JPH10277119A - Bathing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a lot of persons to have a bath efficiently in a short time by providing a plurality of bath wheelchairs and providing a plurality of bath wheelchair seat part receivers on the bottom faces of bathtub main bodies. SOLUTION: Bathtub main bodies 5, 5 are provided parallel to each other in a bath room 2 and a lifter 3 is provided in an intermediate position between the bathtub main bodies 5, 5. A seat part receiver 30 for fixing a seat part 11 of a bath wheelchair 1 is provided on the bottom face of the bathtub main body 5. A person who washes the body beforehand is made to seat on the bath wheelchair 1 and the wheelchair is moved to a position A together with the bathing person. Secondly, the seat part, 11 of the bath wheelchair 1 is lifted by a lifter 3 together with the bathing person, moved into one bathtub main body 5, and fixed to a seat part, receiver 30. In the same way, the following bathing person is fixed to the seat part receiver 30 of the other bathtub main body 5 together with the seat part 11. The two bathing persons is thus allowed to have a bath at the same time.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bathing apparatus mainly used for bathing a physically handicapped person or an elderly person.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a bathing device for bathing a physically handicapped person or the like, the following lift type bathing device is known. This lift type bathing apparatus is composed of a bathing wheelchair that can be separated vertically, a lifter whose pivot arm is provided so as to be able to move up and down and can pivot horizontally, and a bathtub body. Then, the tip of the swing arm of the lifter is engaged with the seat of the bathing wheelchair on which the bather is seated via the engaging portion, the seat is separated from the lower leg, and the lifter is separated. The bather is driven to lift the bather together with the seat to a predetermined height.In this state, the swivel arm is swiveled to bring the bather right above the bathtub body, and then the swivel arm is lowered and the bather is seated together with the seat. By immersing in the body,
It is intended to put a physically handicapped person in a bathing state.

[0003]

However, this type of conventional bathing apparatus has the following disadvantages. That is, basically, one bathtub main body corresponds to one lifter. Therefore, only one person can take a bath with a disabled person or the like by one lift,
There was a drawback that the work efficiency during bathing was poor. In particular, there is a disadvantage that it takes a long time to bathe a large number of bathers.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to improve the work efficiency at the time of bathing by efficiently using one lifter, and there are many bathers. It is an object of the present invention to provide a bathing device that can shorten bathing time even in such a case. It is another object of the present invention to provide a bathing apparatus that can widely use the inside of a bathtub body during normal bathing while securing a space for inserting a lifter into the bathtub body when necessary.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a bathing wheelchair in which a lower leg and an upper seat are separable, and a supporting column which moves up and down. A lifter provided with a pivoting arm that is rotatable in the horizontal direction and provided at the tip of a swivel arm to engage with a seat of the bathing wheelchair; and the bathing wheelchair lifted by the swiveling arm of the lifter. The bath apparatus comprises a bathtub body for turning the bather seated on the seat into a bathing state by being swung down and lowered by a predetermined angle with the bather placed on the upper side of the seat. A plurality of bathing wheelchairs are provided, and a plurality of seat receivers for fixing a seat of the bathing wheelchair are provided on a bottom surface of the bathtub body. According to the above invention, the engagement portion provided at the tip of the swing arm of the lifter is engaged with the seat portion of the bathing wheelchair, and after separating the seating portion of the bathing wheelchair from the lower leg portion, the lifter is removed. The bather is driven to lift the bather up to a predetermined height together with the seat portion of the bathing wheelchair, and in this state the swivel arm is swiveled to bring the bather right above the bathtub body, and then the swivel arm is lowered to lower the bathtub into the bathtub. Transfer to the seat receiver on the bottom of the main unit. As a result, the physically disabled person or the like on the seat is brought into a bathing state. At this time, the engaging portion at the tip of the turning arm is removed from the seat, and the lifter is returned to the initial state. Then, the bather sitting on the next bathing wheelchair is immersed in the bathtub body with the seat in the same procedure as described above. In this way, a plurality of bathers can be bathed at the same time while using one lifter. In the invention according to claim 2, a plurality of the bathtub main bodies are provided, and the seat receiver is provided on a bottom surface of each bathtub main body. Thus, the bather can be simultaneously intruded into a plurality of bathtub bodies and bathed by one lifter. In the invention according to claim 3, the lifter is arranged between the plurality of bathtub bodies. Thereby, one lifter can be used efficiently. In the invention described in claim 4, the seat receiver is such that a movable frame connected to the seat is slidable on a base provided on a bottom surface of the bathtub body along a length direction or a width direction of the base. It is characterized by being provided in. This allows the movable frame to slide so that the tip of the swing arm of the lifter is inserted into one side of the bathtub body when the seat portion is penetrated into the bathtub body by the lifter or when the seat portion is removed from the bathtub body. Can be secured. After the bather enters the bathtub body, there is no need to secure a space for inserting the tip of the swivel arm, so the movable frame is slid in the direction opposite to the above. Thereby, the inside of a bathtub main body can be used widely.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A bathing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. A bathing apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of bathing wheelchairs 1, a lifter 3 provided upright in a bathroom 2, and a bathtub body 5 for bathing a bather such as a physically handicapped person with the seat 11 of the bathing wheelchair 1. It is roughly composed of

