Hydrotherapy agitator with provision for rapid disassembly and reassembly

Claim 1

In a hydrotherapy agitator including a suspension bracket and a motor mounted thereon, a downwardly extending support tube attached to said bracket, an impeller housing attached at the bottom of said support tube, a drive shaft within said support tube connected at the top to the motor shaft and at the bottom to an impeller within said impeller housing, said impeller housing including a bearing for rotatably mounting said drive shaft near the lower end thereof, an apertured bottom cover for said impeller housing, an air tube alongside said support tube mounted on said bracket at the top thereof and attached to said impeller housing near the bottom thereof, and a rotatable water control rod alongside said support tube mounted on said bracket at the top thereof and mounted on said impeller housing near the bottom thereof, means for rapidly disassembling and reassembling parts of the agitator normally immersed during use which comprises a. a pair of separable cooperating flanges on said bracket and top of the support tube, b. a pair of separable cooperating flanges on said impeller housing and bottom of the support tube, c. each pair of flanges including means for establishing a predetermined concentric and angular relationship therebetween, d. manually operable quick-acting clamp means for removably holding each pair of said flanges firmly together, e. manually operable means for removably attaching said bottom cover to the impeller housing, f. manually operable means for removably attaching said impeller to the lower end of said drive shaft, g. and manually operable means for removably attaching said air tube and said water control rod to said impeller housing, respectively.