Adaptable bathing assistance
CA 2033362 C · Owner: Zellner, John R. · Inventors: Zellner, John R.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A bathing device including tub surround panels useful with a conventional bath tub or with a tub configured to the special needs of the disabled. The panels have unobtrusively reinforced side panels recessed to accept a full length chair height reclining shower seat and a tilting bath tube to contain the bathing water for use when these bathing aids are necessary or desirable. When they are no longer needed the seat and tube are, easily removed and the surround panels are restored to their original appearance.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 28, 1990 and granted April 12, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 28, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 28, 2012.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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