IMPROVEMENTS IN BATHS."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Dohrn Douglas, of the Firm of Charles Douglas
and Company, of London and Glasgow, Enamellers, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BATHS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by the said Charles Dohrn Douglas at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th April 1880.
CHARLES DOHRN DOUGLAS, of the Firm of Charles Douglas and Company, of
London and Glasgow, Enamellers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BATIIS."
The said Invention relates to improvements in baths, and has for its object
to facilitate the fitting of the bath and to lessen the expense of such fitting.
According to the said Invention there is formed in the casting or moulding process
in one with the bath, or separately therefrom, at either end or at its side a flange
or plate extending outside the bath, and at a higher level than the edge of tho
bath. In this flange is formed in the casting or moulding process a recess for
receiving the plate of the fitting for the operating mechanism for the supply or
discharge of water to or from the bath, the said recess being also in the casting or
moulding process formed with holes passing through the bottom thereof for tho
passage of the couplings or connections to the supply and discharge pipes. The
said flange may be formed with recesses for dishes for soap and other bath requisites.
In fitting the bath the plate of the fitting for the supply and discharge mechanism
is passed into the recess in the flange, its connections passing through the holes
therein, and being soldered or otherwise fixed to the pipes or connections for water
supply and discharge the said fitting is retained firmly in its place. The wooden
or other rim is fixed around the bath proper, the raised flange and the rim being
then on the same level.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and
of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Charles Dohrn Douglas
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th October 1880.
CHARLES DOHRN Douglas, of the Firm of Charles Douglas and Company, of
London and Glasgow, Enamellers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BATIS."
My said Invention relates to improvements in baths, and has for its object to
facilitate the fitting of the bath and to lessen the expense of such fitting,
According to the said Invention there is formed in the casting or moulding process
in one with the bath (or separately therefrom and attached thereto), at either end
or at its side, a flange or plate extending outside the bath, and at a higher level
than the edge of the bath. In this flange is formed a recess for receiving the plate
of the fitting for the operating mechanism for the supply or discharge of water to
or from the bath, the said recess being also formed with holos passing therethrough
for the passage of the couplings or connections to the supply and discharge pipes.
The said flange may be formed with recesses for dishes for soap and other bath
requisites. In fitting the bath the plate of the fitting for the supply and discharge
mechanism is passed into the recess in the flange, its connections passing through
the holes therein, and being soldered. or otherwise fixed to the pipes or connections
for water supply and discharge the said fitting is retained firmly in its place. The
wooden or other rim is fixed around the bath proper, the raised flange and the
rim being then on the same level.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood, I now
proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner in or under
which the same is or may be used or practically carried into effect, reference
being had to the accompanying Drawings and to the letters and figures marked
thereon, that is to say :-
Figure 1 represents a portion of a bath constructed or formed with a flange at
one end according to my Invention; Figure 2 is a transverse section (on the
line 1, 2, Figure 3) of a bath so constructed or formed, and Figure 3 is a plan of
the same.
A flange or plate a is cast or moulded or otherwise fixed upon the bath,
the said flange extending outside the bath, and being at a higher level than the
edge of the bath, as shewn in Figure 1. In this flange is formed in the casting or
moulding process a recess b of the shape of the plate of the fitting for the operating
mechanism for the supply to or discharge from the bath of water. In this recess
are formed a hole or holes, as at c, c, c, passing therethrough. In the said flange a
recesses, as at d, d, may also be formed for the reception of dishes for soap or other
bath requisites. The plate e of the fitting for the supply and discharge mechanism
is placed in the recess b, its connections fand g for respectively operating the valves
for the supply of hot and cold water to the bath passing through the holes c, c,
therein, and being respectively fixed to the supply pipes i and for hot and cold
water by the couplings k, whereby the plate e is held firmly in place in the recess b.
In Figure 2 the connection f is shown as joined to the pipe i, but the other
connection g is shewn as disconnected from the pipe . The connection / for
operating the valve in the discharge pipe is passed through the other of the holes c.
The wooden or other rim m is fixed around the bath and flange, the rim and flange
being on the same level.
The recess b may be made to receive a plate having a greater or less number of
fittings than those shewn; for example, it may have in addition fittings for hot and
cold spray, and douche, as shewn in Figure 4, and the said flange may be made
without recesses for soap or other bath requisites, or with but one or with more
such recesses.
The flange a may be at either end of the bath or at one side thereof,
as may be convenient.

page_text: By constructing a bath with a flange projecting outside thereof, as herein before
described, the plumber's work is greatly lessened, and the joiner's work in fitting
the wooden or other rim around the bath is much simplified.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the system, mode, or manner in or under which the same is or may
be used or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that
what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The improvements in baths consisting in providing the same with a flange
projecting outside the bath for receiving the plate of the fittings, and formed with
or without a recess or recesses for bath requisites, essentially as herein before
described and illustrated in tho accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Dohrn Douglas, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
CHARLES DOHRN DOUGLAS. (L.S.)