The present invention relates to a bathroom, in particular, to a sauna bathroom.
At present, a commercial sauna bathroom is generally provided with apparatus both for shower-bath and pool-bath. Due to hot water used in shower-bath and pool-bath and heating purpose, plenty of hot water is drained in vain involving huge water consumption. Further, a sauna bathroom is so stuffy, gloom and damp that bacteria are easy to propagate. As reported by the media, someone even caught pneumonia due to going to the sauna bathroom frequently. A popular sauna bathroom is difficult to sustain because of high water costs and high petroleum costs (for heating water). Moreover, it takes at least RMB one hundred thousand to build a bathroom. Other factors, such as a large area, a high boiler and difficulties in finding a suitable place, make a commercial sauna bathroom even harder to develop and popularize which may have certain undesirable impact on public sanitation and health care. Thus it can be seen that a commercial sauna bathroom needs to be upgraded. In addition, to take a bath at home, no matter it is a tub bath, a shower bath or a shower bath using a water heater, often involves high costs and is cold. Besides, a bathroom is usually very damp and not easy to dry. A sauna chamber has passed away because it is difficult to clean. As to a suspended sauna bathroom in a shower bathroom (with steam), there is only one outlet for the steam to enter into the sauna bathroom, thus forming a steam column rising upward after the steam comes out off the outlet. The steam column reaches the roof first, and then pushes down slowly. Therefore, the upper part is too hot and stuffy, while at the lower part it is nothing but cold air. A user often feels rather cold inside further because the connection between the lower part and the ground is not tight which allows cold air to enter into the bathroom from the lower end. Obviously, it is difficult to enjoy sauna at home. At present, a commercial sauna bathroom uses a large volume of hot air for its bathroom and rest room. Hot air which is normally produced by air conditioners involves huge costs for electricity. Neither a suspended sauna bathroom nor a minisize sauna bathroom is provided with automatic water supply at present, and the steam generator equipped to a shower bathroom, which is introduced from abroad, is inconvenient to regulate the steam temperature with high steam pressure and expensive price.
In order to overcome the disadvantages and difficulties of a commercial sauna bathroom and in order to solve the problem of taking bath at home, the present invention provides a commercial sauna bathroom, of which water consumption is small and which does not cause air pollution and is energy-efficient for heating water and of which, the bathroom is spacious and not too damp to grow bacteria. Since hot air is produced with coal for such a sauna bathroom, the cost is reduced significantly. The present invention also provides a home-used sauna bathroom which is economic, warm and sanitary.
The technical solution to resolve the above problems is:
1. A boiler a: consists of a boiler casing, a boiler chamber and a boiler bottom, in which water is filled between the boiler casing and the boiler chamber, and of which the lower part is a boiler cavity and the upper part is an air duct, briquettes (honeycomb briquettes) being filled in the boiler cavity and the boiler cavity having on one side an opening, through which the briquettes are filled into the boiler cavity one by one in a transverse direction.
A boiler b: is a combination of a boiler and a hot wind stove, of which an outer layer is a boiler with upper and lower segments, the boiler cavity being located under the center of the boiler, the opening for filling briquettes being on one transverse side of the boiler cavity and a heat exchanger being on top of the boiler cavity, the heat exchanger being communicated with a blower fan used to transport air, one side of the heat exchanger being used to pass flame, the other side being used to pass air, flame and air not mixing each other and on top of the heat exchanger being a chimney.
2. A sauna bathroom:
A. A minisize sauna bathroom: comprises an airtight wall and an airtight roof having an opening for stretching out a user's head, the roof and the opening being connected by a funnel made of thin and soft material with the ground or the like acting as the roof. The hot water and steam or hot air is provided from outside when the bathroom is being used. There is a door for the user to enter into or come out of the bathroom, A bag for containing clothing is attached to the wall. Or the bath tub can be used as the bottom of the minisize sauna bathroom. A drainer connecting a pipe is provided on the bottom of the bath tub. The wall of bath tub is connected to the wall of the sauna bathroom tightly so that air cannot flow between inside and outside. The wall of the sauna bathroom is disposed on the edges of the bath tub without any connection between them. Alternatively, a shape of bath tub made of soft and watertight material fits over the bottom of the minisize sauna bathroom to act as the bottom of the bathroom having a drainer connecting a pipe. A stool, allowing sitting on three sides, with different sizes of length, width and height, is provided in the room.
