Abstract: In a shower device designed to carry out a complete and constant 360-degree therapeutic sweeping of the user's body, water is sprayed from a shower head and a series of holes in tubes along the space provided for use as a shower stall. These tubes are connected together by a rotary air and water servomechanism revolving around a vertical water supply axis. The holes are positioned to direct the sprays of water toward the centre of the shower stall. The rotary servomechanism is driven by a motor, and the servomechanism induces the circular movement of the tubes around the shower stall, and this movement combines with the water spray action from the tubes to provide the therapeutic coverage of the user's body in the space at the center of the shower stall. To dry off following a shower, users may switch over to sprays of warm air from the same tubes by activating a drying control.

Abstract: A device for detecting the onset of parturition of a pregnant animal which comprises a thin, electrically conducting wire passing through the left and right sides of the animal's vulva region so that a middle portion of the wire lies across the vaginal orifice of the animal. Two stoppers are fixedly mounted on the two end portions of the thin wire and positioned so as to cause, upon separation of the left and right sides of the animal's vulva region at the onset of parturition of the animal, a tensile stress into a central portion of the thin, electrically conducting wire defined between the two stoppers and including the wire middle portion lying across the vaginal orifice, which tensile stress breaking this central portion. A switching unit connected to the two end portions of the thin, electrically conducting wire detects breaking of the wire central portion to thereby detect the onset of parturition of the animal.