Portable bathroom hangers for hygienic irrigation equipment

• US 4,405,109 A
• Filed: 09/08/1981
• Issued: 09/20/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Esther Davison Murdoch
• Original Assignee: Alternate Executor Murdoch, Danny Joe, Executrix Murdoch, Esther Davison
• Inventors: Murdoch, Merle A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Application Number:
  US06/300,045
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• Field of Search: 248/311.3, 248/311.2, 248/214, 248/215, 248/309, 248/340, 228/227, 211/71, 211/113
• US Class Current: 248/215
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 3/001 Accessories for baths, not provided for in other subgroups of group A47K3/00 bath lifting devices for sick persons and invalids A61G7/10; Insertions, e.g. for babies; Tubs suspended or inserted in baths; Security or alarm devices; Protecting linings or coverings; Devices for cleaning or disinfecting baths; Bath insulation
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0266 Stands, holders or storage means for irrigation devices containers with storage means for cannula A61M3/0245
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/022 repositionable

Abstract

A portable bathroom accessory adapted to be detachably supported along the length of the lintel or head bar of a bath stall doorway while suspending many types of hygienic equipment such as syringe and stoma irrigation devices during use or for bathroom storage. Specifically, the invention is characterized by an inverted U-shaped hanger detachably and snugly mounted upon the head bar in a stable position, wherein one leg of the hanger serves the dual function of suspending a hygienic reservoir assembly in a partially stabilized position by limiting the swinging movement of the lower free end portion of the assembly backwardly in the direction of the other hanger leg. The hanger is further characterized by its light weight, compactness, mobility, resiliency and by its suitability for use in combination with a wide range of sizes and cross-sectional shapes of head bars, thereby enabling the user to conveniently include the hanger in his or her travel baggage with the assurance that it will fit the head bars of most bathroom stalls.

Claims

1. In a bath compartment having a door opening (16) spanned by an elevated horizontally disposed rail (18), a portable hygienic irrigation device (32) including a reservoir (35), and means carried by said rail for suspending said device comprising

an inverted U-shaped hanger (24) detachably fixed to said rail;

one leg of said hanger consisting of a flat bar (28, 28a) depending adjacently parallel to the plane of said opening (16),

said irrigation device (32) consisting of an L-shaped unitary frame having a flat vertically disposed flange (33a) and a horizontally disposed flange (33b);

pivot means (34a, 34b) for oscillatably suspending the vertical flange (33a) of said frame upon said pivot means (30) and face-to-face with said depending bar (28, 28a) to thereby suspend the device for oscillation parallel to the plane of said opening and

means including said horizontal flange (33b) for cantilevering said reservoir (35) axially outwardly from said pivot means (30) and from the plane of said opening,

said last-named means being responsive to a lateral stress component of the weight of said reservoir for biasing said vertical flange (33b) in face-to-face frictional engagement with said depending bar (28, 28a) whereby the amplitude of oscillation of said device is lessened.