JP2006025859A - Rock bathing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rock bathing apparatus which can offer a proper rock bathing in a familiar place such as a household or an institution. <P>SOLUTION: A bed for the rock bathing A comprises a heat source 2, a steam heat generating section 4 wherein the stored steamy water 3 is heated by the heat source 2 and a porous rock 5 which executes the heat conduction of the steam heat generated in the steam heat generating section 4. In addition to this, the porous rock 5 having projections 12 and recesses 13 as the means to stimulate the point is also provided. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  Here, the bedrock bath refers to a steam bath that lies on the bedrock where steam spouts in the hot spring area and applies fumes to the affected area, and the present invention enables the same function as the bedrock bath to be obtained at home. Relates to the device.

JP-A-2004-130047 (bedrock bath bed and chair using tourmaline ore) is disclosed as a technique related to the bedrock bath. The technology uses the negative ions and far-infrared effect generated from the ore by heating the tourmaline ore by floor heating, but it is not a bedrock bath by hot spring heat steam. Moreover, since the rock mass which hardened tourmaline ore with mortar etc. is flat, the effect of acupuncture stimulation is not expected.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-130047

  An object of the present invention is to provide a bedrock bath device that can bathe the original bedrock bath in a familiar place such as a home or facility.

The rock mass bath apparatus according to claim 1 includes a heat source part, a steam heat generating part heated by the heat source part, and a porous rock mass that conducts heat of the steam generated in the steam heat generating part.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, an acupoint stimulating means is provided on the porous rock mass of the first rock mass bath apparatus.

  According to the bedrock apparatus described in claim 1, the body or the affected part is warmed by the steam squirting from the porous bedrock, like the bedrock bath in the hot spring resort, and the steam is stored in the steam heat generating part. Since the heated hot spring water and mineral spring water are heated, the thermal treatment effect by the minerals and medicinal components contained therein and the bathing mood of the hot spring resort, that is, the psychological treatment effect is given. Moreover, in the bedrock bath apparatus of Claim 2, the acupuncture points of the body are pressed while sleeping by the acupuncture stimulation means, and there is a further therapeutic effect.

  The porous bedrock used in the bedrock bath apparatus of the present invention is a porous molded body made of material through which steam circulates or a fired body of coal ash discharged from a thermal power plant. In the former case, the steam is steam that rises from the upper surface of the bathtub through the porous bedrock, and the latter is in the latter case. Although it is supplied from a boiler via required piping, an electric heater can also be used as a heat source. The acupoint stimulating means is a convex portion or a concave portion directly formed on the surface of the porous rock mass, or a convex portion or a concave portion formed on a porous mat attached to the surface of the porous rock mass.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the embodiment of the rock bath apparatus A of the present invention heats a heat source part 2 by a gas burner 1, and hot spring water and mineral spring water (hereinafter referred to as evaporated water 3) accommodated by the heat source part 2. The steam heat generating unit 4 and the porous rock mass 5 that conducts the steam heat generated by the steam heat generating unit 4. Gas is supplied to the gas burner 1 from a gas pipe 7 that is opened and closed by a cock 6, and exhaust gas is discharged from an exhaust pipe 8. The steam heat generator 4 is provided with a drain pipe 10 that is opened and closed by a drain cock 9 and a water supply pipe 11 that is opened and closed by a cock 6, and the gas burner 1 is controlled by an air blow prevention device (not shown). Evaporated water 3 fed from is heated by a gas burner 1 and its vapor is discharged as steam from the entire surface of the porous rock 5. Since the convex portion 12 and the concave portion 13 are provided as acupuncture stimulating means on the surface of the porous rock mass 5, when the body is rested or the affected area is applied thereto, the same effect as the rock bath in the hot spring resort can be obtained. . A more effective effect can be obtained by applying the vase of the human body.

  In addition, if the porous bedrock 5 is in a form that can be fitted and placed in a general bathtub (not shown), it can be easily bathed in a bedrock bath at home. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, when a porous mat 14 having a convex portion 12 and a concave portion 13 formed on the upper surface is slidably fitted to the surface of the porous rock 5, a clean feeling can be obtained and hygiene can be maintained.

  Even in a hot spring resort, there is a limit to the bathing time, and it is difficult to warm a local affected area beyond the above time. In the present invention, the steam can be directly bathed in a locally affected area without time limit, and therefore it can be used for welfare for the elderly.

Explanatory drawing of the bedrock bath apparatus A of this invention. The longitudinal cross-sectional view which shows the other embodiment of the point stimulation means in a porous rock mass.

Explanation of symbols

1: Gas burner 2: Heat source part 3: Evaporated water 4: Steam heat generating part 5: Porous rock mass 6: Cock 7: Gas pipe 8: Exhaust pipe 9: Drain cock 10: Drain pipe 11: Water supply pipe 12: Convex part 13: Recess 14: Porous mat A: Bedrock bath

Claims (2)

  A bedrock bath device comprising a heat source section, a steam heat generating section heated by the heat source section, and a porous rock mass that conducts heat of the steam generated in the steam heat generating section. 2. The rock mass bath apparatus according to claim 1, wherein acupoint stimulation means is disposed on the porous rock mass.

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