EP0151571B1 - Door bath tub for the handicapped - Google Patents

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EP0151571B1
EP0151571B1 EP84901369A EP84901369A EP0151571B1 EP 0151571 B1 EP0151571 B1 EP 0151571B1 EP 84901369 A EP84901369 A EP 84901369A EP 84901369 A EP84901369 A EP 84901369A EP 0151571 B1 EP0151571 B1 EP 0151571B1
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Roland Gilbert Leichle
Jean-Paul Eugène Georges LECRIVAIN
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05F—DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
    • E05F7/00—Accessories for wings not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • E05F7/02—Accessories for wings not provided for in other groups of this subclass for raising wings before being turned
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K3/00—Baths; Douches; Appurtenances therefor
    • A47K3/006—Doors to get in and out of baths more easily
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D3/00—Hinges with pins
    • E05D3/02—Hinges with pins with one pin
    • E05D3/022—Hinges with pins with one pin allowing an additional lateral movement, e.g. for sealing
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
    • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/10—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for buildings or parts thereof
    • E05Y2900/114—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for buildings or parts thereof for showers

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  • the present invention relates to bathtubs with seats for the physically disabled, one side wall of which has a notch, or opening, which extends over the entire height of said wall and which is provided with a movable sealed closure panel equipped with means of locking in the closed position accessible from both the outside and inside of the bathtub.
  • This kind of bathtub by the presence of the lateral notch, has the important advantage residing in that the patient can penetrate transversely by his own means.
  • the present invention aims to provide further improvements, this time targeting the mode of operation of the door and the cooperation of the latter with the body of the bathtub.
  • the bathtub according to the invention comprising a side door suitable for opening towards the outside by tilting around an articulation with a vertical axis to release a notch or opening for access to the bathtub, is characterized in that the width of the notch, measured horizontally, increases continuously from the bottom to the top, that the contour of the notch on the wall of the body of the bath has a rebate facing the inside of the bath, the cooperating contour of the door has a complementary rebate facing the outside of the bath, a seal being provided between the two rebates, and that the door is equipped with an operating handle and its own mechanism, under the action of the operating handle, lift the door from its low closed position to vertically disengage the two rebates from one another at least in their zone remote from the joint and allow free pivoting of the 'open door opening outwards.
  • the mechanism is supported on a member articulated around the same axis as that around which the door is articulated on the body of the bathtub.
  • At least the lower edge of the notch of the body of the bathtub is in the form of a V-groove in which the lower edge of the door is fitted, with its portion of seal, to ensure locking of the door in the closed position, which eliminates the need for the traditional lock consisting of a rod or horizontal latch projecting adapted to enter the body of the bathtub.
  • the bath for the physically disabled shown in Fig. 1 includes a tub body 1 containing, in a known manner, a seat (not shown).
  • a seat (not shown).
  • One of the side walls 2 of the bathtub has a wide notch 3 which opens onto the upper edge and which can be masked by a door 4, of complementary contour, suitable for tilting outwards for opening and mounted around 'a joint 5 with a vertical axis offset towards the outside.
  • the part 6 of the notch 3 adjacent to the articulation is vertical; the lower part 7 of the notch is substantially horizontal and connected to the vertical part by a concave connecting part 8; the remaining part 9 of the notch is profiled and rises flaring towards the upper edge of the bathtub.
  • the width of the notch measured horizontally, that is to say perpendicular to the axis of the joint 5, increases continuously from bottom to top.
  • the tangent to the contour has, on each side, an angle of the same sign with respect to the horizontal.
  • the outline can therefore be concave at any point, but it can also have points of inflection to give rise to convex parts, as shown in FIG. 1 when the seat passes.
  • the edge of the notch 3 has a continuous curved rabbet 10 facing the inside of the bath, while the cooperating edge of the door 4 has a complementary curved continuous rabbet 11 which faces the outside of the bath and which carries a continuous seal 12 constituted for example by an elastomeric tubular bead glued to the rebate 11.
  • the seal 12 is crushed between the rebates 10, 11 by virtue of the conjugate sections thereof.
  • the seal which is ensured by the seal which is pressed against the body of the bathtub from the inside to the outside, is reinforced by the pressure of the water which acts on the door in the same direction.
