Commode lifting and transporting device

Abstract

A method and apparatus for lifting, transporting, or installing a commode is disclosed. The commode lifting and transporting device includes a base frame, with an upright support frame designed to straddle and lift a commode at or near the commode's center of gravity. The lifting member includes a screw jack, a lifting bar guided by the upright support frame, and three methods of attaching the commode to the commode lifting device: a self-clamping mechanism for lifting and transporting standard commodes; a set of support hooks and chain for lifting and transporting non-standard commodes, and lifting bar holes used in conjunction with the commode's seat holes, two bolts and two nuts as an alternate method for lifting and transporting non-standard commodes.

1 . A means of raising, transporting, lowering, and placing into position a commode, said means comprising: 
 a base frame mounted on wheels whereby said base frame is capable of rolling on the ground's surface so that said base frame surrounds the front, left and right sides of a bowl section of a commode on the ground's surface directly beneath said bowl section;    an upright support frame that includes at least two upright support members extending upwardly on both the left and right sides of said base frame and attached securely to said base frame in a position such that when said base frame is in a position surrounding the front, left, and right sides of a commode's bowl section on the ground's surface directly beneath said bowl section, at least one section of the upper portion of said upright support frame is located somewhere in the general area above the holes in the commode used to attach the commode's seat;    a means of lifting a commode said means being attached to said upright support frame; and    a means of securing a commode to said means of lifting the commode.    
   
   
       1 . A means of raising, transporting, lowering, and placing into position a commode, said means comprising: 
 a base frame mounted on wheels whereby said base frame is capable of rolling on the ground's surface so that said base frame surrounds the front, left and right sides of a bowl section of a commode on the ground's surface directly beneath said bowl section;    an upright support frame that includes at least two upright support members extending upwardly on both the left and right sides of said base frame is in a upper portion of said upright support frame is located somewhere in the general area above the holes in the commode said means being attached to said upright support frame; and    a means of securing a commode to said means of lifting the commode.    
   
   
       2 . The combination of  claim 1  wherein said means of lifting a commode consists of a lifting device connected to both said upright support frame and a lifting bar such that said lifting device can raise and lower said lifting bar.  
   
   
       3 . The combination of  claim 2  wherein said means of lifting consists of a threaded lifting bolt or other similar means connected to said lifting bar and to said upright support frame wherein said lifting bolt includes a manual crank so that when said manual crank is rotated, said lifting bar is raised and lowered.  
   
   
       4 . The combination of  claim 2  wherein said means of securing includes a grasping mechanism attached to said lifting bar capable of grasping a commode between the commode's water-tank section and bowl section and also capable of supporting the lifted commode.  
   
   
       6 . The combination of  claim 2  wherein said means of securing attaches said lifting bar to a commode using the holes in the commode's bowl section used to attach the commode's seat, two holes in the lifting bar properly positioned such that the two holes line up with the commode's seat holes, two bolts or other similar means each placed through one of the two said lifting bar holes and corresponding seat hole in the commode, and two nuts or other similar means used to secure each of the two said bolts.  
   
   
       7 . The combination of  claim 1  wherein said upright support frame can be folded against said base frame as required for shipping or storage or locked into an upright position with respect to said base frame as required for lifting, transporting, or installing a commode.