US 6,266,830 B1Granted

Bathing apparatus

AssigneeKaneka Corporation

InventorsKazuhisa Danno, Kazuaki Kira, Hiroshi Matsumoto

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Abstract

A bathing apparatus related to the present invention provided with an open portion in a bag having a content volume that allows a bather to enter in addition to being provided with hoses which supply and discharge a bathing liquid at suitable locations of a bathing bag that is provided with open/close portions in succession from the edge of the open portion which can maintain a water tight state when the open/close portions are closed. The bathing apparatus is characterized by the bathing bag and hoses connected using joints comprised by a joint portion disposed in one direction being linkable to a joint portion disposed in another direction which form a water passing state when linked together and when not linked together at least one of the joints being in a water non-passing state.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A bathing apparatus comprising:

an open portion in a bathing bag having a content volume that allows a bather to enter;
the bathing bag provided with open/close portions in succession from the edge of said open portion which can maintain a water tight state when the open/close portions are closed;
a pump;
two hoses connecting by ends thereof to suitable locations of said bathing bag and the opposite ends of these hoses connecting to an outlet of said pump thereby forming a suction side hose and a discharge side hose,
a first switching valve in the flow path of the suction side hose that branches a water supply hose that functions to supply bathing liquid to said suction side hose;
and
a second switching valve in the flow path of the discharge side hose is also provided that branches a water discharge hose that functions to discharge bathing liquid from said discharge side hose.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.