  • the lower edge of the notch 3, that is to say the part 7, comprises a rebate 13 facing outwards, so as to define, with the part adjacent rebate 10, a lower groove 14 in V adapted to receive the lower edge 15 of the door 4 and to urge it firmly outward to press the corresponding portion of the seal 12 against the rebate 10.
  • V-shaped groove may extend on the sides, beyond the lower edge of the notch, over all or part of the outline thereof.
  • the bathtub according to the invention therefore comprises a mechanism 16 allowing the operator to lift the door before opening it.
  • the door is maneuvered, as in the patent indicated above, using a single tilting lever 17, the upper end 18 of which is in the form of a butt to overlap the upper edge of the door 4 and which can evolve in a vertical plane while remaining essentially outside the door in which it enters at its lower pivot end.
  • the mechanism 16 is embedded in the door 4. It is carried by a frame 50 suitably fixed to the body of the door. It comprises two bent levers 19, 20 of the same geometry located in a vertical plane.
  • the lever 19 is integral with the operating lever 17 articulated on the body of the door around a transverse pivot 21.
  • the lever 20 is articulated on the body of the door around a transverse pivot 22.
  • the angled levers 19, 20 are coupled by a connecting rod 23 of the same length as the center distance between the pivots 21, 22, so that, by this connection of the deformable parallelogram type, the levers 19, 20 have the same tilting movement.
  • the extreme angular positions of the operating lever 17 are defined by two stops 24, 25 secured to the body of the door and acting on the bent lever 19.
  • the branch of the bent lever 20 remote from the connecting rod 23 is close to the articulation 5 and has an elongated slot 27 which receives a transverse pin 28 mounted at the end of a horizontal rod 29 'fixed by screwing on a vertical plate 29 , which can rotate around the axis of the articulation 5 with the door 4 but which is fixed vertically.
  • the vertical edge of the bathtub body 1 receives fixedly, in the region of the articulation 5, three fixed hinge elements 30 which support a vertical rod 31, forming a pivot, by means of upper sleeves 32, intermediate 33 and lower 34
  • the vertical edge facing the door 4 and / or the frame plate 51 fixedly receive two movable hinge elements 35, 36 able to slide vertically and rotate relative to the rod 31.
  • mobile hinges 35, 36 respectively comprise a plate 37, 38 for fixing on the door and a sleeve 39, 40 surrounding the rod 31.
  • a sleeve 41 which the plate 29 for supporting the rod 29 'and the broporte the plate 29 for supporting the rod 29' and the spindle 28.
  • the crew 28, 29 ', 29, 41 rotates with the door around the rod 31. It is held in a fixed vertical position due to its imprisonment between the two spaced intermediate sleeves 33, themselves fixed.
  • the plate 30 has an opening 45 for receiving the rod 29 'in the closed position.
  • Bronze rings 42 are located on either side of the sleeve 41 on the rod 31. They facilitate pivoting and possibly constitute height adjustment shims.
  • the movable hinge elements 35, 36 are situated respectively between the sleeves 32, 33 and the sleeves 33, 34. For the low position of the door, these movable hinge elements are in abutment against at least one of the sleeves 33, 34, which corresponds to the abutment of the bent lever 19 against the end of travel stop 24.
  • the operation of the door is as follows. From the lower closed position of the door, the operator swings the operating lever to the right (Fig. 4) against the action of the device 26 and the weight of the door, which causes the bent lever 20 to tilt in clockwise. During this movement, the lever 20, like besides the whole of the door, bears on the spindle 28, and therefore on the crew 29 ′, 29,41 which, in turn, is supported on a sleeve fixed 33. The door is thus lifted, which releases the door from the rebate 10 of the notch 3 in zones 7, 8 and 9. In the zone of articulation 5, there is no of clearance, but this is not annoying because the axis of the articulation 5 is outside and that the rebates will deviate from themselves during tilting.
  • the door can then be opened freely by tilting.
  • the door 4 In the open position, the door 4 is maintained by itself in the high position by friction and by the protruding return device 26 whose force is calculated to overcome the weight of the door and any attempt to lower the door in closed position by weighing on the door.
  • Such a lowering does not risk damaging the body of the bathtub or the door if it is fully open; but, for an incompletely closed position of the door, its untimely lowering by premature operation of the lever 17 could cause such damage.
  • means are provided so that the door can only be lowered for its closed angular position and that it can only be tilted for its high position.
  • these means consist of complementary non-circular profiling of a part of the rod 31 and of at least one of the movable sleeves 39, 40.
  • the rod 31 carries at its lower part, over the height of the sleeve, an axial key 43 and the sleeve 40 has over its entire height an additional axial groove 44 located in an angular zone such that it does not coincide vertically with the key 43 only for the closed position of the door.

