Collapsible tanning booth

Patent 4984571 Issued on January 15, 1991. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 22, 2009. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

KVR Manufacturing Corp.

Application

No. 370337 filed on 06/22/1989

US Classes:

607/94Ultraviolet

Examiners

Primary: Coven, Edward M.
Assistant: Graham, M. C.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Brumbaugh, Graves, Donohue & Raymond

Foreign Patent References

3023752 DE 01/21/1982
3630060 DE 03/21/1988
522055 IT 03/21/2013
10338 GB 05/21/2013

International Class

A61N 005/06

Abstract

A collapsible tanning booth comprises at least two rear lamp units and at least two front lamp units, each of the units having a thin long casing that includes rear, side, top and bottom walls and a front panel, the front panel being of a material transmissive to ultraviolet light, a reflector panel adjacent the rear wall and lamps mounted between the reflector panel and the front panel. The rear lamp units are hinged together along their adjacent side walls so that they can be moved between a storage configuration in which they are substantially aligned transversely and a use configuration in which they are oblique transversely to each other. The laterally outermost front units are hinged along their laterally outermost side walls to the laterally outermost side walls of the rear lamp units so that the front units can be moved between a storage configuration in which they reside face to face against the rear lamp units and a use configuration in which they are disposed oblique to the rear lamp units and to each other. Two adjacent front lamp units, however, are unattached to each other to enable pivotal movement of such units about their hinges apart from each other to provide an opening for access by a person to a space defined by the units in their use configuration.