JP2013042944A - Foot bathing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a foot bathing device for enabling a bather to not only immerse feet in hot water but also obtain a massage effect.SOLUTION: The foot bathing device includes: a seat part 22 where a bather sits; a foot bathing part for housing the feet of the bather sitting on the seat part 22 and accumulating hot water; and a shower device 5 for jetting hot water toward the feet of the bather sitting on the seat part 22.

Description

  The present invention relates to a foot bath device.

  A bathing bath is known in which the bather does not bathe in the whole body but bathes only in the foot. This is a foot bath device for foot bath, which has a seat where the bather sits, and a foot bath that holds the feet of the bather sitting on the seat and stores hot water, and the bather sits on the seat In addition, a foot bath is performed by immersing the foot in hot water of the foot bath (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2008-61978 A

  However, in the conventional foot bath, the bather only immerses the foot in hot water, and the massage effect cannot be obtained.

  The present invention was invented in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and the object of the present invention is to provide a foot bath device that not only allows the bather to immerse the foot in hot water, but also provides a massage effect. Is an issue.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has the following configuration.

  A seat where a bather sits, a foot bath that houses the bather's feet seated on the seat and stores hot water, and spouts hot water toward the bather's feet seated on the seat A shower device.

  Moreover, it is also preferable that the upper surface of the bottom part of the said foot bath part becomes a flat surface.

  The foot bath device of the present invention not only allows the bather to immerse the foot in hot water, but also provides a massage effect.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The foot bath apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention is shown, (a) is a schematic sectional side view including a bather, (b) is a top view, (c) is the front view seen from the front. It is a sectional side view explaining the case where a foot bath is performed in the same as the above. It is a sectional side view explaining the case where a dry type warm bath is combined in the same as the above.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the foot bath device includes a cover portion 1 having a substantially elliptical cylindrical shape in a plan view with the upper and lower sides as an axial direction. As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1C, the cover 1 has an upper edge that is inclined in the major axis direction (front-rear direction) in a plan view, and an opening at the lower end is closed by a bottom surface. It opens to. The covering portion 1 is for covering the whole body of the bather when the bather performs a dry warm bath without bathing, and a pedestal portion 20 for forming the seat portion 22 is provided therein. It is done.

  As shown in FIG. 1 (b), the pedestal portion 20 has an end with a lower upper end edge (referred to as front F) from an end portion with a higher upper end edge in the front-rear direction (referred to as rear B). It has a height of about 20 to 40 cm from the bottom surface before the part (from the front end of the front-rear length to about 1/3). And the upper surface of this base part 20 becomes the seat part 22, and the front side surface becomes the calf part 23 where the calf of the bather sitting on the seat part 22 facing forward is located. Moreover, the inner surface located above the base part 20 of the rear end part of the cover part 1 serves as a backrest part 21 where the back of the seated bather is located, and the front base part 20 of the bottom part is not formed. The upper surface of the part becomes the sole part 24 where the sole of the bather who is seated is located.

  In addition, the space surrounded by the front part of the pedestal part 20 of the cover part 1 and the calf part 23 is a hot water pool part where bath water is filled and a seated bather as shown in FIG. It becomes the foot bath part 3 in which the foot part (the part below the calf) is accommodated. Moreover, the upper surface of the bottom part of the foot bath part 3 (that is, the upper surface of the sole part 24) is a horizontal and flat surface (flat surface), and the bather puts his feet on the upper surface of the bottom part of the foot bath part 3. You can also take a foot bath while standing. In the foot bath part 3, the front end part where the upper end edge of the cover part 1 is the lowest becomes an overflow part 31, and the overflow part 31 is located below the seat part 22. Moreover, the discharge port (not shown) which discharges the hot water collected in the foot bath part 3 is formed, and the stopper (not shown) which can be opened and closed is provided in the discharge port.

