Abstract: A grab assembly includes a grab bar and a mounting flange for each end of the grab bar. Each mounting flange has an annular projection. The ends of the grab bar extend into and are secured to the projections. An annular cover is sleeved over the projection of each mounting flange to conceal the flange with a tight fit so that there is no gap. The invention is also applicable to a center support for the grab bar.

Abstract: A modular support rail assembly that includes a rail having an open end with an internal wall surface and an elbow with facility at one end for mounting to a support, such as a building wall, and an opposing end with an internally threaded opening. An insert construction is disposed within the open end of the rail, and a fastener extends through the insert into the internally threaded opening in the elbow. An expansible ring is carried by the insert structure within the open end of the rail, and is responsive to compression of the insert structure upon tightening of the fastener to expand radially outwardly against and frictionally engage the internal wall surface of the rail. The rail is thereby firmly fastened to the elbow.

Abstract: A grab bar assembly for installation into openings in opposed wall sections of a tub/shower wall that includes a cup-shaped pocket having one end for receipt into one of the wall section openings and a second open end with a radially outwardly projecting flange for engaging an opposing surface of the wall section surrounding the opening. A grab bar has a closed first end slidably received into the pocket. The second end of the grab bar is received into the second wall surface opening, and has a radially outwardly projecting flange for abutment with an opposing surface of the wall sections surrounding the second opening. A screw adjustably extends through the first end of the pocket into abutment with the closed end of the grab bar, so that the grab bar is captured in compression between the pocket and associated screw at one end, and the radially extending flange at the other.

Abstract: A foldable bathtub seat that includes a plurality of elongated parallel generally rectangular slats interconnected by hinges such that the slats are foldable to a configuration in which the slats are in stacked facing engagement parallel to each other and unfoldable to a configuration in which the slats are in a planar array. A rider at one end of each of the slats cooperates with a track affixed to a wall adjacent to the bathtub rim such that the slats are foldably and unfoldably supported by the bathtub rim while extending across the rim. In the unfolded configuration, the coplanar slats form a transfer seat supported along one end by the track affixed to the wall, and along the other end by the wall-remote edge of the bathtub rim. In the folded configuration, the seat may be readily removed for full access to the tub.

Abstract: A shower/tub seat that includes a pair of inverted U-shaped hangers adapted to be removably received over a horizontal bar affixed to a shower/tub wall so as to have inner hanger legs adjacent to the wall and outer hanger legs remote from the wall. A platform is pivotally mounted to the lower ends of the outer hanger legs so as to pivot between a vertical position adjacent to the outer hanger legs and a horizontal position for use. The platform has an end edge adjacent to the wall that engages the wall and the lower ends of the inner hanger legs in the horizontal position of the platform so as to hold the platform in horizontal position and support the weight of a person or objects placed on the platform. A pair of adjustable abutment feet are mounted on the lower ends of the inner hanger legs for adjusting horizontal orientation of the seat within the shower stall or over the bathtub.