Improvements in Shower Baths.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shower Baths.
I, HERMANN HAUSER, of 23, Mythenstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland, Merchant, 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:-
The present invention concerns a shower bath with reservoir serving to hold
the liquid and which can be fixed at any height. In order to allow the urn to be
placed in the desired position, the apparatus possesses an arrangement for raising
and stopping the urn at the desired height. Moreover the urn is firmly connected
with its rose-head and can move in a slide made in a plank.
The annexed drawing shows a form of construction of this apparatus, in Fig. 1.
in front view and in Fig. 2 in side view.
The urn A made, preferably, of glass and provided with a graduation is held
in the usual way in a suitable metallic frame B which can be raised and lowered
by means of a suitable lifting and stopping contrivance. In the present case
this lifting contrivance is formed by a drawing rope S, which passes over a
pulley fixed at the upper extremity of the plank forming the support of the
apparatus and one extremity of which is fixed to the part b forming the back of
the metallic frame B whilst its other extremity is connected with a rotary axle n
fixed at the lower end of the plank and which can be worked with a handle K
in such a way that, by turning the handle forward, while the urn A rises,
the cord rolls up on the axle and unrolls when the handle is turned backward
and the urn descends.
To be able to control the elevation of the urn, a graduation f is arranged
laterally on the plank F. To fix the urn in the desired position, that is to say
to stop the handle, we make use of a stop arrangement which is connected with
the axle n of the handle and which is composed of the toothed wheel and of
the catch fitting into the wheel, this catch, when the lifting arrangement is
at work, is removed from the toothed wheel, whilst, when the urn is in the desired
position, and in order to prevent the handle from turning, the catch is put back
and kept fixed by the tightening-screw. To guide the urn along the plank,
the latter is provided with a metal plate f¹ which has a longitudinal groove f
in the middle, into which the metallic frame fits with a suitable organ, for
instance a tenon, a rib or the like. The rose-head C is at the lower part of the
urn A and is firmly connected with it. In the present form of construction the
rose-head is composed of a funnel c directed vertically downwards, whose tube c¹
which serves as a support leads at right angle into the tube a fixed to the urn.
In the support tube at a suitable point a cock c² is fitted to shut off the
rose-head. The tube a has at its bottom part, at the joining point of the tube c¹
a small extension a¹ upon which a rubber tube is slipped, provided like
syringes with a stop flowing tube R for injections.
All the parts of the apparatus which come into contact with the liquid may be
made in preference of antiseptic substance for instance glass, hardened india

page_text: rubber and the like contrary to the usual construction of apparatuses which,
moreover, are fitted with different parts in metal so that oxydations are produced.
The apparatus may serve for private purposes, baths, hospitals, infirmaries,
manufactories, gymnasiums and the like." As liquids which in the form of a
shower-bath, are used as ordinary baths, tonic and injection baths, the following
can be used: hot and cold water to which may be added, ad libitum, an essence
of aromatic herbs, eau de Cologne or any other sweet-scented oil; salt waters,
sulphuretted waters, chalybeate and alkaline waters, tannine solutions, sublimate,
carbol solutions of boric acid, etc. The apparatus which renders a special bath-
room useless, may be easily removed from one place to another, it takes very
little room and can be fixed to the wall.
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
I claim is:-
1. A shower-bath with an urn serving to hold the liquid and which can be
arranged at any height, distinguished by a lifting contrivance for the urn which
is firmly connected with its rose-head and can slide in a groove made in a plank,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. A. shower-bath with an urn serving to hold the liquid and which can be
arranged at any height, distinguished by a lifting contrivance for the urn which
is firmly connected with its rose-head and can slide in a groove made in a plank,
and a flow tube for injections substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. A shower-bath with an urn serving to hold the liquid and which can be
arranged at any height, distinguished by a lifting contrivance for the urn which
is firmly connected with its rose-head and can slide in a groove made in a plank,
and a flow-tube for injections, the parts coming into contact with the liquid being
made of an antiseptic substance, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 15th day of January 1898.
L. DUVINAGE,
Patent Agent,
8, rue des Princes, Brussels, Belgium.