Toilet anti-splash guard

Claim 1

In combination, a water closet including a toilet bowl having an upper open portion wholly surrounded by a conventional-type overhanging flush water circulating and distributing rim, a hingedly mounted liftable and lowerable seat ring positionable atop said rim, and a hingedly mounted lid-type cover for said seat ring, adapter means mounted on said rim, and an anti-splash guard carried by said adapter means and interposed between said rim and seat ring, said adapter means being relatively stationary and including resilient means contacting the guard for permitting retraction of the guard, said guard being vertically projectable and retractable and automatically projected to an upstanding anti-splash position by the resilient means when the seat ring and companion cover are elevated and being adapted to retract to a down out-of-the-way position when the seat ring is lowered to an in-use position atop said flush rim, said adapter means including fixedly mounted guides, and the resident means being tensioned coil springs arranged in the guides, and said guard comprising an anti-splash shield having portions therein slidingly mounted in said guides and coacting with and acted upon and automatically biased upwardly by said springs, and said adapter means comprising a first soil and rust resisting strap member which is substantially C-shaped in plan, said strap member having rigidly mounted rim gripping and clamping spring clips, said guides comprising vertical socket members closed at their lower ends, open at their upper ends, the upper half-portion of each socket member having guide slots in which a lower edge portion of said guard is retentively but slidingly keyed, and the lower socket portion of each socket member having one of said tensioned coil springs housed therein and operatively engaging the coordinating portion of said guard.