Personal cleaning device

• US 20090082729A1
• Filed: 09/26/2007
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stephen Callow
• Original Assignee: Stephen Callow
• Inventors: Callow, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US11/902,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20090082729A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/150
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 3/281 Accessories for showers or bathing douches, e.g. cleaning devices for walls or floors of showers A47K3/30, A47K3/38, A47K3/40 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 31/00 Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body A61M25/00 takes precedence ; introducing or retaining ophthalmic products into the ocular cavities A61F9/0008

Abstract

A douche device which can be supported on a shower head. The device has a reservoir, a cross-support which can be removably connected to the reservoir, and a central semi-circular portion in the cross-support which can be clipped to the shower head pipe. The reservoir has a bottom outlet connected by a flexible hose to a douche wand. The reservoir also has an overflow outlet located on its rear wall above the bottom outlet, with an unobtrusive flexible overflow hose extending from the overflow outlet down to the floor. In use, the device can readily be connected to or disconnected from a shower head, and when in use, excess water from the shower head will not overfill the reservoir and fall onto the user from above. Instead, excess water will exit the reservoir via the overflow opening and will be conducted down to the floor and into a floor drain.

Claims

1. A douche device adapted to be supported on a water spray fitting of a bath or a shower, said spray fitting being of the kind having a spray head and a connecting portion connecting said spray head to a wall, said douche device comprising:

a reservoir, a support for removably supporting said reservoir on said spray fitting with the spray head of said spray fitting located within said reservoir, said reservoir having a lower first opening, an outlet hose having one end connected to said first opening and having a second end, a wand connected to said second end and having a plurality of openings therein for spraying water on a user, said reservoir having a second opening located above said first opening, and an overflow hose connected to said second opening, so that in use, water from said spray fitting may fill said reservoir to the level of said second opening, and so that water in said reservoir can be sprayed from said wand onto a user, and so that excess water from the spray fitting will not overflow the reservoir and fall onto a user but instead will leave the reservoir via the overflow hose.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said support includes a cross-member having a generally semi-circular portion adapted to be clipped onto said connecting portion, said connecting portion being a pipe.

3. Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said reservoir has a sidewall having a pair of slots therein, and said cross-member has enlarged ends sized to be inserted through said slots in said sidewall for said cross-member to retain said reservoir on said cross-member.

4. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said reservoir has a rear wall, and wherein said second opening is located in said rear wall.

5. Apparatus according to claim 4 wherein said overflow hose is a generally flat, thin tube.

6. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said connecting portion, said outlet hose and said overflow hose, are removably connected to said reservoir, and wherein said reservoir is made of a flexible plastic, so that said reservoir, after said connecting portion and said hoses are disconnected from it, can be folded to facilitate traveling with said device.

7. Apparatus according to claim 6 wherein said plastic of said reservoir is resilient, so that when said reservoir is secured in a folded condition by a constraint, and when said constraint is removed, said reservoir will itself unfold into a substantially open condition.