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Bath tub comprising a side wall (4) openable towards the outside by pivoting about a hinge (5) having a vertical axis to provide an aperture for opening (3) to access the bath tub, characterized in that the width of the opening, measured horizontally, continuously increases from bottom to top, in that the contour of the opening (3) on the wall of the body (1) of the bath tub has a fillister turned towards the inside of the bath tub, in that the contour cooperating with the door (4) has a complementary fillister turned towards the outside of the bath tub, a sealing joint being provided between both fillisters, and in that the door is fitted with a handle (17) and with a mechanism capable, under the action of the operating handle, to lift the door from its low closed position to vertically disengage both fillisters from each other at least in their remote articulation area and enable the free opening pivoting of the door towards the outside.

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La présente invention concerne les baignoires à siège pour handicapés moteurs, dont une paroi latérale présente une échancrure, ou baie, qui s'étend sur toute la hauteur de ladite paroi et qui est munie d'un panneau mobile de fermeture étanche équipé de moyens de verrouillage en position de fermeture accessibles, à la fois, de l'extérieur et de l'intérieur de la baignoire.The present invention relates to bathtubs with seats for the physically disabled, one side wall of which has a notch, or opening, which extends over the entire height of said wall and which is provided with a movable sealed closure panel equipped with means of locking in the closed position accessible from both the outside and inside of the bathtub.

Ce genre de baignoire, par la présence de l'échancrure latérale, présente l'avantage important résidant en ce que le patient peut pénétrer transversalement par ses propres moyens.This kind of bathtub, by the presence of the lateral notch, has the important advantage residing in that the patient can penetrate transversely by his own means.

On connaît déjà, par le brevet français 24 34 617 une baignoire de ce type comportant des moyens perfectionnés pour la manoeuvre et le verrouillage de la porte et pour la disposition relative de la porte et du siège.We already know, from French patent 24 34 617 a bathtub of this type comprising improved means for operating and locking the door and for the relative arrangement of the door and the seat.

La présente invention a pour but d'apporter d'autres perfectionnements encore, visant cette fois le mode de manoeuvre de la porte et la coopération de celle-ci avec le corps de la baignoire.The present invention aims to provide further improvements, this time targeting the mode of operation of the door and the cooperation of the latter with the body of the bathtub.

La baignoire selon l'invention, comportant une porte latérale propre à s'ouvrir vers l'extérieur par basculement autour d'une articulation d'axe vertical pour dégager une échancrure ou baie d'accès à la baignoire, est caractérisée par le fait que la largeur de l'échancrure, mesurée horizontalement, va en croissant de façon continue du bas vers le haut, que le contour de l'échancrure sur la paroi du corps de la baignoire présente une feuillure tournée vers l'intérieur de la baignoire, que le contour coopérant de la porte présente une feuillure complémentaire tournée vers l'extérieur de la baignoire, un joint d'étanchéité étant prévu entre les deux feuillures, et que la porte est équipée d'une poignée de manoeuvre et d'un mécanisme propre, sous l'action de la poignée de manoeuvre, à soulever la porte à partir de sa position fermée basse pour dégager verticalement les deux feuillures l'une de l'autre au moins dans leur zone éloignée de l'articulation et permettre le libre pivotement d'ouverture de la porte vers l'extérieur.The bathtub according to the invention, comprising a side door suitable for opening towards the outside by tilting around an articulation with a vertical axis to release a notch or opening for access to the bathtub, is characterized in that the width of the notch, measured horizontally, increases continuously from the bottom to the top, that the contour of the notch on the wall of the body of the bath has a rebate facing the inside of the bath, the cooperating contour of the door has a complementary rebate facing the outside of the bath, a seal being provided between the two rebates, and that the door is equipped with an operating handle and its own mechanism, under the action of the operating handle, lift the door from its low closed position to vertically disengage the two rebates from one another at least in their zone remote from the joint and allow free pivoting of the 'open door opening outwards.

