EP1154748B1 - Single or double sauna cabin fed with hot water from the domestic water system - Google Patents

Single or double sauna cabin fed with hot water from the domestic water system Download PDF

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EP1154748B1
EP1154748B1 EP00902829A EP00902829A EP1154748B1 EP 1154748 B1 EP1154748 B1 EP 1154748B1 EP 00902829 A EP00902829 A EP 00902829A EP 00902829 A EP00902829 A EP 00902829A EP 1154748 B1 EP1154748 B1 EP 1154748B1
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Giacomo Baiguini
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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
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/06—Artificial hot-air or cold-air baths; Steam or gas baths or douches, e.g. sauna or Finnish baths
    • A61H33/063—Heaters specifically designed therefor
    • 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
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/06—Artificial hot-air or cold-air baths; Steam or gas baths or douches, e.g. sauna or Finnish baths
    • A61H2033/068—Steam baths

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  • This invention concerns a single or double sauna cabin using hot water from the domestic water system, according to the preamble of the attached main claim.
  • the word “sauna” refers not only to the typical Finnish sauna characterised by high temperatures (about 80° C) and low humidity (about 20%), but to any environment with moderately hot temperatures (about 40° C) and high humidity (up to 100%).
  • “sauna” means a physical environment similar to thermal baths or Vietnamese baths. This is an environment offering a comfortable relaxing sensation produced by a moderately hot environment saturated with humidity. This kind of environment is increasingly in demand both in luxurious hotels wanting to offer their customers ever more exclusive and refined facilities and by private users. The financial wellbeing of ever wider bands of society has tended to transform the old bath room into a sophisticated space offering a comfortable and relaxing interlude in which to unwind after a stressful day's work.
  • Temperature adjustment knobs are provided upstream the nozzle means and the shower head.
  • the D1 also depicts an embodiment (fig. 8) where a control knob is shown which is downstream a valve leading to the nozzle means so that it feeds high temperature water at the log and feet zones of the user.
  • the so-called sauna effect is delegated to a mist of water droplets which as such wet the user.
  • the scope of this invention is to define a single or double sauna cabin able to adopt very safe criteria for the heating and the inner generation of steam, that protects against both electrocution and accidental scalds.
  • Another scope is to define a cabin, as above, able to grant a high cost saving.
  • a further scope is to define a cabin that can reach the optimal desired temperature and humidity parameters in short time.
  • Another scope is to define a cabin, as above, requiring no steam generators going beyond the intrinsic capacity of the domestic water system.
  • This thermostat serves a two-way cock with sequential selection and manual control in order to spray thermostated hot water, first, to two nozzle sets during a preparatory heating phase of the empty cabin and then to one set aimed at maintaining the temperature degree and steam content at the level previously set.
  • thermostated hot water jets The spraying action of thermostated hot water jets is directed towards the upper surfaces of the cabin to allow water to run over the inner walls of the cabin when running down in a suitable quantity and adequately distributed to transfer its heat until the ambient temperature is reached before water is discharged into the traditional waste pipes.
  • the cabin interior which is usually constructed from thermoformed six-millimetre thick acrylic laminated plastic, has several functional protrusions forming a seat 1, a number of brackets 2, aesthetic trims 3, baffles 4, stiffening ribs or bosses 5 containing the technological equipment on the back.
  • the shapes shown are merely illustrative; they serve to express the presence of the elements in question that can therefore take on the most various functions according to the possible aesthetic-design variations of the cabin.
  • Their common scope however consists in that they avoid the formation of depressions where water may stagnate and allow frontal 6 and back 7 water jets to continuously cover as large a surface as possible with minimum slow down.
  • FIG. 1 shows that water hits the cabin walls in the upper area.
  • This cabin heating phase uses water at a temperature of about 55° C at a pressure of 1.5 bar with a flow rate of about 7 litres per minute. Because of this, and due to the poor thermal conductivity of the laminated plastic surfaces and of the glass making up the cabin, the temperature reaches the desired value of about 45° C in less than two minutes. At this point the user manually opens a cock that closes the spraying nozzles in the back inner parts of the cabin, leaving the three jets toward the frontal zone 8 free to spray.
  • Hot water comes in through a pipe 10 at a temperature of about 60°.
  • This hot water can be produced in many usual ways: centralised installation, electric boiler .or flame boiler. Said hot water reaches a thermostat 11 adjustable in a range of temperatures between 37 and 55° C.
  • a pipe 12 is connected to this thermostat and is supplied by the domestic cold water system at a temperature of about 15° C.
  • This thermostat 11 is equipped with an outlet pipe 13 with water at the set temperature, for instance 50° C.
  • This pipe joins a two-way 15 and 16 manual deviator 14.
  • Way 15 flows into a set of about four nozzles 17 creating the water jets 7;
  • way 16 flows into another set of about three nozzles 18 generating the front water jets 6.
  • the two pipes 15 and 16 are connected each other through a one-way no-return valve 19 that allows the jets from nozzles 17 to add to those from nozzle 18, but does not allow jets from nozzles 18 to add to those from nozzles 17, since the two pipes 15 and 16 are selectively used for thermostated water passage through the manual deviator 14 and can therefore be operated separately.

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EP00902829A 1999-02-23 2000-02-17 Single or double sauna cabin fed with hot water from the domestic water system Expired - Lifetime EP1154748B1 (en)

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ITBG990009 IT1309473B1 (it) 1999-02-23 1999-02-23 Cabina singola o doppia per sauna ad impiego di acqua calda direte idrica domestica.
ITBG990009 1999-02-23
PCT/IB2000/000174 WO2000049987A1 (en) 1999-02-23 2000-02-17 Single or double sauna cabin fed with hot water from the domestic water system

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AU (1) AU2456900A (it)
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ES (1) ES2251962T3 (it)
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US4084271A (en) * 1977-01-12 1978-04-18 Ginsberg Irwin L Steam bath device for shower
ATE14376T1 (de) * 1980-08-26 1985-08-15 Walter Hunziker Mehrzweck-heilkraeuter-dampfsauna.
US5142713A (en) * 1991-07-11 1992-09-01 Makool Jeffrey J Shower-sauna adapter
DE29501680U1 (de) * 1995-02-03 1995-04-20 Dusar Kunststoff- und Metallwaren GmbH, 56584 Anhausen Dampfbad-Umrüstset für eine Duschkabine

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ES2251962T3 (es) 2006-05-16
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