Toilet for handicapped and normal people

Abstract

This disclosure relates to a toilet bowl and seat which is user-friendly to individuals who are physically (or possibly mentally) disabled and especially wheelchair-bound people or even normal people with bad knees. The toilet seat and bowl shape is turned through 180 degrees relative to a conventional front-to-rear tapered seat and bowl shape in order to facilitate the ability to easily slide onto the toilet from the transportation device and easily slide backwards onto the same after use. A handle is also provided at the cistern front/rear of the toilet seat for support while standing up or sitting down during/after use and which is removable or fixed. Flushing also is easier because the tank is in front of the user and the flush handle may be provided on either side to suit the user.

1 . A bowl made with suitable material and specifically turned around 180-degree bowl and seat for use by physically and mentally challenged persons and those individuals with knee problems. 
     
     
         2 . The 180-degree turned seat facilitates user with the ability to easily slide onto the seat from a wheelchair or transportation device without turning around. 
     
     
         3 . Said 180-degree turned around seat facilitates user with the ability to easily slide backwards onto the transportation device without turning around. 
     
     
         4 . Whereby 180-degree turned around bowl and seat position is a reinvented user-friendly product. 
     
     
         5 . The ability to easily flush the unit and no turning around since water tank is in the front. 
     
     
         6 . Said flush tank in front facilitates use of left or right hand for persons with limited arm use and will allow installation of left of right flush handle. 
     
     
         7 . A removable or fixed hand support available in this unique product. 
     
     
         8 . A toilet for the disabled which compromises a toilet bowl and seat, wherein the toilet is adapted to be sat on with the user facing the rear of the toilet enabling a wheelchair user to slide from the wheelchair directly onto the toilet seat without needing to turn around or moving from the wheelchair onto the seat. 
     
     
         9 . A toilet as claimed in  claim 8 , wherein a support handle/handlebar is provided on the toilet at or near the rear of the toilet bowl extending across the width of the toilet to assist the user facing the rear of the toilet to move onto or move off the toilet. 
     
     
         10 . A toilet as claimed in  claim 8  or  claim 9 , wherein the bowl rim and seat is rotated through 180 degrees relative to the conventional configuration, meaning where the seat is oval or at least tapers in the front to rear axis of the toilet, the narrower part of the seat is rearmost, meaning adapted to be adjacent to the toilet cistern in use, and the wider part of the seat for the user to sit on accommodating the user's buttocks, is forward-most, meaning away from the toilet cistern in use. 
     
     
         11 . A toilet as claimed in  claim 9 , wherein the toilet further comprises a cistern and the support handle/handlebar is supported by a leg or legs mounted in one or a pair of mounting sockets that are provided in a pedestal of the cistern or on the rear of the toilet bowl or in or on a coupling therebetween. 
     
     
         12 . A toilet as claimed in  claim 9  or  claim 11 , wherein the support handle/handlebar rises above the top of the cistern. 
     
     
         13 . A toilet as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the cistern has sockets to allow either right or left hand side mounting of the flush handles to facilitate easy flushing of the unit. 
     
     
         14 . A toilet as claimed in  claim 9  or  claim 11 , wherein the support handle/handlebar spans the rear of the toilet at points between the sockets where the flush lever handle may mount to the cistern. 
     
     
         15 . A toilet as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the support handle/handlebar mounting sockets are drilled in or formed in casting of the pedestal of the cistern or the toilet bowl or coupling therebetween. 
     
     
         16 . A toilet as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the support handle/handlebar mounting sockets are tubular formations on the sides of the pedestal of the cistern or the toilet bowl or coupling therebetween. 
     
     
         17 . A toilet which comprises a toilet bowl, seat and cistern, wherein the bowl and seat is rotated through 180 degrees relative to the conventional, meaning where the seat is oval or at least tapers in the front to rear axis of the toilet, the narrower part of the seat is rearmost, meaning adjacent to the toilet cistern, and the wider part of the seat for the user to sit on accommodating the user's buttocks, is forward-most, meaning away from the toilet cistern enabling a wheelchair user to slide from the wheelchair directly onto the toilet seat without needing to turn around on moving from the wheelchair. 
     
     
         18 . A toilet as claimed in any preceding claim which compromises a toilet bowl and cistern, wherein the cistern is close-coupled to the toilet bowl, the toilet bowl and cistern being formed/assembled as an integral unit. 
     
     
         19 . A toilet substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.