Wall-Mounted Back Scrubbing Assembly With Integrated Soap Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing back scrubbing devices during bathing are inefficient and lack a convenient mechanism for delivering soap directly to the user's back while maintaining effective cleaning.
Innovation Solution
A shower-mounted reservoir filled with liquid soap, coupled with suctional couplers and removable cleaning members, such as sponges, that engage the user's back through frictional posts, allowing for efficient soap distribution and scrubbing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a back scrubbing device is used during bathing, then cleaning effectiveness is improved, but soap delivery efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the scrubbing function and soap delivery function into a single integrated device. The reservoir is mounted on the shower wall and contains both the cleaning members (scrubbing elements) and the soap dispensing mechanism (tubes that deliver soap to the cleaning members), eliminating the need for separate soap application and scrubbing actions.
Solution Approach 2:
The device serves multiple functions simultaneously: it stores soap, dispenses soap, and performs scrubbing. The cleaning members are designed to both receive soap through the tubes and perform the mechanical scrubbing action, making the device universal in its cleaning capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If soap is delivered through tubes to cleaning members, then soap distribution is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into distinct functional components: the reservoir for soap storage, the tubes for soap delivery, and the cleaning members for scrubbing. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function efficiently while maintaining overall system simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The tubes act as intermediaries that connect the reservoir to the cleaning members, facilitating soap transfer. This intermediary mechanism simplifies the overall design by providing a direct, straightforward path for soap delivery without requiring complex pumping or dispensing systems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables effective and convenient back cleaning during bathing by ensuring consistent soap delivery and improved scrubbing efficiency through the use of suctional engagement and soap distribution via tubes to the sponge.
Implementation Method 1
Each of the couplers may engage the wall in the shower
Implementation Method 2
A selected cleaning member may scrub a back of a user
Data Source
AI summary
A back scrubbing assembly includes a reservoir that may be filled with a liquid soap. The reservoir may be coupled to a wall in a shower. A plurality of couplers is provided and each of the couplers is coupled to the reservoir. Each of the couplers may engage the wall in the shower. A plurality of cleaning members is provided. A selected one of the cleaning members is removably coupled to the reservoir. Thus, the selected cleaning member may scrub a back of a user.