Instant bathing equipment and operating method thereof
An instant bathing equipment comprises a bathtub having a bathing room; a controlling means to generate an entrance formed on a bathing room to make a user enter the bathtub and close the bathtub; an isolating means to separate a store space in the bathing room so as to store water and to make the user enter a washing chamber from the entrance, the store space and the washing chamber communicating with each other so that water in the store space flows to the washing chamber, such that the bathing room is filled with water in a short time.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an instant bathing equipment which decreases water feeding time to make a user have an instant bath without waiting.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Conventional bathing equipment includes a movable door disclosed in CN Pat. Nos. 2717362Y, 2730291Y, and 2834396Y, CN Publication Nos. 200963096Y, 200980615Y, 201088508Y, and 201088509Y.
However, such a movable door of the bathing equipment will make water in the bathtub leak outward as it is opened to let a user enter the bathtub.
The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate the afore-described disadvantages.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe primary object of the present invention is to provide an instant bathing equipment which decreases water feeding time to make a user have an instant bath without waiting.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an instant bathing equipment which lowers a water flowing impact on body.
An instant bathing equipment in accordance with the present invention comprises:
a bathtub having a bathing room;
a controlling means to generate an entrance formed on a bathing room to make a user enter the bathtub and close the bathtub;
an isolating means to separate a store space in the bathing room so as to store water and to make the user enter a washing chamber from the entrance, the store space and the washing chamber communicating with each other so that water in the store space flows to the washing chamber, such that the bathing room is filled with water in a short time;
wherein the controlling means includes an opening communicating with the bathing room and a first door disposed in the opening, the first door is operated to move between a first and a second positions; when the first door is located at the first position, the opening is sealed to close the entrance, and when the first door is located at the second position, the opening is opened to generate the entrance;
wherein the isolating means includes a second door mounted in the bathing room, the second door is operated to move between a third and a fourth positions; when the second door is located at the third position, the bathing room is separated to form a store space and a washing chamber; and when the second door is located at the fourth position, the store space and the washing chamber are released to communicate with each other.
An operating method of instant bathing equipment in accordance with the present invention comprises:
a. separating a bathing room of a bathtub to a store space and a washing chamber, wherein the bathing room is in communication with an entrance allowing to be opened and closed to make a user enter;
b. feeding water to a predetermined level in the store space;
c. keeping the entrance open so that the user enters the entrance and then closes it;
d. closing the entrance or releasing the separated bathing room to communicate the store space and the washing chamber with each other so as to flow the water in the store space to the washing chamber, such that the bathing room is filled with water in a short time to make a user have an instant bath;
wherein the entrance is disposed at a predetermined position of the bathtub relative to a side wall of the bathing room;
wherein the entrance is opened and closed by moving a first door;
wherein the store space and the bathing room are separated apart from and communicated with each other by moving a second door;
wherein the first door is moved by manual operation;
wherein the second door is moved by manual operation;
wherein the first door is moved by using an electrical driving device;
wherein the second door is moved by using the electrical driving device;
wherein the electrical driving device is started or stopped by using a control device.
The present invention will be clearer from the following description when viewed together with the accompanying drawings, which show, for purpose of illustrations only, the preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention.
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The bathtub 10 includes a bathing room 101, a side wall 11 formed therearound, and a bottom wall 12 connected with the side wall 11 and having a raised saddle 13 to be sat by a user disposed on a top surface of the bottom wall 12.
The controlling means a includes an entrance 102 formed on a bathing room 101 to make the user enter the bathtub 10 as shown in
the opening 21 is mounted on a suitable position of the side wall 11 of the bathtub 10 and includes a lateral groove 211 arranged on a bottom thereof, includes two longitudinal slots 212 fixed on two sides thereof respectively, and the side wall 11 includes a longitudinal groove 213 communicating with the longitudinal slot 212, and the longitudinal groove 213 also communicates with a lengthwise recess 214 adjacent to the longitudinal slot 212. The opening 21 is located at one side of the saddle 13 of the bathtub 10.
