Abstract: A mobile unit (1) equipped with wheels (3) and a handle (2), on the top portion of which is a tray (13) for hair-washing, the height of which is adjustable and which is equipped with a shower head (14); further equipped with two tanks (12), one for the supply of clean hot water and the other for the discharge of dirty water, which is emptied through a discharge (9), by means of a faucet, the hot water tank (12) being coupled to a heating thermostat (8); both the hot water tank and the cold water tank being activated by respective impeller pumps. The unit may optionally be divided into two laterally adjacent, physically independent interconnectable modules (1-1'), each equipped with means of making the unit mobile in order to facilitate maneuvering of the assembly in tight space areas.

Abstract: A portable hair washing system that has a collapsible basin table for transporting is provided. The portable hair washing system comprises: a collapsible basin table having a top member supported by a plurality of telescopic legs; a first collapsible container having a spout; a second collapsible container having a spout; a first flexible conduit having a connector end and a nozzle end; and a second flexible conduit having a first and second connector end. The top member forms a basin approximate the front surface of the top member. The basin has a depending side wall and a bottom wall. The bottom wall forms a drain hole therethrough for draining water from the basin. The top member also has a curved portion extending downwardly from the front surface of the top member into the basin. The curved portion forms a neck surface extending into the basin for resting the neck of user. The portable hair washing system may also have a collapsible tray assembly and a case for carrying the equipment in.

Abstract: A portable, collapsible bathtub, that comprises a tub shell having a bottom wall, side walls and end walls, forming a shell, the side wall being longitudinally elongated; the tub having separate shell sections, and a hinge structure interconnecting the sections to pivot from an extended position in which the tub is ready for use and opens upwardly, into a collapsed position in which the sections form an upwardly closed dome shape.

Abstract: A portable washing cart for facilitating washing of hair at a remote location. The inventive device includes a wheeled main body having a plurality of pivotally mounted doors. An interior counter top is mounted within the main body and includes a fixed sink mounted relative to the counter top and a movable sink removably mounted relative to the counter top which can be extended therefrom for placement proximal to a head of an individual residing within an adjacent support structure. A water handling assembly is mounted within the main body for supplying water to the sinks and for collecting waste water drained therefrom such that shampooing of the hair of an individual residing within a bed can be accomplished without moving the individual from the bed.

Abstract: A portable basin is disclosed which is adapted to receive and support a selected part of a person's body for isolatable cleansing, treatment and the like with minimal discomfort to the person. The disclosed basin is of unitary, continuous sidewall construction having certain body supporting contour features on its bottom and top edge and certain self-stabilizing features. More particularly, a basin of this invention provides an integral elevated platform portion feature in its bottom for receiving and supporting a selected body part during cleansing or treatment within the interior of the basin and at least one seat defined in the top edge of its sidewall contoured for concurrently receiving and supporting an associated member of the selected body part. One disclosed preferred basin embodiment is particularly adapted for cleansing and treating the head of a person.

Abstract: A neck support for beauty salon hair washing sinks comprising a pillow formed of an elastomeric foam with a water proof envelope thereover; a coupling assembly having a downwardly extending exterior member and a downwardly extending interior member, the members being positionable over the upper edge of a beauty salon sink, the coupling assembly having a pair of suction cups on the interior member facing the exterior member, the coupling assembly also including apertures extending through the exterior member with a threaded bolt extending therethrough, the bolt having a handle on its exterior end and a suction cup on the interior end facing the inferior member, the suction cups adapted to contact the opposed faces of the sink for positioning and support thereadjacent; and adjustment member between the coupling assembly and the pillow.

Abstract: A hospital bed has a frame. A horizontal plate is pivotally mounted on a vertical axis to swing from an inoperative position underlying the frame to an operative position extending from the head end of the bed. A pillow can be placed on the extender so that the patient can be shifted toward the head end of the bed with the patient's head comfortably supported on the pillow which is in turn supported on the extender. A basin is adapted to be used in conjunction with the extender and is a shell having a head receiving cavity with a pedestal projecting upwardly from within the cavity for resting the patient's head thereatop while providing clearance completely around the head so that a care provider can shampoo the patient's head.

