Patent ID: 9648989
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A47K

Claim:
1. A safe egress bathtub comprising: substantially vertical back and front walls, first and second end walls, and a flat bottom wall, all of said walls being of rigid material, entry and egress being over said front wall, said back wall abutting or is embedded in a room wall; said front wall having a cantilevered top horizontal apron deck extending from an outer surface of said front wall toward said back wall, said top horizontal deck consisting of a flat top surface and a distal free end cantilevered from the front surface of said top horizontal deck, extending inward and then rejoining a thin inner wall of the front wall where its inwardly undersurface curves backwards, said top horizontal deck having sufficient width to support sliding shower wall tracks thereon; said bottom wall extending to a rear, vertical surface of said front wall with said apron deck extending over said front wall extending cantilevered and overhanging an area of said bottom wall adjacent said rear, vertical surface of said front wall; and a thickness of said front wall and said apron deck are configured to obtain a straddle angle of egress over said front wall of said bathtub which is sufficiently small to minimize a horizontal component of force for reducing an incidence of slippage on a wet bottom and falling.