US2242461A - Bathroom fixture - Google Patents

Description

R. FISHER May 20, 1941.

BATHROOM FIXTURE Filed May '7, 1940 JAG;

Patented May 20, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

This invention relates to bathroom xtures and has for an object to provide a grip device which can be easily secured to a wall or a bathtub and by means of which the bather can support or lift himself while in the tub.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bath fixture having a vertical bar which latter may be used by a child to climb up hand over hand to lift himself from the tub.

A further object is to provide a bath xture having horizontal bars which may be gripped by small children when they are being washed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which can be used as a rack for towels and wash cloths.

A further object is to provide a device of this character which will be formed of a few strong, simple and durable parts, which will be inexpensive to manufacture, and which will not easily get out of order.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, it being understood that various modifications may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of vthis specification:

Figure l is a perspective view of the bath xture secured to a bathroom wall above a tub.

Figure 2 is a View of the device in front elevation partly shown in section.

Figure 3 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Figure 2 looking in the -direction of the arrows.

Figure 4 is a View in side elevation of one of the bracket arms.

Figure 5 is an enlarged detail sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring now to the drawing in which like characters oi reference designate similar parts in the various views, I0 designates an upper horizontal bar, while Il designates a lower horizontal bar. These horizontal bars I0 and I I are connected together by a vertical bar I2. The bars I0 and II are hollow and the vertical bar I2 is located centrally between the ends of the horizontal bars I0 and II.

Bracket arms I6 -are rotatably and telescopically mounted within the hollow horizontal bars I0 and il tobe readily adjusted horizo-ntally and angularly as desired within said horizontal bars. The bracket arms i6 are held in adjusted position by screws Il carried by the horizontal bars lll and II. The bracket arms I6 are provided with respective lateral extensions 2 which project at a right angle to the arm and are terminally engaged in socket members 4 of wall plates I3, which may be attached tothe bathroom wall I4 by screws I8.

By virtue of the bracket arms being rotatably mounted in the horizontal tubular bars I0 and I l the wall plates I3 on the bottom horizontal bar may be turned at an angle from the vertical to iit on the inclined wall of a bathtub, if desired, while the wall plates of the upper horizontal tubular arm I0 may be arranged in vertical positions to iit against the bathroom wall.

In use the bather may grip either the upper or the lower horizontal bar or -the vertical bar I2 to lift himself to standing position in the tub. In the case of small children being bathed, the child may grip either the lower or upper horizontal bar or may assist himself to rise from sitting to standing position in the tub by grasping the vertical bar I2 and climbing hand over hand to lift himself to standing position.

From the above description it is thought that the construction and operation of the invention will be fully understood without further explanation.

What is claimed is:

1. A bathroom fixture comprising, upper and lower horizontal arms, a vertical arm connecting the horizontal arms together midway of their ends, bracket arms telescopically assembled with the horizontal arms, means for holding the bracket arms in longitudinally or angularly adjusted positions relative to the horizontal arms, lateral extensions projecting at a right angle from the ends of the bracket arms, and attaching means on the ends of the lateral extensions for securing the horizontal arms to a wall or a bathtub.

2. A bathroom fixture comprising, upper and lower hollow horizontal' bars, a vertical bar connecting the horizontal bars together centrally of their ends, bracket arms rotatably and telescopically mounted within thehorizontal bars, lateral extensions on the bracket arms projecting ata right angle to the bracket arms, and plates fixed to the ends of the lateral extensions and adapted to secure the horizontal arms to a wall or bathtub.

3. A bathroom fixture comprising, upper and lower horizontal arms, a vertical arm connected at the ends to the horizontal arms at substantially the center of the ho-rizontal arms and spacing the arms apart, and means for securing the horizontal arms to a Wall or bathtub, said horizontal and vertical arms forming gripping means through the medium of which a bather may assist himself from a sitting to a standing position in a bathtub.

REYNOLDS FISI-IER.

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