Abstract: A mobile salon station comprises a cart having two generally upright frame members which are vertically adjustable. The cart further has wheels and feet and two horizontal shelves. Two supporting rods are mounted on the frame members and support a basin having tubes received on the rods. The basin can be removed from the rods so that the salon station can be used with the basin supported on the rods for a patient in a wheelchair and can be removed and used on a bed for a bedridden patient. The basin has a convex central portion so that the patient's head can be supported thereon while the hair is being shampooed, etc. The rods are pivotally mounted so as to be swung into the plane of the upright frame members when the station is being transported.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hair treatment sink assembly and a method of collecting hair treatment materials during treatment operations. Further disclosed is a drip collection tray for collecting hair treatment materials during a hair treatment operation. The sink assembly is comprised of a basin with a drip tray installed beneath it to collect any hair treatment materials falling outside the basin. The method of collecting hair treatment materials during a hair treatment operation comprises the steps of resting a patron's head over a basin, applying hair treatment materials to the patron's head and catching the materials falling from the head in the basin and the materials falling outside the basin in a drip tray installed below the upper rim of the basin. The drip collection tray is comprised of a pan with surrounding side walls and a drain. The pan has portions that extend outside the envelope of the basin, when viewed in plan, on at least two side portions and the front portion of the basin.

Abstract: A hair washing unit for washing the hair of bedridden patients is formed as a unitary, hollow, rotationally moulded shell. The shell has a peripheral wall surrounding a central recessed well. A U-shaped depression in a front part of the wall merges smoothly into a shoulder support ramp sloping outwardly from the front of the unit to support the shoulder and neck area of a person whose hair is being washed. A drain opening from the well into the shell interior provides for waste water storage and transportation within the shell, while a second drain from the shell provides for disposal of the waste water.

Abstract: A head support spans the entire width of a shampoo bowl or sink of the type having neck depression in the front wall and supports the head of a person during rinsing operations. The head support is a flexible elongate rectangular strip of open mesh netting of having a rectangular generally J-shaped clip releasably attached at each end by hook and loop type fasteners. A second rectangular generally J-shaped clip is secured to the opposed side walls of the shampoo bowl or sink and releasably receive and engage the curved portion of the clips at the ends of the netting. The clips on at the ends of the netting are adjustable such that the length of the strip between the end clips can be increased or decreased to span shampoo bowls of different widths and the slack or tension of the supporting span can be adjusted for supporting the head at various distances above the bottom wall of the shampoo bowl to provide a comfortable angle of the person's neck.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting and positioning a wheel chair in a tilted association to a shampoo basin, wherein the organization includes a housing with spaced side walls defining an upper basin and a floor positioned below the basin for orienting a container for receiving fluid directed through the basin from a fluid container mounted overlying the basin. The housing includes spaced parallel slider bars positioned laterally of the basin and extend ible forwardly to position and mount wheel chair handle bars, with a wheel chair forward wheel support mount arranged to position the forward wheels of a wheel chair thereon.

Abstract: A bathing device comprises an air inflatable bathtub and shampoo bowl of flexible material. When deflated, the bathing device lies flat for convenient storage and portability. When inflated, it expands to form a bathtub in which a person may sit, a sloped backrest against which the person may lean and a shampoo bowl behind the backrest for receiving water used to shampoo and person's hair. Drains are provided for draining water from the bathtub and shampoo bowl upon completion of bathing. A bathing device also comprises an air inflatable shampoo cap of flexible material, which when deflated folds flat. When inflated, the shampoo cap fits and seals with the head of a person to accommodate shampooing the person's hair while confining wash water to the cap. The shampoo cap may be used separately from or together with the shampoo bowl and bathtub, and if desired it may be an integral part of the same.

Abstract: A portable salon unit includes a movable cart with a wash basin adjustably attached thereto. The wash basin is adjustable vertically with respect to the cart, horizontally with respect to the cart, rotatably about a vertical axis adjacent the cart, about a horizontal axis to the basin and a vertical axis to the basin. A device for supplying clean water to an object located in the basin includes a water connector at one end and a spray end at the other. A flexible supply hose is provided on a supply reel to allow the water connector to be located some distance from the cart. A water return device also including a flexible hose allows water from the basin to be returned to the source. Electricity is also supplied to the cart by use of a suitable cord on a reel.

Abstract: An automatic hair and scalp treatment machine which includes a bowl having a front wall, and a closure therefor, adapted to enclose the head with the face outside the closure. Also included are spray manifolds on an oscillating arcuate header, and a driving device imparting partial rotation to the arcuate header. Spray heads are located on the manifolds such that spray is deflected off of the front wall onto the users neck at the hairline.

Abstract: An automatic hair and scalp treatment machine which includes a bowl, and a closure therefor, adapted to enclose the head with the face outside the closure. Also included are spray manifolds on an oscillating arcuate header, and driving device imparting partial rotation to the arcuate header. Each spray manifold having a spray head oriented to direct spray around the ear.

Abstract: A head care station for use with a wheelchair and a kit therefore and a method for reclining the occupant of a wheelchair against a head support. The head care station has a foundation member having a front portion and a back portion. A wheelchair jack is mounted to the front portion. The wheelchair jack has a bearing member movable between a floor position and an elevated position. A head support is connected to the back portion of the foundation member. The head support is movable between a lower position and an upper position. A bolster is connected to the back portion of the foundation member. The bolster is disposed at a vertical elevation above the elevated position of the wheelchair jack. The wheelchair jack and the bolster define between them an occupancy space.

