Improvements in and connected with Water Supply and Discharge Apparatus for Baths, Lavatories, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Water Supply and Discharge
Apparatus for Baths, Lavatories, and the like.
I, JOHN SHANKS, of Tubal Works, Barrhead, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to improve the construction and arrangement
of apparatus for and connected with the supply of water to, and discharge from
baths, lavatories, and the like.
A part of my present improvements relates to the supplying of water in the
form of spray either in connection with a plunge bath or separately. I employ a
vertical supply pipe to the upper part of which I fix a pipe bended into the form
of a horizontal circle or oval; or I make the horizontal pipe of a horse-shoe, or
similar form with ends more or less apart. I perforate the inner and lower parts
of the horizontal pipe in a manner to connect more or less convergent jets upon the
shoulders and body of a standing bather without wetting the head. In combination
with this arrangement which may be termed a shoulder-spray bath I may provide
au upper smaller ring or horse-shoe pipe perforated to give a shower on the head
when desired, taps or valves being provided conveniently for the bather for giving
either a shoulder-spray or a head shower separately or both together.
In some cases, where the floor of a bath room is suitably formed for draining off
the water, the shoulder-spray and head shower apparatus may be arranged apart
from any plunge bath, the vertical pipe and its supports being made as a stand
and being either fixed or movable, flexible supply pipes, being provided to lead
water to it in the latter case.
Another part of my present improvements relates to the discharge valves of
baths, lavatories and the like, and comprises a simple arrangement which without
a grating or any unsightly details is such as when open to allow of free egress of
water without small articles such as finger rings being able to pass. In this
improved arrangement the valve piece is of a plug-like form but its bottom end
closes the outlet like an ordinary conical seated valve. The outlet is..at the
bottom of a recess in the bottom of the 'bath or other vessel, and the recess is as
much larger in diameter than the valve piece as will allow water to pass freely
down around the valve piece when the valve piece is raised a small distance off the
outlet seat. On the top of the valve piece there is fixed a disk preferably of
porcelain or earthenware and which is large enough to close the recess when the
valve piece is down. The valve piece is guided in a manner to prevent it from
being lifted higher than is necessary; and when lifted the space whilst ample for
the discharge of the water is so narrow and indirect as to prevent small articles
from getting away.
Dated this Twelfth day of April 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: Improvements in and connected with Water Supply and Discharge
Apparatus for Baths, Lavatories, and the like.
I, JOHN SHANKS, of Tubal Works, Barrhead, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, Sanitary Engineer, 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, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to improve the construction and arrangement
of apparatus for and connected with the supply of water to, and discharge from,
baths, lavatories, and the like.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to
be hereinafter referred to and showing my improvements.
Figure, 1, is a plan, and Figure, 2, a side elevation partly in section showing my
improvements as applied to a bath.
Figure, 3, is a vertical section showing my improved discharge apparatus as
fitted to a wash-hand basin.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
A part of my present improvements relates to the supplying of water in the
form of spray either in connection with a bath, A, as shown in Figures, 1, and, 2,
or separately. I employ a vertical supply pipe, B, extending up the middle of the
back of the screen, C, at one end of the bath. The pipe for supplying water to
the vertical pipe, B, may be led along beneath the rim, D, of the bath as shown by
dotted lines in Figure, 2. To the upper part of the vertical pipe, B, I fix a
pipe, E, bended into the shape of the horizontal form of the screen, C, but having
its ends turned inwards. Or the pipe, E, may be bended into the form of a hori-
zontal circle or oval; or into a horse-shoe or similar form, with ends more or less
apart. I perforate the inner and lower parts of the horizontal pipe, E, in a manner
to direct more or less convergent jets upon the shoulders and body of a standing
bather without wetting the head. In combination with this arrangement which
may be termed a shoulder spray I provide an upper smaller ring (or it might be a
horse-shoe) pipe, F, perforated to give a shower on the head when desired.
A tap, G, is provided conveniently for the bather for giving both a shoulder spray
and a head shower together, or separate taps may be provided for giving either
separately.
In some cases where the floor of a bath room is suitably formed for draining off
the water, the shoulder-spray and head shower apparatus may be arranged apart
from any plunge bath, the vertical pipe (B) and its supports being made as a stand
and being either fixed or movable and flexible supply pipes being provided in the
latter case to lead water to it.
In this
Another part of my present improvements relates to the discharge apparatus of
baths, lavatories, and the like, and comprises a simple arrangement which without
a grating or any unsightly details is such as when open to allow of free egress of
water without small articles such as finger rings being able to pass.
improved arrangement' the valve piece is made with a body, H, of a plug-like form
but its bottom end closes the outlet like an ordinary conical-seated valve. The
outlet is at the bottom of a recess, J, in the bottom of the bath, A, or washhand
basin, K, (Figure, 3) and the recess is as much larger in diameter than the body, H,
of the valve piece, as will allow water to pass freely down around the body, H,
when the valve piece is raised a small distance off the outlet seat. On the top of
the valve piece, H, there is fixed a disk, L, preferably of porcelain or earthenware

page_text: and which is large enough to cover the recess, J, when the valve piece, H, is down.
The valve piece is guided by its spindle, M, passing through a projecting piece, N,
(Figure, 3) and a small stop pin, P, on the spindle, M, prevents the valve piece
from being lifted bigher than is necessary; and when lifted the space whilst ample
for the discharge of the water is so narrow and indirect as to prevent small articles.
from getting away.
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 [
claim is:
1. For the supply of water in the form of spray the employment of a horizontal
pipe bended into a circular, oval, horse-shoe, or similar shape, and perforated, to
give a "shoulder spray," substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to
Figures, 1, and, 2, of the accompanying drawings.
2. For the supply of water in the form of spray, in combination with the subject
matter of the preceding claim, a small pipe bended into a circular or other suitable
shape and perforated so as to give a "head shower" substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to Figures, 1, and 2, of the accompanying drawings.
3. In discharge apparatus of baths, lavatories and the like, the employment of a
valve piece having a disk on its top and a stop on its spindle, the valve piece
working in a recess, in the bottom of the vessel, slightly larger in diameter than
the valve piece, the parts being arranged and operating substantially as hereinbefore
described and as shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Tenth day of January 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.