Patent ID: 9648987
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 with a flat downwardly extending outer surface and a diagonally directed lower surface extending from a bottom of said flat downwardly extending outer surface to an inner surface of said front wall, said flat top surface 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 cantilevered top 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.