Abstract: A hydrotherapy method and apparatus for discharging a fluid stream through an opening in the wall of a water tub, while concurrently translating the stream, to impact against and massage the body of a user.

Abstract: Hydrotherapy apparatus including a rigid elongated conduit having a supply orifice and a discharge orifice. The conduit is mounted for swivel movement to enable the discharge orifice to traverse a path characterized by a series of small circular or semicircular path segments linked by translational path segments. The conduit is moved along said path by reaction forces produced by the discharged stream.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy method for discharging a water stream through a rigid conduit while concurrently translating the conduit discharge orifice along a nonlinear path describing an area. The conduit is comprised of a supply section and a discharge section having an axis misaligned with the supply section axis for discharging a stream in a direction tending to rotate the conduit around the supply section axis. Frictional loading of the conduit, attributable to suction produced by the supply water jet, is mitigated by providing a passageway which permits the suction to draw tub water into a cavity for entrainment by the water jet for discharge through the conduit.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy jet assembly and/or installation configured to discharge a high intensity stream into a water tub without requiring air entrainment. Passageway means are provided for drawing water from the tub into the mixing chamber of a jet assembly for entrainment by a water jet. The stream discharged from the jet assembly into the tub is comprised of (1) water supplied under pressure into the mixing chamber by a water jet nozzle and (2) water drawn from the tub for entrainment by the water jet. The effect of tub water entrainment is to produce a high intensity stream for impacting against a user's body without significantly lowering the temperature of the water pool in the tub.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy method and apparatus for discharging a fluid stream through an opening in the wall of a water tub, while concurrently translating the stream along a random path, to impact against and massage the body of a user.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy method and apparatus for using available tap water supply pressure to mix fresh tap water, tub water, and air to discharge a water-air stream into a tub below the water surface. Energy derived from the tap water supply is used to concurrently translate a discharge nozzle along a path substantially transverse to the stream discharged from the nozzle.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy method and apparatus for discharging a water stream through a rigid conduit while concurrently translating the conduit discharge orifice along a nonlinear path describing an area. The conduit is comprised of a supply section and a discharge section having an axis misaligned with the supply section axis for discharging a stream in a direction tending to rotate the conduit around the supply section axis. Frictional loading of the conduit, attributable to suction produced by the supply water jet, is mitigated by providing a passageway which permits the suction to draw tub water into a cavity for entrainment by the water jet for discharge through the conduit.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy method and apparatus for discharging a fluid stream through an opening in the wall of a water tub, while concurrently translating the stream, to impact against and massage the body of a user.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy apparatus for using available tap water supply pressure to mix fresh tap water, tub water, and air to discharge a water-air stream into a tub below the water surface. Energy derived from the tap water supply is used to concurrently translate a discharge nozzle along a path substantially transverse to the stream discharged from the nozzle.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy method and apparatus for discharging a fluid stream through an opening in the wall of a water tub, while concurrently translating the stream along a random path, to impact against the massage the body of a user.

Abstract: A pair of roller and track suspended glass doors is assembled with a tub or shower enclosure without drilling or piercing the door panels. Compression clamps depending from the rollers grip the upper edge of each panel. Adhesive pads support combined handles and towel bars on obverse and reverse side of alternate panels. A central bottom guide track is snapped into and adhesively secured to the bottom frame member. The bottom frame member includes a upright outside flange with an inwardly extending rubbing bar to preclude outer panel abrasion. End guides for the inner door panel are fixed to upright side members of the frame. The upright members support the frame header which contains the top track for the rollers and may be contoured to accept a trim panel on the outer face thereof.

Abstract: A plurality of vertical panels have edge slip hinge joint members adapted to unite mirror oriented similar adjacent panels. Each panel has a top clip and a bottom clip. Alternate top clips have swivelled roller pairs which ride on horizontal beams of the door frame header. Bottom panel clips have a guide pin depending into a channel in the bottom track of the door frame. Each panel clip has a platform extending across the top or bottom terminal end of the hinge joint of the joined panel edges. The platforms cooperate to preclude vertical displacement of the panels with respect to one another. Retainers at each of two vertical end rails extend transversely to cooperate with a bottom horizontal restraint rib to limit vertical displacement of the folding door bottom with respect to the door frame. Shaped prongs within each panel clip cooperate with aperture walls at the top and the bottom of each panel to secure the clips thereto and to prevent displacement of the apertured panel from the prongs.

Abstract: A magnet has a contact face, a registry edge and restraint apertures in which lodge resilient restraints of a magnet holder. The holder has snap fingers and locators for securing the holder to a door stop of a door frame, preferably in an indented section of the stop. The holder cavity has a rocker ridge contacting the registry edge of the magnet, and restraint fingers. The cavity walls, the restraint fingers and the limiting rocker ridge hold the magnet so its contact face has limited freedom to adjust for surface to surface contact with a catch plate or strike on a swinging door. Preferably the magnet holder is shaped with relief openings between the snap fingers, the locators, the cavity walls and the resilient restraint fingers to be conventionally moldable in one piece.

Abstract: An automatic swimming pool cleaner comprised of a car adapted to travel underwater along a random path on the pool vessel surface for dislodging debris therefrom. The car wheels are driven by a water powered turbine to propel the car in a forward direction, along the vessel surface. In order to prevent the car from being driven into a position, as for example against a vertical wall, from which it cannot emerge, a wheel geometry is employed which, upon contact, develops a horizontal force component parallel to the vertical wall, to thus enable the car to spin off. Alternatively, or in combination, a water flow produced reaction force can produce a torque to turn the car with respect to the engaged wheel to enable the car to spin off. The car is designed with a low center of gravity and a relatively buoyant top portion so as to produce a torque which maintains the car correct side up when on the pool bottom.