Bath with air jet
OwnerNigel C. Savageinventor
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Abstract
A bath 10 is provided with a plurality of air nozzles 17. Air is supplied to the nozzles to bubble through water in the bath. To ensure that water does not remain in the nozzles after use of the bath, means 83,85 responsive to the passage of water from the bath is arranged to activate the air supply means 81 after water has left the bath to blow any such water out of the nozzles 17. The responsive means may include a time delay 85 so that the air supply means is not activated until a period after the passage of water from the bath.
Claims11
Aereation equipment for a bath comprising a plurality of nozzles which can be arranged to project through the base of the bath, means for supplying air to said nozzles and means responsive to the passage of water out of the bath to actuate the air supplying means.
Equipment as claimed in 1 wherein said responsive means comprises a sensor responsive to the resistance between two electrodes located in a volume occupied by water when in or leaving the bath.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.