The engaging element 22 is disposed on an inner side of the lengthwise recess 214 of the opening 21, wherein the engaging element 22 is a rack and coupled to the inner side of the lengthwise recess 214 and includes a plurality of teeth 221.
The first door 23, as shown in
The electrical driving device 24, as shown in
The control device 25, as illustrated in
The isolating means b is applied to separate a specific space in the bathing room 101 to store water, e.g., a store space 103 to store warm water and to make the user enter a washing chamber 104 from the entrance 102 easily as illustrated in
the receiving segment 31 is located between ⅓ and ½ of the bathing room 101 to prevent from installing the opening 21 additionally and includes a lateral groove 311 formed on a bottom surface thereof, two longitudinal slots 312 disposed on two sides thereof respectively, a longitudinal slot 313 communicating with the longitudinal slots 312 and a vertical notch 314 adjacent to the longitudinal slots 312.
The engaging element 32 is installed on one side of the longitudinal slot 312 and is a rack to be coupled to an inner wall of the longitudinal slots 312 and includes a plurality of teeth 321 arranged vertically.
The second door 33 of a second embodiment of the present invention, as illustrated in
The second door 33 also includes a releasing doorway 334 opened toward the store space 103 as illustrated in
The electrical driving device 34, as shown in
The control device 35, as illustrated in
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The operating steps of the instant bathing equipment include:
a. applying the isolating means b as shown in
In other words, the controlling device 35 of the isolating means b is touched, e.g., the third touch switch 351 and the fourth touch switch 352 are touched by the user (as illustrated in
b. feeding water to the store space 103 as shown in
c. keeping the entrance 102 open or applying the controlling means a to open the entrance 102, wherein the user passes the opened entrance 102 again to enter it as illustrated in
The user can identify whether the entrance 102 is opened or not. If the entrance is not open, he touches the control device 25 by using the controlling means a, e.g., the first and the second touch switches 251, 252, to actuate the electrical driving device 24 so that the first door 23 is retracted downward to generate the entrance 102, such that the user allows to pass across the entrance 102 to enter the washing chamber 104 and then stands or sits on the saddle 13. Thereafter, the first and the second touch switches 251, 252 are touched to expand the first door 23 upward, thereby closing the entrance 102.
d. applying the isolating means b to communicate the store space 103 and the washing chamber 104, as illustrated in
It is to be noted that when the second door 33 is retracted downward, the vane 331 of the releasing doorway 334 automatically swings toward the store space 103 by rotating with the vane 331 axially to generate the outlet 335 as shown in
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It is to be noted that the first and second doors 23, 33 are comprised of one portions of the two opposite ends of the sharing door 41, therefore the first and second doors 23, 33 are moved with each other, and an upward moving travel of the first door 23 is equal to a downward moving travel of the second door 33. Likewise, a downward moving travel of the first door 23 is equal to an upward moving travel of the second door 33, such that as the second door 33 moves downward to a predetermined height, the first door 23 moves upward to a specific height equivalent to the downward moving height of the second door 33 to close the entrance 102. Besides, a cross sectional area of the washing chamber 104 is more than or equal to that of the store space 103 so as to keep the water which flows from the store space 103 in the washing chamber 104, thus shortening operating time.
As illustrated in
It is to be noted that the first door 23 of the eighth embodiment of the present invention is comprised of opposite portions of the sharing door 51 of the opening 21, and the second door 33 is comprised of opposite portions of the sharing door 51 of the receiving segment 31, and the first and the second doors 23, 33 are not comprised of fixed portions of the sharing door 51. For example, as the first door 23 is located at the first or second position, the second door 33 is located at the third position as shown in
It is to be noted that a moving length of the receiving segment 31 is more than that of the opening 21, accordingly the largest length of the sharing door 51 is less than that of the opening 21, such that the largest length of the sharing door 51 is at least less than a value which is an annular moving path to decrease the moving path of the receiving segment 31 so that as the first door is located at the first position, the second door 33 is located at the fourth position to be released. Likewise, a smallest length of the sharing door 51 is at least more than a value which is a moving path of the receiving segment 31 to add the moving path of the opening 21 and the moving path of the vacancy 521 so that the first and the second doors 23, 33 are located at the first and the third positions respectively, such that before the separated door 33 is released, the first door 23 closes the entrance 102 to prevent water from flowing outward from the entrance 102, thus having an easy bath.
