DE1807063A1 - Hydromassage bath facility - Google Patents

Description

899 Lindau (Lake Constance)

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31. October 196Ö

Jacuzzi Research, Inc. 144D San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley / California, USA

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The present invention relates to a hydromassage bathing device and especially the attachment of the installation parts an underwater massage bath facility and facility.

Various attempts have been made so far Transform a traditional bathtub by adding a hydro massage bath facility.

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Such l / ask are described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,159,849, IMR. 3,287,741

No. 3 297 025,

No. 3,319,266

described and no. 3,345,982.

In all of these patents, a nozzle assembly is shown in US Pat existing drainage opening of the Uanne installed and uird uon a motor-driven one mounted outside the Uanne Pump fed through the drain opening. One Establishment of this type requires extensive and well-licensed pipe installations and valves around the sanitary separation of the associated drainage lines uon to ensure the circulatory system of the pump and if so in an effort to simplify the system, such If precautions are disregarded, such a system hardly complies with the legal hygiene regulations.

The object of the present invention is to a new and improved underwater massage bath facility υοη utmost simplicity to create, which despite its simplicity complies with legal requirements for the sanitary separation of the drain line from the circulatory system of the pump, it does not correspond to soft Is limited only to bathtubs, but containers in general, including those in which the UrafaOt expected water level for the installation of the Plassagey r installation is practically too high in a drain opening from which

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all water is turned off when the pump is stopped and completely emptied into the drain line when the outlet valve is opened and no special, complicated one Pipe installation required.

Further objects of the present invention are set out in the following description of a preferred embodiment of the same in conjunction with the accompanying. Drawings expressed. It shows:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an underwater massage bathing facility;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the underwater massage bath facility of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side view of the underwater massage bathing device of Fig. 1;

4 shows a partially sectioned view of a nozzle arrangement in a vertical wall of the Uanne, the Fig. 1;

FIG. 5 shows a section along the plane 5-5 of FIG. 2. The present invention includes in its preferred

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Embodiment a bathtub 1 with vertical side walls 3, 5 and end walls 7, 9 and a bottom 11, one of the end walls having an overflow opening 13 and the bottom has a drainage opening 15.

The bathtub can have a conventional shape, but a shape of the Uanne that the user can use is preferred forces you to lie down in the Uanne along a diagonal, with diagonally opposite corners along the other diagonal also flat surface areas 17 and 19 are provided.

On each flat surface area 17 and 19 is a nozzle arrangement 25 installed.

Each of these nozzle assemblies 25 is of a form known per se, e.g. 3 297 and generally includes a housing 27 having an open front face extending in a circumferential manner Flange 29 ends, υαbsi the housing in a corresponding manner shaped opening is inserted in the Uand of the Uanne and the peripheral flange rests tightly against the Uand of the Uanne.

The rear area side of the housing 27 is closed with Except for passages 33 and 35, whereby, the passage 33 is connected to a line or a pipe 37, that feeds the nozzle 39 Uhrsüi. The nozzle is in the

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screwed in the rear Uand of the housing and ends in a Outlet side 41 on the open side of the housing. Of the the other passage 35 is used to ventilate the nozzle 39.

On one side of the back of the housing outside of the Uanne and in connection with the air passage to the nozzle, a snorkel-like tube 45 is attached, the free end of which near the housing 27 penetrates the Uannenuand. The exposed end of the tube 45 to a ueist i internally threaded and is provided with a Luftreguliervorrichtung 47 to control the air inlet to the nozzle. Such an air regulation device is in the form of an opening 49 in the neck of a screw cap 51 which is screwed into the free end of the tube 45.

Regarding the details of the construction of the nozzle and its screw fastening in dBtn housing, please refer to the above. See U.S. Patent No. 3,297,025 to Jacuzzi.

Water is supplied to each nozzle by a motor-driven impeller pump 55 having an inlet side 57 and an outlet side 59, the outlet side of the pump being connected to each nozzle by a conduit or pipe 61 extending outside the tank. The return from the Uanne to the inlet side of the pump takes place via the drain opening 1 ^c j and the connection pipe 63 around the circuit, the all flows between the pump and the

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Nozzles 25 includes to close in on itself.

Since the water in the Uanne through the drainage opening 15 in a drainage line 65 must flow if the Uanne is to be emptied after a bath has ended, results the problem of the optional connection of the fuselage inlet side or the drain line with the drain opening 15, One of the two connections is closed should be so that the sanitary separation of the waste line from the pump system is guaranteed, uenn the water massage system is in operation to avoid every possibility of sucking in drain water and sediment to exclude the drain line in the pump circuit system.

