Shower assist safety device
CA 1159601 A · Owner: Wright, Laurence A. · Inventors: Wright, Laurence A.
Overview
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This invention relates to a lifting and swinging bathroom device that enables the user to slide onto its seat portion when the seat is in a locked lowered position outside the tub and through a series of manual, operations to raise and swing the user into the tub area enabling him or her to have a shower unattended. The entire raising and lowering linkage is mounted cantilever fashion on a rotatable column adjacent the outside of the tub. The invention is of particular use to a person in a wheelchair and has a broad use for the aged the infirm and the obese.
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- Granted January 3, 1984. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 3, 2001.
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