Abstract: A neck rest for a shampoo basin comprises a generally semi-cylindrical cushion made of a soft resilient material. The cushion preferably includes a thin coating of a waterproof and chemically resistant material. Attached to the inner semi-cylindrical surface of the cushion and extending tangentially outward therefrom is a flexible material having a plurality of small suction cups disposed thereon. The cushion, being made of a resilient material, conforms to the shape of the rim of a shampoo basin and is secured thereto by the suction cups on the inner semi-cylindrical surface. The outwardly extending flexible material defines a flap portion which is disposed against the inner wall of the basin and secured thereto by the suction cups. The neck support is thus firmly held in position so as to resist dislodgement during normal use, but may be easily removed by peeling up the flexible material so as to release the suction cups from the basin.

Abstract: A first embodiment of an improved shampoo basin includes an integral spray rinse assembly positioned proximate a neck supporting portion of the basin. The spray rinse assembly facilitates the rinsing of a user's neck and hair in normally difficult to reach areas. Water temperature and pressure control are also provided, and the spray rinse may be selectively operated by a foot pedal arrangement. A modified embodiment of the basin is of a portable design which permits it to be attached to a conventional shampoo basin.

Abstract: A neck cushion for use on the upper edge of a conventional, commercial hair wash basin includes an elongate body of material having a central portion and two end portions on either side thereof, with the central portion being formed to be thicker than the end portions. Also, the end portions are formed to be wider than the central portion to enable wrapping the end portions about the upper edge of the wash basin. The cushion also includes adhesive strips of material located on the underneath side for contacting and adhering to the upper edge of a wash basin on which the cushion is placed.

Abstract: A shampoo lounge chair is provided which combines a sink and an inclined chair into one complete unit. A spray cap adjustably fits onto the sink so that a person can sit back in the chair placing their head over the sink and under the spray cap to receive water and shampoo therefrom when washing the hair of the person.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an extensible shampoo bowl that is particularly designed to be used in shampooing the hair of an individual confined or seated in a wheelchair. Structurely, the present invention entails a cabinet structure with an extensible shampoo bowl mounted thereto. In particular, by utilizing a scissor-type linkage between the cabinet and shampoo bowl, the shampoo bowl can be raised adjacent the wheelchair.

Abstract: The device comprises a basin having a wall with a U-shaped indentation for reception of a user's neck. A series of independently adjustable ducts, each of which incorporates several jet heads, each jet head having a number of nozzles arranged to direct streams of water radially inwards, are mounted on the basin. The ducts are connected to a common water inlet manifold and are adjustable to selected stationary positions such that the whole of the user's hair can be simultaneously rinsed. The jet heads are preferably linearly and/or rotationally adjustable with respect to the ducts. Rinsing water is caused to accumulate in a pool at the bottom of the basin by a weir running across the floor and preferably incorporating a narrow gap to provide controlled out-flow of water. The ducts may also be adapted to fit within a conventional backwash basin by means of suitable bracket means.

Abstract: A small child's hair washing device includes a body support portion for supporting the child's body in supine position on a counter top adjacent a sink, a head rest portion for supporting the child's head above the sink, a neck support portion adjacent the head rest portion and a drain portion between the body support portion and the neck support portion. The body support portion is releasably engaged with the counter top to hold the device in desired overlapping relationship with the sink and a safety strap may be provided to restrain the child relative to the device during the hair washing operation.

Abstract: A neck cushioning device for engagement with hair shampoo bowls. The cushioning device is comprised of a cushion of resilient material coated with a flexible, water-repellent substance over the entire surface. The cushioning device is adaptable to over-lay the U-shaped neck-receiving notch found on a commercial shampoo bowl and to wrap laterally around the edges of the notch for engagement therewith by means of downwardly projecting walls, one of which includes a protruding lip that curls around the notch and secures the cushioning device to the bowl.

Abstract: A cosmetologist's protective device comprising a pre-formed disposable object having an open-ended tapered cavity therein so that a plurality of such devices can be stacked, one on top of the other, the device having a top wall and two side walls depending from the top wall, the top wall of the device being concavo-convex in transverse cross-section and an arrangement on the underneath surface thereof for adhering the device to a beauty salon shampoo sink to cover the cutaway portion in the front wall thereof, whereby a germ-free cushioned surface is provided for supporting the neck of a customer.

