Solarium

• US 4,335,724 A
• Filed: 01/18/1980
• Issued: 06/22/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hans-Joachim Frei, Karl Wolf
• Original Assignee: Hans-Joachim Frei, Karl Wolf
• Inventors: Wolf, Karl, Frei, Hans-Joachim
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHEDD, CHARLES W
• Application Number:
  US06/113,360
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• Field of Search: 128/372, 128/373, 128/376, 128/395, 128/396
• US Class Current: 607/91
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0636 Irradiating the whole body
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0638 with a specially adapted support surface
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0655 Tubes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0665 Reflectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/0614 Tanning

Abstract

A solarium, especially for medical purposes, having one or more fluorescent tubes mounted in a frame, wherein the frame is constructed as part of a piece of residential furniture, such as a bed, a couch, a seat, a commode, a cabinet, a stand, a lamp, a television set and the like. The fluorescent tubes are disposed in reflectors which are open to an irradiation side of the frame. The fluorescent tubes are mounted under a covering which is permeable to ultraviolet rays. The covering provides a concave longitudinal trough adapted to fit the body of the user. Preferably, at least one solarium lamp is positioned at a distance above the cover so that the user can be irradiated simultaneously on both sides of his body. The solarium may be constructed as a mirror part of a hair dressing cabinet commode. In another embodiment, the fluorescent tubes are bent into a circle, where tubes of different diameters are arranged concentrically to one another. The concentric tubes may be mounted in a bowl-shaped casing, a commercial-type television set and the like.

Claims

1. Solarium comprising:

a frame having a longitudinal direction, said frame including body means constructed as part of a piece of residential furniture, one side of said frame being open;

a plurality of reflectors being supported adjacent to one another in said frame, said reflectors being open towards said one side of said frame and extending in the longitudinal direction of said frame;

a plurality of ultraviolet fluorescent tubes being mounted in said frame, one of said ultraviolet fluorescent tubes being disposed in each respective one of said reflectors;

means disposed over said one side of said frame for permitting emergence of ultraviolet radiation from said tubes onto a person disposed on said frame, said means including a covering mounted on said frame above said tubes for supporting the person, a major portion of said covering being permeable to ultraviolet rays directed to the person'"'"'s body, and a head zone of said covering being impermeable to the ultraviolet rays, said covering providing a concave longitudinal trough for receiving the person; and

a support member having a concave longitudinal surface disposed in said frame for supporting said reflectors with said tubes therein in a concave arrangement corresponding to said concave longitudinal trough defined by said covering.

2. Solarium according to claim 1, wherein said covering consists of a thermoplastic synthetic material.

3. Solarium according to claim 1, wherein said covering consists of flexible material.

4. Solarium according to claim 1, wherein said frame is a self-supporting chassis.

5. Solarium according to claim 1, wherein said covering is provided with support means having a shape and size for resting several persons thereon.