RU2496464C1 - Steam chamber - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medical equipment and aims at washing, conditioning and treating an individual with steam, herbal infusions and medicines both domiciliary, and in public places. A steam chamber comprises a deck-chair for placing the patient's body and a heater. The chamber represents a cup-shaped lead pipe provided with a heat resistant coating on the inside, and lying horizontally in a fire place. From the open end, the fire place comprises a projection whereon a deck-chair head is provided.

EFFECT: possibility to take various therapeutic procedures with the body position changed inside the steam chamber.

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Description

The invention relates to household appliances and medicine and relates to paired cameras of baths (saunas) for washing, hardening and treating the human body.

Famous Russian steam bath, dry Finnish sauna, oriental hamama with steam from a decoction of herbs and other public baths [1, 2]. They contain a twin chamber in the form of a room with patient shelves and a heater. The disadvantage of these baths is the need for the construction of special premises of a sufficiently large area and, as a consequence, the large time and energy consumption to achieve the set temperature in the steam chamber. The main drawback of the twin chambers of the well-known baths is that the patient’s head is in the upper, hottest zone, and the legs are in the lower cold zone, while the body needs an inverse temperature distribution.

Known baths with a pair of cameras in the form of a wooden barrel, equipped with a bench and a heater [3]. The heater can be placed both inside the barrel and outside, from where hot steam is supplied to the barrel [4]. The advantages of such cameras are small dimensions, the creation of more comfortable conditions for the patient’s head, which is located above the barrel, where the temperature is lower than inside. However, the legs are in the lower, cold zone of the barrel. In addition, a significant part of the patient’s body located on the seat is not exposed to hot air and steam, which weakens the therapeutic effect.

In medical institutions and sanatoriums, paired cameras are used in the form of a capsule with a lid for the patient’s entrance, a chair placed in it and a heater located inside [5, 6] or outside [1, p. 88] of the capsule. When the heater is placed outside the chamber, hot steam is supplied into it from an external source, which may also contain treatment mixtures. The patient's head is located outside the chamber, which provides it with a lower temperature than the body. However, the legs are in the lower, coldest zone. The disadvantage of the camera is the patient’s sitting position, which does not allow him to completely relax and turn around. In addition, almost half of the patient’s body lies on the seat and is not exposed to hot steam, herbs and medicines contained in it. In such a camera, you can not wash and steam with a broom.

In Russia, especially in the villages north of Moscow, the Russian stove was widely used as a pair chamber. It is drowned, coals and ash are removed, and straw or hay is laid under it, after which the furnace turns into a steam chamber. The patient climbs it with his feet forward, washes there from the basin, splashes water on the hot walls of the stove to create steam, whips it and just soars, lying on the bedding and putting his head on the sixth. The Russian stove provides an ideal temperature distribution, as the patient’s legs are located in the hottest zone in the depths of the chamber, and the head is in a cool place, on the sixth. The disadvantages of the stove as a twin chamber are the complexity of the preparation, the danger of ignition of the litter by accidentally remaining coal, the possibility of soot getting dirty by the brow of the stove.

The closest technical solution is a paired camera with a sunbed for placing the patient in a horizontal position and a heater [7]. The camera is a parallelepiped with an entrance window in the end wall and is equipped with guides along which the sunbed can move. The heater, which serves as the source of vaporization, is placed inside the chamber at its closed end. The advantage of the camera is the placement of the patient’s head outside the hot zone like a Russian stove, as well as the possibility of massage by moving the sunbed and rubbing the body against a massage device installed above it (for example, a broom). However, the prototype has serious drawbacks. Firstly, the patient in the steam room is in cramped conditions and cannot be whipped by a broom and wash himself with water. Secondly, the patient’s head is always outside the cell and he cannot breathe hot air and medicinal and aromatic preparations (for example, tincture of eucalyptus). Thirdly, the electric heater is located inside the chamber at the patient’s feet and therefore cannot evenly heat the entire steam room, and also creates the danger of electric shock and leg burns. Finally, the camera is complex structurally and has a high cost.

The objective of the invention is to remedy these shortcomings while maintaining the advantages of the prototype.

To solve this problem, a twin chamber with a sunbed placed in it and a heater are proposed. Unlike the prototype, the camera is made in the form of a metal cup lying in the furnace of the furnace with an internal heat-resistant coating. From the side of the open end of the glass, the furnace has a protrusion on which the head of the sunbed is located. The entrance to the steam chamber through the open end of the glass is partially closed by the masonry of the stove and wooden sashes.

