Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Dry closets – Urinal
Patent
1978-06-16
1979-07-10
Footland, Lenard A.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Dry closets
Urinal
4175, 4181, 4182, 4185S, 128 66, A47K 3022
Patent
active
041602927
ABSTRACT:
For more easily and comfortably bathing invalids, a chair having a substantially horizontal seat, a semi-cylindrical wall extending upwardly from the seat for closely surrounding the back and sides of the invalid, the upper edge of the semi-cylindrical wall being inclined downwardly and forwardly to the level of the seat and being curled forwardly and inwardly to form a channel with an inturned lip, a spray tube with bottom openings in the channel for directing water downwardly along the back and sides, and the arms and thighs of a seated invalid, a deep well reservoir surrounding the seat and connecting the seat and the semi-cylindrical wall, a shallow foot-pan below and forward of the seat and whose rim is extended upwardly at the rear to join the front of the seat, the forward edge of the rim being well below the level of the seat to permit easy ingress of an invalid, a valve controlled drain passage leading from the deep well reservoir to the foot pan, and means for supplying wash water independently to the spray tube and foot pan. In another embodiment the seat of the chair is removable and replaceable by the same or another seat.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3562821 (1971-02-01), Queen
patent: 3616467 (1971-11-01), Drain
patent: 3662409 (1972-05-01), Johansson
Kuether Christian L.
Kuether Edith L.
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