Deep bathtub with elevated seat and entrance door

A bathtub for the physically disabled, said tub including an upwardly opening receptacle having a bottom and upstanding wall portions projecting upwardly from said bottom and extending peripherally thereabout, one of said wall portions having a door opening formed therein, a horizontally swingable and inwardly opening door hingedly supported from said one wall portion for movement between a closed position closing said opening and an open position adjacent and opposing the inner surface of a second wall portion of said tub, said tub including means defining a seat therein facing said second wall portion and disposed to the side of said opening remote from said second wall portion, said one wall portion and said door including peripheral portions disposed about said opening and said door defining abuttingly engageable stop surfaces for limiting movement of said door toward said closed position, said one wall portion and door further including coacting seal forming portions thereof spaced inward of said stop surfaces and engageable with each other to define a fluid-tight seal between said door and said one wall portion when said door is in the closed position, whereby the static head pressure of water within the tub and acting upon the door will assist said seal forming portions in forming said fluid-tight seal, said door and one wall portion including releasable latch structure for latching said door in the closed position, said latch structure including a latch actuator and release shiftably supported from said door for back and forth movement between release and latching positions along a path generally paralleling the horizontal extent of said one wall portion about the periphery of said tub.