While we have shown and described various embodiments in accordance with the present invention, it is clear to those skilled in the art that further embodiments may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
Claims
1. An instant bathing equipment comprising
- a bathtub having a bathing room;
- a controlling means to generate an entrance formed on a bathing room to make a user enter and close the bathtub;
- an isolating means to separate a store space in the bathing room so as to store water and to make the user enter a washing chamber from the entrance, the store space and the washing chamber communicating with each other so that water in the store space flows to the washing chamber, such that the bathing room is filled with water in a short time.
2. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controlling means includes an opening communicating with the bathing room and a first door disposed in the opening, the first door is operated to move between a first and a second positions; when the first door is located at the first position, the opening is sealed to close the entrance, and when the first door is located at the second position, the opening is opened to generate the entrance.
3. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the isolating means includes a second door mounted in the bathing room, the second door is operated to move between a third and a fourth positions; when the second door is located at the third position, the bathing room is separated to form a store space and a washing chamber; and when the second door is located at the fourth position, the store space and the washing chamber are released to communicate with each other.
4. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first door is designed in a foldable type, and a bottom end of the first door is fixed to a bottom side of the opening, and a top end thereof is expended upward to the first position or retracted downward to the second position.
5. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 4, wherein the controlling means further includes an electrical driving device to expend the first door upward to the first position or to retract the first door to the second position.
6. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the electrical driving device is a driving motor secured on one side of the top end of the first door; the opening includes an engaging element to engage with the driving motor so that the driving motor is driven to move vertically along the engaging element, and the first door is actuated to expend and retract vertically.
7. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 6, wherein the controlling means further includes a control device to start or stop the driving motor.
8. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control device is electrically connected with a touch switch of the electrical deriving device.
9. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control device is a remote switch.
10. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control device is a sound-controlling switch.
11. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first door is designed in a foldable type, and one side of the first door is fixed to the opening, and another side thereof is laterally expended to the first position or retracted to the second position.
12. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein one side of the first door is rotated axially to the first and the second positions.
13. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the bathtub further includes a side wall and a bottom wall connected with the side wall to define the bathing room, the first door moves along an inner side of the side wall and the opening horizontally toward the first and the second positions.
14. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the bathtub further includes the side wall and the bottom wall connected with the side wall to define the bathing room, the first door moves along an outer side of the side wall and the opening horizontally toward the first and the second positions.
15. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the bathtub further includes the side wall and the bottom wall connected with the side wall to define the bathing room, the first door moves along two ends of the outer side of the side wall and two sides of the opening toward the first and the second positions.
16. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the bathtub further includes the side wall and the bottom wall connected with the side wall to define the bathing room, the first door moves along the outer side of the side wall and the two sides of the opening toward the first and the second positions.
17. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first door is operated manually to move between the first and the second positions.
18. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the controlling means further includes the electrical driving device to drive the first door to move between the first and the second positions.
19. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 18, wherein the controlling means further includes the control device to turn on or turn off the electrical driving device.
20. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 19, wherein the control device is electrically connected with a touch switch of the electrical driving device.
21. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 19, wherein the control device is a remote switch.
22. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 19, wherein the control device is a sound-controlling switch.
23. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second door is designed in a foldable type, and a bottom end of the second door is fixed to a bottom surface of the bottom wall, and a top end thereof is expended upward to the third position or retracted downward to the fourth position.
24. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 23, wherein the isolating means further includes the electrical driving device to expand the second door upward toward the third position or retract the second door downward toward the fourth position.
25. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 24, wherein the electrical driving device is a driving motor fixed to one side of a top end of the second door; the bathtub includes the engaging element to mesh with the driving motor so that the driving motor is started to move along the engaging element vertically to expend and retract the second door longitudinally.
26. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 25, wherein the isolating means further includes the control device to start or stop the driving motor.
27. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 26, wherein the control device is electrically connected with a touch switch of the electrical driving device.
28. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 26, wherein the control device is a remote switch.
29. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 26, wherein the control device is a sound-controlling switch.
30. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 23, wherein the second door includes a releasing doorway opened toward the store space to form an outlet so that one part of water in the store space flows to the washing chamber, so as to release a flowing impact on body.
31. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 30, wherein the releasing doorway is closed when the second door is expended to the third position, and the outlet generates when the releasing doorway is retracted to the fourth position with the second door to be rotated axially.
32. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second door is designed in a foldable type, and one side of the second door is fixed to the opening, another side thereof is expended to the third position or retracted to the fourth position laterally.
33. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the one side of the second door is rotated axially to the third and the fourth positions.
34. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bathtub further includes the side wall and the bottom wall connected with the side wall to define the bathing room, the second door moves along the inner side of the side wall and the bottom wall flexibly toward the third and the fourth positions.
35. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bathtub further includes the side wall and the bottom wall connected with the side wall to define the bathing room, the second door moves along the outer side of the side wall and the bottom wall flexibly toward the third and the fourth positions.
36. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bathtub further includes the side wall and the bottom wall connected with the side wall to define the bathing room, the second door moves along the two ends of the inner side of the side wall and the bottom wall on two opposites of an isolating portion flexibly toward the third and the fourth positions.
37. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bathtub further includes the side wall and the bottom wall connected with the side wall to define the bathing room, the second door moves along the outer side of the side wall and the bottom wall on the two opposites of the isolating portion flexibly toward the third and the fourth positions.
38. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second door is manually operated to move between the third and the fourth positions.
39. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the isolating means further includes the electrical driving device to drive the second door to move between the third and the fourth positions.
40. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 39, wherein the isolating means further includes the control device to start or stop the electrical driving means.
41. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 40, wherein the control device is electrically connected to a touch switch of the electrical driving device.
42. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 40, wherein the control device is a remote switch.
43. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 40, wherein the control device is a sound-controlling switch.
44. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controlling means includes the opening communicating with the bathing room and the first door disposed in the opening, the first door is operated to move between the first and the second positions; when the first door is located at the first position, the opening is sealed to close the entrance, and when the first door is located at the second position, the opening is opened to generate the entrance; the isolating means includes the second door mounted in the bathing room, the second door is operated to move between the third and the fourth positions; when the second door is located at the third position, the bathing room is separated to form the store space and the washing chamber; and when the second door is located at the fourth position, the store space and the washing chamber are released to communicate with each other.
45. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 44, wherein the first and second doors are comprised of one portions of the two opposite ends of a sharing door proximate to two opposite first and second ends, and the first door and the second door face to each other; when the first door is located at the first location, the second door is located at the fourth location; as the first door moves a predetermined height downward to the second position, the second door moves the same height to the third location until the first door is located at the second position and the second door is located at the third position, such that a cross sectional area of the washing chamber is more than or equal to that of the store space.
46. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 45, wherein the sharing door is operated manually to move.
47. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 45, wherein the controlling means and the isolating means further include the electrical driving device to actuate the sharing door to move.
48. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 47, wherein the controlling means and the isolating means further include the control device to start or stop the electrical driving device.
49. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 44, wherein the first door and the second door move along an annular path which is defined by moving the sharing door along the opening, the bathing room, and the side wall; when two ends of the sharing door are located at the side wall, the first door is located at the second location and the second door is located at the third location; when the two ends of the sharing door are located in the side wall at two sides of the bathing room, the first door is located at the first position and the second door is located at the fourth location; when the two ends of the sharing door are located at two sides of the side wall on one side of the opening, the first door is located at the first position and the second door is located at the third position.
50. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 49, wherein the sharing door is operated manually to move.
51. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 49, wherein the controlling means and the isolating means further include the electrical driving device to actuate the sharing door to move.
52. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 51, wherein the controlling means and the isolating means further include the control device to start or stop the electrical driving device.
53. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bathtub includes a raised saddle to be sat by a user disposed on a top surface of the bottom wall.
54. An instant bathing equipment comprising
- a bathtub having a bathing room;
- a controlling means including an opening communicating with the bathing room and a first door disposed in the opening, the first door being operated to move between a first and a second positions; when the first door is located at the second position, the opening is opened to form an entrance; when the first door is located at the first position, the opening is sealed to close the entrance;
- an isolating means including a second door mounted in the bathing room, the second door being operated to move between a third and a fourth positions; when the second door is located at the third position, the bathing room is separated to form a store space and a washing chamber; and when the second door is located at the fourth position, the store space and the washing chamber are released to communicate with each other, wherein the first and the second doors are comprised of a flexible sharing door.
55. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 54, wherein the first and second doors are comprised of one portions of the two opposite ends of a sharing door proximate to two opposite first and second ends, and the first door and the second door face to each other; when the first door is located at the first location, the second door is located at the fourth location; as the first door moves a predetermined height downward to the second position, the second door moves the same height to the third location until the first door is located at the second position and the second door is located at the third position, such that a cross sectional area of the bathing room is more than or equal to that of the store space.
56. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 55, wherein the sharing door is operated manually to move.
57. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 55, wherein the controlling means and the isolating means further include an electrical driving device to actuate the sharing door to move.
58. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 57, wherein the controlling means and the isolating means further include a control device to start or stop the electrical driving device.
59. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 54, wherein the first door and the second door move along an annular path which is defined by moving the sharing door along the opening, the bathing room, and the side wall; when the sharing door is moved to the bathing room and the side wall on two sides of the opening, the first door is located at the second position and the second door is located at the third position; when the sharing door moves to the opening and an inner side of the side wall on the two sides of the opening, the first door is located at the first position and the second door is located at the fourth position; when the two ends of the sharing door are located at two sides of the side wall on one side of the opening, the first door is located at the first position and the second door is located at the third position.
60. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 59, wherein the sharing door is operated manually to move.
61. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 59, wherein the controlling means and the isolating means further include an electrical driving device to actuate the sharing door to move.
62. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 61, wherein the controlling means and the isolating means further include a control device to start or stop the electrical driving device.
63. An operating method of instant bathing equipment comprising
- a. separating a bathing room of a bathtub to a store space and a washing chamber, wherein the bathing room is in communication with an entrance allowing to be opened and closed to make a user enter;
- b. feeding water to a predetermined level in the store space;
- c. keeping the entrance open so that the user enters the opened entrance and then closes the entrance;
- d. closing the entrance or releasing the separated bathing room to communicate the store space and the washing chamber with each other so as to flow the water in the store space to the washing chamber, such that the bathing room is filled with water in a short time.
64. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 63, wherein the entrance is disposed at a predetermined position of the bathtub relative to a side wall of the bathing room.
65. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 63, wherein the entrance is opened and closed by moving a first door.
66. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 63, wherein the store space and the bathing room are separated apart from and communicated with each other by moving a second door.
67. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 65, wherein the first door is moved by manual operation.
68. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 66, wherein the second door is moved by manual operation.
69. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 65, wherein the first door is moved by using an electrical driving device.
70. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 66, wherein the second door is moved by using an electrical driving device.
71. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 69, wherein the electrical driving device is started or stopped by using a control device.
72. The instant bathing equipment as claimed in claim 70, wherein the electrical driving device is started or stopped by using a control device.
Type: Application
Filed: Sep 24, 2009
Publication Date: Dec 30, 2010
Inventor: SCOTT OUYOUNG (Taichung)
Application Number: 12/565,872
International Classification: A47K 3/02 (20060101);