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Title:
POTTY KIT
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2002/049489
Kind Code:
A2
Abstract:
A kit comprising materials suitable for constructing and/or decorating a potty by a child.

Inventors:
AMIR GIDI (IL)
ELAZAR MEIR (IL)
Application Number:
PCT/IL2001/001180
Publication Date:
June 27, 2002
Filing Date:
December 19, 2001
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SPUREI ETZ TZA ATZUA LTD (IL)
AMIR GIDI (IL)
ELAZAR MEIR (IL)
International Classes:
A47K11/06; (IPC1-7): A47K/
Foreign References:
US6047414A2000-04-11
US4759086A1988-07-26
USD264372S
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Meyer, Yehuda (P.O.B. 130 Modi'in, IL)
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Claims:
CLAIMS
1. 1) A kit comprising materials suitable for constructing a potty, decorating a potty or constructing and decorating a potty.
2. A kit according to claim 1 in which the difficulty of constructing the potty suits the skills of a child who will be the user of the potty.
3. A kit according to claim 1 in which the difficulty of constructing the potty is higher than the skills of a child who will be the user of the potty.
4. A kit according to any of the preceding claims which further comprises an illustration to assist the builder of the potty.
5. A kit according to any of the preceding claims, in which the potty built therefrom is of the texture of an erasable blackboard.
6. A kit according to any of the preceding claims, which further comprises stickers suitable to be stuck on the potty, said stickers having drawings of popular children entities.
7. A kit according to any of the preceding claims, in which the potty built therefrom may be easily dismantled.
8. A kit according to any of the preceding claims, which further comprises a children's book comprising contents in favor of the use of a potty.
9. A kit according to any of the preceding claims in which in the potty built therefrom, a disposable container for collecting the biowaste is employed.
10. A kit according to any of the preceding claims in which further comprises means to treat the biowaste.
11. A kit according to claim 10 in which said means are selected from one or more of absorbing agents, smell neutralizer, degrading agents, and/or air purifiers.
12. A kit according to claim 11 in which said means are is Ocla TM manufactured by Air Reactor.
13. A kit according to any of the preceding claims which further comprises means for treating the biowaste; and in which in the potty built therefrom a disposable container for collecting the biowaste is employed.
14. A kit according to claim 13 in which said means are selected from one or more of absorbing agents, smell neutralizer, degrading agents, and/or air purifiers.
15. A kit according to claim 14 in which said means are is Ocla manufactured by Air Reactor.
16. A potty prepared by any of claims 1 through 15.
17. A biowaste collector which employs means for treating the biowaste.
18. A biowaste collector according to claim 17 which is selected from any of a diaper or a potty.
19. A biowaste collector according to any of claims 17 and 18 in which the means for treating the biowaste are selected from one or more of absorbing agents, smell neutralizer, degrading agents, and/or air purifiers.
20. A biowaste collector according to any of claims 17 and 18 in which in which said means are is Ocla TM manufactured by Air Reactor.
Description:
POTTY KIT BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION According to Freudianism, babyhood of 1-24 months old infants is the important stage for basic formation of character, and most of 2-6-year old infants can relieve themselves in a given place and in the correct body position through several toilet-training and trials and errors. If motivation is provided to children in this babyhood to show their intention to evacuate, they can easily go to stool by themselves. This toilet training helps children with becoming well rounded.

Babyhood is a very important stage of the life of human being because the babyhood is the stage for basic formation of emotion, custom and character. It is preferred to let the infants naturally acquaint themselves with interest with the correct emotion as well as with the correct custom.

It is known that the introduction of an infant to a potty may be a traumatic experience to said infant. Therefore, a need for a potty which will create no antagonism or relatively little antagonism towards the infant remains.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to one aspect, the present invention relates to a kit comprising materials suitable for constructing and/or decorating a potty by a child.

According to another aspect, the present invention relates to a potty prepared by such a kit.

The advantage of the potty prepared according to the present invention is that it has been found that a child that builds and/or decorates a potty by himself, develops an emotional connection to said potty, and as a result the antagonism of the infant toward said potty is lowered.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The kit of the present invention can be comprised of a wide variety of means of building and/or decorating a potty. The level of difficulty in building the potty may also vary and can be matched to the skills of the child to be building. In the event that the skills of the child are not sufficient for building the potty he may use the help of an older child such as a sibling or an adult such as a parent.

The kit of the present invention may comprise, by way of example, six square boards, one of which comprises a hole. Said six boards are easily attached together to form a cube having a hole on one of its sides. Said side being suitable to be the seat of the potty. However the shape and form of the components for building the potty and of the potty itself may vary in a wide scope of embodiments and variations.

By further way of example, the kit of the present invention may comprise Lego@ blocks. The amount of blocks and their shape may be suitable for precisely forming a potty. If needed, the kit may further comprise an illustration to assist the builder of the potty.

The potty built according to the present invention may be designed in such a way that it is suitable for the child to decorate it.

According to one embodiment the outside walls of the potty may be of the texture of an erasable blackboard. According to this embodiment, the child may decorate the potty with suitable markers or chalk and later easily erase said board and decorate the potty again.

According to another embodiment the kit of the present invention may comprise stickers suitable to be stuck on the potty, said stickers having drawings of popular children entities such as Winnie the Poohç or Kermit the Frog°. According to another embodiment said figures may be in the form of a coloring book and the child can color these figures.

According to another embodiment, the potty built according to the present invention may be easily dismantled. Thus the child may enjoy the experience of building his own potty numerous times.

As understood from the description above, the potty built according to the present invention may interest the child more than a typical potty, and may looked upon as a type of a toy.

It is important for the potty to be clean at all times. In order to achieve this goal the potty built according to the present invention preferably employs a disposable container for collecting the biowaste.

A potty comprising a disposable container is described inter alia in the following publications, all of which are incorporated by reference: 6,115, 855, According to a preferred embodiment the disposable container used in the present invention comprises means to treat the uncomfortable odor and/or the health hazards of the biowaste. Such means may be any one or more of absorbing agents, smell neutralizers, degrading agents, and/or air purifiers. Such absorbing agents, smell neutralizers, degrading agents, and/or air purifiers. are well known to one with average skills in the art. Typical, but not limitative kinds of such materials are described, inter alia, in US 5,352,444, and 5,589,164.

According to an preferred embodiment the smell neutralizer used in the present invention is Ocla Tll manufactured by Air Reactor.

According to another embodiment the present invention relates to a kit comprising a potty and one or more of absorbing agents, degrading agents, and/or air purifiers.

According to another embodiment, the kit of the present invention further comprises a children's book comprising contents in favor of the use of a potty. Such contents may be, as an example, a story of a child who builds and uses a potty as in the present invention and is satisfied.

The present invention further relates to a biowaste collector such as a diaper or a potty which employs means for treating the biowaste. Such means may be any one or more of absorbing agents, smell neutralizers, degrading agents, as described hereinabove.

The examples exemplified throughout this document should not be construed as limited the present invention. One of ordinary skill in the art will understand how to vary the exemplified preparations to obtain the desired results.