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An Automated Bathing Facility. No need for staff, washing clothes or towels.

A  bathing system adapted for use in bathing large numbers of patients or persons in standing position by which the patients are suspended by means of a harness from an overhead rail and are moved along a conveyor belt floor past a wetting station, a soaping station, a rinsing station and finally into a drying station where the patient is air dried still in standing position and is readied for redressing under conditions that minimize the danger of infirm or mentally incapacitated injuring themselves or others by struggling during the bathing procedure and that provide improved sanitation in that all steps of the bathing procedure are accomplished with the patient in a standing position such that wash cloths and towels are not needed.

From the book: Patently Absurd | the most ridiculous devices every invented by Christopher Cooper | PRC Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1 85648 721 0

This entry was posted on Friday, March 9th, 2012 at 5:13 pm and is filed under Longwoods Online.