This invention relates to the art of beauty parlor equipment and, more particularly, to a drainage tray for a shampoo bowl to facilitate washing and rinsing of a patron's hair.
It is of course well known that beauty parlors have shampoo bowls over which a patron's head is disposed during shampooing and rinsing of the patron's hair. Most often, the bowl has an arcuate section in a front wall thereof which cradles the patron's neck, and the rear end of the bowl includes water supply valving and a spray head for rinsing shampoo from a patron's hair following washing thereof. The shampoo bowl further includes a drain in the bottom wall thereof towards the rear of the bowl through which rinse water and shampoo drains during a rinsing operation.
It is not unusual for a patron to have shoulder length or even waist length hair, and the shampooing and rinsing thereof is not only difficult but potentially unsanitary to some extent. In this respect, for example, the hair of a patron with shoulder to waist length hair lies on the bottom of the shampoo bowl which makes it difficult for rinse water to penetrate the hair without the beautician having to lift the hair off of the bottom of the shampoo bowl with one hand while trying to rinse the hair with the other hand. Moreover, if the patron's hair is left on the bottom of the shampoo bowl a residue often occurs on the ends of the patron's hair, and the hair is also subject to any contaminants which might be left in the bowl from a previous patron and/or from solutions used by the beautician in connection with washing and rinsing a patron's hair. Still further, if the patron's hair is of waist length or thereabout, it can easily flow into the drain opening which not only can cause clogging of the latter but also adds to the potential unsanitary condition of the hair. Again, to avoid the latter, a beautician must support the patron's hair in one hand and try and rinse it with the other which is time consuming and difficult as well as inefficient.