Skin tanning apparatus
OwnerFriedrich Wolffinventor
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Abstract
Full-sized skin tanning apparatus has a row of twelve parallel long tubular radiation emitting lamps and five shorter lamps which alternate with the four centrally located longer lamps and emit radiation in the region of the head of an adult person who is tanning her or his skin. The lamps emit ultraviolet radiation primarily or exclusively in the UVA range and emit no radiation in the UVC range. The shorter lamps cooperate with the adjacent portions of the longer lamps to tan the skin on the face more intensively than the skin on other parts of the body which is tanned by the longer lamps.
Claims18
Apparatus for transmitting radiation to the entire body of an adult, comprising a support;
- a plurality of first elongated tubular lamps each having a first end and a second end and each arranged to emit ultraviolet radiation primarily or exclusively in the UVA range with no emission in the UVC range, said lamps being mounted in said support in substantial parallelism with one another so that neighboring lamps define gaps of predetermined width;
- and means for intensifying radiation reaching the head of the person who is exposed to radiation issuing from said lamps including a plurality of second elongated tubular U-shaped lamps mounted on said support in selected ones of said gaps, each of said second lamps being shorter than a first lamp and said second lamps being adjacent the ends of said first lamps and being arranged to emit ultraviolet radiation primarily or exclusively in the UVA range with no emission in the UVC range, each of said second lamps having a diameter less than the width of a gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.