Apparatus for treatment of the person
OwnerAlessandro De Vivo, Gianni Pierantozzi +2inventors
InventorsAlessandro De Vivo, Gianni Pierantozzi, Diodato Santarpia, Renzo Spolverini
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Abstract
An apparatus for personal hygiene is disclosed having a vertically reciprocating brush which is adapted to rotate about its axis. The rotatable brush projects from a housing which is mounted on a wall such that it is possible to bring the body into the path of the brush during its vertical reciprocatory movement. The vertical reciprocating and rotational movement of the brush are provided by a single power source.
Claims5
An apparatus for treatment of the person, which comprises a rotatable spindle having mounted thereon a brush means, a fitting carrying the brush means, a structure which is attachable to a wall and incorporates an upwardly extending guiding means for the fitting, a first rotatable, longitudinally extending threaded shaft which cooperates with a female screw fixably attached to said fitting to vertically reciprocate said fitting within the guiding means in response to the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation of said threaded shaft, a second, rotatable, longitudinally extending shaft having a splined outer surface for non-rotational, longitudinal sliding engagement of a transfer means for transferring the rotation of the second longitudinal shaft to the rotatable spindle, and a drive means for simultaneously driving said first and second longitudinally extending shafts.
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