In the bathing wheelchair 1, a lower leg 10 and an upper seat 11 are separable. That is,
As shown in FIG. 3, the bathing wheelchair has, as shown in FIG. 3, a leg 10 having a pipe material incorporated in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and having casters 10a at the lower end, a seat body 11a formed integrally with a resin back and seat, and And a seat portion 11 composed of a frame 11b supporting the leg portion, the leg portion 10 and the seat portion 11 are usually connected by a lock mechanism (not shown), and only when the connection by the lock mechanism is released. It is configured to be separable. The frame 11b of the seat portion 11 is provided with an engaged portion 11c which is locked by an engaging portion 12 provided at the tip of the turning arm 21 of the lifter 3. As the engaged portion 11c, for example, a bar or the like extending in the lateral direction as shown in FIG. 4 is used. In addition, 13 is a footrest, 14 is a slidable footrest, 15 is a handrail, and 16 is a push handle.

[0008] The lifter 3 comprises a support 2 erected in a bathroom.
0, a turning arm 21 provided on the column 20 so as to be able to move up and down and turn in the horizontal direction, and a drive mechanism 22 for moving the turning arm 21 up and down. Post 20 and swivel arm 21
A rotation locking mechanism (not shown) for determining the angular position of the turning arm 21 is provided between the turning arm 21 and the turning arm 21. For example, when the turning arm 21 is turned manually to the right or left in FIG. When the rotation position of the rotation arm 21 is appropriately reached, the rotation locking mechanism automatically operates to lock the turning arm 21 at that position. Swivel arm 21
A hydraulic or hydraulic cylinder, a combination of a hydraulic motor and a screw mechanism, or the like is used as the drive mechanism 22 for raising and lowering the motor.

As shown in FIG. 4, a hanging arm 23 for hanging a seat is attached to the tip of the turning arm 21. The engaging portion 12 is attached to the hanging arm 23. In this embodiment, the turning arm 21 is turned manually in the horizontal direction. However, the turning arm 21 may be turned automatically using a drive source such as a hydraulic motor.

As shown in FIG. 1, two bathtub main bodies 5 are provided in the bathroom 2 in parallel with each other. And
The lifter 3 is provided at an intermediate position between the bathtub main bodies 5 provided in parallel. Both bathtub bodies 5 have the same configuration, and as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, are suspended by the hanging arm 23 attached to the tip of the turning arm 21 and the hanging arm 23. The seat portion 11 is sized so that a bather can enter the seat portion 11 while sitting on the seat portion 11.

A seat receiver 30 for fixing the seat 11 of the bathing wheelchair 1 is provided on the bottom surface of the bathtub body 5. The seat receiver 30 is composed of a base 31 and a movable frame 32, as shown in FIGS.
Both the bases 31 and the like are entirely rectangular. The base 31 is fixed to the bottom surface of the bathtub body 5 via fixing means such as bolts and nuts. The movable frame 32 has rollers 33a and 33b attached to the left and right, respectively.
By running on the rail 34 provided on the movable frame 1, the movable frame 32 is slidable in the vertical direction (the left-right direction in FIG. 1). A plurality of rollers 33a, 33
b, a large-diameter roller 33aa is attached to the outer side of the roller 33a located forward and backward.
This prevents the movable frame 32 from being shifted from the base 31 in the width direction (the left-right direction in FIG. 6).

The movable frame 32 is provided with fixing means 35 for fixing the seat 11 placed on the upper part. The fixing means 35 is provided at the front, rear, left and right of the movable frame 32 and receives a frame pipe 11d at the seat 11 side, and a rod 11e provided at substantially the center of the movable frame 32 and positioned at the seat 11 side. And a hook 35c that engages with the lock pin 11f of the seat 11.

