EP0691115A1 - Elévateur adaptable en baignoires - Google Patents

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EP0691115A1
EP0691115A1 EP93103522A EP93103522A EP0691115A1 EP 0691115 A1 EP0691115 A1 EP 0691115A1 EP 93103522 A EP93103522 A EP 93103522A EP 93103522 A EP93103522 A EP 93103522A EP 0691115 A1 EP0691115 A1 EP 0691115A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G7/00—Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons
    • A61G7/10—Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons, e.g. special adaptations of hoists thereto
    • A61G7/1001—Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons, e.g. special adaptations of hoists thereto specially adapted for specific applications
    • A61G7/1003—Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons, e.g. special adaptations of hoists thereto specially adapted for specific applications mounted on or in combination with a bath-tub
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G7/00—Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons
    • A61G7/10—Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons, e.g. special adaptations of hoists thereto
    • A61G7/1013—Lifting of patients by
    • A61G7/1019—Vertical extending columns or mechanisms
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G7/00—Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons
    • A61G7/10—Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons, e.g. special adaptations of hoists thereto
    • A61G7/1049—Attachment, suspending or supporting means for patients
    • A61G7/1059—Seats

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  • the invention relates to a lifter for the disabled which can be used in bathtubs and which has a base frame, a lifting plate, a guide frame connecting these to the base frame and a hydraulic lifting device with valve device, a backrest being pivotably arranged on the lifting plate, on which a hydraulic pivoting device intervenes.
  • a lifter in which a manual control valve is fastened under the lifting plate, the control lever of which extends through a slot in the lifting plate and projects upwards over the seat surface.
  • the valve device is connected to the pressurized water supply line by means of a hose and connects the lifting device to the pressurized water supply line in a pivoted position of the manual control lever of the valve device, so that the lifting plate travels upwards, and in the other pivoting position the lifting device to an emptying line, so that the lifting plate moves downward. In a central position of the hand lever, the lifting plate remains in the current position.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to improve the lifter in such a way that the control valves for the lifting device of the lifting plate and the pivoting device for the backrest can be combined in one control unit, this control unit independently of the lifting plate for one Aid can be positioned easily accessible and is nevertheless small and handy.
  • valve device has a number of actuating valves, some of which are each connected to an external manual control device by means of a separate hydraulic control line, which furthermore by means of a pressurized water supply line and an emptying line to the housing of the valve device is connected and that at least one of the actuating valves is connected to the lifting device via a pressure-resistant hose and another actuating valve is connected to the pivoting device by means of a similar hose.
  • the advantage is achieved that all working valves for loading and emptying the lifting device and also the swivel device are integrated in a housing which - as before - is attached to the underside of the lifting plate.
  • a preferably flexible multiple line is now connected to this housing, which leads to the separate manual control device which contains at least 4 servo valves in order to be able to selectively control the working valves of the valve device on the lifting plate.
  • the working valves of the valve device must be of relatively large dimensions in order to ensure a sufficiently high pressure water flow in the lifting device and the swivel device so that the adjustment processes do not take too long.
  • control lines In order to control these work valves, small amounts of pressurized water are sufficient, which is why the servo valves in the hand control device need only be very small and the control lines also need to have a very small diameter. Thanks to the invention, there is a very handy control device, the dimensions of which are rather smaller than those of conventional remote controls for television sets. Since the control lines have a diameter of a few millimeters, they can be accommodated in a protective jacket according to one embodiment of the invention, which is hardly thicker than the hose of a hand shower.
  • the control unit can be hung at a suitable location, e.g. the bathroom wall, or hung over the edge of the bathtub. It is easy to take in hand by a handicapped person or an assistant.
  • the operating buttons or levers are visually easy to monitor, so that unwanted incorrect operation is excluded. Thanks to a central valve block as a valve device, safe function is guaranteed.
  • valve block two pairs of actuating valves of the same design are preferably installed, the input of one actuating valve being connected to the outlet of the other actuating valve of each valve pair and furthermore being connected to a connection for one of the two hoses to the lifting device and to the pivoting device, while the outlet of one valve opens into a housing outlet or in a drain line and the inlet of the other valve is connected to the main pressurized water supply line.
  • the four working valves are thus partially connected to each other and to the external connections in the valve block by means of fixedly positioned channels in the form of bores. In principle, only four connection couplings in the form of plug-in / screw connections are required, namely the pressurized water supply connection, the lifting hose connection, the swivel device connection and the multiple line connection for the hand control device.
  • An embodiment of the invention further consists in the fact that in the pressure supply channel of the multi-valve housing a shut-off valve is installed downstream of the branch of the pressurized water supply line leading to the hand control device and the inlet of the actuating valve which pressurizes the swivel device with pressurized water, and which has an actuating plunger, which protrudes from the multi-valve housing on a side wall approximately parallel to the lifting plate and interacts with an actuator actuated by the guide frame of the lifting plate in the high position.
  • this height limit switch which is known per se and which prevents the lifting plate from being raised from the top of the bathtub in question, is permitted remote control of all other functions apart from moving the lifting plate upwards.
  • the inclination of the backrest can also be changed in the raised position of the lifting plate.
