Patent Application
20070079766
The present invention relates to a system having beauty, medical and bath functions for pets capable of easily achieving beauty, medical and bath functions for pets at home, pets hospital and pets shop, and in particular to a bath system for pets that is designed to minimize a pets stress and easily achieve a bath, beauty (dry, dyeing, ear cleaning, etc.) or a medical operation (vaccination, medical check, operation, medicinal bath, etc.).
Many homes feed many kinds of pets such as dog, cat, and the like. The pets are known to give people pleasure. However, in the case that bath, beauty and medical operations are not provided to pets timely, the pets may become mediums such as flea, tick, bacteria, etc., for thereby causing various diseases such as skin diseases, etc. to pets and infecting to humans. Hairs of pets may become one factor of causing allergies and polluting surrounding environments.
In particular, in the case that the pets become mediums of diseases or bacteria in our residential environments, for example, apartment environment, the mediums may affect other homes. Therefore, the people who feed the pets should be careful of their hygienic states periodically.
The conventional pet bathing operations will be described. First, a certain pet is inputted into a bath full with water, and the pet is bathed with one hand using water or shower tap, holding the pet with the other hand so that water is not inputted into the pet's eyes and nose. After the bath is finished, the hairs of the pet are dried using a hair drier.
The owner of the pet dries the hairs of the pet after the pet took bath. At this time, the hairs may fall out and fly during the driving operation of the wet hairs or may be gathered on the floor for thereby causing unsanitary problems.
A pet bath apparatus that has been imported from other countries and has been used in some pets hospitals is too expensive, so that a common pet owner cannot buy and use it due to high cost. Therefore, many pet owners perform a bathing operation in the above-described method.
In particular, even though the pet is not bathed with hot water in the wiriter season among four seasons, if the pet's wet hairs are not dried fast, the pet may have a cold. When the pet has a cold, it is very hard to cure the cold. In some cases, the cold may be changed to pneumonia.
In the conventional pets bathtub, hot water is filled in the bathtub before taking a bath, and the pet is inputted into the bathtub for thereby performing a pet's bath. However, time is passed, the water in the bathtub get cooled, so that the pet cannot be adapted to the cooled water, whereby the pet may have a cold or pneumonia. In the conventional pet bathtub, the pet is bathed in a method that the pet has a shower using a shower tab provided separately from the bathtub. In this case, the shower can be provided to the pet only when hot water is supplied. Therefore, lot of water and power are consumed for thereby causing over consumption.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to overcome the problems encountered in the conventional art.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a bath system having beauty, medical and bath functions for pets capable of providing pets with bath, medicinal bath and dry at any places and whole body beauty, ear cleaning, dyeing, vaccination and therapy in such a manner that a pet bathtub system includes a bathtub stand, a bathtub stand height adjusting unit and a bathtub.
It is further another object of the present invention to provide a bath system having beauty, medical and bath functions for pets capable of minimizing occurrences of diseases due to a fast change of pet body temperature during a bathing by installing heat wires at the bottom of a bathtub.
It is still further another object of the present invention to provide a bath system having beauty, medical and bath functions for pets capable of achieving an easier drying and shower of pets without using additional drier or shower tab in such a manner that a drier arm or shower unit arm is rotatably installed at one side of an inner upper end of a bathtub.
In the system having beauty, medical and bath functions for pets according to the present invention, bathing, beauty (dry, dyeing, ear cleaning, massage, etc.) or medical operations (vaccination, medical check, operation, etc.) can be performed at any places. The present invention has the following advantages.
First, the present invention is directed to one stop system. The user can easily use the system for bathing, dry, beauty, medicinal bath, dyeing, ear cleaning, etc. for pets at one place.
Second, the user can effectively perform beauty, medical operation and bathing for a short time period with a comfortable posture irrespective of the size and weight of the pet.
Third, the user can provide the pets with bathing at various angles and conveniently and freely using a function of freely adjusting the height of a bathtub stand, a 360° rotation plate, a shower tab support, a rotatable shower unit arm or drier arm.
Fourth, in the present invention, it is possible to provide the pets with beauty, medical operation and bathing in a state that the pet is placed on a bathtub stand in comfortable posture for thereby minimizing a certain stress caused when the pet has beauty, medical operation and bathing.
Fifth, since whole parts of pet can be fully dried using a rotation function in such a manner that the body of pet is fully lifted up for thereby preventing any diseases such as skin diseases.
Sixth, the angle, width and length of the bathtub stand can be adjusted based on the difference sizes of the pets, so that the present invention can be well adapted to various kinds of pets.
