IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSETS OR CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH SHOWER BATH APPARATUS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Harris Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake,
& Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSETS OR CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH SHOWER BATH
APPARATUS." A communication from abroad by Charles De Voe Watkins,
of the City and State of New York, United States of America.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henry Harris Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th July 1880.
HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSETS OR CHAMBERS
PROVIDED WITH SHOWER BATH APPARATUS." A communication from abroad by
Charles De Voe Watkins, of the City and State of New York, United States of
America.
This Invention relates to improvements in closets or chambers provided with
shower bath apparatus, and which may be either fixed or portable.
The objects are to provide a shower-bath in a closet instead of in a bath-tub, and
in such a manner that the shower will fall sidewise upon the person instead of on
the head in small and numerous sprays.
In the accompanying Drawing,
Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved bath-closet on the line x-x,
Figure 3.
Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line y-y, Figure 3.
Figure 3 is a horizontal section on the line 2-2, Figure 2.
Like letters indicate the same parts throughout the Drawing.
a, a, represent the walls of the closet, and a¹ the doorway; b is a waterproof
lining upon the walls a; c is the floor having a metallic covering d inclining
slightly downward toward the outlet d'; e and e' are hot and cold water pipes,
which being provided with suitable cocks allow the water to enter the pipe f, which
is usually placed at the elevation of the breast of an average sized man, and extends
around the sides and walls of the closet. Upon the sides a, a, connecting with the
pipe fare placed shower-chambers g made convex vertically, and long and straight
horizontally, and provided with numerous perforations. When the water is admitted
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page_text: the spray is forced through the perforations, and, by reason of the convexity and
length of the shower-chambers g, it impinges on a very large portion of the body,
both in width and heighth, without dropping upon the head and trickling down
the person, as in the ordinary shower-bath, and also without impinging upon the
door, or even passing out at the doorway if the door is open. Thus it will be seen
that this bath closet may be placed in any room without danger of injury to the
carpet.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim,
The herein described closet for shower-baths provided with the waterproof lined
walls a and the floor c, d, and having on opposite sides the vertically convex
shower-chambers g and the supply pipe f, arranged and constructed to lave the
person with side and horizontally impinging sprays, substantially as above set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Harris Lake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty eighth day of July, in the year of our Loid
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
HENRY H. LAKE.
(L.S.)