Tilting bath with pivotal user seat
OwnerEdison P. Penneyinventor
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Abstract
A tilting bath including a support structure to be secured to the floor of a building. A bathtub is pivotally interconnected at one end thereof with the support structure and is provided with a user seat assembly which is pivotally secured to the bathtub and functions in gimbal-like manner to permit user seating during pivotal movement of the tub. Hydraulic cylinders are utilized to raise and lower the tub between its horizontal and upstanding positions. The bathtub incorporates flexible water supply and drain conduits for connection with a water supply and drain system of the building structure. Water supply, water draining and tub positioning are controlled by a user seated in the user seat assembly.
Claims7
A movable bathtub mechanism for use by persons with infirmities, comprising:
- (a) support means adapted to be secured to the floor of a building structure;
- (b) a bathtub being pivotally interconnected at one end thereof with said support means;
- (c) a seat structure being pivotally secured to said bathtub said seat structure being presentable in an initial preset sealing position and remaining at said preset position during pivotal movement of siad bathtub;
- (d) hydraulically energized linear motor means being interconnected to said support means and said bathtub and being selectively operable to move said bathtub between a horizontal position wherein said bathtub is usable and an upstanding position where said seat structure is positioned to receive a person desiring its use;
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- (e) a flexible drain tube interconnecting the drain opening of said bathtub with the plumbing drain of the building structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.