Abstract: A shower fixing device includes a switching valve and a shower head fixing device. The shower head fixing device includes a connecting and fixing piece having a wrench structure and a shower head connecting mechanism detachably coupled to a shower head. The shower head connecting mechanism is fixedly connected to the connecting and fixing piece, and the connecting and fixing piece is detachably coupled to a locking nut of the switching valve.

Abstract: An implement washing apparatus is disclosed. A portable, rigid housing defines at least a first basin and a second basin. The first basin has an open top and closed side walls and bottom for containing liquid to soak the implement. The second basin has side walls that include a plurality of bristles in an arrangement directed generally inwardly to a center of the second basin to scrub the implement.

Abstract: An improved shower apparatus is provided where a two-way selector valve is placed between a pre-existing shower head and a pipe to selectively allow water to flow between the shower head and a flexible rubber hose connected to a substantially cylindrical member. The member has a plurality of holes disposed along its length to create a horizontal triangular water spray. The bottom end of the member is removably attached to a wall of the shower and the rubber hose is looped around a retainer housing to provide vertical height adjustment.

Abstract: An adjustable height showerhead is slidably removable vertically along an axis to accommodate users of differing heights. The showerhead includes a fixed inner pipe, a water inlet connection, a wall mount and an adjustable pipe sleeve. The water inlet connection provides a flow of water into the fixed inner pipe, which has ports connected with the adjustable pipe sleeve to provide water therethrough into an annular space defined by the outer wall of the inner pipe and an inner wall of the adjustable pipe sleeve, which is connected to the outlet nozzle at a distal end. A locking subassembly maintains the showerhead in a fixed position until the locking assembly is unlocked, thereby permitting slidable movement of the adjustable pipe sleeve about an axis parallel to the fixed inner pipe.

Abstract: An improved shower apparatus is provided where a two-way selector valve is placed between a pre-existing shower head and a pipe to selectively allow water to flow between the shower head and a flexible rubber hose connected to a substantially cylindrical member. The member has a plurality of holes disposed along its length to create a horizontal triangular water spray. The bottom end of the member is removably attached to a wall of the shower and the rubber hose is looped around a retainer housing to provide vertical height adjustment.

Abstract: A full body shower system having three generally horizontal water dispensing portions or portions and two generally vertical closed portions or portions connecting the horizontal portions or portions. The maximum number of water spray apertures in the system is sixty. The apertures are located in the horizontal water dispensing portions or portions at angles with respect to the horizontal to direct water in a predetermined pattern.

Abstract: A self-contained module installed in the side walls or deck of a pool or spa is connected to the pool or spa plumbing system, and converts the turbulent water supply of the system to a laminar sheet of water which free falls into the pool or spa in a manner pleasing in sight and sound. Narrow, elongated spouts prevalent in the prior art have been reduced to a short, compact, economical and structurally stronger emitter owing to the provision of components including an apertured conduit, or "flute", traversing a relatively large manifold chamber open along an element.

Abstract: A decontamination system for rinsing hazardous materials from victims or suited emergency personnel using hand held thin flat octagonal rings of square aluminum tubing having a plurality of radially inwardly directed nozzles for simultaneously spraying water inwardly toward all sides of the part of a person at the center of the ring in a pattern from each nozzle which is wide but confined to about the thickness of the ring. Each ring has two external diametrically opposed sockets for receiving telescoping handles for spraying movement by one or two assisting persons, or it may be manipulated by a user for self-spraying by being hand held or by being pulled down around the user from an elevated horizontal position in which it is supported by elastic cords within a tent frame structure.

Abstract: A spout provides an extended sheet of flowing water for a bathtub or the like with readily obtainable rates of water flow and pressure. The spout employs a plurality of water jets along a tubular conduit which form a thin continuous sheet after striking a vertical tub wall. Slotted nozzles at either end of the conduit form a fan spray, one edge of each which attaches to the continuous sheet to provide the aesthetic impression of a continuous higher volume flow. The conduit may be supported by a bracket bolted to the vertical wall. A shroud having a planar back wall and a series of downwardly opening notches may be installed between the conduit and the bracket after the bolts are in place, simplifying the installation of the spout.

Abstract: A medical attendance bathtub bed in which a person, such as a patient or an old person, who must always be laid in a clean bed, is laid in a bed which becomes a bathtub. In case of discharging, the patient's pubic region and anus are covered by a detachable stool in a sealing state, cleaning liquid is injected from a cleaning liquid injector provided on the inner face of the detachable stool to clean the predetermined portions, and the cleaning liquid, including contaminants, is drained to a sewage hole from a drain tube attached to the detachable stool to eliminate discharge sound, offensive odor, etc. externally.

Abstract: An improved shower head comprising a length of hollow tubing in the shape of a vertically disposed loop having spaced apart, vertically supported side sections and a horizontally supported bottom section joining respective lower ends of the side sections in which a preferred embodiment of the loop is annular in shape to include a horizontally supported top portion joining respective upper ends of the side sections, the outer wall portions of the tubing forming the outer face of the loop facing the bather containing spaced apart orifices producing a vertically disposed spray pattern. The orifices are located along the tubing wall region of the interior portion of the loop outer face an offset distance from the center line of the outer tubing wall that forms the face of the loop generating a spray pattern having an inwardly directed component around the periphery of the loop or annulus.

Abstract: A spout fixture for bathtubs, wash basins or the like has a body with a thin horizontal water emission zone from which a sheet-like flow of water is directed along the underside of a flow guide to a discharge zone at the end of the flow guide. The flow guide undersurface curves downwardly as the discharge zone is approached enabling momentum and adhesion to hold the flow on the downwardly facing surface against the pull of gravity. Water released from the end of the flow guide travels downwardly into the receptacle in the form of a free falling, thin, smooth curtain of water that minimizes noise and splashing and is attractive in appearance.

Abstract: A bathing system for ambulatory or non-ambulatory patients that includes a bathing cabinet with associated showering plumbing and a patient transporter cart that is moveable into and out of the cabinet, eliminating bodily transfer of the patient into and out of the bath from a wheelchair. The bathing cabinet has water shielded channels that receive and protect the wheels and casters of the transporter cart from becoming wet during the bathing operation when the cart is locked inside the bathing cabinet. The transporter cart includes a perianal spray that has a pipe coupling element that connects automatically during insertion of the cart to a pipe fitting disposed in the cabinet. The bathing cabinet includes a foot bathing receptacle that can be emptied with a mechanical flipper valve.The arm and foot rests of the transporter cart are removeable and can be stored on the outside of the cabinet during the bathing operation so that they do not get wet.

Abstract: A venturi type mixer that produces an aerated water jet for spas, therapy pools, swimming pools and the like, is provided with a pulsating action by means of a flow impeding spoiler that momentarily and repetitively disturbs the water jet that is projected into the mixing chamber. Disturbance of the jet effectively disables the vacuum produced by the venturi action to thereby cause discharge of a water stream of decreased velocity having considerably less entrained air. The spoiler is moved into and out of the water jet by means of an automatically reciprocating piston that is operated by a combination of a spring and the vacuum produced by the venturi action. Alternatively the spoiler may be rotated into and out of the path of the jet by a water driven rotor, or the jet orifice may be rotated relative to a fixed spoiler.