EP2898868A1 - Dispositif élévateur pour une baignoire - Google Patents

Dispositif élévateur pour une baignoire Download PDF

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EP2898868A1
EP2898868A1 EP15160037.6A EP15160037A EP2898868A1 EP 2898868 A1 EP2898868 A1 EP 2898868A1 EP 15160037 A EP15160037 A EP 15160037A EP 2898868 A1 EP2898868 A1 EP 2898868A1
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lift device
bath lift
chassis
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backrest
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Michael Kimmerle
Anne-Kristin Klockow
Kathrin König
Robert Kempter
Manfred Knitz
Martin Wirth
David Hruza
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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
    • A61G7/1049—Attachment, suspending or supporting means for patients
    • A61G7/1059—Seats
    • 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
    • A61G7/1073—Parts, details or accessories
    • A61G7/1074—Devices foldable for storage

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  • the present invention relates to a bath lift device for raising and lowering persons into or out of a bathtub, said device including a chassis adapted to rest, in use, on a floor of the bathtub and a slideably supported seat adapted to be moveable between a raised position, in which the seat is correctly positioned to permit a person standing outside the bathtub to sit inside said seat, and a lowered position, in which said seat is positioned at the bottom of the bathtub.
  • Bath lift devices have been widely used for aged or disabled people as a convenient means for entering or leaving a bathtub.
  • a conventional bath lift device comprises two main parts, a fixed part resting, in use, on a floor of the bathtub and a moveable part including the seat.
  • the bath lift device uses a pair of guide pillars extending from the chassis onto which is slideably mountable a seat having a backrest from the rear of which extend a pair of guide collars dimensioned to be received on the guide pillars.
  • the seat can be raised relative to the chassis till the guide collars are disconnected from the guide pillars.
  • a bath aid formed by a seat arrangement, comprising a seat, a backrest and a seat frame supporting the seat, and a single vertical guiding rail extending rearward to the backrest.
  • the seat arrangement is lowered and raised by a hoist, supported at its lower end by a lateral extension part of the guiding rail.
  • Two guiding rollers are pivotally mounted on the seat frame, one roller being supported on the side of the guiding rail facing the seat arrangement and the other roller being supported on the side of the guiding rail facing away from the seat arrangement.
  • the guiding rail is part of an inverted U-shaped framework fixed to the bath.
  • the sitting arrangement and the guiding rail are only connected at two vertically shifted points. Therefore, the sitting position is not stable due to the possibility for the seat to tilt laterally. Moreover, the probability that the single guiding rail breaks during use is very high. Finally, to install the seat arrangement on the guiding rail or to separate the seat arrangement from the guiding rail, a pivotable latch connecting the rollers to the seat frame must be opened so as to permit the sliding downward or upward displacement of the seat arrangement. This implies that a dismantling operation must be made, rendering these operations rather complex to do.
  • the aim of the present invention is therefore to provide a bath lift device in which the fixed part and the moveable part can be easily separated or connected together, in which the moveable part can be easily raised or lowered relative to the fixed part, in which the sitting position of the user is stable and in which the probability of a break of the elements constituting the bath lift device is low.
  • a further aim of the present invention is also to provide a bath lift device easy and cheap to manufacture and lightweight.
  • the present invention is concerned with a bath lift device for raising and lowering persons into or out of a bathtub comprising two independent parts that can be easily separated:
  • the bath lift device 1 of the present invention mainly includes a fixed part 10 including a chassis 11-14 adapted to rest, in use, on a floor of the bathtub and a moveable part 20 including a seat frame 21 supporting a seat plate 22 and a backrest 23, said seat frame 21 being moveable upward and downward relative to the chassis 11-14 via a lifting means 24.
  • the chassis 11-14 comprises two tubular upright elements 11 parallel to each other and extending, in use, in an approximately vertical direction. Said upright elements 11 are connected to their lower ends to a U-shaped element 14 via two connecting elements 13, said U-shaped element 14 extending, in use, in an approximately horizontal direction.
  • each connecting element 13 is advantageously connected to said U-shaped element 14 so as to be positioned between an end section 14' of said U-shaped element 14 and the rest of said U-shaped element 14.
  • each connecting element 13 could be connected at one end of said U-shaped element 14, an additional tubular element being connected to said connecting element 13 so as to form the end section 14' of Figure 2 .
  • said connecting elements 13 are joined by a lateral rod 13' extending between the two lateral flanges of the U-shaped element 14.
  • said upright elements 11 are also joined at their upper ends by a lateral element 12.
  • said lateral element 12 consists in a curved tubular element 31 connected at its ends 32 to the two upper ends of the upright elements 11.
  • Said curved element 31 is shaped so as to define an upper open area 33, delimited by the internal borders 34 of the curved element 31 and by the segment 35 joining said ends 32 in the plane defined the curved element 31.
  • each suction cup 15 comprises a central section 16 fixedly connected to the U-shaped element 14 at its upper face, said section 16 having on its underface a concavity which acts as a sucker for temporarily connect said cup 15 to the floor of the bathtub.
  • Each suction cup 15 comprises also at least one, but preferably two, peelable release tab 17 externally extending from the periphery of the central section 16, said tab 17 releasing the suction between the suction cup 15 and the floor of the bathtub when its free end 18 is raised.
  • said tab 17 is equipped with a tubular section 18 at its free end. This tubular section 18 is configured so as to be entirely introduced inside a hole 19 formed in the underneath face of the U-shaped element 14 when the tab 17 is elastically twisted so as to align the longitudinal axis of said tubular section 18 with the longitudinal axis of the upright elements 11.
  • Said tubular section 18 is also configured so as to be temporarily connected to said U-shaped element 14 when its longitudinal axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the upright elements 11.