Suivant un mode de réalisation préféré, le mécanisme prend appui sur un organe articulé autour du même axe que celui autour duquel la porte est articulée sur le corps de la baignoire.According to a preferred embodiment, the mechanism is supported on a member articulated around the same axis as that around which the door is articulated on the body of the bathtub.

De préférence, au moins le bord inférieur de l'échancrure du corps de la baignoire, sensiblement horizontal, est en forme de gorge en V dans laquelle s'encastre le bord inférieur de la porte, avec sa portion de joint, pour assurer le verrouillage de la porte en position fermée, ce qui rend inutile le verrou traditionnel constitué par une tige ou pêne horizontal en saillie adapté pour pénétrer dans le corps de la baignoire.Preferably, at least the lower edge of the notch of the body of the bathtub, which is substantially horizontal, is in the form of a V-groove in which the lower edge of the door is fitted, with its portion of seal, to ensure locking of the door in the closed position, which eliminates the need for the traditional lock consisting of a rod or horizontal latch projecting adapted to enter the body of the bathtub.

D'autres caractéristiques de l'invention apparaîtront à la lecture de la description qui va suivre et en référence aux dessins annexés dans lesquels:

  • Fig. 1 est une perspective schématique d'une baignoire selon l'invention;
  • Fig. 2 est une coupe selon II-II de la baignoire de la Fig. 1, le levier de manoeuvre étant supprimé;
  • Fig. 3 est une coupe selon III-III de la baignoire de la Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 4 est une vue selon la flèche IV de la Fig. 2; et
  • Fig. 5 est une vue des moyens d'articulation de la porte sur le corps de la baignoire, selon la fléche V de la Fig. 4 et pour la position de la porte ouverte à 180°.
Other characteristics of the invention will appear on reading the description which follows and with reference to the appended drawings in which:
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective of a bathtub according to the invention;
  • Fig. 2 is a section on II-II of the bathtub of FIG. 1, the operating lever being removed;
  • Fig. 3 is a section on III-III of the bathtub of FIG. 1;
  • Fig. 4 is a view according to arrow IV of FIG. 2; and
  • Fig. 5 is a view of the means of articulation of the door on the body of the bath, according to the arrow V in FIG. 4 and for the position of the door open 180 °.

La baignoire pour handicapés moteurs montrée à la Fig. 1 comporte un corps de baignoire 1 renfermant, de façon connue, un siège (non représenté). L'une des parois latérales 2 de la baignoire présente une large échancrure 3 qui débouche sur le bord supérieur et qui peut être masquée par une porte 4, de contour complémentaire, propre à basculer vers l'extérieur pour l'ouverture et montée autour d'une articulation 5 d'axe vertical déporté vers l'extérieur.The bath for the physically disabled shown in Fig. 1 includes a tub body 1 containing, in a known manner, a seat (not shown). One of the side walls 2 of the bathtub has a wide notch 3 which opens onto the upper edge and which can be masked by a door 4, of complementary contour, suitable for tilting outwards for opening and mounted around 'a joint 5 with a vertical axis offset towards the outside.

La partie 6 de l'échancrure 3 adjacente à l'articulation est verticale; la partie inférieure 7 de l'échancrure est sensiblement horizontale et raccordée à la partie verticale par une partie de liaison concave 8; la partie restante 9 de l'échancrure est profilée et remonte en s'évasant vers le bord supérieur de la baignoire. La largeur de l'échancrure, mesurée horizontalement, c'est-à-dire perpendiculairement à l'axe de l'articulation 5, va en croissant de façon continue du bas vers le haut. En d'autres termes, en tout point du contour de l'échancrure, la tangente au contour a, de chaque côté, un angle de même signe par rapport à l'horizontale. Le contour peut donc être concave en tout point, mais il peut aussi présenter des points d'inflexion pour donner naissance à des parties convexes, comme montré sur la Fig. 1 au passage du siège.The part 6 of the notch 3 adjacent to the articulation is vertical; the lower part 7 of the notch is substantially horizontal and connected to the vertical part by a concave connecting part 8; the remaining part 9 of the notch is profiled and rises flaring towards the upper edge of the bathtub. The width of the notch, measured horizontally, that is to say perpendicular to the axis of the joint 5, increases continuously from bottom to top. In other words, at any point on the contour of the notch, the tangent to the contour has, on each side, an angle of the same sign with respect to the horizontal. The outline can therefore be concave at any point, but it can also have points of inflection to give rise to convex parts, as shown in FIG. 1 when the seat passes.

