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.
A portable, self contained, washing, shampooing, pedicuring and manicuring apparatus for use with bed-ridden persons comprising: a wheeled cabinet having fresh and waste water tanks therein; means in said cabinet for pressurizing and heating the water in said fresh water tank; a foot basin having a drain fitting connected by a flexible hose line to said waste water tank; a head basin having a drain fitting connected by a flexible hose line to said waste water tank; extensible spray nozzle means carried by said cabinet and connected to said pressurizing means; means separately supporting said basins on said cabinet for vertical and horizontal adjustment to operative position over an adjacently positioned bed and permitting pivoting said basins to overlie each other and said cabinet in inoperative position for storage and for moving purposes; a pair of open top receptacles for manicuring, adjustably supported in spaced relation on an elongated rigid bar member; and means pivotally supporting said bar on a vertically adjustable column carried by said cabinet between said basin support means so that said bar may be placed in operative position over an adjacent bed and pivoted to inoperative position aligned with said cabinet and said basins.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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A portable, self contained, washing, shampooing, pedicuring and manicuring apparatus for use with bed-ridden persons comprising: a wheeled cabinet having fresh and waste water tanks therein; means in said cabinet for pressurizing and heating the water in said fresh water tank; a foot basin having a drain fitting connected by a flexible hose line to said waste water tank; a head basin having a drain fitting connected by a flexible hose line to said waste water tank; extensible spray nozzle means carried by said cabinet and connected to said pressurizing means; means separately supporting said basins on said cabinet for vertical and horizontal adjustment to operative position over an adjacently positioned bed and permitting pivoting said basins to overlie each other and said cabinet in inoperative position for storage and for moving purposes; a pair of open top receptacles for manicuring, adjustably supported in spaced relation on an elongated rigid bar member; and means pivotally supporting said bar on a vertically adjustable column carried by said cabinet between said basin support means so that said bar may be placed in operative position over an adjacent bed and pivoted to inoperative position aligned with said cabinet and said basins.