B. Manner of suspension of the suspended sauna bathroom: Around the roof are arranged 8 or more hooks, through which the sauna bathroom is suspended on a horizontal frame. The lower end of the bathroom wall is connected with the bottom thereof tightly so that there is no air communication between the lower end of the bathroom and the outside. A plurality of inlets of fresh air or hot air are arranged around the lower end thereof. On the air inlet is provided an air blower, of which the wind direction is changeable and which delivers hot air or fresh air toward a user's cheek. A shape of bath tub made of soft and watertight material fits over the lower end of the suspended sauna bathroom having a drainer connecting a pipe. A bag for containing clothing is attached to the wall.
C. A shower type sauna bathroom: comprises a plurality of inlets of steam or hot air around the lower end thereof. On the air inlet is provided an air blower, of which the wind direction is changeable and which delivers hot air or fresh air toward a user's cheek. A closet for containing clothing is provided on the wall.
D. A steam generator provided for a minisize, a suspended or a shower type sauna bathroom is a small boiler contained in a water tank with a cover shared by the tank and the boiler.
E. Automatic water supply device for the steam generator:
(1) An open end of a blind stub pipe is arranged in an outer wall of the water tank of the steam generator or of another vessel, a blind end of the stub pipe being arranged in the water tank. A dry reed pipe is arranged in the stub pipe on which there is a frame. An electric magnetic floater floating up or down is arranged in the frame. A circuit of the dry reed pipe is connected to a solenoid valve.
(2) A butt end of a pipe of a vent room in a counter flooding valve (patent No.: 86205855) is contained in a cylindrical vessel and a water outlet pipe of the counter flooding valve is also connected into the vessel, The vessel is communicated with the water tank of the steam generator or another vessel through a communicating pipe.
F. Around a lower end of a commercial sauna bathroom (the sauna bathroom per se) there are a steam or hot air inlet a hot water inlet for shower, an air blower which is used for delivering hot air and fresh air to a user's cheek and of which the wind direction is changeable.
G. A commercial sauna bathroom is equipped with different kinds of sauna bathrooms offering sauna bath only for customers. Briquettes are filled into a briquette boiler of a boiler cavity one by one transversely. Heat is supplied by using a combination of a boiler and a hot wind stove. A water-heating system includes a pipe at an upper end of a water tank of the boiler which directs hot water upward into a hot water tank at high position and a pipe which directs cool water in the hot water tank to flow back to the water tank of the boiler and to which a tap water pipe is connected. Valves are installed onto three pipes at connection points. The boiler, the water tank at high position and the sauna bathroom are all disposed on the same floor. A meter is connected to the pipe for hot water supply.
The beneficial effects of the present invention are as follows: the hot water boiler burns briquettes, which is not pollutant and more economical than petroleum. With briquettes filled into the boiler one by one transversely, the structure involved is advanced with a larger heat-transfer area. As a result, compared with conventional briquette-burning boiler with the same size, it can heat much more water in a same period of time. With water drums surrounding the boiler fire, thermal efficiency is high. Additionally, the price of this kind of boiler is cheap and large quantities of fiends can be saved.
The advantages of the combination of a boiler and a hot wind stove are as follows: an air conditioner turns the heat energy of coal into steam by heating water, the steam then drives a steam turbine to generate electricity, which is used to drive a compressor to create heat energy to hear air. The heat energy of coal is used to heat air after many steps involving a great deal of energy losses and huge human and material resources consumption so that the cost is high. The combination of a boiler and a hot wind stove turns the heat energy of coal into hot air directly through a heat exchanger, thus reducing expenses significantly and saving electrical energy.
The structure of a minisize sauna bathroom is quite simple which allows quite convenient cleaning. It can be seen from the embodiment of the present invention that it can be washed through turning it outside in, or it can be washed just like clothing by taking off the surrounding room wall and roof from the room frame. As the sauna bathroom occupies a small space, it becomes hot immediately after being filled with hot air. As a user's head is outside the sauna bathroom, the user does not feel stuffy even if the room is much hotter (an average user prefers hotter sauna bath), which is in particular good for the weak or the old who are likely to become faint in extremely hot and stuffy environment. When a bath tub with a drainer connecting a pipe at its bottom acts as the bottom of a minisize sauna bathroom, waste water is drained through the pipe, the minisize sauna bathroom then can be installed anywhere which enables a sauna bathroom to be installed in a home with a rather small toilet. Additionally, a stool with an appropriate height can be selected as required, which is very convenient.