According to the fixing means 35, when the seat 11 is lowered after being roughly positioned on the movable frame 31, the frame pipe 11d on the seat 11 side is received by the pipe receiver 35a so that the movable frame 32 The V-shaped guide block 35b prevents the movable frame 32 from shifting in the front-rear direction by preventing the positioning rod 11e on the seat 11 side from shifting in the left-right direction. 6 slightly pivots counterclockwise in FIG. 6 around the pivot pin 11h against the spring 11g provided on the seat portion 11 to ride over the lower end of the inclined upper surface of the hook 35c. When the lock pin 11f is returned to the original position by the urging force of the spring 11g, the hook 35
c. To release the engagement between the seat 11 and the movable frame 32, the lock pin 11f is turned counterclockwise against the urging force of the spring 11g, and the seat 11 may be pulled upward in this state. .

The rollers 33a and 33b of the movable frame 32
L-shaped fittings 36, 36 are provided inside the
Lock fittings 37 are attached to 1 at positions corresponding to the L-shaped fittings 36. When the movable frame 32 is tilted in the left-right direction together with the seat 11 due to buoyancy or the like, the fittings 36 and 37 are engaged with each other, thereby preventing the movable frame 32 from being tilted.

Further, the movable frame 32 has a spring 39 interposed between the movable frame 32 and the base 31.
5 in the X direction (right direction) in FIG. Further, a locking mechanism 40 is provided between the movable frame 32 and the base 31, and when the movable frame 32 is moved in the Y direction in FIG. The frame 32 is stopped at a predetermined position. When the movable frame 32 is stopped by the stop mechanism 40 and the swing arm 21 positioned at a predetermined position on the lifter 3 side is lowered, the swing arm 21
The lifter 3 and the seat receiver 30 are positioned in advance so that the seat 11 engaged with the tip of the movable frame 32 is engaged with the movable frame 32 via the fixing means 35 as described above.

As shown in FIG. 7, a specific structure of the stop mechanism 40 is such that locking plates 42 and 42 are provided on a slider support cylinder 41 provided on the movable frame 32 side, while a base 31 is provided.
A piece 4 that rotates in one direction is provided on a slider 43 provided on the
When the piece 44 is rotated by manual operation, the piece 44 is alternately switched between a state in which the piece 44 is engaged with the locking plate 42 and a free state in which the engagement with the locking plate 42 is released. ing.

Next, the operation of the above bathtub apparatus will be described. After the bather whose body has been washed in advance is seated on the bathing wheelchair 1, or the bather is washed while seated on the bathing wheelchair 1, the bathing wheelchair 1 is put together with the bather in FIG.
Move to the position (a) as shown in (2).

Next, the turning arm 21 of the lifter 3 is turned to reach the intermediate position between the bathtub bodies 5 and 5 (b) in FIG. 1, and then the turning arm 21 is lowered, and the tip of the turning arm 21 is drooped. The one engaging portion 12 provided on the arm portion 23 is connected to the engaged portion 11c of the seat portion 11 of the bathing wheelchair 1.
To be engaged.

Next, a lock mechanism (not shown) between the seat portion 11 and the leg portion 10 of the bathing wheelchair is released, the seat portion 11 is released from the leg portion 10, and the lifter 3 is driven. Then, the seat 11 is lifted upward while the bather is seated. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, when the feet of the bather are lifted to such a height that they do not touch the side wall of the bathtub body 5, the ascent is stopped, and the turning arm 21 is manually turned.
The seat 11 and the bather sitting thereon are brought to the upper position (c) of the one bathtub body 5.

Next, the seat 11 is lowered. At this time, the foot support 14 of the seat 11 is slid forward so that the bather can easily take the posture in which the foot is thrown forward. In addition, the movable frame 32 on the base 31 on the bottom surface of the bathtub body 5 is biased in advance in the Y direction in FIG. 5 against the biasing force of the spring 39, and the movable frame 32 is brought to a predetermined position by the locking mechanism 40. Stop it. The reason why the movable frame 32 is moved in the Y direction in this way is to secure a space behind the movable frame 32 for inserting the hanging arm 23 at the tip of the turning frame 21.

When the seat 11 is lowered integrally with the bather by the above operation, the frame pipe 11 d on the seat 11 side is received by the pipe receiver 35 a as shown in FIG. 6, and the positioning on the seat 11 side is performed. The rod 11e is received by the V-shaped guide block 35b, and at the same time, the lock pin 11f engages with the hook 35c as shown in FIG. In this manner, the fixing means 35 automatically works to fix the seat 11 to the movable frame 32.

Next, the engagement between the engaging portion 12 at the tip of the turning arm 21 of the lifter 3 and the engaged portion 11c on the back side of the seat portion 11 is released, and the turning arm 21 is raised again. By turning 21, it is returned to the original position shown in FIG.