  • one solution consists in configuring said tubular section 18 so that its length is greater than the diameter of said hole 19.
  • the moveable part 20 comprises a seat frame 21 formed by a first part 21', extending, in use, in an approximately horizontal direction, and by a second part 21", extending, in use, in an approximately vertical direction, said first part 21' supporting the seat plate 22 and said second part 21" supporting the backrest 23.
  • Said first part 21' is configured as a U-shaped element and said second part 21" is configured as a pair of parallel upright elements fixedly connected at their lower ends to the U-shaped element.
  • each upright element 21" is advantageously formed by a lower longitudinal section 21 "(a) and an upper longitudinal section 21 “(b), said sections 21 “(a) and 21 “(b) defining an approximately triangular form with the backrest 23.
  • Said seat frame 21 is moveable upward and downward relative to the chassis 11-14 via a lifting means 24 arranged on the rear of the backrest 23.
  • the moveable part 20 comprises also two pairs of guiding rollers 25 rotatably connected to the upright elements 21" of said seat frame 21, each pair being slideably mounted onto one upright element 11 of the chassis 11-14 and the guiding rollers 25 of each pair being disposed, in use, on opposite sides of said one upright element 11.
  • the guiding rollers 25 of each pair are advantageously positioned on the external lateral side of the lower section 21 "(a) of one upright element 21" such that the axes of rotation of said guiding rollers 25 are separated by a distance d, said distance d being greater than the diameter of the upright element 11, on which they are slideably mounted.
  • the angle ⁇ between the plane containing said axes and the longitudinal axis defined by the upright element 11, on which they are slideably mounted is, in use, different from 90°.
  • this configuration defines a four-points connection between the moveable part 20 and the fixed part 10 which confers a more stable sitting position for the user compared to the two-points connection when ⁇ is equal to 90°.
  • the distance d will be advantageously chosen such that said angle ⁇ is, in use, less than 45 degrees, and preferably less than 25 degrees. Indeed, by diminishing the angle ⁇ , which corresponds to an increased distance d, it is easier for the user to install the moveable part 20 on the fixed part 10 when said moveable part 20 is initially separated from said fixed part 10.
  • the user positions the moveable part 20 relative to the fixed part 10 so that the angle ⁇ is greater than its value when the bath lift device 1 is in use and, in a second step, he lowers the moveable part 20 so that said moveable part 20 reaches a position limit and so that both upright elements 11 are continuously surrounded at two opposite sides by the guiding rollers 25 of each pair and, in a final step, he turns the moveable part 20 round so that the angle ⁇ reaches its value when the bath lift device 1 is in use.
  • the upper rollers 25 of each pair, and respectively the lower rollers 25 of each pair are advantageously joined by an axle 26 extending, in use, in an approximately horizontal direction.
  • a seat frame 21 comprising upright elements 21" that are completely straight.
  • one guiding roller 25 of each pair will be connected to one upright element 21" by a lateral connecting rod extending in a close to perpendicular direction with regard to said upright element 21".
  • the lifting means 24 used in the present invention will be configured so as to be lightweight and space-saving. Without to be bound by this specific solution, it will be advantageous to use a lifting means as described in the Canadian patent application CA 2 397 503 . In particular, such a lifting means prevents that a body part of a bathing person is trapped when the seat plate is moving downward. Accordingly, the lifting means 24 includes an outer spindle 24' within which is received a linearly extendable inner spindle tube (not shown), said outer spindle tube 24' being fixedly connected to the seat frame 21 and said inner spindle tube being supported at its lower end 24" by the chassis 11-14.
  • said lower end 24" can be shaped as a fork adapted to be removably connected to the lateral rod 13' of the chassis 11-14.
  • Said inner spindle is linearly extendable via an actuating means (not shown) contained within a housing 29, said housing 29 being fixedly connected to the rear of the backrest 23.
  • the outer spindle tube 24' is connected to the axle 26 joining the lower rollers 25 of each pair. This connection is advantageously done by a clamping ring 27.
  • said clamping ring 27 comprises a tubular section 40 inside which is received the outer spindle tube 24', said tubular section 40 comprising a radial aperture 41.
  • the tubular section 40 is extended by two longitudinal sections 42, each section 42 comprising a pair of threaded holes 43 configured to join both sections 42 by two bolts (not shown).
  • each section 42 comprising a pair of threaded holes 43 configured to join both sections 42 by two bolts (not shown).
  • On the radially opposite side of the tubular section 40 with regard to said sections 42 extend two parallel flanges 44 from the periphery of said tubular section 40.
  • Each flange 44 comprises a hole 45 adapted to receive the axle 26.
  • said section 40 is advantageously formed by a first tubular section 46 and a second tubular section 47, said first section 46 having an internal diameter less than the internal diameter of said section 47.
  • Said first section 46 is configured so as to be received inside a corresponding groove (not shown) of said outer spindle tube 24'.
  • the depth of said groove will be advantageously greater than the difference between the internal diameters of said second section 47 and said first section 46.
  • two extension plates 28 can be pivotally connected on both lateral ends of the seat plate 22, said extension plates 28 being configured so as to rest on the rim of the bathtub when the moveable part 20 is positioned in a raised position so that the user can easily sit inside the bath lift device 1. Therefore, when said moveable part 20 is lowered, said extension plates 28 are folded up so as to be positioned inside the bathtub.
  • the backrest 23 comprises at least one rib 23', and preferably two ribs at both left and right sides of said backrest 23, said rib 23' extending in a perpendicular direction with regard to the rear of the backrest 23 and being approximately aligned, in use, with one upright element 11 of the chassis 11-14.
  • Said rib 23 is adapted to contact said upright element 11 when the moveable part 20 is tilting backwards with regard to the fixed part 10.
  • Such a situation can occur when the lower end 24" of the inner spindle tube of the lifting means 24 is no more supported by the chassis 11-14. Therefore, such a configuration improves the safety of the bath lift device 1 as a whole.

