Intensive care portable bathtub

Claim 1

An intensive care portable bathtub, comprising a housing having a top, a bottom and sides; roller means rotatably affixed to the bottom of the housing; a sunken bathtub mounted in the housing and extending from the top thereof; a pair of openings in the tip of the housing at opposite ends thereof; a pair of shafts each positioned substantially vertically in and extending through corresponding one of the openings; a pair of guide means for the shafts in the housing; a support rod affixed at its ends to the upper ends of the shafts outside the housing, said support rod being bent and extending within the bathtub; a perforated duckboard on the support rod in the bathtub; and control means in the housing coupled to the shafts and extending from the housing for selectively raising and lowering the shafts to selectively raise and lower the duckboard via the support rod, wherein said control means further comprises a pair of substantially linear gears each affixed to a corresponding one of the shafts in the housing, a third longitudinally extending shaft having opposite ends journalled in opposite sides of the housing, one end of the third shaft extending out of the housing, a pair of longitudinally spaced gears affixed to the third shaft in the areas of the opposite ends thereof, said gears being rotatable with said third shaft, each of said gears being drivably coupled to a corresponding one of the substantially linear gears, and crank handle means affixed to the end of the third shaft outside the housing.