Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Shower – Combined with diverse means
Patent
1984-10-05
1986-01-21
Marcus, Stephen
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Shower
Combined with diverse means
4605, 4609, 4610, 16224, 16342, A47K 322
Patent
active
045649634
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
In apartments especially, the space above the bathtub is often used for hanging up laundry to dry. A disadvantage of this is that the clothes block the bathtub during the entire drying process, especially if the bathtub is also used as a shower space. The problem is solved according to the invention with a combined drying device and shower screen as specified in the attached main claim.
The pivoting screen in the shower screen wall according to the invention is made water-repellent on one side, for example as a conventional screen for a shower space. On the other side, the pivoting screen is provided with hangers for laundry. When the shower space, which can be the space above a bathtub, is to be used for showering, the screen is rotated so that its water-repellent side faces the shower space. At other times, the screen can be swung so that its side provided with hangers faces the shower space. The laundry will then not clutter up the rest of the space in the bathroom and will not be visible either, which is an esthetic advantage.
Previously known screen walls for shower spaces have not permitted effective use as a drying device for laundry. Divisions in the form of sliding doors or swinging doors are known, which are provided with a bar or the like for hanging a towel. The doors can not, however, be reversed so that the hanging device faces the shower space when the space is not used for showering and at the same time keeping the hanging laundry out of sight from other spaces (U.S. Pat. No. 2,851,695, DE-OS No. 2 902 550).
The water-repellent side of the screen can be made as a stiff sheet or alternatively as a cloth which is tensioned in a frame. In the latter case, according to a further development of the invention, the hanger bars for drying articles are formed of horizontal bows tensioned between the lateral frame edges of the screen in such a manner as to press the edges apart and thereby stretch the cloth.
An example of the invention is described below in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, of which
FIG. 1 shows schematically a bathroom with a screen wall according to the invention mounted on the edge of the bathtub,
FIG. 2 shows in a corresponding manner how a screen wall according to the invention is used to define a shower space which has been arranged instead of the bathtub,
FIG. 3 shows an exploded sketch of the lower pivot bearing for the screen, and
FIG. 4 shows a section along the line IV--IV in FIG. 3.
FIG. 1 shows schematically a bathroom in which a screen wall has been mounted between the edge of the bathtub and the ceiling. The screen wall consists of a fixed wall section 1 and a wall section 2 which pivots about its vertical center line. The pivoting wall section or screen 2 consists of a frame comprising upper and lower horizontal profiled bars 3 and 4 respectively, preferably made as square tubes. The vertical lateral edges of the screen 2 are formed of posts 5,6 which can also be made of square tubes. The four profiled bars 3-6 form a frame in which a water-repellent cloth 7 is stretched. On one side of the screen, a number of hanger bars for drying articles are arranged in the form of horizontal bows 8 of thick wire placed at various levels. As can be seen in FIG. 1, the bows 8 have an elongated straight portion 9, which is substantially as long as the width of the screen 2. This portion 9 is connected to end portions 10, bent at an angle thereto and the ends of which are fixed in a suitable manner to the lateral edge bars 5,6 of the frame 2. The length of the bow portion 9 which is parallel to the frame 2, and the angle between said portion 9 and the bow end portions 10 is chosen so that the distance between the free ends of end portions 10 is greater than the distance between the lateral edge posts 5,6 before the bows are mounted in place. When the bows 9 are then mounted between the lateral edges 5,6, they exert a force which pushes the side edges 5,6 away from each other, thereby keeping the cloth 7 under tension.
The screen 2 is unlimitedly rotatable about
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Marcus Stephen
Sholl Linda J.
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