Le bord de l'échancrure 3 présente une feuillure continue courbe 10 tournée vers l'intérieur de la baignoire, tandis que le bord coopérant de la porte 4 présente une feuillure continue courbe complémentaire 11 qui est tournée vers l'extérieur de la baignoire et qui porte un joint continu 12 constitué par exemple par un cordon tubulaire élastomère collé à la feuillure 11. Comme on le voit sur les Fig. 2 et 3, le joint 12 est écrasé entre les feuillures 10, 11 grâce aux sections conjuguées de celles-ci. Par ailleurs, l'étanchéité, qui est assurée par le joint qui est plaqué contre le corps de la baignoire de l'intérieur vers l'extérieur, est renforcée par la pression de l'eau qui agit sur la porte dans le même sens.The edge of the notch 3 has a continuous curved rabbet 10 facing the inside of the bath, while the cooperating edge of the door 4 has a complementary curved continuous rabbet 11 which faces the outside of the bath and which carries a continuous seal 12 constituted for example by an elastomeric tubular bead glued to the rebate 11. As can be seen in FIGS. 2 and 3, the seal 12 is crushed between the rebates 10, 11 by virtue of the conjugate sections thereof. Furthermore, the seal, which is ensured by the seal which is pressed against the body of the bathtub from the inside to the outside, is reinforced by the pressure of the water which acts on the door in the same direction.

Pour assurer l'étanchéité dès le début du remplissage de la baignoire, le bord inférieur de l'échancrure 3, c'està-dire la partie 7, comporte une feuillure 13 tournée vers l'extérieur, de manière à définir, avec la partie adjacente de feuillure 10, une gorge inférieure 14 en V propre à recevoir le bord inférieur 15 de la porte 4 et à le solliciter fermement vers l'extérieur pour plaquer la portion correspondante du joint 12 contre la feuillure 10.To ensure the tightness from the start of filling the bathtub, the lower edge of the notch 3, that is to say the part 7, comprises a rebate 13 facing outwards, so as to define, with the part adjacent rebate 10, a lower groove 14 in V adapted to receive the lower edge 15 of the door 4 and to urge it firmly outward to press the corresponding portion of the seal 12 against the rebate 10.

Le cas échéant, une telle gorge en V peut s'étendre sur les côtés, au-delà du bord inférieur de l'échancrure, sur tout ou partie du contour de celle-ci.Where appropriate, such a V-shaped groove may extend on the sides, beyond the lower edge of the notch, over all or part of the outline thereof.

En observant les Fig. 1, 2 et 3, il apparaît que, à partir de sa position fermée représentée, la porte ne peut pas être ouverte par simple basculement autour de l'articulation 5.Looking at Figs. 1, 2 and 3, it appears that, from its closed position shown, the door cannot be opened by simple tilting around the joint 5.

La baignoire selon l'invention comporte donc un mécanisme 16 permettant à l'opérateur de soulever la porte avant de l'ouvrir.The bathtub according to the invention therefore comprises a mechanism 16 allowing the operator to lift the door before opening it.

La manoeuvre de la porte se fait, comme dans le brevet indiqué ci-dessus, à l'aide d'un levier basculant unique 17 dont l'extrémité supérieure 18 est en forme de crosse pour venir chevaucher le chant supérieur de la porte 4 et qui peut évoluer dans un plan vertical en restant pour l'essentiel à l'extérieur de la porte dans laquelle elle pénètre à son extrémité inférieure de pivotement.The door is maneuvered, as in the patent indicated above, using a single tilting lever 17, the upper end 18 of which is in the form of a butt to overlap the upper edge of the door 4 and which can evolve in a vertical plane while remaining essentially outside the door in which it enters at its lower pivot end.