Abstract: A completely self-contained portable apparatus useful primarily in hospitals and nursing homes for washing, shampooing, pedicuring and manicuring bed-ridden persons is disclosed. A wheeled cabinet, houses clean and waste water tanks as well as heating and pressurizing means for the clean water. Head and foot basins each with drain connections to the waste water tank are pivotally mounted on lining arms which permit them to fold into a non-use position overlying each other and the cabinet and an extended position overlying a bed when in use. The support mounting the basins on the cabinet also provides for vertical adjustment to accommodate different bed heights. Spray nozzles connected to the pressurized, heated and clean water tank are extendible by means of hoses to reach either the head or foot basins when in extended operative position.

Abstract: A portable combined hair shampoo basin and drying hood configured for use by a person reclining in a bed or on a couch such as a bedridden person although it may be used in the home by all family members for shampooing, hair coloring, permanent waving, and the drying of the hair thereafter. It is a box-like device that sits on the bed or couch having a double wall defined basin reservoir and a half moon cutout in a front wall to receive the neck of the user. The basin inner wall has a plurality of openings through which water passes when water is poured over the head from a pitcher to drain down through the openings into the reservoir. This keeps spent rinse water out of the upper basin section and away from clean hair with water draining from the reservoir container through a hose connected thereto during the shampoo process.

Abstract: A neck support is installable in the wall indentation of a hairdresser's shampoo bowl or the like and defines a notch for receiving and cushioning the neck of a person whose hair is to be shampooed or otherwise administered to. A membrane extends across the notch to form a fluid leakage barrier, the membrane being an elastic material which distends to the extent necessary to enable entry of the person's neck into the notch and then remains in tight contact with the back and sides of the neck.

Abstract: A hair washing basin or bowl for hairdressers or the like is provided with a recess for the nape of the neck on the edge of the basin or bowl as well as with an opening at the deepest location of the basin or bowl for evacuating the washing and rinsing water. The inside of the basin is provided with an obstacle limiting the water flow path inside the basin which leads to the evacuation opening, forming a wall and imparting a circular motion to the flowing water. Owing to said elements, long hairs will remain in the limited flow path and will be continuously and throughout their length immersed in the washing and rinsing water without the risk for the hair ends of entering the evacuation opening.

Abstract: A manually operated apparatus for selectively directing shampoo solutions onto the hair and scalp of a person while the individual is sitting in a semi-reclining position. The apparatus is constructed so it may give a wetting action to the hair and scalp prior to directing shampoo onto the hair and scalp for predetermined length of time and to direct rinse water thereonto and the device includes applicators which are manually actuated to move in a circular fashion relative to the users head as desired providing high volume with low pressure to desired portions of the users head.

Abstract: A sanitary cushioning device for sink bowl edges is disclosed including a platform having a first and a second leg extending downwardly approximately perpendicular with respect thereto to define a slot therebelow. The slot is adapted to receive a sink bowl edge such as often found in a beauty parlor or haircutting salon. The device cushions the edge of the sink such that when a customer places his head in the sink bowl for washing the back of his neck will be cushioned for comfort. The device is usable with a great variety of different types of sink configurations due to the thick, soft resilient nature of the material. A water repellent covering is detachably securable onto the device to prevent water from contacting the foam rubber material. The device is held in place and the water resistant covering is held in place on the sink edge by the inwardly directed bias of the resilient foam rubber downwardly extending legs.

Abstract: An apparatus for covering the hard surface of a barber shop or beauty parlor sink to protect the neck of a customer whose hair is being shampooed, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a flexible, resilient cushion adapted to overlie a portion of a sink. The sink includes a bowl having an inner bowl surface, a substantially horizontal surface connected to and projecting outwardly form a top edge of the bowl, and a downwardly directed surface connected to the substantially horizontal surface. The cushion includes a first portion adapted to overlie a portion of the bowl surface, a second portion integrally connected to the first portion and adapted to overlie a portion of the substantially horizontal surface, and a third portion integrally connected to said second portion and adapted to overlie a portion of the downwardly directed surface. The first and third portions are resiliently inclined toward one another and tend to grip the sink when mounted on the sink.

Abstract: A height-adjustable washbasin is provided by the present invention. The basin is supported by at least one supporting arm which is pivotally mounted to a fixed surface at one end and received within the washbasin structure at the other end. An arresting element associated with the supporting arm is provided so that the supporting arm can be retained in a selected position, and a force reservoir such as a cylinder spring or gas pressure spring counter-balances the weight of the washbasin on the supporting arm. The height of the washbasin can be adjusted to the level desired by pivoting the supporting arm and securing it in place at the desired level.

Abstract: This invention relates to water basins and valves and valve controls therefore. The basin has interior water supply and overflow lines communicating with the interior peripheral surface and is provided with valves and push button controls to control the flow of water into and out of the basin.