Improvements in the Manufacture of Porcelain and Metal Baths.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec.. 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 21st Oct:, 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Porcelain and Metal Baths.
I. WILLIAM DEWHIRST CLIFF of Wortley near Leeds in the County of York, Fire
Brick Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In porcelain and metal baths the bottoms are sometimes so smooth that accidents
frequently occur from the feet of the bather slipping thereon.
Now according to our invention we prevent the possibility of such accidents by
forming the bottoms with shallow patterns thereon consisting of rises and depressions
which are so arranged that the depressions communicate with each other in such
manner as to enable the contents of the bath to be fully or completely run off there-
from notwithstanding the uneven character of the bottom thereof.
In applying the invention to porcelain baths we may use an engraved roller which
by being run over the bottom with the requisite pressure whilst the bath is in a
plastic condition will impress the pattern thereon; we may however employ an
engraved board or die extending over the whole or any portion of the bottom and by
the aid of pressure cause the pattern thereon to be impressed upon the bottom of the
bath.
In the manufacture of sheet metal baths the bottoms may have the pattern produced
thereon by passing the same through suitable rolls or by the aid of dies and pressure
before being made up into the baths, and in the case of cast iron baths the pattern
may be produced on the bottoms thereof by casting them in suitable moulds.
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WM. D. CLIFF.
By Harris & Mills
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.

page_text: I, WILLIAM DEwHIRST CLIFF of Wortley, near Leeds, in the County of York Fire
Brick Manufacturer, 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 :-
In porcelain and metal baths the bottoms are sometimes so smooth that accidents
frequently occur from the feet of the bather slipping thereon.
Now according to my invention I prevent the possibility of such accidents by
forming the bottoms with shallow patterns thereon consisting of rises and depressions
which are so arranged that the depressions communicate with each other in such
manner as to enable the contents of the bath to be fully or completely run off there-
from notwithstanding the uneven character of the bottom thereof.
In applying the invention to porcelain baths I may use an engraved roller which
by being run over the bottom with the requisite pressure whilst the bath is in a
plastic condition will impress the pattern thereon. I may however employ an
engraved board or die extending over the whole or any portion of the bottom and by
the aid of pressure cause the pattern thereon to be impressed upon the bottom of the
bath.
'
In the manufacture of sheet metal baths the bottoms may have the pattern produced
thereon by passing the same through suitable rolls or by the aid of dies and pressure
before being made up into the baths and in the case of cast iron baths the pattern
may be produced on the bottoms thereof by casting them in suitable moulds.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
Forming the bottoms of porcelain and metal baths with a series of rises and
depressions thereon arranged in manner substantially as herein shown and described
and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 21st day of September 1887.
WILLIAM DEWHIRST CLIFF.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.