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Edward J Guard

William T Wright

David G Lewandowski

A urinal provided for the convenience and training of juvenile boys in accordance with this invention requires no plumbing, and comprises a support means having front and rear surfaces. The rear surface is adapted for attachment to a vertical surface, and the front surface has a receptacle-receiving lower portion. A dish shaped urine-receiving receptacle is utilized, with its lower portion having a configuration closely complementary to the lower portion of the support means. The receptacle has a full height rear wall and a front wall of abbreviated height, with the upper portions of the wall portions terminating in a generally oval front opening. The receptacle is insertable at an angle to the vertical into the lower portion of the support means, and likewise is able to be withdrawn for emptying by lifting upwardly at substantially the same angle to the vertical. The rear wall of the receptacle is adapted to be grasped for removal and emptying, with urine retained in the receptacle being able to be poured over the front wall, and into a toilet or the like. Consequently, there is no occasion for the person emptying the receptacle to grasp a portion of the receptacle that has come directly into contact with urine. A flexible splash preventing device may be used in the receptacle, and the heightwise location of the support means on the wall may be readily changed as becomes necessary.

Urinal for convenience and training of juvenile males

A universal holder of the top loading type for accommodating and safely supporting a drink container of any of a wide variety of sizes and configurations, comprising a vertical backbone member that supports a pair of highly flexible, symmetrically configured arms each possessing substantial curvature. The two arms together form a generally circular configuration, with the tips of the arms being in general alignment, but not coming into contact with each other during normal use of the holder. The arms preferably are of non-constant cross section, possessing substantially smaller vertical dimension at their tips than adjacent the location of their attachment to the vertical backbone member. Importantly, the uppermost surfaces of the arms are flared somewhat outwardly to facilitate the downward insertion of a drink container therebetween, with the arms being sufficiently flexible as to accommodate drink containers of many different diameters. The arms clasp the drink container sufficiently tightly in each instance as to prevent dislodgment of the drink container from the holder, but not so tightly as to crush a drink container made from paper or foam plastic. Two external surfaces of the holder are substantially flat to accept one or more strips of Velcro to be utilized for mounting the holder to either a substantially horizontal, or to a substantially vertical surface.

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Maitland, FL, United States of America

Edward J Guard