Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Shower – Convenience accessories
Patent
1994-08-12
1995-11-14
Recla, Henry J.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Shower
Convenience accessories
4604, 45601, 29734424, A47K 312
Patent
active
054654378
ABSTRACT:
A bathing appliance enables a handicapped person to wash comfortably and safely inside a shower stall or in a bathtub. The appliance includes a base frame constructed to rest firmly on a floor of the stall or bathtub, and a chair seat on which the handicapped person can sit when entering and leaving the bathing enclosure and while washing inside the enclosure. The chair seat has a first swivel mechanism fixed to a bottom portion of the seat to allow the seat to be supported for relative movement over the base frame. The base frame has a second swivel mechanism that forms a fixed base pivot axis normal to the floor of the bathing enclosure. An extension arrangement has a third swivel mechanism at a top end for engaging the first swivel mechanism of the chair seat, for swiveling movement about an extension axis parallel to the base pivot axis. The extension arrangement also has a fourth swivel mechanism at the bottom end for engaging the second swivel mechanism of the base frame, for swiveling movement about the base pivot axis. The extension arrangement is constructed to support the chair seat above the base frame, while allowing the seat to move between positions outside the bathing enclosure where the person can mount or dismount the seat, and positions inside the bathing enclosure where the person can bathe comfortably while seated.
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Instruction Sheet and photo of wall-mounted swivel chair for bathing.
Eloshway Charles R.
Recla Henry J.
Zucker Leo
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