Seventh, water is prevented from being inputted into the pet's eyes, nose, and mouth during shower using a protection cap, so that whole parts of a pet's body can be washed using both hands.
Eighth, it is possible to save more water and shampoo as compared to the conventional bathing method. In particular, the present invention is designed to recycle water of the bathtub, so that the water and power can be significantly saved.
Ninth, the present invention adapts a method for continuously heating water by installing heat wires on the bottom of a bathtub, so that it is possible to prevent pet's diseases such as cold or pneumonia that may occur due to the down of temperature. In particular, the power supplied to the heat wires can be properly controlled, so that it is possible to maintain the temperature of bathtub water at a certain set temperature.
Tenth, whole parts of a pet's body can be effectively dried or can have shower using a drier or shower tab in such a manner that a drier arm or shower unit arm is rotatably installed at one side of an inner upper end of a bathtub. In addition, the drier arm or shower unit arm is installed in a certain direction of a body portion of a pet, so that the user can dry the pet or give a shower to the pet using user's both hands.
Eleventh, the pet can be bathed without shampoo in such a manner that an ultrasonic wave generator, far infrared ray generator and electrolysis apparatus are installed at the bottom of a bathtub. In addition, tick, bacteria, etc. who live in the body of the pet can be eradicated.
To achieve the above objects, according to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system having beauty, medical and bath functions for pets, comprising a bathtub stand for fixing a pet's head and body; a bathtub stand height adjusting unit for supporting the bathtub and adjusting the height of the bathtub stand; and a bathtub for storing water therein, wherein said bathtub stand height adjusting unit is installed at a bottom of the bathtub.
In the present invention, the bathtub stand includes a head rest and fixing band for fixing a pet's head; a neck fixing member for adjusting the length and angle based on a pet's neck size; and a body length adjusting member for adjusting the length based on the size of the pet.
To achieve the above objects, according to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system having beauty, medical and bath functions for pets, comprising a bathtub stand for fixing a pet's head and body; a bathtub stand height adjusting unit for supporting the bathtub and adjusting the height of the bathtub stand; and a stand leg unit that operates as a support for supporting the bathtub stand height adjusting member and includes a suspension bar connected between the both ends of the legs.
The present invention will become better understood with reference to the accompanying drawings which are given only by way of illustration and thus are not limitative of the present invention, wherein;
In the descriptions, the pets represent dog, cat, pig, etc. that can be fed at home.
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At this time, the bathtub stand 100 is made of a soft plastic resin (for example, ABS resin, ion exchange resin, and the like), and the head support rest 111 and the body side safety support fixing member 130 are made of an aluminum or hard plastic resin because they need a stronger support.
In detail, the pet's head support rest 111 and the fixing bans 112 (A) have functions of fixing the pet's head during the beauty, medical operation or bathing. At this time, as shown in
The neck fixing member 120 (B, C) has a function of adjusting the length and angle based on the neck size of the pet. As shown in
Here, the height adjusting button 121 may be formed in a button-based tooth wheel handle type (
The angle adjusting button 122 may be formed in a three-step adjusting method and may be formed in a button type for an easier adjustment.
The angle and width of the body side safety support fixing member 130 can be adjusted based on the size of the pet's body. The body side safety fixing member 130 has a function of laterally and stably supporting the left and right sides of the body of the pet during the beauty, medical operation or bathing.
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The length of the body length adjusting member 140 can be adjusted based on the pet's size. In particular, the distance between the front legs and the rear legs can be adjusted with respect to the pet's abdomen.
The bathtub stand 100 can be rotatable by the bathtub stand rotation member 150 at 360° with the four adjusting steps (left, right, upper and lower directions). Therefore, the bathtub stand can be rotated in the left, right, upper and lower directions during the bathing, beauty and medical operation for thereby achieving convenient operations.
The bathtub height adjusting member 200 has a function of freely lifting up and lowering the bathtub irrespective of the size and weight of the pet with a three-step adjusting method.
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The bubble generator 310 has three-step level adjusting functions (high, middle, low) using two bubble generators installed in the interior of the bathtub. The three-step level adjusting functions are adjusted by a timer of a button type spa controller 360. Here, in
A three-step filtering net 321 is installed at the drainage 320 for fully filtering small hairs of pet.
The bottom of the bathtub is embossed using rubber for preventing sliding of pet.
