Improvements in or pertaining to Baths and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 9th July. 1898-Accepted 13th Aug.. 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to Baths and the like.
I, EMILY MIALL, of 8, Poplar Grove, West Kensington Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to construct and apply to and provide with baths
and the like simple and cheap but extremely convenient and efficient appliances
which will serve the purposes of and supply the place of washstands.
To carry out this object I make a frame of metal or wood or bamboo or other
suitable material and of a proper size to extend across the bath or the like and be
placed on and supported by the two edges thereof being padded underneath if
desired to avoid any danger of damaging the edges and this frame can be pro-
vided if and when it may be necessary or convenient so to do with suitable
projections or studs or the like on its underside which will prevent its slipping off
such edges. This frame may be made in any appropriate manner and of any
convenient shape and in a certain position therein is supported the required basin
in any suitable manner. For example this basin may be supported by the side
pieces of the frame which may be duly bent inwardly towards each other therefor
and be capable of passing under the outwardly flanged lip of the basin or it may
be supported by a frame made to surround the basin which frame could be duly
mounted on the main frame. In all cases this basin is preferably so supported
that it can be tipped or inclined to empty the same and suitable stops or catches
or the like are then provided to maintain it normally in an horizontal position.
Any desired number of suitable arms or brackets or suchlike devices are fitted on
or to the frame to support or hold any desired bottles or tumblers or dishes or trays
or the like for water soap sponges brushes or other needful articles. On one
end the back end of the frame is erected another frame to act as a towel rail
which is preferably hinged thereon so that it can be laid flat when it may not
be required and under or on this towel rail may when desired be arranged a shelf
also to support any needful articles.
Dated thin 15th dave of Antal 1007
poor pertaining to Baths and the like.
I, EMILY MIALL, of 8, Poplar Grove, West Kensington Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
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page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this my invention is to construct for and apply to and provide with
baths and the like very simple and cheap but extremely convenient and efficient
means and appliances which will serve the purposes of and supply the place of
washstands and by the use of which many and various advantages will be secured.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have
shewn a perspective view of my means and appliances in situ and ready for use on
a bath as and when formed and created in one and perhaps the most convenient
and efficient style and manner of construction and fitment.
For the bath A is made a frame B of metal or wood or other suitable material
perhaps even preferably of bamboo as is shewn in the drawing and of a proper
size to extend across the bath A and be placed on and supported by the two
edges A thereof being there provided if desired with appropriate bearing pads D
on its underside to avoid any danger of damaging either itself or more especially
such edges A¹. It may also be very convenient to form in the side bars E of
the frame B in the proper positions near the ends thereof a series of holes F
through one of which it may be in each bar E a pin or a peg can be passed to engage
the inner side of the edge A¹ and prevent the frame B slipping off the bath A by
which arrangement as is obvious the one frame B could be used on baths of
different breadths or the pins or pegs or other projections if any on the undersides
of the bars E can be fixtures when preferred.
This frame B may be made in any appropriate manner and of any convenient
shape and in a certain suitable position therein is supported the required basin
in the arranged for manner. According to the style of construction shewn in
the drawing the transverse bar H at this end of the frame B is bent inwardly to
be capable of passing under the outwardly flanged lip of the basin-and two short
transverse bars K are fitted in the proper complementary positions on the side
bars E of the frame B which do not meet but are also capable of passing under the
outwardly flanged lip of the basin at or about the opposite side thereof and thus
and by these arrangements the basin is properly and safely supported in position
for use as is shewn in the drawing but can easily be tipped or inclined in the
customary manner to empty the same by lifting up the near edge thereof and
causing the basin to turn on the short bars K as on pivots and this is eminently
desirable and most convenient. According to other styles of construction the side
bars of the frame may similarly be bent inwardly to be likewise properly capable
of supporting the basin or again the basin could be held in and by a separate ring
or other suitable frame which ring or frame could be duly mounted on and in
or secured to the side bars of the frame or other parts thereof as may in each
particular case be preferred whereby also the basin would be properly supported
by this frame. In other certain suitable positions it may perhaps preferably be
on the outer sides of the side bars E of the frame B as is shewn in the drawing
although it may also similarly be on any other parts of such frame B are fitted
any desired number of arms or brackets L or other suchlike devices appropriate
for and capable of supporting or holding any desired bottles or tumblers or dishes
or trays or the like for water or soap or sponges or brushes or other needful and
needed articles.
On the other end the back end of the frame B is erected another frame M
made perhaps preferably of the same material although it may also be of any
other suitable material and in the same or other appropriate manner and of any
convenient size and shape which frame M acts as a towel rail. The frame M is
preferably hinged or jointed on or to the frame B in any convenient manner it
may be by and through the staples N fitted in the proper positions on the side
bars E of the frame B and surrounding the lower transverse bar P of the frame M
as is shewn in the drawing by which arrangement as is obvious the frame M

page_text: can when required be laid flat on the frame B and the whole apparatus can readily
be removed from the bath whether with or without the basin and other articles
that are used in conjunction therewith. The side bars R of the frame M can
be somewhat prolonged beyond the position where this frame M is mounted on
the frame B so that when the frame M is erected in position on the bath A these
prolonged bars R may pass down and engage the inner side of the edge A¹ of such
bath A whereby the holes F for pins or pegs herein before described or the fixed
pins or pegs or projections will not be needed at these ends of the side bars E of
the frame B and to maintain this frame M in its erect position an hooked stay T
or the like can be fitted in the proper position on the side bar E or on each of
the side bars E of the frame B which can be engaged in an eye V or the like
secured in the proper relative position on the side bar R or on each of
the side bars R of the frame M. On the upper rails or transverse bars W of this
frame M the towels or other articles can be hung or placed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
The arrangement and combination of parts and appliances and devices con-
stituting my improvements in or pertaining to baths and the like substantially
as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 9th day of July 1898.
HART & Co.,
Agents, 168, Fleet Street, London, E.C.