On the other hand, by lowering the seat 11 as described above, the bather sitting on the seat 11 can be brought into a bathing state. Thereafter, the movable frame 32 is moved in the Y direction. Locking mechanism 4 that stopped sliding
Cancel 0. Thereby, the movable frame 32 and the seat portion 11 on which the bather sits move in the X direction in FIG. 5 by the urging force of the spring 39 and stop at the position where the stopper comes into contact with the stopper 50. As a result of moving the movable frame 32 and the like rearward, the bather can obtain a wide space in front, and a comfortable bathing feeling can be obtained.

While taking a bath in one bathtub main body 5a, as shown in FIG. 1, a next bather is seated on another bathing wheelchair 1 and the above-mentioned operations (1) to (4) are roughly repeated. The bather can be brought into a bathing state by the bathtub body 5 (5b) on the other side in FIG. In this way, simultaneous bathing using both bathtub bodies 5 and 5 can be realized while using one lifter 3, and a large number of people can be bathed efficiently.

In order to take a bather out of the bath, the movable frame 32 and the lifter 3 may be operated in the opposite manner.

[0026]

[Modification] In the above-described embodiment, the two bathtub bodies 5,
5 is provided with a seat receiver 30 on each bottom surface 5a. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention is also applicable to a single bathtub body 5 in which a plurality of seat receivers 30 are disposed. Is applicable. In the above-described embodiment,
The movable frame 32 is slidable in the vertical direction with respect to the base 31, but is not limited thereto, and may be configured to slide in the width direction. In the above-described embodiment, the movable frame 32 is urged in one direction by the spring 39. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the movable frame 32 is moved in either the X direction or the Y direction in FIG. The movable frame 3 is also manually
2 may be moved.

[0027]

According to the first aspect of the invention, the engaging portion provided at the tip of the swing arm of the lifter is engaged with the seat of the bathing wheelchair, and the seating portion of the bathing wheelchair is connected to the lower leg. After being separated from the part, the lifter is driven to lift the bather to the predetermined height with the seat part of the bathing wheelchair, and in this state, the swivel arm is turned to bring the bather right above the bathtub body, and then turned While lowering the arm, the seat is transferred to the seat receiver on the bottom of the bathtub body so that a disabled person or the like on the seat is in a bathing state, and the engaging portion at the tip of the swing arm of the lifter is removed from the seat. After returning the lifter to the original position, the same procedure is performed on the bathing wheelchair in which the next bather is seated, so that the next bather can bathe.
In this manner, a plurality of bathers can be simultaneously bathed by one lifter.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, a plurality of bathtub bodies are provided, and the seat receivers are provided on the bottom surface of each bathtub body. It can be immersed and bathed.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the lifter is disposed between the plurality of bathtub bodies, one lifter can be used efficiently.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the movable frame connected to the seat is provided on the base fixed to the bottom surface of the bathtub body so as to be slidable in the length direction or the width direction of the base. When the seat is intruded into the bathtub body by the lifter, or when the seat is removed from the bathtub body by the lifter, the movable frame is slid so that the lifter pivots to one side of the bathtub body. While a space for inserting the tip of the arm can be secured, during normal bathing. By sliding the movable frame in the opposite direction to the above, the inside of the bathtub body can be widely used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIGS. 3A and 3B illustrate a bathing wheelchair used in the embodiment of the present invention, wherein FIG. 3A is a side view and FIG. 3B is a front view.

FIG. 4 is a side sectional view showing a bathing state according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing details of a seat receiver according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a front view showing details of a seat receiver according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of an A circle portion in FIG. 5;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bathing wheelchair 3 Lifter 5 Bathtub main body 5a Bottom of bathtub main body 10 Leg part 11 Seat part 12 Engaging part 30 Seat part receiving 31 Base 32 Movable frame

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A lower leg (10) and an upper seat (11).
And a tip of a swivel arm (21) provided on a column (20) so as to be able to move up and down and to be able to swivel in the horizontal direction. A lifter (3) provided with a mating engaging portion (12); and a seat portion of the bathing wheelchair suspended by the swivel arm of the lifter is turned by a predetermined angle while a bather is placed on the upper side thereof, and lowered. The bathtub body (5) which makes a bather sitting on the seat part take a bathing state by being performed.
In the bathing apparatus, a plurality of the bathing wheelchairs are provided, and a plurality of seat receivers (30) for fixing a seat of the bathing wheelchair are provided on a bottom surface (5a) of the bathtub body. A bathing device characterized by being used. 2. The bathing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said bathtub bodies are provided, and said seat receiver is provided on a bottom surface of each bathtub body. 3. The bathing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the lifter is disposed between the plurality of bathtub bodies. 4. The seat receiver has a movable frame (32) connected to the seat on a base (31) fixed to a bottom surface of the bathtub body along a length direction or a width direction of the base. The bathing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the bathing apparatus is slidably provided.