Shower-addition

Bathrooms are just as multifarious as whole apartments in size and provision. Partially, they have bathtub, partially also only one shower-cubicle, merely but there is also such that has both. Therefore, facilities, with which the Doll should be bathed, are to be adjusted the given spatial conditions. They should be suited to the existing lifting and storage equipment so that the expenditure for strength and skill will be limited.

This equipment is used for the taking a shower the Doll in an existing bathtub. It consists a two-leg rack and the upper run-beam. This run-beam supports itself beside at the upper crossbeam of the lifting and storage equipment and the two-leg racks. A crab, who is equipped with one of revolving camped hooks, is on this beam. The Doll is along-driven with the lifting and storage equipment, replaced into the crab and can be taken a shower.

Following spatial conditions for the design of the equipment are:

The height-difference between the waiter-edge of the bathtub and the lifting machine amounts to 1380 mm (≈ 4 ft, 6 ½ "), the waiter-edge of the bathtub even lies in a height of 550 mm (≈ 1 ft, 9 ½ "). The distance between the wall and this lifting and storage equipment amounts 920 mm (≈ 3 ft). And: The feet of the two-leg results from the angle of the side-beams to the vertical of 15°, and amaounts approximately 700 mm (≈ 2 ft, 4 ").

The resulting measurements of the wooden parts are condensed in the drawing, the measurements of the crab depend on the base material and the raceway, realized with the upper beam.

The base material: It is about pine wood-beams, planed and a lateral cut of 34×34 mm² for the two-leg rack and 44×44 mm² for the upper beam. They were varnished brightly with oak. The load capacity of the total-construction is 100 kg (≈ 220 lb).

The folding-bracket: Supporting the upper beam (with the crab) itself on the two-leg rack and the upper beam of the lifting and storage machine, no load capacity-requests to it are demanded. A simple implementation, that guarantees merely, therefore suffices that the components of the shower-addition are held together.

The crab: The reason-construction will be realized with 3 mm thick connection-strips and the five screw thread-poles. The inflection at the underside should catch the forces, that occur in the context of the Doll, and should refer. Here, existing drillings were used furtherly. It is adviced against a sharp turning (with too small or negligible radius) because an inconspicuous balance of the displacement can take place through the inflection because of the material thickness. Still, the steadiness of the crab is not impaired. The selection of the bed-crust-roles becomes more difficult. They should be lent to at least 35 kg (≈ 75 lb) of load.

About the here presented shower-addition some detail-representations:
Parts list
Mounting the crab
Treatment drawing of the wooden parts
Calculation basics
Picture gallery of the shower-addition
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Please pay attention: 1 " = 25.4 mm and 1 kg = 2.2046 lb