PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bathtub for nursing care in which elderly and handicapped persons can safely and easily go in and out to/from the bathtub, and operation is easy in use.SOLUTION: An opening section 3 for going out and in is prepared at a wall in front of a tub, a height of a tub wall 2 to step over is made low, thereby the tub is made so that a user can safely and easily go in and out without taking labored posture. A door 4 to close the opening section does not need a meaningless space to open and close, is hardly displaced even if unexpected force is added from a side, and is made a door which is an up and down sliding type to be attached and detached. In a water proof device of the opening section, an edge and the door are adhered through an elastic water proof material, in the operation, the door is slid along the edge to be downed, a lower part of the door is automatically made to be pressure-adhered to the elastic water proof material 7 at the end of the downing, next, an upper part of the door is only pressed to the elastic water proof material in a lateral direction to be simply fixed in an pressure-adhering state.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】高齢者や身障者が安全で楽に浴槽に出入りすることができ、また、使用上において、操作が簡単な介護浴槽を提供する。【解決手段】浴槽正面の壁に出入り用の開口部3を設けて、跨ぐべき浴槽壁2の高さを低くして、無理な姿勢をとらずに安全で楽に入退槽ができるようにする。出入り用の開口部を塞ぐ扉4は、開閉のための無駄なスペースを必要とすることがなく、且つ、横から不意の力が加わっても外れることのない、上下スライド式で脱着できる扉とする。この開口部における止水装置は、開口部の縁と扉を、弾性止水材を介して密着させるが、その操作は、扉を開口部の縁に沿ってスライドして下ろし、この下ろし終わった時点で扉の下部は自動的に弾性止水材7に圧密着させ、次に、扉の上部を水平方向に弾性止水材に押し付けるだけで、圧密着した状態に固定させるという簡単なものとする。【選択図】図4
