Safety tub insert

Abstract

What I claim is new about my invention is that the Safety Tub Insert will eliminate getting the patient in and out of the bottom of the fixed tub, which is unsafe at the very best. This will eliminate sitting on a stool and tripping on the same. When the safety tub insert is installed, the caretaker can help the patient sit on the edge of the tub and slide back to the center of the 4″ inch deep safety tub insert. The caretaker can then swing the patient's legs into the center of the tub. Now the patient is sitting and soaking their most likely spot to get a bed sore. Their bottom is in two to two and one-half inches of warm bath water. The caretaker can drain the safety tub insert into the fixed tub drain and dry 90% of the patient's body, swing legs out and the patient bottom will be 14″ to 22″ above the floor. It is much safer to stand from that height than the bottom of the fixed tub. The patient won't have to step over the side of the tub to get in or out of a tub ever again.

A) A safety tub insert that can fit the undersides of its flanges over the top flanges of the fixed bath tub.  
   
   
     B) A safety tub insert to fit into the inner dimensions of the fixed bath tub light enough for one person to be able to install and remove, yet strong enough to hold two hundred plus pounds.  
   
   
     C) A safety tub insert with a depth, determined by the patient's deficits.