Patent 5675846 Issued on October 14, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date: March 22, 2016. 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.
The devices of the brush-massage shower installation described in detail above do not pose any problems in practical application, while a person lets his body be massaged with the skin-friendly bristles, which he has selected himself, of a dry or water-spraying and wet-cleaning rotating massage roller (8).The brush-massage shower installation contains the advantages of freedom in the selection of the driving elements.a.) The water turbine gear (14), which is responsible for the infinitely variable drive of the water-spraying rotating massage roller (8), obtains its rotational force from the water supply provided, which is under pressure.b.) The dry-running rotating massage roller (8) is put into motion by a gear motor, the design of which is kept flat and which is electrically protected and infinitely variable and which is located in the outer wall side (19) of the bath, from where it puts the electrically protected gear (15) connected to the inner wall side (1) into motion for rotating the rotating massage roller.A full brush massage with the rotating massage roller (8) invigorates the human body and spirit. It sees to a good blood flow through the skin and body, by which it stimulates the metabolism, strengthens the vegetative nervous system and the immune system, increases the resistance to infectious diseases and thus awakens the human zest for life.