Le mécanisme 16 est noyé dans la porte 4. Il est porté par une ossature 50 convenablement fixée au corps de la porte. Il comporte deux leviers coudés 19, 20 de même géométrie situés dans un plan vertical. Le levier 19 est solidaire du levier de manoeuvre 17 articulé sur le corps de la porte autour d'un pivot transversal 21. Le levier 20 est articulé sur le corps de la porte autour d'un pivot transversal 22. Les leviers coudés 19, 20 sont couplés par une bielle 23 de même longueur que l'entraxe entre les pivots 21, 22, de sorte que, par cette liaison du type à parallélogramme déformable, les leviers 19, 20 ont le même mouvement de basculement.The mechanism 16 is embedded in the door 4. It is carried by a frame 50 suitably fixed to the body of the door. It comprises two bent levers 19, 20 of the same geometry located in a vertical plane. The lever 19 is integral with the operating lever 17 articulated on the body of the door around a transverse pivot 21. The lever 20 is articulated on the body of the door around a transverse pivot 22. The angled levers 19, 20 are coupled by a connecting rod 23 of the same length as the center distance between the pivots 21, 22, so that, by this connection of the deformable parallelogram type, the levers 19, 20 have the same tilting movement.

Les positions extrêmes angulaires du levier de manoeuvre 17 sont définies par deux butées 24, 25 solidaires du corps de la porte et agissant sur le levier coudé 19. Un dispositif de rappel 26 du type à dépassement de point neutre, de nature mécanique ou pneumatique, sollicite le levier de manoeuvre 17 vers l'une ou l'autre des deux positions extrêmes, de part et d'autre d'une position moyenne instable.The extreme angular positions of the operating lever 17 are defined by two stops 24, 25 secured to the body of the door and acting on the bent lever 19. A return device 26 of the type with passing neutral point, of mechanical or pneumatic nature, urges the operating lever 17 towards one or the other of the two extreme positions, on either side of an unstable average position.

La branche du levier coudé 20 éloignée de la bielle 23 est voisine de l'articulation 5 et présente une fente allongée 27 qui reçoit une broche transversale 28 montée à l'extrémité d'une tige horizontale 29' fixée par vissage sur une plaque verticale 29, qui peut tourner autour de l'axe de l'articulation 5 avec la porte 4 mais qui est fixe verticalement. La tige 29' pénètre dans le chant vertical de la porte et traverse la plaque verticale d'extrémité 51 de l'ossature 58 par une fente verticale 52 permettant un mouvement vertical relatif entre la porte et l'ensemble 28, 29, 29'.The branch of the bent lever 20 remote from the connecting rod 23 is close to the articulation 5 and has an elongated slot 27 which receives a transverse pin 28 mounted at the end of a horizontal rod 29 'fixed by screwing on a vertical plate 29 , which can rotate around the axis of the articulation 5 with the door 4 but which is fixed vertically. The rod 29 'enters the vertical edge of the door and passes through the vertical end plate 51 of the frame 58 by a vertical slot 52 allowing relative vertical movement between the door and the assembly 28, 29, 29'.

Le chant vertical du corps de baignoire 1 reçoit fixement, dans la zone de l'articulation 5, trois éléments de charnière fixes 30 qui supportent une tige verticale 31, formant pivot, par l'intermédiaire de manchons supérieur 32, intermédiaires 33 et inférieur 34. De son côté, le chant vertical en regard de la porte 4 et/ou la plaque 51 d'ossature reçoivent fixement deux éléments mobiles de charnière 35, 36 propres à coulisser verticalement et à tourner par rapport à la tige 31. Les éléments de charnière mobiles 35, 36 comportent respectivement une plaque 37, 38 de fixation sur la porte et un manchon 39, 40 entourant la tige 31.The vertical edge of the bathtub body 1 receives fixedly, in the region of the articulation 5, three fixed hinge elements 30 which support a vertical rod 31, forming a pivot, by means of upper sleeves 32, intermediate 33 and lower 34 For its part, the vertical edge facing the door 4 and / or the frame plate 51 fixedly receive two movable hinge elements 35, 36 able to slide vertically and rotate relative to the rod 31. mobile hinges 35, 36 respectively comprise a plate 37, 38 for fixing on the door and a sleeve 39, 40 surrounding the rod 31.

