Patent ID: 8956196
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
1. A bath apparatus comprising a reservoir for retaining water, a plurality of release holes along the bottom of said reservoir through which water can pass into and out of said reservoir, said release holes being essentially coplanar and defining a bottom horizontal plane, and a control aperture near the top of said reservoir through which air can pass, said control aperture being sealable with a single digit of a hand, and when said control aperture is sealed, reduced air pressure within said reservoir relative to exterior air pressure results in retention of water within said reservoir, and when said control aperture is not sealed, water drains from said release holes due to air flow through said control aperture, said reservoir having a diameter of between 60 and 125 mm and an interior volume between 250 and 400 cubic centimeters, said control aperture being offset from a vertical through a center of said reservoir by an offset angle θ measured from said center of said reservoir of between 5° and 20° , so said bath apparatus may be operated with two hands by a child with an equator of said reservoir above the center of each palm of said two hands and said single digit of said hand being a finger, and said reservoir may be operated in a single adult-size hand with said single digit of said hand being a thumb.