Improvements in and connected with Baths and Lavatories.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 29th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Baths and Lavatories.
I, BERNARD WILLIAM HURT BRAMELD, of 22 Bury New Road, Higher
Broughton, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Architect, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to domestic baths and lavatories and its principal objects
are to economise space and to reduce the total cost when both a bath and a lavatory
are desired to be provided and erected.
In carrying out my invention I construct the lavatory in such a manner that it
may be arranged above the bath in any suitable position, such for example as
above the foot of the bath, and so also preferably that the same service of hot and
cold water pipes can supply both the bath and the lavatory. The lavatory may be
cast or formed in one with the bath, be separate and bolted pinned or hinged
thereto, or be simply placed upon the bath.
Thé bibs nozzles or outlets of the hot and cold water taps may be arranged to
direct the water therefrom into the lavatory whence it may run through the waste
pipe into the bath when the bath is required, or be retained in the basin when the
lavatory is to be used, but since this involves the running of all the waste water
from the lavatory through the bath, I prefer the following arrangement. Behind
or to one side of the lavatory basin there is formed a smaller basin or funnel which
communicates through a suitable pipe from its bottom with the bath. When water
is desired in the bath, it is delivered from the bibs or nozzles into this smaller basin
whence it runs direct into the bath. These bibs or nozzles may either be the same
which supply the lavatory or they may be branches. If they be the same, the
small basin may have two outlet pipes, the first, already described leading to the
bath, and the second leading to the lavatory basin. In this case one plug is
provided in the small basin to stop the pipe leading either to the bath or to the
lavatory whichever may not then be required, the water will then run into the bath
or into the lavatory as may be desired.
Any convenient and suitable arrangement of water supply and taps may
however be employed, and the waste pipes and overflow pipes may be separate or
united. The lavatory basin may be of the fixed or tilting or other suitable type,
and is available from the side of the bath when in use.
Dated this 28th day of November A.D. 1893.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Baths and Lavatories.
I, BERNARD WILLIAM HURT BRAMELD of 32 Bury New Road, Higher
Broughton, Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Architect, 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:-
This invention relates to domestic baths and lavatories and its principal objects
are to economise space and to reduce the total cost when both a bath and a
lavatory are desired to be provided and erected.

page_text: In carrying out my invention I construct the lavatory in such a manner that i
may be arranged above the bath in any suitable position, such for instance as
above the foot of the bath, and so also, preferably, that the same service of ho
and cold water pipes can supply either the bath or the lavatory. The lavatory
may be cast or formed in one with the bath, be separate and bolted pinned o
hinged thereto, or be simply placed upon the bath.
The bibs nozzles or outlets of the hot and cold water taps may be arranged to
direct the water therefrom into the lavatory whence it may run through the waste
pipe into the bath when the bath is required, or be retained in the basin when the
lavatory is to be used, but since this involves the running of all the waste water
from the lavatory through the bath, I prefer the following arrangement. Behind
or to one side of the lavatory basin there is formed a smaller basin funnel or
channel which communicates with the bath. When water is desired in the bath it
is delivered from the bibs or nozzles into this funnel whence it runs directly into
the bath. These bibs or nozzles may either be the same which supply the lavatory
or they may be branches. If they be the same, the funnel may have two outlets
the first already described leading to the bath, and the second leading to the
lavatory basin. In this case one plug is provided in the funnel to stop the outlet
leading either to the bath or to the lavatory, whichever may not then be required;
the water will then run into the bath or into the lavatory as may be desired.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood I have appended
drawings hereto which illustrate in what manner I may carry out my invention.
In each of the figures of these drawings similar parts are indicated by similar
letters of reference.
Figure 1 is a plan of a combined domestic bath and lavatory constructed and
arranged according to this invention.
Figure 2 illustrates a longitudinal vertical section along the line w. Figure 1.
Figure 3 shews a cross section of the combined bath and lavatory.
Figure 4 is a section of the lavatory basin shewing the arrangement by which
the overflow water is conducted to the waste pipe.
A is the lavatory basin which may be of the ordinary construction and be
supported by a dwarf stand fitting upon the top of the bath at either end or at the
middle but preferably at the foot. At the back or side of the lavatory there may
be a funnel channel or equivalent opening C, the mouth of which is best arranged
between the cold and hot water taps DE or to one side of the tap when only one
is used. Each of these taps may have two nozzles or bibs, one of which can
direct the water issuing from the tap into the basin and the other into the funnel,
but since this arrangement is objected to by some water authorities, the arrangement
illustrated by the drawings can be employed. This consists in the use with each
tap of a swivel nozzle or bib the body of the tap having two outlet ports one being
directed towards the lavatory basin and the other towards the mouth of the funnel
or opening C, the bib of the tap being formed upon a collar surrounding that part
of the tap in which .the outlets are formed. On the tap being opened the water
will be delivered either into the lavatory or into the funnel according to the
direction of the nozzle or bib.
The lower end of the funnel C opens into the bath, so that when water is
required in the bath the swivel nozzle or nozzles are directed over the funnel and
the tap or taps is or are then opened.
The bath B may be of the ordinary or of any suitable construction such as that
shewn by the drawings, in which a broad flange is represented as being cast round
the upper edge.
The separate waste pipes F and G of the lavatory basin and bath respectively
both lead preferably into a common waste pipe W to which also the overflow from
the bath may be conducted. By this arrangement the waste water from the
lavatory does not pass into or through the bath but is carried away by its own
pipe F which preferably passes through the bath at or near its upper edge. It is

page_text: preferred to lead the overflow from the basin into the waste pipe F through an
opening and channel formed in the substance of the basin.
In substitution for the swivel nozzles, taps of known and usual construction each
having two separate outlets for alternate use may be employed, one of the outlets
being arranged above the lavatory basin and other above the funnel or opening C.
In some cases the funnel C may be dispensed with and ordinary taps having
fixed nozzles or bibs over the lavatory basin may be employed, in which case the
waste pipe from the lavatory opens directly into the bath, and when water is
required there, the lavatory waste plug is removed and the water is allowed to run
into the basin whence it flows freely into the bath. This arrangement has the
inconvenience that the waste water from the lavatory has to escape through the
bath and it is preferred in all possible cases to employ the funnel and a separate
waste pipe from the lavatory basin.
In another modification with fixed bibs or nozzles, the funnel C may be employed
and the nozzles be arranged so as to deliver the water therein. In the funnel or
channel are two outlets one leading to the bath and the other to the lavatory basin.
When water is required in the bath the lavatory outlet from the funnel is closed,
and when it is required for the lavatory the outlet to the bath is closed, the closing
being effected in each case preferably by a single plug.
The lavatory basin may be of the fixed type shewn by the drawings or it may be
of the tilting or any other suitable type.
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 combined domestic bath and lavatory constructed and arranged substantially
as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. A combined domestic bath and lavatory having a tap or taps over the lavatory
basin the waste pipe of which opens directly into the bath, constructed and arranged
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
3. In a combined domestic bath and lavatory, a funnel or channel in the lavatory
opening into the bath, and a tap or taps adapted to discharge water either into the
funnel or into the lavatory basin substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
set forth and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
4. In a combined domestic bath and lavatory, a funnel or channel provided with
openings into the lavatory basin and bath respectively, a plug or equivalent device
for closing either opening, and a tap or taps adapted to discharge water into the
funnel, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described.
5. In a combined domestic bath and lavatory the combination and arrangement
with the lavatory basin of a separate waste pipe substantially as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of August A.D. 1894
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.