Entre les manchons 33 est disposé un manchon 41 qui la plaque 29 de support de la tige 29' et de la broporte la plaque 29 de support de la tige 29' et de la broche 28. L'équipage 28, 29', 29,41 tourne avec la porte autour de la tige 31. Il est maintenu en position verticale fixe du fait de son emprisonnement entre les deux manchons intermédiaires espacés 33, eux-mêmes fixes. La plaque 30 présente une ouverture 45 pour la réception de la tige 29' en position fermée. Des anneaux en bronze 42 sont situés de part et d'autre du manchon 41 sur la tige 31. Ils facilitent le pivotement et constituent éventuellement des cales de réglage en hauteur.Between the sleeves 33 is disposed a sleeve 41 which the plate 29 for supporting the rod 29 'and the broporte the plate 29 for supporting the rod 29' and the spindle 28. The crew 28, 29 ', 29, 41 rotates with the door around the rod 31. It is held in a fixed vertical position due to its imprisonment between the two spaced intermediate sleeves 33, themselves fixed. The plate 30 has an opening 45 for receiving the rod 29 'in the closed position. Bronze rings 42 are located on either side of the sleeve 41 on the rod 31. They facilitate pivoting and possibly constitute height adjustment shims.

Les éléments de charnière mobiles 35, 36 sont situés respectivement entre les manchons 32, 33 et les manchons 33, 34. Pour la position basse de la porte, ces éléments de charnière mobiles sont en butée contre au moins l'un des manchons 33, 34, ce qui correspond à la venue en appui du levier coudé 19 contre la butée de fin de course 24.The movable hinge elements 35, 36 are situated respectively between the sleeves 32, 33 and the sleeves 33, 34. For the low position of the door, these movable hinge elements are in abutment against at least one of the sleeves 33, 34, which corresponds to the abutment of the bent lever 19 against the end of travel stop 24.

Le fonctionnement de la porte est le suivant. A partir de la position fermée basse de la porte, l'opérateur bascule le levier de manoeuvre vers la droite (Fig. 4) contre l'action du dispositif 26 et du poids de la porte, ce qui fait basculer le levier coudé 20 dans le sens horaire. Pendant ce mouvement, le levier 20, comme d'ailleurs l'ensemble de la porte, prend appui sur la broche 28, et donc sur l'équipage 29', 29,41 qui, à son tour, s'appuie sur un manchon fixe 33. On assure ainsi le soulèvement de la porte, ce qui dégage la porte de la feuillure 10 de l'échancrure 3 dans les zones 7, 8 et 9. Dans la zone de l'articulation 5, il n'y a pas de dégagement, mais cela n'est pas génant du fait que l'axe de l'articulation 5 est à l'extérieur et que les feuillures s'écarteront d'elles-mêmes lors du basculement.The operation of the door is as follows. From the lower closed position of the door, the operator swings the operating lever to the right (Fig. 4) against the action of the device 26 and the weight of the door, which causes the bent lever 20 to tilt in clockwise. During this movement, the lever 20, like besides the whole of the door, bears on the spindle 28, and therefore on the crew 29 ′, 29,41 which, in turn, is supported on a sleeve fixed 33. The door is thus lifted, which releases the door from the rebate 10 of the notch 3 in zones 7, 8 and 9. In the zone of articulation 5, there is no of clearance, but this is not annoying because the axis of the articulation 5 is outside and that the rebates will deviate from themselves during tilting.

La porte peut alors être ouverte librement par basculement.The door can then be opened freely by tilting.

Pour fermer la porte, on procède de manière inverse: on bascule la porte vers la position fermée, puis on actionne le levier de manoeuvre 17, ce qui fait descendre la porte et la plaque contre le corps de la baignoire avec l'assistance du dispositif de rappel 26 qui comprime fermement le joint 12.To close the door, proceed in the opposite way: the door is tilted to the closed position, then the operating lever 17 is actuated, which lowers the door and the plate against the body of the bathtub with the assistance of the device return 26 which firmly compresses the seal 12.