  The foot bath device of the present embodiment is provided with a heater 4, and various heaters including a PTC heater can be used as the heater 4, and are not particularly limited. This heater 4 is provided in a backrest heater 41 provided in the backrest portion 21, a seat heater 42 provided in the seat portion 22, a calf portion heater 43 provided in the calf portion 23, and a sole portion 24. The heater 4 is not exposed on the surface. These heaters 4 are electrically connected to a power supply unit (not shown) provided in the pedestal unit 20 and generate heat with power supplied from the power supply unit. The power supply unit uses a commercial power supply or the like as a power supply source.

  Moreover, the shower apparatus 5 is provided in the foot bath apparatus of this embodiment. In the present embodiment, the shower device 5 includes a water supply pipe 51 and a hot water supply pipe 52, a hot and cold water mixing apparatus 53, a pump 54, a switching valve 55, a nozzle 56, and a pipe connecting them. The upstream side of the water supply pipe 51 is connected to a water supply or the like, and the upstream side of the hot water supply pipe 52 is connected to a water heater or the like, and an opening / closing valve (not shown) and a flow rate adjustment valve (not shown) are appropriately provided in the middle. The hot-water mixing device 53 mixes water from the water supply pipe 51 and hot water from the hot-water supply pipe 52 to produce hot water, and includes a control unit (not shown) composed of a microcomputer. The flow rate adjusting valve is controlled to produce a desired amount of hot water having a desired temperature.

  The nozzle 56 includes at least a calf part nozzle 562 provided in the calf part 23. In this embodiment, the nozzle 56 further includes a backrest nozzle 561 provided in the backrest part 21, and hot water is forwarded from the nozzle 56 by driving the pump 54. Erupts towards Further, the switching valve 55 can be ejected from any one or both of the backrest nozzle 561 and the calf nozzle 562, and the pump 54 and the switching valve 55 are controlled by a control unit (not shown) including a microcomputer. . This control unit may be the same as the control unit of the hot and cold mixing device 53. Moreover, you may provide a filter etc. in the middle of piping.

  In the foot bath apparatus as described above, as shown in FIG. 2, a bather becomes a bare foot with clothes and sits on the seat portion 22 and performs a foot shower in which hot water is ejected from the calf nozzle 562. . Thereby, the spouted hot water collides with a bather's foot (calf), and the bather can obtain a massage effect of the foot.

  Moreover, if hot water accumulates in the foot bath part 3 and foot shower stops, a foot part will be immersed in the hot water of the foot bath part 3, and it will become a normal foot bath.

  Further, hot water may be accumulated in the foot bath part 3 and the foot shower may be continued. Since hot water from the calf nozzle 562 is spouted into the hot water accumulated in the foot bath part 3, hot water is accumulated in the foot bath part 3. Although it is slightly weaker than the case without it, a massage effect can be obtained. And the hot water overflows from the overflow part 31, the hot water surface does not reach the seat part 22, and the clothes of the bather sitting are not wet.

  Further, in addition to a foot shower or a foot bath, as shown in FIG. 3, it is possible to combine a dry warm bath appropriately using any one or a plurality of heaters 4. Foot bathing is possible.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, by forming the cover 1 in a substantially oval cylindrical shape in plan view, the bather can recall the cradle and cradle and feel that they are gently wrapped and relaxed. Effects can also be obtained.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cover part 20 Base part 21 Back part 22 Seat part 23 Calf part 24 Foot part 3 Foot bath part 4 Heater 41 Back part heater 42 Seat part heater 43 Calf part heater 44 Foot part heater 5 Shower device 51 Water supply pipe 52 Hot water pipe 52 53 Hot Water Mixing Device 54 Pump 55 Switching Valve 56 Nozzle 561 Backrest Nozzle 562 Calf Nozzle

Claims (2)

  A seat where a bather sits, a foot bath that houses the bather's feet seated on the seat and stores hot water, and spouts hot water toward the bather's feet seated on the seat A foot bath device comprising a shower device.   The foot bath device according to claim 1, wherein an upper surface of a bottom portion of the foot bath portion is a flat surface.

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