Patent ID: 7237276

Claim:
A bathtub for the disabled or elderly comprising: a tub having an enclosure defined by at least one sidewall, said sidewall having a doorway therein providing access from an external side of said sidewall, external to said enclosure, into said enclosure, a generally horizontal vertically spaced apart pair of elongate guides in said sidewall, a door slidably mounted to said guides on a plurality of pivotable linkage arms pivotally mounted to both said door and at least one of said guides for generally horizontal translation along said sidewall between a closed position wherein said door is releasably lockably mounted in watertight sealed engagement within said doorway, and an open position clear of said aperture and substantially parallel to said sidewall, a releasable latch and cooperating latch actuator for releasable latching engagement of said door in said watertight sealed engagement in said doorway and for releasing said door from such engagement upon actuation of said latch actuator into a release position by a user in said enclosure, wherein, when said door is in said closed position, said plurality of pivotable linkage arms are generally parallel to said sidewall and, when said door is in said open position, said plurality of pivotable linkage arms are generally non-parallel to said sidewall.