Improved Portable Bath.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Portable Bath.
1, ALFRED SAVILL TOMKINS of Holmwood, Caterham, in the County of Surrey,
Captain in the Victoria Rifles 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:-
My invention relates to an improved construction of portable bath more par-
ticularly applicable for military purposes which consists mainly in the use of an
ordinary waterproof sheet, to the side edges of which loops are attached while the
ends are provided with eyelet holes so that after folding up the ends and tying them
through the eyelet holes the sheet is converted into a trough shaped receptacle
which is secured by means of the loops to a horizontal frame supported on legs.
The accompanying drawing shews the arrangement of the waterproof sheet for
this purpose and its mode of attachment to the framing.
Fig. 1 shews the waterproof sheet A the one end being folded up to form the one
end of the bath. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the folded sheet attached to the
framing B, and Fig. 3 shews a plan of the same. The sheet A has a number of
eyelet holes formed at its ends, so that on folding up the ends in the manner shewn
at the left hand end of Fig. 1 the eyelet holes in the folded parts are situated over
each other thus enabling laces to be passed through them by which the folds are
tied together, so that when the folded ends are raised up, they will convert the sheet
into a trough or bath that will hold water. To the sides of the sheet are attached
loops CC, the undersides of which have openings formed in them, as shewn at the
folded end. The frame B here shewn is assumed to be of the same construction as
that described in my application for letters Patent dated 31st May 1889 No. 9077,
for use as a portable bed or stretcher, that is to say it consists of two side bars B B,
on which are fixed metal loops D D and which are secured together by detachable
transverse end pieces E E, and are supported by folding legs F F.
The loops CC of the sheet coincide in position with that of the loops D on the
frame, the former being so much wider than the latter that they can fit with their
under openings over the loops D, so that on then passing bars or rods G through
both the loops C and D, the bath A will be effectually secured to the frame B.
The folded ends may be secured to the cross bars EE by the cords passed through
the eyelet holes.
It will be evident that the mode of securing the bath to the frame can be variously
modified, and that the frame may be of different construction from that described in
my before mentioned Specification No. 907789.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The use for portable baths of a waterproof sheet having eyelet holes at its ends
30 arranged that when folded to form a bath, the eyelet holes are situated over each
other so as to enable the parts to be tied in the folded position, the sheet being
also provided with loops at the sides for attachment to a frame, substantially as
lescribed.

page_text: 2. A portable bath consisting of the combination of a waterproof sheet such as A
folded and tied as described in the preceding claim with a frame such as B E F with
loops D to which the loops C of the sheet are secured by bars or rods G substantially
as herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of August 1889.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.