An elliptical rail 330 and a shower unit support member 340 are installed at the upper plate of the bathtub 300, and a shampoo and rinse support 350 and a button type spa controller 360 are installed at one side and other side of the same.
At this time, a pack storing space is formed at a lower side of the shampoo and rinse support 350 for storing a pack insertion net therein.
An elliptical rail 330 is installed at the upper plate of the bathtub. A shower unit support 340 is supported by the guide part of the elliptical rail 330. Therefore, the shower unit support 340 can be freely movable along the elliptical rain 330. The angle and rotation of the shower can be adjusted. A shampoo, rinse and towel hanger is installed at the upper plate support for convenient use.
The button type spa controller 360 is formed of a button type control panel and is designed to simply adjust the spa function with high, middle and low levels.
A bubble motor 370 and a charge battery 375 are installed at a lower side of the bathtub 300. Bathtub legs 385 each having a non-slip type wheel 380 are provided at one side and the other side for thereby achieving an easier movement of the bathtub 300.
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Therefore, in the present invention, it is possible to implement a spa system capable of performing medicinal bathing, massage and bubble bathing based on the above described construction.
Namely, the medicinal bathing function of the spa system is achieved in such a manner that a proper amount of water is filled in the bathtub, and medical shampoo or medical pack is inputted into the bathtub. Therefore, the medical components affect deep skins, so that it is possible to prevent and cure various ticks and skin diseases.
The massage function is directed to loosening pet's muscles using bubbles generated during the bathing for thereby achieving a desired massage effect together with diet effect.
The bubble bathing function is directed to removing a certain smell of pet by inputting a certain medical herb or aroma into the water of the bathtub. The effects of the same may last for a long time.
As shown therein, when the pet's hairs are dried after bathing, since the angle and height of the bathtub stand 100 can be freely adjusted, it can be effectively used for different sizes of pets. In particular, when the pet's hairs are dried after bathing, the bathtub stand is lifted up at a certain height, so that the drying operation can be effectively performed, rotating the same 360°.
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The bathtub stand height adjusting unit 200 according to the present invention may be designed to operate based on a full automatic method or a semi-automatic method. Namely, as shown in
In. addition, the automatic method is designed to use a motor driving force. Some operation buttons may be provided for easier operation. In the present invention, both the automatic and semi-automatic methods may be adapted.
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In this case, water sprayed through the shower nozzle 532 is supplied from the bathtub using a motor of the spa system provided in the bathtub or is supplied from the bathtub by an additionally provided motor. Namely, in the present invention, it is possible to recycle the water in such a manner that the water is pumped from the bathtub and is sprayed through the shower nozzle without a water supply from the outside. Therefore, it is possible to save a lot of water as compared to the method of bathing using an additionally provided shower unit. In addition, a ultrasonic wave generator or far infrared ray generally may be further provided at a lower side of the bathtub for generating ultrasonic wave or far infrared ray for thereby killing bacteria and harmful insects. In addition, an electrolysis device may be installed at a lower side of the bathtub for thereby washing the pet's body and killing tick, bacteria, etc. who live in the pet. In particular, the ultrasonic wave generator, far infrared ray generator and electrolysis device may be applied in combination for thereby more effectively bathing the pets without pet shampoo. It is possible to prevent a certain disease like skin disease by killing tick, bacteria, etc. living in the body of the pet. Various kinds of filters may be installed at a lower side of the bathtub for thereby continuously filtering the water. Here, the filter may be selected from the group comprising a carbon filter, micro filter, reverse-osmotic pressure filter, ion exchange resin filter, ceramic filter, etc. that have been generally used in a water purifier. In the case that the water of the bathtub is pumped from the bottom of the bathtub using a motor, the pets hairs or foreign substances are effectively filtered by the filter for thereby purifying the water. Therefore, it is possible to always keep the water cleaned wherein the water is sprayed through the shower nozzle.
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Accordingly, it is obvious that any one who skilled in the art may change or modify the constructions of the bathtub stand, etc. without departing from the concept and ranges of the present invention.
As the present invention may be embodied in several forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof, it should also be understood that the above-described examples are not limited by any of the details of the foregoing description, unless otherwise specified, but rather should be construed broadly within its spirit and scope as defined in the appended claims, and therefore all changes and modifications that fall within the meets and bounds of the claims, or equivalences of such meets and bounds are therefore intended to be embraced by the appended claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2003-0087025 | Dec 2003 | KR | national |
| 10-2004-0054410 | Jul 2004 | KR | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/KR04/01757 | 7/15/2004 | WO | 5/26/2006 |
