JPS6462161A - Bathing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce bodily and personal load required in the entrance and exit of a bathing person to a bathtub, by supporting the bathtub around a horizontal rotary shaft in a freely inclining and returning state and arranging a bathing stand on the opening side of the bathtub in the inclined state of the bathtub and rotationally returning the bathtub from the inclined state. CONSTITUTION:A bathing apparatus is moved to a position where a hot water cock and a water cock are arranged to bring a bathtub to an inclined state and a bathing person enters between the opening 5 of the bathtub and a chair 6 in this state to sit down on the chair 6. Subsequently, when the edge part of the bathtub 1 is held to rotate the bathtub 1 in the direction shown by an arrow, the edge part 10 of the lower side of the bathtub 1 passes between a floor surface and the toe of the bathing person and further passes through the gap 11 between the backrest 7 of the chair 6 and an arm part 9 and a projection 12 is engaged with a pawl member 13. By this mechanism, the bathtub 1 becomes a return state permitting bathing. When the discharge of the hot water in the bathtub 1 is finished, now, a cable 16 is pulled downwardly to release the engagement of the pawl member 13 and the projection 12 and the bathtub 1 is rotated in the direction shown by an arrow to be again returned to the inclined state. Then, the bathing person stands up from the chair 6 and passes between the bathtub opening 5 and the chair 6 to exit to the outside.