With a bag attached to the wall for containing clothing, a user can enter the sauna bathroom with dressing on before taking a bath and come out of it with dressing on again after taking the bath. Such a sauna bathroom (including suspended, shower bathroom type and minisize ones) can be used anywhere, even on for a trial on the site of selling.
The roof of a suspended sauna bathroom is suspended on the frame with 8 or more hooks. With so many hooks used, the roof can spread out as great as possible; the space inside the bathroom is then enlarged to the greatest extent with the wall surrounding the roof.
A suspended, a shower bathroom type or a commercial sauna bathroom (the sauna bathroom per se) which is heated with steam, each has an inlet of steam or hot air at the lower end thereof so that the steam or hot air combines with the cold air at the lower part. With the lower part thereof sealed from the outside tightly, the hot air does not go up too quickly, since if so, the lower part would become vacuum. With the steam or hot air entering into the lower part continuously, the lower part becomes very hot and therefore the upper part becomes hot naturally. For a sauna bathroom of the shower bathroom type, it is dry and sanitary so far as there is hot air. A user does not feel stuffy with an air blower delivering hot air or fresh air to the user's cheek and with changeable wind direction. Unlike the shower bath and pool bath requiring plenty of hot water for heating purpose, a sauna bathroom according to the present invention, which can save lots of hot water, only consumes from one tenth to one twentieth of hot water used by a shower bath or a tub bath. A sauna bathroom according to the present invention provided with a steam generator offers sauna bath with steam, which is better and feels hotter than a dry sauna. The user can have a cleaner bath and feel more comfortable etc.
The steam generator has a simple structure and costs low. Equipped with automatic water supply, it has better performance and is convenient in use.
Automatic water supply with a dry reed pipe and a solenoid valve is simple and convenient. With a counter flooding valve, automatic water supply is not influenced by water temperature, which is safe and reliable.
Hot water, hot wind and steam of a commercial sauna bathroom is supplied by burning briquettes, thereby decreasing the cost and pollution significantly, compared with combusting petroleum. A sauna bathroom instead of a shower bath or a pool bath means sanitary and comfortable bathing environment instead of gloomy, damp and bacteria-growing environment preventing plenty of hot water from being drained in vain. A water meter is connected to the hot-water pipe enabling charging by the volume of water used, which is in favor of water saving. Taking a sauna bath is more comfortable and cleaner than taking a shower bath or a tub bath. Hot water circulating between the boiler water tank and the hot water tank at high position eliminates the step of sending hot water in the water drum of the boiler into the water pump of the hot water tank at high position thereby increasing effective volume of the water tank of the boiler. Water in the water drum of the boiler becomes hot so that water in the water tank at high position becomes hot. Large volume of hot water enables convenient operation. Since a sauna bathroom consumes less water, it can have a smaller boiler and a smaller hot water tank at high position so that the sauna bathroom, the boiler and the water tank at high position can be installed at the same floor, thereby lowering the requirements of installing a sauna bathroom on a house.
B: is a structural diagram showing an automatic water supply of the steam generator and the solenoid valve for the water tank, including a frame 9, a floater 10, a magnet 11, a blind head stub pipe 12, a dry reed pipe 13, a boiler 14, an electric heating tube 15, a pinhole 16, a circuit 17, a solenoid valve 18, a cover 19 and a water tank 20.
B: When the water in the water tank of the steam generator becomes shallow, the magnet 11 of the floater 10 is in close contact with the dry reed pipe 13 to connect the circuit 17 of the dry reed pipe so that the solenoid valve is power-on. Open the valve 18 to allow water to flow in to fill the water tank so that the floater 10 goes up and the magnet 111 goes away from the dry reed pipe 13 to break off the circuit therein thereby closing the valve and the water is stopped.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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03147391.1 | Jul 2003 | CN | national |
200410038864.9 | May 2004 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/CN04/00798 | 7/13/2004 | WO | 7/11/2006 |