a toilet seat cover is made of a sheet of polymeric material configured essentially in the shape of a toilet seat. The sheet has a portable form and a usable form. The sheet is made of a flexible material and has a surface that allows the sheet to be secured on a toilet seat when in the usable form by pressing the same onto the toilet seat. The sheet is removable from the toilet seat by peeling one peripheral portion of the sheet to an opposite peripheral portion of the sheet. When placed into the portable form, the sheet is transported by carrying the sheet in one's pocket, purse, or carrying case. [0005] Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, objects, and advantages of the present application shall become apparent from the detailed description and figures provided herewith. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0006] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the toilet seat cover of the invention in its usable form applied to a toilet seat; [0007] FIG. 2 is a perspective top view of the toilet seat cover of the invention; [0008] FIG. 3 is a perspective top view of another version of the toilet seat cover of the invention; [0009] FIG. 4 is a side view of the toilet seat cover of the invention; [0010] FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the toilet seat cover of the invention in one portable form; [0011] FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the toilet seat cover of the invention in another portable form; and [0012] FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the toilet seat cover of the invention in still another portable form. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A SPECIFIC EMBODIMENT [0013] The present invention provides a new and improved toilet seat cover 10 which is provided essentially in the shape of a toilet seat. The toilet seat cover 10 is impervious to moisture, has at least one smooth surface, may be colored in a variety of colors, or may have printing thereon. [0014] The new and improved toilet seat cover 10 of the invention has an exterior periphery 12 and an interior periphery 14. [0015] Toilet seat cover 10 may cover the entire seat as shown in FIG. 2 or may cover only a portion of the seat as shown in FIG. 3. [0016] Toilet seat cover 10 of the invention has a portable form 16 and a usable form 18. The usable form 18 of the toilet seat cover 10 is shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3. The portable form 16 of the toilet seat cover 10 is shown in FIGS. 5-7. As shown in FIG. 5, the toilet seat cover 10 of the invention may be rolled into a tubular form 20 when not in use and in fact placed in a tube (not shown) for storage between uses. Alternatively, toilet seat cover 10 may be folded into a pack 22 as shown in FIG. 6 or merely compressed into a wad as shown in FIG. 7. In each of these portable forms of the toilet seat cover 10 of the invention, toilet seat cover 10 may be easily transported from one use to another in one's pocket, purse or carrying case. [0017] In all versions of the toilet seat cover 10, toilet seat cover 10 has a surface 24 thereon which allows said cover 10 to be secured to a conventional toilet seat when in said usable form 18 illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3 by pressing the same to the toilet seat. In specific embodiments, the toilet seat cover 10 may be manufactured from sheet materials chosen from the group of sheet materials consisting of polyethyleneterephalate sheets, polyethylene sheets, polypropylene sheets, and other hydrocarbon sheets, silicon sheets, other polymer sheets, and paper sheets having at least one surface coated with polyethyleneterephalate, polypropylene, polyethylene, other hydrocarbons, silicon, other polymer materials, and composites thereof. [0018] In one version, toilet seat cover 10 is comprised of sheet material comprising a thermal plastic core layer 26 having a first side 28 and a second side 30, and an additional layer 32 secured to one of said first 28 and second 30 sides comprising a polypropylene homopolymer, a solid antiblock and a silicone oil. The composite film has a stable coefficient of friction and release character despite mishandling during use. [0019] Optionally, a functional layer 34 which is printable or treatable for printing is laminated on the other of the sides 28, 30 of the core layer 26 such that advertising and the like may be placed upon the cover 10. [0020] In specific embodiments, core layer 26 may be any polymer made from a two to four carbon atom olefins such as ethylene or butane-1, or a copolymer made predominantly of propylene with minor amounts of another olefin, usually a two to four carbon atom olefin. Continue reading about Toilet seat cover... 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