Making the rounds: US 3,483,572

to Gyda Hallum in 1969 -->

An automated bathing system or facility adapted for use in bathing large numbers of patients or persons in standing position by which the patients are suspended by means of a harness from an overhead rail and are moved along a conveyor belt floor past a wetting station,a soaping station,a rinsing station,and finally into a drying station where the patient is air dried still in standing position and is readied for redressing under conditions that minimize the danger of infirm or mentally incapacitated injuring themselves or others by struggling dur-ing the bathing procedure and that provide improved sanitation in that all steps of the bathing procedure are accomplished with the patient in a standing posi-tion such that wash cloths and towels are not needed.