To solve this problem, an optional connecting part 67 that enables both flow paths is provided, which consists of a piece of pipe 69 which is connected to the drain opening 15 of the Uanne. At its bottom the pipe section 69 is connected by a line 71 and a T-connection 73 with deffl drain pipe and it contains a drain valve 75 through which the through-Iaf3 to the drain pipe can be controlled »This valve It is like a conventional drain valve on a bathtub manually operated ”. For this purpose a lever 77 in arranged dar overflow opening 13, the sin rods,

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which extends along the conventional overflow pipe 79 and the line 71 is connected to the valve, uobei the overflow pipe over the third arm of the T-connection is connected to the drain line.

The pump is mounted in a position in which it is higher than the drain valve, and its inlet or suction line 63 is connected to the pipe section 69 at a point which is also higher than the drain valve, so that the entire circulatory pipe system is above the drain valve is arranged. Thus, a complete emptying of the tank and the circulatory system is effected only by opening the drain valve, and such a raised arrangement also ensures the sanitary separation of the drainage line from the nozzle-circuit-opening system, because the drain valve 75 is closed when that Circulatory pump system is working. Complete draining of Systnms Uird by the necessary Gc? Cases of pipelines van df> n nozzles 25 to the Pumpenauslaßsei te {improved.

Should Ui>? Drain ventilation 15 bnispiel suei se be clogged with a washcloth, uoboj yourself by sucking the pumps? the Gofahr results in the drain valve 75 being opened. uiid the air inlet through the overflow opening \ c the LnI prevent a VaI uuins. Abuai33 for out ikr drainage line can under diode circumstances not in üai pump circuit ε ^ si. a sucked ungrounded.

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It can be seen that the disconnection of the drain line from the circulatory system in part by removing it the nozzle arrangement from the drain opening and the installation the same has been made possible in a vertical wall of the tub, whereby the pump does not open the nozzle must feed more through the drain opening, but now can supply the nozzle at an elevated point substantially above the drain valve. Through and through the installation of the pump together with the pump inlet line above the installation height of the drain valve is complete protection against contamination from the drainage line ensured.

Such an arrangement offers the additional advantage that the system of the present invention is applicable to containers is generally applicable including those containers in which the expected water level requires the installation of a Nozzle arrangement in a drain opening. in the bottom of one makes such a container practically impracticable.

Also by mounting the sleeve assembly in a vertical one And a container, the system is not limited to just one Nozzle arrangement is limited, but a number of such nozzle arrangements can be used.

The mounting of the nozzle in a recessed housing and the low protrusion of the air regulation device from

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the surface of the wall reduce the risk of injury for a badb user and the likelihood of Injury is essentially caused by the contour of the Uanne eliminated, which causes a person to lie down along the longer diagonal of the Uanne.

Claims

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Claims (7)

Claims 1.) Uassermassage bath facility for installation in a System with a drain line and a container that includes vertical walls and a floor, one of the walls having an overflow opening and the floor having a drainage opening contains, characterized in that a nozzle arrangement (25) in a vertical LJand (79) of the container (1) is arranged at a distance from the drain opening (15) and a Contains nozzle (39) fed by a pump (55) having an inlet side (57) and an outlet side (59) is, the outlet side (59) of the pump through a Pipe (61) on the outside of the container (1) is connected to the nozzle (39) and a device (67) to connect the drain opening (15) with the uahlueisen Pump inlet (57) or with the drain line (65) provided is such that one compound excludes the other. 2.) Uassermassage bathing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the Device (67) consists of a piece of pipe (69) which is connected to the drain opening (15) and with a drain line 909851/0338 (65, 71) is connected by a drain valve (75) and that a connecting pipe (63) above the drain valve (75) is mounted in the pipe section (69) which connects the drain opening (15) with the inlet side (57) of the pump (55) connects. 3.) Uassermassage bathing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the Nozzle arrangement (25) includes a snorkel-like air inlet tube (45) which is arranged on one side in the nozzle arrangement (25) is attached outside the container (1) and has a free end which is in the vicinity of the nozzle arrangement is arranged in a Uand of the container (1) above the expected water level and with an air regulating device (47) is provided. 4.) Uassermassage bathing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the The container (25) is equipped with two nozzle arrangements which are arranged essentially diagonally to one another, wherein the nozzles (39) of both nozzle arrangements (25) are connected to the outlet side (59) of the pump (55). 5.) Uassermassage bathing device according to claim 2, characterized in that all Pipe connections (61) between the pump (55) and the 909851/0338 Nozzle arrangements (25) are arranged higher up, than the drain valve (75). 6.) Uassermassage bathing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the The pump outlet side (59) is connected to the nozzle (39) by a pipe connection (61) which runs from the pump outlet laßseite (59) to the nozzle (39) arranged inclined upwards is. 7.) Uassermassage bathing device according to claim 2, characterized in that one Air connection (13) to the drain line (65) above the drain valve (75). 9098 5 1/0338 Blank page