US 5,173,973 AGranted

Whirlpool bathtub

AssigneeFranz-Dieter Kaldewei

InventorHeinz-Werner Mersmann

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Abstract

A whirlpool bathtub with a wireless remote control comprising a mobile transmitter separate from the whirlpool installation and a receiver affixed to the bathtub for controlling the aspiration pump and/or the blower of the whirlpool installation. The receiver is affixed to the bathtub, independent of the installation or positioning of the bathtub in the bathroom, in accordance with this disclosure where the bathtub has an overflow device provided with a control knob and an overflow housing, for operating a drain device. The control knob is fixed against rotation on a hollow shaft which extends out of the overflow housing on the exterior of the bathtub. The control knob has a chamber, accessible to the control commands of a transmitter, into which the receiver is inserted. The connecting cable for the receiver is inserted through the hollow shaft and is connected to the receiver.

Claims12

Dependent claims

In a whirlpool bathtub with a wireless remote control having a mobile transmitter separate from a whirlpool installation and a receiver affixed to the bathtub for controlling at least one of an aspiration pump and a blower of the whirlpool installation, the improvement comprising:

an overflow device in said bathtub having a control knob (38) rotatably mounted in an overflow housing (12), said control knob being connected to a drain device for device for operating the drain device,
the control knob (38) being fixed against rotation on one end of a hollow shaft (16), the other end of said shaft extending out of the overflow housing (12) to an exterior of the bathtub,
the control knob (38) having a chamber (40) therein accessible to control commands from said transmitter and adapted to receive the receiver (32), and
a connecting cable (33) inserted through the hollow shaft (16) and connecting to the receiver (32) to at least one of the aspiration pump and the blower.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/786,117Filed 1 Nov 1991
Priority: DE 40350745 Nov 1990
Granted: 29 Dec 1992
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A61H 33/60
Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes: components specifically designed for the therapeutic baths of groups A61H33/00
A61H 33/02
Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes: bathing devices for use with gas-containing liquid, or liquid in which gas is led or…
A61H 2033/0079
Controlled by the user: using remote control signal transmission devices, e.g. ultrasonic, infrared
A61H
Physical therapy apparatus