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EP10153361A EP2359793A1 (fr) 2010-02-11 2010-02-11 Dispositif pour soulever une baignoire
EP11707485.6A EP2533746B1 (fr) 2010-02-11 2011-02-11 Dispositif elevateur pour une baignoire
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WO1991011133A1 (fr) * 1990-01-30 1991-08-08 Anscombe Black William Alexand Ensemble de siege de baignoire
GB2344047A (en) * 1998-11-27 2000-05-31 Sunrise Medical Ltd Lifting device for use in a bath
EP1057467A1 (fr) 1999-06-02 2000-12-06 Dieter Gobbers Dispositif d'aide pour entrer ou sortir d'une baignoire
CA2397503A1 (fr) 2001-08-21 2003-02-21 Aquatec Gmbh & Co. Kg Appareil de levage de baignoire pour personnes agees et handicapees
WO2005065621A2 (fr) 2004-01-08 2005-07-21 Mountway Limited Ameliorations apportees aux sieges elevateurs de bain

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SE522825C2 (sv) * 2003-05-05 2004-03-09 Arjo Hospital Equipment Ab Patientstol med sits förskjutbar i höjdled

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WO1991011133A1 (fr) * 1990-01-30 1991-08-08 Anscombe Black William Alexand Ensemble de siege de baignoire
GB2344047A (en) * 1998-11-27 2000-05-31 Sunrise Medical Ltd Lifting device for use in a bath
EP1057467A1 (fr) 1999-06-02 2000-12-06 Dieter Gobbers Dispositif d'aide pour entrer ou sortir d'une baignoire
CA2397503A1 (fr) 2001-08-21 2003-02-21 Aquatec Gmbh & Co. Kg Appareil de levage de baignoire pour personnes agees et handicapees
WO2005065621A2 (fr) 2004-01-08 2005-07-21 Mountway Limited Ameliorations apportees aux sieges elevateurs de bain

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EP2359793A1 (fr) 2011-08-24
WO2011098974A3 (fr) 2011-11-10
EP2533746A2 (fr) 2012-12-19

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