IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE AND OTHER HOT AIR, VAPOUR, SHOWER, AND
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Patch Wyatt, of Percy Square, .
Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE AND OTHER HOT AIR, VAPOUR, SHOWER, AND
"
Sealed the 16th October 1874, and dated the 22nd April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Patch Wyatt
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd April 1874.
I, WILLIAM PATCH WYATT, of Percy Square, Clerkenwell, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE AND OTHER HOT AIR, VAPOUR, SHOWER, AND
MEDICATED BATHS, AND BATH APPARATUS FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in hot air, vapour, shower, and
medicated bath and bath: annoratus of the character desoxibed in the

page_text: '
Specification of Letters Patent granted to David Jones and the said
William Patch Wyatt, dated the 23rd October 1872, No. 3128, and an
important feature of my present improvements consists in supplying
the interior of baths with pure heated air in place of burnt or vitiated
air as heretofore.
Also in improved arrangements of the heating and shower bath
apparatus and surface upon which the patient or user of the bath is
supported.
For the purpose of supplying the interior of the bath with pure
heated air in accordance with my improvements (in place of burnt air
or the fumes of gas) a tubular chamber, by preference made of terra
cotta, is arranged at the foot of the bath, having air passages communi-
cating with the external atmosphere and the interior of the bath. The
chamber is heated by a suitable furnace or by means of gas, the burnt
air from which passes around the outer surface of the air supply tubes
and thence along a fluo under the bottom of the bath, thus assisting to
heat the bath as it passes to a vertical flue pipe at the head of the bath,
which when desired may be arranged to pass through or around the
vessel containing water for the shower bath so as to impart heat
thereto.
In some cases where the baths are fixed or stationary I conduct the
flues around the hollow sides of the bath, and away to a chimney at the
end of the bath.
The reservoir for the shower bath in place of being attached to the
cover of the bath, as described in the Specification above referred to, is
according to my present improvements placed in a more convenient
position at the head of the bath, being connected with the distributing
surface or tube by means of a flexible tube of india-rubber or other-
wise, by which arrangement the cover of the bath can be opened when
the shower bath reservoir is charged with water, which is impossible
with the former arrangement.
The tubes for discharging water on to the patient or user are also
more conveniently arranged, the perforated rose head jets being placed
at a suitable angle for discharging the water on to the face of the patient,
the pull or lever being also so arranged within the bath that the user
can discharge or cut off the water when desired.

page_text: In place of the mattress hitherto employed in baths of this character,
according to my present improvements padded laths are substituted,
upon which the patient is supported, thus permitting the heated air,
vapour, and water, to circulate freely over the entire surface of the
body.
The support for the head of the patient is also so arranged according
to my present improvements that it can be adjusted to suit the require-
ments of the patient or user. For some purposes I arrango baths
of this character so that the patient may be placed in a sitting or
recumbent position.
By supplying pure heated air to the interior of the bath a patient or user
may either inhalo such heated air, or if preferred, the outer atmosphero
of the room in which the bath is placed, by securing the flexible water-
proof apron around the neck, thereby exposing the external surfaco
of the body only to the action of the heated air or vapour of the bath.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Patch Wyatt in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PATCH WYATT, of Percy Square, Clerkenwell, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Patch Wyatt, Her special
license that I, the said William Patch Wyatt, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Patch
Wyatt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
"

page_text: use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE AND OTHER HOT AIR, VAPOUR, SHOWER, AND MEDI-
CATED BATHS, AND BATH APPARATUS FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Patch Wyatt,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Patch Wyatt, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
]
This Invention relates to improvements in hot air, vapour, shower,
and medicated baths, and bath apparatus of the character described in
the Specification of Letters Patent granted to David Jones and the said
William Patch Wyatt, dated the 23rd October 1872, No. 3128, and an
important feature of my present improvements consists in supplying 2
the interior of baths with pure heated air in place of burnt or vitiated
air as heretofore.

page_text: the heated air, vapour, and water to circulate freely over the entire
surface of the body.
The support F for the head of the patient or user is also so arranged
according to my pressent improvements that it can be adjusted to suit
the requirements of the patient or user. Figure 4 shows a bath of this
character, arranged so that the bather may be placed in a sitting or
recumbent position, showing that I do not confine myself to any par-
ticular shape or design of bath to which my improvements may be
applied. In this bath the reservoir B for the shower is fitted with two
valves a, b, so that the bather can be supplied with either a shower by
raising the valve b, or a spray bath by raising the valve a, and by
removing the flexible tube C from the pipe a¹ a douche bath is pro-
duced, also by raising the valve a. By removing the seat E the tank E¹
used to receive the waste water may be used as a hip bath, and by
attaching a supply pipe to the bottom of the tank it may be used as a
sitz bath.
I would remark that I do not confine myself to the use of gas for
heating the air to the required temperature, but in the absence of it I
use either mineral oil, spirits, or other means from which the requisite
heat can be obtained, neither do I confine myself to any particular shapo
of burner or heating apparatus.
By supplying pure heated air to the interior of the bath a patient,
bather, or user may either inhale such heated air, or if preferred the
outer atmosphere of the room in which the bath is placed by securing
the flexible waterproof apron G around the neck, thereby exposing the
external surface of the body only to the action of the heated air or
vapour of the bath.
Having thus described the nature of my improvements and the manner
of performing or carrying the same into practice, I would have it under-
stood that I do not confine myself to the exact details herein-before
described, so long as any or either of the aforesaid novel features or
improvements are employed, but what I claim is, the improved arrange-
ment and combination of portable and other hot air, vapour, Turkish,
and medicated baths, and bath apparatus for curative and other purposes,
constructed so as to be used either with or without the shower, spray,

page_text: douche, hip, or sitz bath, or with any or either of them as may be
desired; such baths being used cither with or without inhaling the
hcated air, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described and represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Patch Wyatt, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-first day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
5
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
WILLIAM PATCH WYATT. (L.S.)
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
London, W.C.