Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Tubs – Convenience accessories
Patent
1989-05-30
1990-06-26
Phillips, Charles E.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Tubs
Convenience accessories
4516, 4546, 4585, A47K 3062
Patent
active
049359711
ABSTRACT:
An in-bed bathing process and apparatus therefor comprising the steps of filling one compartment of a sealed tank, internally divided by a flexible diaphragm into two compartments, with pressurized water to distend the diaphragm into the other compartment, moving the water-filled tank to the bedside of the bed-ridden person, encasing the person in a body-encapsulating, water-proof sheath, pressurizing some of the water from the tank into the sheath through a transfer line, for bathing the person, connecting a shower nozzle to the transfer line and rinsing the person, then draining the rinse water from the sheath through another line into a bag hung next to the tank, and including provisions for placing a wash tray behind the person's head for washing their hair in the bed and draining the water into the sheath for capture in the bag.
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Dunn Mignon A.
Postle Scott
Murphey John J.
Phillips Charles E.
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