  • a further embodiment of the invention can be seen in the fact that two manually operable drain valves are installed in the multi-valve housing, each communicating on the input side with a channel leading to the hose connection for the pivoting or lifting device and on the output side communicating with a bore opening on the outside of the housing. It is within the scope of the invention, instead of the several drain openings on the housing in the housing, to form a drain channel into which the individual drain channels open, so that all valves are emptied at a common mouth of the housing.
  • the multiple control line which comprises at least four thin control hoses and a thin pressurized water hose, with the return in the cavity between the common jacket and the five inner hoses, has a common coupling member on the valve housing side, which comprises at least six orifice elements, one with corresponding openings
  • Counter coupling member is pressure-tight and detachably connected, which is attached to the outside of the housing and the mouths of which communicate with the individual working valves via a channel system on the inside of the housing.
  • the at least four working valves in the multi-valve housing are all of the same design and are prestressed in their closed positions by means of a built-in spring.
  • the valve bodies are connected to a piston or a membrane which delimits a pressure chamber into which a control line opens.
  • the valves are only held temporarily in the open position during the pressurized water supply to the pressure chambers and automatically move into the closed position after the pressurized water supply has been shut off, whereby the control unit ensures that each control line is permanently connected either to the pressurized water supply line or to the drain line.
  • the lifter 10 consists of a floor frame or frame 13, on which a scissor arm-like guide frame 14 is arranged which carries a lifting plate 16, a lifting device 12 extending in the form of a pressure-tight hose closed at the end extending between the latter and the base frame 13.
  • a backrest 18 is detachably arranged on the lifting plate 16 by means of a swivel fitting.
  • a hydraulic swivel device 19 is used to adjust the inclination of the backrest 18.
  • a multi-valve housing 20 is fastened, into which a pressurized water supply line 22, a connecting hose 24 leading to the lifting hose 12, a connecting hose 26 leading to the pivoting device 19 and a control line hose 28 open, at the end of which a hand control device 30 is arranged.
  • the multi-valve housing 20 has a pressurized water supply connection 32 on its front side, into which a coupling member of a quick coupling is screwed.
  • a shut-off valve 34 is installed coaxially with this pressure supply connection 32 on the rear side of the multi-valve housing 20, the valve tappet 36 protruding from the housing 20 and ending in a fork which serves to receive an actuating rod 38 (FIG. 1), which is located on the underside of the Lifting plate 16 extends transversely and is mounted in short longitudinal slots of the rails on both sides for the arms of the guide frame 14.
  • Each of the valves 50-56 contains a multi-part displaceable valve body 58 with a sealing washer 60 for abutment against a valve seat of the multi-valve housing 20 and a membrane 62, a spring 64 prestressing the valve body 58 in the shut-off position of the valve.
  • the membrane 62 is anchored in a pressure-tight manner between a main body of the multi-valve housing 20 and a housing base plate, the membrane 62 delimiting a pressure chamber 66.
  • valve body 58 lifts off the valve seat and the transverse channel 42 communicates with a further longitudinal channel 68, which leads to a hose connection 70 on the front side of the multi-valve housing 20.
  • the connecting hose 26 leading to the swivel device 19 is connected to this connection 70.
  • the valve 52 serves to empty the swivel device 19, which is why the longitudinal channel 68 leads to the bore of the valve body 58 of this drain valve 52. Downstream of the sealing surface of this valve there is an angled drainage duct 72, which opens into an opening 74 on the rear of the housing.
  • the two valves 54, 56 are connected to the pressure supply channel 40 in the same way as the valves 50, 52, specifically via the transverse bore 44. If the valve 54 is opened, the hose connection 76 is connected to the pressure water supply channel 40 and to the lifting device 12 leading pressurized water line 24 is pressurized with pressurized water. If the valve 56 is actuated instead, this hose connection 76 is emptied via an emptying bore 78.
  • the two drain holes 74, 78 are located on the rear (FIG. 8) of the housing 20.
  • a control channel 80 opens into the pressure chamber 66 of the valve 50 and leads to a bore 82 in a multiple connection 84 on the rear side of the valve housing 20.
  • the remaining pressure chambers of the valves 52, 54, 56 are connected to this multiple connection 84 via corresponding control channels 86, 88, 90 (FIG. 11), the corresponding bores being arranged in parallel at a distance from one another.
  • a central bore 92 of the multiple connection 84 is over Branch channel 46 connected to the pressurized water supply channel 40 and the in FIG. Bore 94 shown in FIG. 7 is connected to a U-channel which opens on the outside of the multi-valve housing.
  • a coupling piece of the multiple hose line 28 of the control device 30 is attached to the multiple coupling attachment 84, with the exception of the bore 94 all five bores are each tightly connected with a thin pressure hose.
  • the coupling piece has six protruding sleeves which engage in the corresponding bores.
  • Five tubes of the control line 28 are surrounded by a jacket, the interior of which is connected to the bore 94.
  • the longitudinal channel 68 which leads to the connection 70 for the pivoting device 19 of the backrest 18, is connected via a transverse channel 96 to a chamber of an emptying valve 98 which has a valve tappet 100.
  • the transverse channel 96 communicates with an emptying channel opening at the bottom of the housing 20 and the pressurized water of the swivel device 19 can be emptied, even if the hand control device 30 is not connected.
  • the hose connection 76 leading to the lifting device 12 can be connected via an emptying valve 102 to an emptying opening which is likewise located on the housing base.
  • the control unit 30 has, for example, four buttons which can be actuated against spring pressure and which when actuated each adjust a servo valve in such a way that the associated control line with the pressurized water supply line is connected. If the button is not pressed, the respective control line is connected to the return, so it is depressurized. If one of these four buttons on the hand control unit 30 is pressed, the associated working valve in the multi-valve housing 20 opens. Depending on the selection of the button, the lifting plate 16 is raised or lowered or the backrest 18 is pivoted forwards or backwards.

