EP0354273A1 - Sanitary fitting for bathing and massaging body limbs - Google Patents

Sanitary fitting for bathing and massaging body limbs Download PDF

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EP0354273A1
EP0354273A1 EP88203000A EP88203000A EP0354273A1 EP 0354273 A1 EP0354273 A1 EP 0354273A1 EP 88203000 A EP88203000 A EP 88203000A EP 88203000 A EP88203000 A EP 88203000A EP 0354273 A1 EP0354273 A1 EP 0354273A1
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Federico Delfiore
Michele Delfiore
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H35/00—Baths for specific parts of the body
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H9/00—Pneumatic or hydraulic massage
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H2203/00—Additional characteristics concerning the patient
    • A61H2203/04—Position of the patient
    • A61H2203/0406—Standing on the feet
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H2203/00—Additional characteristics concerning the patient
    • A61H2203/04—Position of the patient
    • A61H2203/0425—Sitting on the buttocks
    • A61H2203/0431—Sitting on the buttocks in 90°/90°-position, like on a chair
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H2205/00—Devices for specific parts of the body
    • A61H2205/10—Leg

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  • the present invention relates to a sanitary fitting comprising: a bath for introduction of one or more anatomic parts; one or more water delivery devices toward the internal room of said bath; one or more massage systems for said anatomic parts and a water dis­charge system from said bath.
  • the present invention is intended to remedy the lacks of the prior art.
  • the invention as it is characterized in the claims, aims to create a sanitary fitting.
  • a fitting of this kind the following result is obtained: the anatomic parts which undergo this treatment are, in addition to be cleaned, released and invigorated.
  • the figures show a sanitary fitting or parts of said fitting.
  • the block diagram of Fig. 1 includes a mixer 3 with a first inlet I1 and a second inlet I2.
  • said mixer 3 is able to obtain water having a desire temperature which is an intermedia­te temperature between hot and cold water temperatures; said mix­er 3 being also fitted with an outlet O1 connected with a pipe 4.
  • a commutator 5 includes: an inlet I2, connected with said pipe 4 to receive water from said mixer 3; a first outlet O2, connected with a pipe 6 and a second outlet O3 connected with a pipe 7.
  • a first part 5a of said commutator 5 communicates with one or more delivery fixtures, not shown, to add water with suitable substances; a first of said delivery fixture being able to deli­ver a liquid soap to said part 5a via a pipe D1; a second of said delivery fixtures being able to deliver a bath-oil to said part 5a via a pipe D2. Other delivery fixtures may be provided to deliver bath-salts solutions and/or other toilet substances to said part 5a via pipes, not shown.
  • a part 5b of said commutator 5 is able to connect directly said inlet I2 with said outlets O2 and O3, to deliver water without said substances to said pipes 6 and 7.
  • Said parts 5a and 5b are fitted with known elements, not shown, to close or open the entrance to said pipes 6 and 7 as a person which undergoes the treatment wants thus allowing water to reach said pipes 6 and 7 either from said part 5a or from said part 5b.
  • An hot air producer device 14 comprises a duct 15, which opens in said bath 10 via an inlet port 37, to take hot air into said bath 10 when the operations of said systems 8 and 9 are finished, in order to dry-up the limbs introduced in said bath 10.
  • Said bath 10 is connected with a pipe 11, fitted with a discharge pump 12, able to extract water from said bath 10 with continuity and to send it to a pipe 14 to maintain the level of the water nearly constant inside said bath 10.
  • Said device 14 is equipped with overcurrents protection devices, not shown.
  • a charging pump 47 placed in said pipe 4 downstream said mixer 3, is also provided.
  • Fig. 2 represents a top view of said bath 10.
  • a cover 16 is provided; said cover 16 being placed on the upstream part of said bath 10.
  • Said cover 16 is divided into four parts, marked with 17, 18, 19 and 20, respectively.
  • Said parts 17 and 18 are placed on the front and on the rear part of the cover 16, respectively; said parts 19 and 20 are placed on the right and on the left part of said cover 16, respectively.
