Bathing seat

Abstract

A bathing seat for a child has a base provided with at least one sucker pad so that it can be adhered to the internal bottom surface of a bath, basin or sink. A collapsible superstructure is mounted on the base. The superstructure has a seat back coupled to the base, a divider coupled to the base at a position opposed to the seat back and a ring structure coupling the seat back and divider. A child to be bathed may be placed within the ring structure with its back against the seat back and its legs straddling the divider. At least the seat back is hollow and inflatable via a valve, and also deflatable via the valve allowing the superstructure to collapse on to the base.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application is the National Stage of International Application No. PCT / GB2012 / 000650, filed Aug. 9, 2012, which claims the benefit of and priority to GB 1113783.3, filed Aug. 10, 2011, the contents of all of which are incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE[0002]This disclosure relates to seats, and more particularly to a seat for a child adapted to be mounted on the bottom surface of a bath, sink or basin to allow the child to be bathed.BACKGROUND[0003]Several different forms of bathing seat have previously been proposed. They are typically intended to be mounted in a bath, sink or basin to support a young child to allow an adult more easily to bathe them. They provide comfort and support for a young child especially when it is necessary to bathe them in an adult sized bath.[0004]Previously proposed bathing seats have tended to suffer from the disadvantages that they are heavy, bulky and unwield...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0006]Preferred embodiments have one or more of the following features: The ring structure, and optionally the divider are hollow, the interior space thereof communicating with the interior space of the seat back so as to be inflatable and deflatable therewith. The seat back has a front wall against which a child's back rests in use, and a rear wall around the rear of the superstructure, and at least one seam, and preferably a plurality of seams, connecting the front wall to the rear wall and dividing the interior space within the seat back into individual connected chambers, the seams providing a degree of rigidity to the seat back when inflated. The base is hollow, its interior being connected to its exterior via a plurality of apertures allowing ingress of water into the interior when water is added to a bath, basin or sink to the internal bottom surface of which the base is adhered by its at least one sucker pad, and egress of water when the bath, basin or sink is emptied. The base is formed from a lower portion mounting the at least one sucker pad and an upper portion to which the superstructure is mounted, the upper portion being rotatably coupled to the lower portion.

Problems solved by technology

Previously proposed bathing seats have tended to suffer from the disadvantages that they are heavy, bulky and unwieldy.

This is understandable, since the bath seat must adequately hold a child in place and must remain firmly in place on the bottom surface of the bath, sink or basin in use, but it makes such bath seats difficult to handle and to store, as they need to be removed so that older children and adults may use the same bath unencumbered by the bath seat, and are unsuitable to be taken with the child on holiday or when visiting its grandparents.

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