An Improved Portable Hot-air Bath with Stove.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 2nd June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Hot-air Bath with Stove.
I THOMAS MACCALL 22 Derby Road Southport Doctor of Medicine do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :--
An improvement on the former bath provisionally patented by me 28th March
1882, 1497 whereby by a particularly constructed frame it is made collapsible like
the bellows of a camera thus making it far lighter & more portable and enabling
it to be used for many purposes hitherto impossible. This is conjoined with a
special material for retaining the heat and yet that, when stretched over the
the frame, will fold together with it, this material being waterproof and so further
enabling the chamber to be used, after the heat is lowered, as an ordinary bath-
room with hot and cold water so that a complete Turkish bath can be taken and
concluded in a warm chamber without any risk of chill. With this is further
combined an improvement in the stove for heating the bath wherein the tubes,
instead of being vertical, are made horizontal from front to back whereby the
heating power of the stove gas or oil is better utilized and a higher temperature
produced.
Dated this 25th day of July 1892
THOS. MACCALL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Hot-air Bath with Stove.
I, THOMAS MACCALL M.D. formerly of 22 Derby Road, Southport, but now
of 72 Netherfield Road, S., Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This antion hve for its shioot
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ortable Turkish bath or bath-room and
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Hot-air Bath with Stove.
I, THOMAS MACCALL M.D. formerly of 22 Derby Road, Southport, but now
of 72 Netherfield Road, S., Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has for its ahjoot
stove for the same.
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portable Turkish bath or bath-room and
It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the bath and stove;
Fig. 2 plan of same;
Fig. 3 elevation of the stove;
Fig. 4 section of same; and
Fig. 5 a view showing the Turkish bath open and closed.
Referring first to Figs. 1 & 2, A A are horizontal rails formed of stout metal
wire or bars, B3 B stout metal columns upon which the rails A A. are hinged,
CC collars keeping the rails A A in their places, D D further vertical rods
suspended on the top and bottom rails A, and keeping them in position relatively
to each other, they can also be arranged to be fixed to the central bar A', which
however can be held up in any desirable manner, such as by being tied by wire to
the vertical bars. EE are two vertical rods forming hinges for the ends of the
framework. F F are two pair of rods hinged round the columns B B and E E,
their ends being held between the collars C and the rods A. These rods and the
column E are shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, in the act of being closed; when
fully closed however these rods fall into place immediately under the rods A A,
and the two rods A A approach till they touch each other. This framework is
covered with any light, but preferably waterproof material, such for instance as
canvas, backed paper, with an outside covering of wool, felt or the like. This is
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page_text: stretched over the framework and also forms a roof. The door is formed of the
same material as the covering of the bath. G is the stove. This is shown in
larger form in Figs. 3 & 4. His a gas pipe connected by means of a flexible tube
to any source of supply. II are a series of gas burners, J is the entrance for
cold air into the stove, K passage of the air from the reservoir below the burners
upwards, LL horizontal air heating tubes. The products of combustion rise
upward heating the current of cold air in the horizontal tubes and then escape
through the escape pipe M, which is preferably brought up by means of a stove
pipe through the roof of the chamber. It will therefore be seen that no foul air
can enter the bath.
The mode of action is as follows:-
The framework being unfolded and extended and the stove being placed in
position the gas is lighted, the person enters the room either by raising up the
bottom, if it have no attached floor cloth, or through the doorway formed in the
cloth side. The gas is now lighted, the cold air passing through the stove is
heated to the required extent and the products of combustion escape. When done
with the stove can be taken out if desired and the bath chamber itself folded up
into a small compass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is -
1. A Turkish or other hot air bath formed of a collapsible chamber formed with
rods covered with fabric, and a portable stove placed therein substantially as
described.
2. A hot air stove heated by gas substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. The employment in a hot air stove of horizontal tubes for the purpose
described
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.