Dans la position ouverte, la porte 4 est maintenue d'elle-même en position haute par les frottements et par le dispositif 26 de rappel à dépassement dont la force est calculée pour vaincre le poids de la porte et toute tentative d'abaissement de la porte en position fermée par pesée sur la porte. Un tel abaissement ne risque d'ailleurs pas d'endommager le corps de la baignoire ou la porte si celleci est complètement ouverte; mais, pour une position incomplètement fermée de la porte, son abaissement intempestif par manoeuvre prématurée du levier 17 pourrait occasionner un tel endommagement. C'est pourquoi, selon une autre caractéristique de l'invention, on prévoit des moyens pour que la porte ne puisse être abaissée que pour sa position angulaire fermée et qu'elle ne puisse être basculée que pour sa position haute. Avantageusement, ces moyens sont constitués par des profilages complémentaires non circulaires d'une partie de la tige 31 et d'au moins l'un des manchons mobiles 39, 40. par exemple, comme montré à la Fig. 5, la tige 31 porte à sa partie inférieure, sur la hauteur du manchon, une clavette axiale 43 et le manchon 40 comporte sur toute sa hauteur une rainure axiale complémentaire 44 située dans une zone angulaire telle qu'elle ne coïncide verticalement avec la clavette 43 que pour la position fermée de la porte.In the open position, the door 4 is maintained by itself in the high position by friction and by the protruding return device 26 whose force is calculated to overcome the weight of the door and any attempt to lower the door in closed position by weighing on the door. Such a lowering does not risk damaging the body of the bathtub or the door if it is fully open; but, for an incompletely closed position of the door, its untimely lowering by premature operation of the lever 17 could cause such damage. This is why, according to another characteristic of the invention, means are provided so that the door can only be lowered for its closed angular position and that it can only be tilted for its high position. Advantageously, these means consist of complementary non-circular profiling of a part of the rod 31 and of at least one of the movable sleeves 39, 40. for example, as shown in FIG. 5, the rod 31 carries at its lower part, over the height of the sleeve, an axial key 43 and the sleeve 40 has over its entire height an additional axial groove 44 located in an angular zone such that it does not coincide vertically with the key 43 only for the closed position of the door.

Bien entendu, on pourrait concevoir diverses variantes sans sortir du cadre de l'invention, notamment en agençant le mécanisme 16 de façon différente, par exemple en lui faisant comporter un système à pignon et crémaillère pour le mouvement vertical de la porte.Of course, one could conceive of various variants without departing from the scope of the invention, in particular by arranging the mechanism 16 in a different way, for example by making it comprise a pinion and rack system for the vertical movement of the door.

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1. Bath-tub with a door for motive disabled persons, which includes a side door (4) adapted for being opened outwardly by tilting about an articulation (5) of vertical axis for clearing a cut-out part or access bay into the bath-tub, characterized by the fact that the width of the cut-out part (3), as measured horizontally, increases continuously from the bottom to the top, that the contour of the cut-out part (3) on the wall of the bath-tub body (1) has a rabbet (10) directed inwardly to the bath-tub, in that the cooperating contour of the door (4) has a complementary rabbet (11) directed outwardly from the bath-tub, a seal (12) being provided between the two rabbets, and in that the door is provided with an operating handle (17) and with a mechanism (16) adapted, under the action of the operating handle, for lifting the door from its lower closed position for vertically disengaging the two rabbets from each other at least in their regions which are remote from the articulation and allowing the free opening pivoting movement of the door outwardly.
2. Bath-tub according to claim 1, wherein mechanism (16) bears, for the vertical displacement of the door, onto a member (29, 41) rotating with the door about said articulation (5), but vertically movable with respect tothe door.
3. Bath-tub according to any claims 1 and 2, wherein articulation (5) comprises fixed hinge elements (30, 32, 33, 34) rigidly connected to the bath-tub body, a fixed vertical rod (31) carried by said fixed hinge elements, and mobile hinge elements (35, 36) rigidly connected to the door and adapted for vertically sliding and for rotating with respect to the rod.
4. Bath-tub according to any claims 1 to 3, wherein at least the lower edge (7) of the cut-out part (3) of the bath-tub body, which is substantially horizontal, has the shape of a V-shaped groove (14) in which fits the lower edge (15) of the door, with its seal portion (16), for providing the locking of the door when in the closed position.
5. Bath-tub according to any claims 1 to 4, wherein the operating mechanism comprises tilting levers (19,20) actuated by the operating handle (17).
6. Bath-tub according to any claims 1 to 4, wherein the operating mechanism comprises a pinion and rack system.
7. Bath-tub according to any claims 1 to 6, wherein the operating mechanism comprises return means (26), notably of the type which exceeds the neutral point, towards the upper and lower positions of the door.
8. Bath-tub according to any claims 1 to 7, characterized by the fact that it comprises means (43, 43) for preventing the tilting of the door when in its lower position and its lowering when in an angular position not completely closed.
9. Bath-tub according to claim 8, characterized by the fact that said means (43,44) are made of matching profiles of fixed parts and of vertically and rotatably movable parts of articulation (5), said profiles being in vertical alignment only for the angular closed position of the door.
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