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EP93103522A 1993-03-05 1993-03-05 Elévateur adaptable en baignoires Expired - Lifetime EP0691115B1 (fr)

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
AT93103522T ATE137108T1 (de) 1993-03-05 1993-03-05 In badewannen einsetzbarer lifter
DK93103522.4T DK0691115T3 (da) 1993-03-05 1993-03-05 Lift til anvendelse i et badekar
EP93103522A EP0691115B1 (fr) 1993-03-05 1993-03-05 Elévateur adaptable en baignoires
DE59302397T DE59302397D1 (de) 1993-03-05 1993-03-05 In Badewannen einsetzbarer Lifter
ES93103522T ES2086806T3 (es) 1993-03-05 1993-03-05 Aparato para impedidos fisicos utilizable en bañeras.
US08/197,640 US5402541A (en) 1993-03-05 1994-02-16 Bathtub lifting apparatus
ZA941078A ZA941078B (en) 1993-03-05 1994-02-17 Bathtub lifting apparatus.
AU56475/94A AU663670B2 (en) 1993-03-05 1994-03-01 Bathtub lifting apparatus
CA002116930A CA2116930A1 (fr) 1993-03-05 1994-03-03 Dispositif de levage pour baignoires
JP6059924A JPH0824703B2 (ja) 1993-03-05 1994-03-04 障害者入浴用吊上装置
GR960401406T GR3020043T3 (en) 1993-03-05 1996-05-27 Lift insertable in bathtubs

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ES (1) ES2086806T3 (fr)
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WO1990000891A2 (fr) * 1988-07-19 1990-02-08 Robert Forwick Dispositif pour baignoire
DE3908231A1 (de) * 1989-03-14 1990-09-20 Wolfgang Dentler Badewanneneinsatz mit hubeinrichtung
DE9113171U1 (de) * 1991-10-23 1991-12-12 Schwarz, Roland, 8970 Immenstadt Ventilanordnung

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WO1990000891A2 (fr) * 1988-07-19 1990-02-08 Robert Forwick Dispositif pour baignoire
DE3908231A1 (de) * 1989-03-14 1990-09-20 Wolfgang Dentler Badewanneneinsatz mit hubeinrichtung
DE9113171U1 (de) * 1991-10-23 1991-12-12 Schwarz, Roland, 8970 Immenstadt Ventilanordnung

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CA2116930A1 (fr) 1994-09-06
JPH0824703B2 (ja) 1996-03-13
GR3020043T3 (en) 1996-08-31
JPH06292702A (ja) 1994-10-21
EP0691115B1 (fr) 1996-04-24
US5402541A (en) 1995-04-04
ATE137108T1 (de) 1996-05-15
DK0691115T3 (da) 1996-07-29
AU5647594A (en) 1994-09-08
DE59302397D1 (de) 1996-05-30
ES2086806T3 (es) 1996-07-01
AU663670B2 (en) 1995-10-12

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