Bathing device, in particular for bathing babies

Claim 1

An infant bathing device comprising (a) a rigid receptacle having a bottom, an opened top with a rim and side walls, wherein at least two facing side walls have interior vertically contoured surface portions; (b) a rigid platform means for supporting an infant in a sitting and reclined position and having a perforated bottom and being configured such that the platform is vertically movable within the entire receptacle while being in a substantially horizontal plane; (c) an entire rigid periphery of the platform wherein the periphery has at least some periphery contoured portions which are contoured substantially opposite to and engagable within the said receptacle contoured surface portions, whereby the periphery contoured portions are vertically slidable in the said receptacle contoured surface portions so that the platform is vertically movable to any vertical position within the receptacle while being in a substantially horizontal plane and whereby the platform can be vertically moved to the top of the receptacle and the said contoured portions horizontally offset so that the platform is supportable by the said rim; and (d) lifting means associated with the platform for vertically moving the platform.