Linda S Weinstein

US Patent:

6992570, Jan 31, 2006

Filed:

May 22, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/443416

Inventors:

Linda A. Weinstein Ide - Bronx NY, US

International Classification:

G08B 3/00

US Classification:

3403841, 3403843, 3403847

Abstract:

A sound producing device adapted for use in a public or private rest room. The device is located within the room, preferably mounted on a wall of a cubicle in the rest room and can be activated to produce a sound upon a person entering the cubicle such that the sound so produced covers up the normal bodily noises of a person using the rest room. In one embodiment, there are a plurality of cubicles with a single sound producing device that emanates sound into each of the cubicles and there is a sensor associated with at least substantially all of the plurality of cubicles.