Turns Ordinary Wall Hung Toilets into Federally Compliant Units, 1,000 Pounds of Support for your Patient's/Resident's Safety.
 
Testimonials
From a patient at a nursing home:

"I feel more secure having the toilet seat support in place, especially with wall hung type toilet."
"It is comfortable and doesn't get in the way."
"I've worried about using wall hung toilets in the past, I was glad the staff here had a device to help prevent any possible problems."

Some comments from the staff at Parkview Manner Nursing Home in Green Bay WI.

"Bariatric Toilet Seat Support is easy to clean and doesn't need to be removed for other residents to use the same toilet in a facility where multiple residents share a bathroom."
Lonna Schmit, Administrator
"The support is discrete and doesn't take up a lot of space like other bariatric commodes we have had to special order in the past."
The Bariatric Toilet Seat Support
The average porcelain toilet fixture is built to support approximately 350 lbs. before the possibility of failure by cracking of the fixture.
 
The worry free way to allow patients of any size easy access and comfort without fear of fixture failure.
Avoid the possibility of serious injuries and patient embarrassment with the Bariatric Toilet Seat Support

  • Supports patient weight up to 700 lbs.
  • ADA Compatible
  • Easily installed before patient arrives at the facility
  • Give both patient and facility peace of mind and security
 
BTSS units should be standard equipment in ALL ADA restrooms.
  • Stainless Steel Construction
  • Fits most floor or wall mounted units
  • Easily moved-Light weight
  • Easily cleaned
  • Fully adjustable horizontally and vertically
  • Custom sizes available
  • ADA height units
Free standing and easily stored, our Bariatric Toilet Seat Support gives both the patient and facility peace of mind..
 
 
 
Physics of the toilet displacement

This is a complex problem due to the elastic deformations of both the toilet and the body tissue of the person using the toilet. The amount of energy that is "imparted" into the system is equal to mgh (mass * height dropped * gravitational constant). For example, 100 kilos dropped 0.33 meters will impact with an energy of 323 Joules.

1 Joule = 1 Newton meter, or the amount of energy exerted when a force of one Newton is applied over a displacement of one meter. The critical part is the amount of displacement - if one can measure the amount of displacement (or deformation), one can extract the impact force. Notice that the smaller the displacement the greater the force.

Think of catching a falling egg. If you hold your hand still, all of the kinetic energy has to go into deformation of your hand and the egg = egg breaks into a nice big mess. If, instead, you "gently" catch the egg by moving your hand down, most of the energy is dissipated in the displacement = intact egg.

In the case of the toilet bolted to the wall or mounted to the floor, the object in question cannot be displaced. All of the energy, therefore, has to be absorbed through deformation of the toilet and the persons body tissue. It is very difficult to measure the deformation of either of these objects.

We therefore have to make some assumptions to get any sort of answer. I am in the process of analyzing the deformation of a porcelain object with respect to the known 1350 N (300 lb static load) failure limit.

In any event, I did some digging and found the results of a computer analysis of the impact force of a 20% supported (e.g. hands and feet) human body dropping on it's rear-end 2 inches. The object in question was the equivalent of a padded chair (allowing for a higher deformation that a toilet) and the answer was slightly over 2 g's.

So, using this value as a good (maybe great) ballpark estimate of the impact, we can get some quick answers.

1350 / (2 * 9.8) = approx 70 kilograms

So any unsupported weight exceeding about 150 lbs and dropped 2 inches onto a toilet is at risk of breaking it.

This is a linear answer, so basically multiply the unsupported weight by 2 for the equivalent static load when dropped from a height of 2 inches.