The technical result achieved by the combination of distinctive features consists in the possibility of long-term adoption of various bath and therapeutic procedures with a change in body position inside the pair chamber body. The camera provides the patient with the opportunity not only to lie down, but also to sit for washing with water and working with a broom. Heater - the furnace is located outside the chamber, which ensures safety, uniform heating of the steam room and long-term preservation of high temperature in it.

The paired camera device is shown in the drawing.

The paired chamber 1 has the form of a metal cup, which is mounted horizontally or with a slight slope down the open end in the furnace of furnace 2. In chamber 1 there is a sunbed 3, on which the patient is placed. The chamber is made of a piece of metal pipe with a diameter of about 1.5 m and a length of 2.0 m (for example, a steel pipe for oil and gas pipelines). One end of the pipe is sealed with a lid. The inner surface of the thus formed glass is covered with glass enamel or other heat-resistant coating. The stove is heated by wood, coal, gas or other fuels. The camera lies on the brickwork of the furnace inside its firebox. From the open end of the glass, the furnace has a protrusion 4, which plays the role of a six in the Russian furnace, on which the head of the sunbed 3 is located. The inlet of the furnace 5 is located on the opposite side from the chamber entrance, and the chimney 6 is above it. The masonry of the furnace partially closes the entrance 7 to the steam chamber, forming a brow 8, which prevents the exit of hot air through it. The entrance to the chamber may additionally be closed with wooden sashes not shown in the drawing. The upper wall 9 of the furnace 2 from the outside can be covered with tiles or polished stone, which allows it to be used to relax the patient. Retractable wooden sunbed 3 is equipped with a headrest or pillow 10. If you want wet steam inside the steam room 1, stones 11 are placed on an empty place on the sides or behind the sunbed.

To heat the steam chamber can also be used an electric heater wound on the pipe 1.

To use the steam room, the furnace 2 is flooded or its electric heater is turned on. When the temperature in chamber 1 reaches 100-200 ° C, the sunbed 3 is pushed in and the patient is placed on it with the head outside. Initially, it is steamed with dry, hot air, like in a Finnish sauna. Then it can switch to wet steam, for which it throws hot water, infusions of herbs or medical preparations onto stones or internal walls of the chamber. To use the broom, the patient fully fits into the chamber and sits down. Further, in the same position, he has the opportunity to wash himself with water from a gang.

The advantage of the paired chamber compared to the prototype is the possibility of increasing the time for receiving procedures, since the patient’s head is in the cool zone on the furnace head and legs are in the hot region of the chamber. The advantage of the camera also lies in the possibility of changing the pose: the patient can turn both on his back and on his stomach with steam from all parts of the body, can lie relaxing with his head outside, sit down and wash, take both dry and wet steam with a broom, and after the procedures and sleep on a hot stove. In this sense, using the proposed camera is similar to washing in a Russian stove, in connection with which it may be assigned its name “Russian stove”.

The steam chamber oven can also be used as a Russian stove for its intended purpose for heating a room, cooking, heating milk, drying mushrooms, etc. It is indispensable for rural houses and country cottages. It can be used not only as a family sauna, but also in public baths in the city or town.

USED DOCUMENTS

1. A. Babushkin. Bath: health home. St. Petersburg, PETER, 1999.

2. A.A. Biryukov. This sorceress is a bathhouse. M., Sov. Sport, 1993.

3. Pat. RF №38444, class A61H 33/00.

4. Pat of the Russian Federation No. 2290163, cl. A61H 33/06. Claim 1/03/2005, publ. 08/10/2006.

5. Pat. RF №1732990, class A61H 33/06. Claim 04/26/1989, publ. 05/15/1992.

6. Pat. RF №2277897, class A61H 33/06. 2006.

7. Auth. testimonial. USSR No. 924947, class A61H 33/06. Claim 04/28/1979, publ. 05/20/1996 - a prototype.

Claims (1)

A paired chamber containing a sunbed for accommodating the patient and a heater, characterized in that it is made in the form of a glass from a piece of metal pipe provided with a heat-resistant coating from the inside and horizontally lying in the furnace of the furnace, and from the open entrance end the furnace has a protrusion on which the head of the sunbed .

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