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The Rollins Automated Commode Fixture

Patent Serial Registration Number; 60/06-650,075

Back in the 70's when I was repairing Televisions at my mothers rent House, a friend of mine came to visit me. He wanted to watch me work on the equipment. He asked me questions about how did I get into Electronics. I told him that it had been an interest of mine for quite some time. Building things from scratch seemed to have come naturally to me, and that I enjoyed very much working with Technology. He told me that he would never be able to do such a thing as Electronics, in that it was too complicated for him to learn it. I told him that anyone can do just about anything, if they develop an interest in the thing they would like to do. I further indicated to him that most things look complicated on the surface, but in reality become easier to understand as you become involved in them over time. I told the friend that he could spend the night in the guest bed. Unbennounced to me however, my friend left the bathroom light on all night, he had left water form the sink basin running, and my toilet un flushed. Being the work-A-Holic that I am, I had not known this until long after my friend had left my home the next morning. Then the idea emerged, I thought to myself, I can prevent the prior mentioned bathroom problems by automating my restroom. I set out to devise a method of detecting when someone entered the restroom facility via electronic means. Then I worked out how to automatically turn on the ceiling lamp upon entry detection of an occupant, and designed a circuit that would deactivate the light when an individual left the restroom. I devised a method using what I refer to as my Proximity Breach Field Detector logic, this circuit detects the presence of an individual near the toilet zone, and then remembers the encounter. When the person leaves the toilet zone, the logic inhibitor part of the breach field circuit no longer inhibits the completion of the output function. The output function being the logic circuits that control either a motorized gear driven flush lever actuator device, or a solenoid water jacket control unit. A timing logic circuit then would continue the flushing function for a prescribed or adjustable rate of time interval, and allow the circuit to reset to the normal non flushed mode once timed out. Simultaneously, the timer would re initialize the sensing circuits to their normal reset ready status condition. The same is true to the water basin control solenoid controlling circuits, water will flow as long as hands are in close proximity to the faucet area, and cut of the flow of water once hands are removed. The same is true of my automatic hand drier device. When my friend returned to visit me again and saw all the equipment hooked up to my bathroom, he asked me if I was trying to electrocute him. I told him no, but considering how he had left my restroom the last time he had visited that may not have been a bad idea. I was joking with him of course about that. My friend then said excitedly, Howard, do you know what you have? I sand what? He then said that he had walked towards my toilet and saw all the stuff hooked up to it, and the he walked away from it and it flushed on it's own. Next he said that I was going to have a million dollars. He kept repeating that. I though about that for a while. So next I went to a local patent attorney to apply for protection for my device. I figured that if I had solved my problem, that I had solved the problem of others. I spent over $6,500.00 over the course of about 5 years to get a patent on my "Automated Commode Fixture" AKA.; "The Rollins Smart Bowl", AKA.; "The Automatic Flush Control System". It appears that my attorney sold me out to a foreign power. A Japanese company claimed on the Television program "That's Incredible", That they had invented the self flushing toilets. The company went on to sell or license out the right so produce my device to others. I was totally excluded from any considerations, financial or otherwise. To this day I get no money or credit for my invention. Then my patent attorney died. No one to date has been able to help me to set things right for me. The Patents Office is aware that I originated the Automated Commode fixture, but they do not get involved in Corporate litigation. Therefore, they can not help me. My attorney opted to get me a Provisional, instead of a Utility Patent. Provisional's do not cary the same level of legal weight as do Utility Patents and are only good for a limited amount of time. I paid for a Utility patent back in the late 70's towards the mid 80's. I just wanted to set the record straight. There are others who claim to have invented my device, true their were other attempts prior to my work on such a device as mine, even so far as back in the 1950's, however no one had orchestrated an intelligent arrangement of circuits and hardware's, in the unique manner that my circuit solved the automatic flush problem before my work. I am not even attempting to rule out the possibility that others may have also figured it out just as I did on there own. I just want to say that I did accomplish this, and their are those who know for a fact that I did it, and never got any credit or money for my work.

Howard Rollins III ninacake48@aol.com