Variable portable bidet wand

Abstract

An ergonomically designed hygiene variable portable bidet wand tool for the use of cleansing and rinsing the anal and genital areas of the body. A tubular body for connection at its opposite end to a conventional shut-off valve which connects to a standard water bottle.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The invention herein pertains to bidets and the like, and particularly pertains to bidets which are attached to flexible water bottles.

2. Description of the Prior Art and Objectives of the Invention

A bidet is not a toilet. The two appliances are often combined in modern bathrooms; but historically and functionally they're completely different devices. A toilet is used to capture waste; a bidet is used to help remove it from you. The bidet—whether full-sized model or portable—sprays water on the anus or genitals to remove unwanted material and wash you.

Some bidets, the full-sized models mostly, can warm your body, dry you afterward, or perform other functions. But all of them feature that same basic ability: removing feces remaining after elimination or in aiding feminine hygiene.

A portable bidet simply does that in a slightly different way than a full-sized home model. Rather than being built-in to a toilet or toilet seat (there are relatively few entirely separate bidet appliances in the U.S. today), the portable style is just what the name suggests.

It's typically a bottle containing a small portion of water.

The United States has largely ignored the bidet and its spin-offs.

Now Agrawal, along with other investors, is backing a toilet attachment called Tushy, which adds a small water spigot under the rim. It amounts to a spritzing jet attached to a standard toilet seat—there's no separate washing basin or washlet funtions. Tushy's website doesn't bother with euphemisms, plainly saying that its product is “for people who poop”; and bluntly argues “if a bird pooped on you, would you wipe it? No, you'd wash it off.”

With this frankness, Tushy is taking hard aim at the female millennial market. If Tushy succeeds, it will show that the bidet can be embraced for the very reasons it was once shunned: its feminine associations. And maybe as it finally crosses the Atlantic, it can also cross the gender divide.

SUMMARY

The aforesaid and other objectives are realized by providing a bidet wand cleaning tool having first rigid section and second flexible tubular section connected there between.

The flexible section allows water to flow through the tubular body of the bidet wand cleaning tool without interruption even when the flexible section is curved or bent during use. An opening at the distal end provides streams of water for cleaning the anal and the vaginal areas. The tubular body can be threadably connected to a standard water bottle, proximate to a cutoff valve near the water bottle neck opening.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates the preferred form of the invention in a fragmented, linear or unbent posture;

FIG. 2 depicts the bidet wand tool tubular end cross-section, showing the outside diameter (OD) 20; inside diameter (ID) 18, and the wall thickness, 19;

FIG. 3 shows an enlarged top view of the bidet wand too as seen in FIG. 1 along lines 2-2; with tubular section 13 joined to rigid shut-off valve 12, s seen in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 depicts the standard water bottle with the bottle neck 17 and the water within the bottle 21;

FIG. 5 demonstrates an enlarged end view of the flexible tubing as seen along lines 5-5 of FIG. 5, with the water bottle neck 17 as seen in FIG. 4, attached to shut-off valve 15 connector s seen in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 illustrates the preferred form of the invention as seen in FIG. 1, being used by a person while sitting on a toilet with invention positioned between legs, and a spray of water 22, from the water bottle 21, as seen in FIG. 5 being expelled onto anal area of person.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT AND OPERATION OF THE INVENTION

In the following, we describe the structure of an embodiment of a portable bidet 10 with reference to FIG. 1, in such manner that like reference numerals refer to like components throughout; a convention that we shall employ for the remainder of this specification.

In related embodiments, the portable bidet 10 allows individual persona use, and is a portable, self-contained, refillable, reusable, perineal-anal-genital washing device designed to replace or compliment hand wiping with toilet paper.

In a related embodiment, the liquid 21 can be warm, or lukewarm, and can have soothing medications added to water.

In a related embodiment, the wand 13 can be configured with a length of substantially 13 inches, or in a range of 8-10 inches.

For a better understanding of the invention and its use, turning now to the drawings, the preferred form of the bidet wand cleaning tool 10 is shown in FIGS. 1-6. As seen in FIG. 1, bidet wand cleaning tool 10 has a tubular body 11 consisting of first rigid section 12, and a middle transparent flexible section 13. At the distal end of flexible section 13 is an end to the flexible transparent section. Bidet wand cleaning tool 10 can be threadably connected to the male end of a conventional water bottle, such as is standard. Water bottle 20 is affixed to female coupler 21 having a manual cutoff vale 22 as is commonly used.

As it is often necessary when cleaning buttocks, to bend or curve the cleaning tool for greater convenience, flexible section 13 provides this ability.

As depicted in FIG. 4, flexible section 13 is formed from a strong transparent polymeric tubing. Flexible section 13 allows bidet wand cleaning tool 10 to be bent of compactness in storage of cleaning tool 10. Bidet wand cleaning tool 10 is preferably about 12.5 inches in length with flexible section 13 having a length of approximately 10 inches with first rigid section 12 having a length of approximately 2.5 inches. The internal diameter of cleaning tool 10 is approximately ½ inch although the exact internal diameter will vary depending on the thickness of the walls of the various sections.

The rigid sections 2 and 14 are formed from a relatively high impact plastic and extends radially from first rigid section 14 as shown in FIG. 1 and is approximately the same width as flexible tubing 13 as shown in FIG. 1, Water stream 22 as seen in FIG. 6 impacts the walls of the buttocks and vagina for cleaning purposes as seen therein.

Various changes and improvements can be made to the preferred form of the invention as herein descried and such changes and modifications are anticipated and the examples and illustrations are merely for the illustrative purposes and are not intended to limit the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. a bidet wand cleaning tool for attachment to a water bottle comprising:

a tubular body, said tubular body comprising

a first rigid section,

a flexible section, said flexible section connected to said first rigid section;

a second flexible tubular section substantially longer than said first rigid section,

said first rigid section connected to said flexible section.