  • Said parts 19 and 20 present, respectively, a first and a second elastic sections 21 and 22, preferably made of continuous brush­es, whose borders 23 and 24 develops longitudinally, the one against the other, in the middle part of said cover 16 to form an entrance E through which said limbs my be introduced in said bath 10.
  • Said elastic sections 21 and 22 are able to loose their shape to allow entrance of the lower limbs of a person in said bath 10.
  • borders 23 and 24 prevent water from exiting from said bath 10 by embracing the ankles with a light pressure.
  • the internal room of said bath 10 is shown in Fig. 3.
  • the internal room of bath 10 comprises: a rest table 25 for said lower limbs; said table 25 being raised about a bottom plane 26 of said bath 10 in order to make the position of a person which is, preferably, sitting outside the bath 10, more comfortable.
  • a first and second identical water rotating systems 27 and 28 which are placed laterally and symmetrically about said rest table 25; either of said rotating systems being better shown in Fig. 4.
  • Said rotating systems 27 and 28 being connected with said pipe 6 to accomplish washing and subsequent rinse of lower limbs; said rotating systems 27 and 28 being supported by known means, not shown; known elements, not shown, being present to allow shifting of said systems 27 and 28 relative to said table 25 toward the directions defined by the symmetry axis A, in order to obtain the contact between surfaces 77 and 78 and said limbs.
  • sprinkle systems including four ejectors 29, 30, 31 and 32 for water under pressure, connected with said pipe 7 and placed on four corners 33, 34, 35 and 36 of said bath 10, respectively, to send sprinkles of water slightly above the rest table 25 to re­activate the blood circulation in the lower limbs.
  • Sprinkles from said ejectors 29, 30, 31 and 32 converge to the lower limbs rested on said table 25; furthermore, to obtain a best reactiva­tion effect, said ejectors 29, 30, 31 and 32 are placed at the upstream and at the downstream zone of said corners 33, 32, 35 and 36, alternatively and are of the revolving kind.
  • accesories of the fitting consist in said pipes 1 and 2, in said mixer 3, in said commutator 5 connected with an unique delivery device 51 for said toilet substances, in said charging pump 47, in said pipes 11 and 14 and in said dis­charge pump 12.
  • the pump 47 is placed downstream the commutator 5.
  • a first voltage transformer 48 is present to feed said charging pump 47, in order to lower the voltage from the values of the supply mains to not dangerous values.
  • a first overcurrent pro­tection device 49 is placed between said transformer 48 and said pump 47 to void dangerous flashover on the feet.
  • a second voltage transformer 52 is present to feed said discharging pump 12, in order to lower the voltage from the values of the supply mains to not dangerous values;
  • a second overcurrent protection device 53 is present in the connection zone between said transformer 52 and said pump 12.
  • a water heating device 50 is provided in sequence to said pipe 1.
  • the rotating system 27 comprises a bearing plate 40 of rigid material having a bore for introduction of an end of said pipe 6; said pipe 6 being able to send the water, which rotates said system 27 and which, by exiting, washes the limbs rested on said table 25, to the internal room of said system 27.
  • Said bearing plate 40 having a circular edge 42 able to support a conic surface element 43 whose taper ratio is turned to the out­side of said system 27; said element 43 being made of elastic ma­terial, preferably a continuous brush, and being able to void water splashes to said cover 16.
  • a splash guard 44 is supported by a wall 45 of said bath 10 in a zone upstream said element 43.
  • the internal part of said plate 40 is able to house a runner shaped, for example, as a Pelton wheel turbine able to be rotat­ed by the water coming from said pipe 6; the configuration of said runner is known and it will not be furtherly described.
  • Said runner supports integrally an element 46, whose external surface assumes a conic shape when the runner rotates; the taper ratio of said element 46 being turned to the outside.
  • Said ele­ment 46 is constitued by a continuous brush of filiform elastic material able, in operation, to wash and massage the feet with water coming from the internal part of said plate 40 and added with said substances while the thrust of the water rotates said runner.
