HYDROTHERAPY TANK

• US 3,565,065 A
• Filed: 09/20/1968
• Issued: 02/23/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ernest R. Biggs Jr, George D. Busenburg
• Original Assignee: Ernest R. Biggs Jr, George D. Busenburg
• Inventors: Biggs, Ernest R. Jr., Busenburg, George D.
• Application Number:
  US04/761,173
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• US Class Current: 601/166
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/06 Arms
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 35/00 Baths for specific parts of the body electric circuits therefor A61H33/005; specific components therefor A61H33/60

Abstract

A hydrotherapy tank particularly adapted for the treating of the forearm and hand. The hydrotherapy tank preferably comprises a horizontally positioned cylindrical tank shell having a circulation section and an arm access section, the arm access section defining an arm access port positioned in a plane above the top of the circulation section, and at least two water nozzles mounted inside the tank shell adjacent an inner wall section to discharge water substantially tangential to that inner wall section, the nozzles being evenly spaced along the major axis of the circulation section.

Claims

1. A hydrotherapy tank for treatment of human body limbs comprising:

an elongated tank shell having a water circulation section with a major axis and an access port through which a limb can be inserted into said tank shell substantially parallel to said axis; and

at least two water nozzles mounted inside said tank shell, said nozzles being substantially evenly spaced along the major axis of said tank shell to provide substantially uniformly distributed discharge of water along said axis, thereby uniformly hydromassaging said limb inserted into said tank.

2. A hydrotherapy tank as set forth in claim 1 wherein said nozzles are disposed within said tank shell to discharge water substantially tangential to said tank shell for enhancing the circulation of water in said tank.

3. A hydrotherapy tank as set forth in claim 2 wherein said tank shell is substantially cylindrical and the major axis of said tank shell is substantially horizontal.

4. A hydrotherapy tank as set forth in claim 3 wherein said tank shell further comprises an upturned access section connected to said circulation section, an access port being formed in said access section above said water circulation section.

5. A hydrotherapy tank as set forth in claim 4 wherein said tank shell further comprises an overflow port in said access section above said water circulation section.