Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Bidets – With seat
Patent
1989-06-28
1992-12-08
Recla, Henry J.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Bidets
With seat
4554, 4579, A47K 303, A47K 312, A47K 322
Patent
active
051685833
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention concerns a hygiene seat for handicapped persons, especially wheelchair users, having a preferably upholstered rim.
With medical advances, the number of persons left in a paralyzed condition and dependent upon use of a wheelchair for mobility after surviving accidents or similar illnesses is growing. In practice considerable difficulties result when the wheelchair user is travelling, since he is dependent upon hotels for providing the requisite accommodations which include WC's designed for wheelchair use, with corresponding supports and handles, adequate door widths and adequate space in order to allow for him to maneuver the wheelchair. Similar requirements exist for washrooms and showers, which also require structural measures and the employment of a correspondingly equipped sanitary-room wheelchair. Since hotel accommodations with special facilities for handicapped persons are naturally rare, and correspondingly expensive to use, even those wheelchair users who want to travel are prevented.
Travel is difficult because of the predictable hygienic disadvantages encountered, as well as finding the required accommodations with facilities for handicapped persons.
On this basis it is the object of this invention to provide a hygiene seat for handicapped persons that makes it possible to use hotel accommodation that are not provided with wheelchair facilities.
This object is solved by providing an apparatus having two cooperating, axially displaceable tubes which have a detent mechanism, as well as guide rails, which are disposed on the underside of the rim, in the edge area, which serve to receive a tub or board, whereby a cushion closing the opening of said rim may be laid on said board.
The crucial advantage of the present invention is that a hotel's bathing accommodations are usable by wheelchair users with the aid of the present invention if a bathtub is available and the bathroom has an entrance door of sufficient width to permit access by the wheelchair. One of the basic features of the present invention provides that by laying the hygiene seat on the top edge of a standard bathtub said hygiene seat is supported and fixed at a height that the wheelchair user can traverse without difficulty. The hygiene seat of the present invention may be adapted to any bathtub facility and may be used in the manner described in detail below.
For use as a shower seat the hygiene seat is laid on the top edge of a bathtub whereby first, the tubes are extended until the hygiene seat can be placed with one of its front edges on the front edge of the tub and can be laid by means of the extended tubes on the opposite edge, and is thereby supported. A cushion is inserted in the opening of the rim 50 that one of the boards serving as a support is inserted into the guide rails. The user sits upright on the seat, whereby his legs may be either in front of, or in, the tub. The latter case has the advantage that thorough washing or showering of the legs and feet is readily possible without any additional measures such as the use of a foot-bath. The handicapped person sits unrestricted, and therefore readily accessible by a nurse, which is preferable to conventional shower cabins. The washing water runs into the tub, and thence directly to the drain. Flooding of the bathroom is largely impossible.
Disabled persons necessarily sit most of the day in a wheelchair, which means that they are compelled to take the utmost care for cleanliness and hygiene of the anal/genital region, since they would otherwise quickly be afflicted with seat sores. The hygiene seat of this invention permits the use of a shower from below for thorough cleaning of these regions of the body. First the center part of the seat is removed so that only the open rim remains. The user then seats himself thereupon, the position of his legs being in principle free and they may especially be in front of the tub so that his back is oriented towards the wall. The shower head is adjusted such that the anal/genital region is sprayed. In an advantageous manner
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Fetsuga Robert M.
Recla Henry J.
Schindler Edwin D.
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