Machine and or a process that will provide self cleaning advanced hot tubs, baths, and pools, with dispensing functions and automatic scrubbing systems

• US 20040261167A1
• Filed: 06/29/2004
• Published: 12/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter John Panopoulos
• Original Assignee: Peter John Panopoulos
• Inventors: Panopoulos, Peter John
• Granted Patent: US 7,243,379 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 4/490
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/1654 Self-propelled cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/169 Pool nozzles

Abstract

A self-cleaning advanced hot tub-bath tub, pool with dispensing functions for providing a hot tub with the functionality to automatically cleanse itself and to inject bath oils, perfumes, soaps, bubble baths, medications, and or other items to the hot tub as desired either automatically through memory circuits or manually. A consumer can release bath oils, perfumes, soaps, bubble baths, medications, and or other luxury items to the hot tub as are desired either manually for each individual item desired, or the consumer depresses the automatic setting and the hot tub prepares the bath as automatically set by the consumer from water temperature, to jet cycle time, pressure strength, and which nozzles will be on or off, including what items if any will be injected into the water including but not limited to bath oils, perfumes, soaps, bubble baths, medications, and or other items.

Claims

1. An improved pool/bath tub providing automatic and pre-set filling, cleaning and scrubbing functions, comprising in combination,

a pool/bath tub structure having side walls and a bottom wall,

hot and cold water valves to control the dispensing of hot and cold water into said pool/bath tub,

a plurality of dispensing tanks associated with said pool/bath tub structure and in fluid communication therewith,

each of said dispensing tanks containing a segregated ingredient for dispensing into said pool/bath tub,

a pool/bath tub control means electronically interconnected to said dispensing tanks for controlling the dispensing of said segregated ingredients into said pool/bath tub and interconnected to said hot and cold water valves for controlling the filling of said pool/bath tub with hot and cold water,

a drain plug system incorporated in said pool/bathtub for automatically draining and filling said pool/bath tub,

and at least one electronic circuit card associated with said pool/bathtub control means, said electronic circuit card containing all data relating to dispensing segregated ingredients into said pool/bath tub in a programmed manner, and being and being an electronic communication with said drain plug system automatically affecting the alternately draining and filling of said pool/bath tub,

whereby said control means may be programmed by said electronic circuit card to control the filling of said pool/bath tub with hot and cold water and dispensing any one of said segregated ingredients into said pool/bath tub as desired by the operator.

2. The improved pool/bath tub as set forth in claim 1 above wherein said drain plug system includes control means for automatically draining and filling said pool/bath tub,

said control means being electronically interconnected to said hot and cold water means to control the filling and draining of said pool/bath tub,

and said control means including a user readout panel to display all program data thereon and allow the user to select and control all filling and dispensing functions contained in said electronic circuit card incident to the use of said pool/bath tub.

3. The improved pool/bath tub as set forth in claim 2 above, wherein said pool/bathtub includes a scrubber system for placement in said pool/bath tub to perform a cleaning and scrubbing function relative to said pool/bath tub,

said scrubber system including means for effecting the movement of said scrubber system with said pool/bath tub,

said scrubber system further provided with control means electronically interconnected to said scrubber system for controlling the cleaning and scrubbing operation of said scrubber system,

said control means being electronically interconnected to said pool/bath tub control in order to permit said electronic circuit card to accept programmed data for the cleaning and scrubbing operation and permit the operator to program and control the cleaning and scrubbing operation and review such data on the user read-out panel.

4. The improved pool/bath tub as set forth in claim 1 above, wherein each of said dispensing tanks includes a segregated ingredient selected from the group consisting of bath oils, shampoos, conditioners, medications, antibacterial agents, antiviral agents, antimicrobial agents, cleaning agents, chlorine, cleaning agents and soaps, whereby each of said agents may be separately released and dispensed into said pool/bath tub in response to the programmed schedule input into said electronic circuit card.

5. The improved pool/bath tub as set forth in claim 3 above, wherein said scrubber system is provided with a plurality of brush arms positioned thereon in order to effect the cleaning and scrubbing of said pool/bath tub including the side walls and bottom wall thereof.

6. The improved pool/bath tub as set forth in claim 5 above, wherein said scrubber system is provided with a plurality of wheels to accommodate the movement of said scrubber system within said pool/bath tub and permits said scrubber system to move throughout the entire perimeters of side walls and bottom wall of said pool/bath tub.

7. The improved pool/bath tub as set forth in claim 2 above, wherein said user read-out panel is provided with operator controlled program buttons to accommodate the operator to program the filling, draining and dispensing functions into said electronic circuit card thereby to effect the automatic functioning of said pool/bath tub.

8. The improved pool/bath tub as set forth in claim 3 above, wherein said user read-out panel is provided with operator controlled buttons to accommodate the operator to program the filling, draining, dispensing and scrubbing functions into said electronic circuit card thereby to effect the automatic functioning of said pool/bath tub.

9. The improved pool/bath tub as set forth in claim 1 above, wherein said pool/bathtub is further provided with temperature sensors positioned therein for sensing the temperature of the water,

said temperature sensors being electronically interconnected to said electronic circuit card thereby to permit the water temperature to be programmed and controlled by the operator.