  • Fig. 5 shows schematically a second embodiment of a fitting ac­cording with the present invention, this figure shows the struct­ures which are not part of the fitting disclosed in Figs. 2- 4, however the elements which characterize the fitting are present also in this second embodiment.
  • said sprinkle sys­tems 8 and 9 and the hydraulic feeding devices for said systems 8 and 9 are present.
  • said rotating systems 8 are constitued by a first and a second electric motors 58 and 63 and by a first and a second rotating elements 60 and 61, kinematically connected with two shafts 59 and 62 of said first and second electric motors 58 and 63, respectively; said rotating elements being laterally and symmetrically disposed about said rest table 25 and being without hydraulic feeding and said shafts 59 and 62 being supported, as known, by bushings, not shown, inserted in holes made in the walls of said bath 10.
  • Known elements, not shown, are present to permit shiftings of said rotating elements 60 and 61 relative to said table 25 toward the directions defined by the symmetry axis A, in order to obtain contact between surfaces 77 and 78 and said limbs.
  • the electric feed to said motors 58 and 63 is accomplished by a power grid including essentially: a low voltage current generator 54, a conductor 55, a rehostat 56 able to vary the angular velo­city of said shafts 58 and 63 and an overcurrents protection device 57.
  • Fig. 6 shows schematically a third embodiment of the equipment of the present invention and, in particular, the electromechanic and mechanic elements able to rotate said first and second elements 60 and 61 which, also in this embodiment are without hydraulic feeding.
  • An electric motor 64 is fed by two conductors 65 and 65 connected to a power grid, schematized by two conductors 67 and 68; said grid being fitted with a low voltage current generator, a rheos­tat and an overcurrents protection device, not shown.
  • Said motor 64 is provided with a shaft 70 supported by known means, not shown, held up by the walls of said bath 10.
  • a first and a second driving wheels 71 and 72 are splined on said shaft 70 and move a first and a second driven gears 75 and 76 by means of a first and a second belts 73 and 74, respectively; said gears 75 and 76 being integral with said shafts 59 and 62 of said elements 60 and 61, respectively.
  • Said belts 73 and 74 may be placed both outside and inside said bath 10.
  • Known elements are present to permit said rotating elements 60 and 61 to shift with respect to said table 25 toward the directions defined by the symmetry axis A, in order to obtain contact between surfa­ces 77 and 78 and said limbs.
  • said rotating systems 8 are fitted with rotating elements which are, at least partially, constitued by natural or artificial sponges.
  • said delivery devices are capsules adapted to be inserted in housings made in said pipe 4.
  • said support means and said bushings for said shafts 59, 62, 70 are fitted with sealing means to prevent water from exiting from said bath 10.
  • the rotating system 8 consists of three cylindric rollers, made of sponge or bristle, placed near the rest table 25 so that the longitudinal axis of two of said rollers is parallel to the longer side of the rest table 25 and the longitudinal axis of the third roller is parallel to the shorter side of the rest table 25.
  • These rollers are connected kinematically to one or more electric motors for movements thereof. In this embodiment the rollers do not deliver water which comes only from said system 9.

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FR2740972A1 (fr) * 1995-11-14 1997-05-16 Coremhy Sarl Appareil de massage et traitement hydrotherapique

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US2952859A (en) * 1958-03-19 1960-09-20 John H Alcamo Surgeons' pre-operating scrubbing machine
FR2209541A1 (it) * 1972-12-12 1974-07-05 Ramillon Jean Patrick
US3918987A (en) * 1973-11-09 1975-11-11 Rudolph J Kopfer Surgeon hand and arm scrubbing apparatus

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US2952859A (en) * 1958-03-19 1960-09-20 John H Alcamo Surgeons' pre-operating scrubbing machine
FR2209541A1 (it) * 1972-12-12 1974-07-05 Ramillon Jean Patrick
US3918987A (en) * 1973-11-09 1975-11-11 Rudolph J Kopfer Surgeon hand and arm scrubbing apparatus

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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FR2740972A1 (fr) * 1995-11-14 1997-05-16 Coremhy Sarl Appareil de massage et traitement hydrotherapique

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