PAGE BURTON ONGE
Architects in Nashville, TN

5940902, Aug 24, 1999

Oct 7, 1997

8/957989

Page B. Onge - Nashville TN
Jeannine M. Onge - Nashville TN

A47R 302

4555

A bathing tub including a bathing basket with an open front with a seating area, a back and opposing ends. The seating area can be adjusted in height and then fixed at a level approximately buttock high above a support surface so that a bather can easily slide into the seating area of the basket from a standing position through the open front. Once the bather is in the basket, a front rail is moved into a closing position to provide the bather with some support across the front of the basket and to prevent the bather from falling out of the basket. Next, a remote reservoir which has been pre-filled with a bathing liquid, usually body temperature bathing water, is raised and surrounds the bathing basket or the bathing basket is lowered into the remote reservoir to accomplish the same effect. The water will flow at a rapid pace into the bathing basket and the bather will thus be quickly immersed in water that has been pretempered to the desired temperature to any level of immersion desired. At any time during the bathing process, the side access bathing basket may be adjusted to a perfect height for a bathing assistant to attend to the bather without having to bend over and place strain on the assistant's back.