Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Shower – Convenience accessories
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-20
2001-04-03
Fetsuga, Robert M. (Department: 3751)
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Shower
Convenience accessories
Reexamination Certificate
active
06209152
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a health-and-fitness-brush shower installation with a brush-roller element which is arranged in the region of a wall of a sanitary unit or the like, is assigned rotatably to a drive head and, if appropriate, can have water acting on it.
Such a health-and-fitness-brush shower installation is described in DE 196 44 706 A1. You are expressly referred to this document since the present invention constitutes a further development of the health-and-fitness-brush shower installation given therein. It is therefore also possible essentially to dispense with a more detailed description.
Health-and-fitness-brush shower installations serve essentially for all-over body care, in particular in sanitary-unit areas, bathrooms, showers or the like. They aid circulation and promote one's health and can be fitted and used in a straightforward and cost-effective manner. They provide essentially an all-over body massage with different, selectable brushes. It is preferable for wet massages to be carried out, but dry massages are also possible.
The disadvantage with the conventional brush-massage shower installations as are known, for example, from German Patent Application DE 195 10 805 is that high outlay in terms of equipment is necessary in order to set such an installation in operation. In addition, handleability is restricted considerably during use.
The object of the present invention is to provide a health-and-fitness-brush shower installation of the type mentioned in the introduction which is intended to improve the handleability and to increase safety during operation. It is also intended for the production costs to be reduced.
This object is achieved in that a drive device of the drive head is designed for rechargeable battery operation or is driven by pressure activation by means of a water jet.
The drive device, on which the retaining arm is connected, is operated by means of rechargeable energy sources, in particular batteries. This has the advantage that safety during operation is ensured via a low-voltage drive. In particular, the corresponding batteries or energy sources are charged outside operational time, before or after use. As a result, the retaining arm is preferably pivoted onto a wall and can automatically engage in a corresponding contact element in order that the batteries can be charged. It goes without saying that, in this case, safety switches prevent operation of the shower installation.
For this purpose, it has been found to be particularly favorable for the retaining arm to be pivoted onto the wall for charging purposes in order, in this rest position, to release the sanitary unit or the sanitary-unit area, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to produce a contact with an external energy supply via the contact element.
Even also swinging or inclining the brush-roller element about an axis makes it possible for different areas of use to be better utilized by positive or negative inclination during the massage. This is likewise intended to fall within the scope of the present invention.
Also serving for increasing the handleability is the fact that the brush-roller element is designed such that it can be changed in length in a very straightforward manner, it being possible for two cylinder elements to be moved one inside the other. Said cylinder elements can be drawn apart from one another manually or automatically when desired. In order for a massage to be possible over the entire length in this case, alternating bristle rows engage one inside the other as one cylinder element and the other move one inside the other. These bristle rows may be exchanged as desired. However, other possibilities are also conceivable in order for bristles of different lengths, and if appropriate of a wide range of different types, to be pushed, for example, onto a cylinder element of a brush-roller element. Said bristles may be connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the cylinder element itself or to adjacent bristle elements. This makes the health-and-fitness-brush shower installation overall extremely adaptable to specific applications.
Consequently, the features as described in claims
1
to
3
are also to be considered together, in order to do justice to all the advantages of the health-and-fitness-brush shower installation considered as a whole.
The ability of the brush-roller elements to change length can be improved in that said elements can be subdivided, for example, in the longitudinal and/or transverse direction.
This makes it possible for individual sections to be connected to one another, or released again, along the longitudinal axis in a wide range of different ways in order for an overall length of the brush-roller element to be set. It is also possible here to conceive of a wide range of different connections, latching connections, screw closures or the like in order for two roller elements to be connected to one another in the axial direction. This is intended to fall within the scope of the present invention.
The idea of the present invention is also intended to cover the operation of dividing the brush-roller elements along their longitudinal axis and positioning them, for example, on a shaft. It is also possible to conceive of using brush-roller elements of different lengths in order to have an effect on the overall length of the brush-roller element.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5870782 (1999-02-01), Kannenberg
Bachman & LaPointe P.C.
Fetsuga Robert M.
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