Little Pisher

The History of My Idea

I am now 69 years old, and have had an enlarged prostate for probably 12-15 years. I fit the pattern of 50% of men over 50 years old of exhibiting urinary symptoms of an enlarged prostate. My original idea had to do specifically with men with enlarged prostates which I presented to my urologist. He liked the idea but said something like:  “I wish you’d invent something that would help shield my 3-year old son who is potty-training from touching the filthy toilet rims when he urinates.”

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So I did. Basically, I took a standard biodegradable, flushable paper toilet seat cover, the ones you find in every public building, school, hospital, office building, recreation area, anywhere where people don’t want to sit directly on the toilet without some sanitary protection to fit between them and the dirty toilet seat, and I put a hole in one end so it can be used/held vertically.  This allows the little boy to stand up against the toilet rim with his bare thighs and have a layer of protection so he doesn’t touch flesh to porcelain. That’s the basic design.

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And then I realized that one of the problems I have with an enlarged prostate is that I dribble when I pee, as do most men exhibiting symptoms of an enlarged prostate with very little force in my urine stream. An adult man can just as easily stand and use the Little Pisher to prevent dripping or spraying on his clothing, shoes, legs, walls, whatever, similarly to the little potty-training boy. 

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This is how I developed the simple first design.

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Then, coincidentally, I was at my 3 year old granddaughter’s house and she asked me to come to the bathroom with her while she had to pee.  She climbed on the little stool, pulled down her pants, sat on the big toilet, and began peeing with such a force that some of the urine came out over the top of the toilet seat.  So I got the idea for design number 2.

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The 2nd design utilizes the standard toilet seat cover in the conventional horizontal way, but I added a flap-like “funnel” to be able to both protect your butt as you sit on the toilet seat, and to open up to help funnel urine into the toilet.  I also often come in contact with the toilet seat rim or toilet seat cover when I sit on the toilet. I’m average sized, not majorly overweight, but I know beefier men and heavy women will sit on a toilet seat and have their penis or vulva touch up against the toilet rim or toilet seat cover. Both are often very dirty. The “funnel-like” portion adds an extra layer of protection against the porcelain toilet rim.

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Those are my patented ideas. They can be marketed to schools, gyms, office buildings, or "Kids R Us" type stores. They come packaged in already existing packages of 250/package, or they can be in a purse or diaper bag size, or a guy could carry some in his jacket pocket. I figure they would be a different color other than the standard white color to distinguish them from all the others. They already have distributions all around the world. I figure 30,000,000-50,000,000 are used everyday world wide.

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I have pricing for a very small minimum quantity order from China for 1,500,000 pieces, packaged in 250 quantity boxes. A factory cranking out Little Pishers would be making them in quantities of 30-50 million, not 1.5 million. 

I can’t really see why someone would not buy the Little Pisher, compared to the standard toilet seat cover. Certainly now during Covid-19, and with people being concerned about sanitariness. To me it’s a total winner.

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Below are excerpts from my Provisional Patent Application.

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Field of the Invention

This provisional patent application envisions multiple separate yet similar and associated embodiments and uses. 

 

The parents and care givers of toilet-trained little boys, or boys in the process of toilet training, are often horrified by the prospect of their little boys having to lean their naked thighs and/or penis against or on top of the toilet rim of a dirty toilet or urinal to be able to reach the toilet. Public toilets are notorious for showing evidence of missed prior urinations. Everyone has witnessed this disgusting, unsanitary situation.  (example 1, 2)

 

Men suffering from enlarged prostates and other urinary conditions that lessen the flow or stream of urine will also benefit from the simple innovation.

 

Similarly, everybody cringes at needing to sit on a public unsanitary, dirty toilet without some intervening protection between their skin and the toilet seat.  There already exists the common disposable paper toilet seat cover available in many public and private locations; however the Little Pisher and embodiments incorporate new strategies and uses with minor modifications to the existing simple toilet seat cover model.

 

These simple inventions shield and protect people from direct contact with the dirty toilet rims, seats or urinals as they approach and use the toilet.  It helps shield people from possible contagious diseases such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, E. Coli, Shigella bacteria and noroviruses that may be contagious from using or touching dirty, unsanitary toilet seats, toilet rims or urinals.

 

Obviously, what causes the unsanitary, disgusting messes on toilet seats, rims and urinals can also be mitigated by the Little Pisher and embodiments by funneling the flow or spray of urine directly into the toilet or urinal.

So, not only does the Little Pisher act as an additional sanitary buffer protection against a man’s penis or a female’s vulva from coming in contact with the toilet seat or rim, but also helps collect and direct the urine that doesn’t flow in the desired direction, the sprays, dribbles or sideways sprits.

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The Problem

Little boys using any toilet or urinal to urinate need to approach close to the toilet in order not to miss the toilet when they urinate.  After all, that is the entire concept of toilet-training to be able to urinate in the toilet. Their short physical stature prevents them from standing away from or above the toilet rim and urinating in an arc to reach the toilet. Sometimes boys will not aim accurately, consequently adding to the unsanitary, unsightly collection of spots, drips, and sprays around the toilet, on their shoes and clothing, and anything else around within range.

 

As the boys approach the toilet with their bare legs and thighs exposed, since their pants are down, they will often make physical contact with the dirty toilet or urinal rim.  For those who sit on the toilet, this same innovation better protects them from the bare unsanitary toilet seat, toilet or toilet seat rim. 

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Most modern round toilets (round as opposed to the oval toilets) only measure about ten and a half inches (10.5”) from front to back.  Most people, certainly adults, will easily fit over the entire toilet seat protruding over the seat rims.  This exposes a considerable amount of flesh that can contact the dirty toilet seat.  Men, when sitting on the toilet seat often find themselves “holding themselves down,” so their penis doesn’t touch the inner rim of the toilet seat or toilet rim.  Also, women may sit on a toilet seat and be positioned where their private fleshy body parts will come in contact with the toilet rim or toilet seat rim.

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Little girls, newly toilet trained, will often sit on the toilet and urinate with such force that some of the urine will flow/spray over the rim of the toilet seat causing an unsanitary mess, similar to that of the little boy.  Adult men suffering from an enlarged prostate or similar condition (50% of men over age 50 show some symptoms of an enlarged prostate) have difficulties in directing the flow of their urine as there is reduced urine stream force due to the prostate condition.  These spills, drips and sprays often end up on them, their shoes, clothes, floor, walls or toilet rim.

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So, the problem has to do with the unsanitary toilets, and affects all people, both sexes and all ages.