IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE AND OTHER HOT AIR, VAPOUR, SHOWER, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONARA
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Jones and William Patch Wyatt, both
of Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE AND OTHER HOT AIR, VAPOUR, SHOWER,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Jones and
William Patch Wyatt at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd October 1872.
We, DAVID JONES and WILLIAM PATCH WYATT, both of 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 BATH APPARATUS FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES,"
to be as follows :—
'
This Invention has for its object improved arrangements of apparatus.
for the convenience of invalids and others requiring hot air, vapour,
shower, or medicated baths for curative and other purposes. For this .
purpose a spring mattress or other suitable elastic surface is supported.

page_text: upon a frame (by preference mounted on wheels or castors) in an
inclined position for the patient to recline upon whilst subjected to the
bathing process. A cover of metal or other suitable material is hinged
or attached to one side of the frame (or it may be separate therefrom),
by which the patient's body is covered over and thus cnclosed in a
chamber, except the head which is left exposed so as to enable the
patient to breathe the atmosphere of the room in which the apparatus is
placed. The upper end of the cover is closed in by waterproof or other
fabric up to the neck of the patient, to prevent the escape of heat at the
head of the apparatus from the interior.
The head of the patient is supported upon a hinged flap which folds
up when out of use. If desired the head of the patient can be enclosed
by the waterproof apron so as to inhale the vapour from the interior.
At the foot of the mattress a rigid support is placed, and between it and
the lower end of the apparatus a chamber is formed into which hot air
is admitted, by preference from a "Bunsen " gas burner arranged
underneath. Below the gas burner a vessel containing water is placed
to impart moisture to the heated air as it enters the apparatus.
In the chamber at the lower end of the apparatus over the gas burner
or other source of heat, a vessel containing water for producing vapour
with a compartment to contain chemicals, is placed when it is desired
to subject the patient to vapour or medicated vapour baths.
Over the upper part of the apparatus a vessel for holding water
(supplied by a force pump combined with the apparatus or otherwise)
is or may be arranged or suspended upon suitable supports attached to
the frame of the apparatus; and at the bottom of the vessel there is a
valve which can be opened by a cord so as to allow the water to flow
through a flexible pipe which connects the bottom of the vessel with
the top of the cover (placed over the patient), on the inner upper
surface of which a perforated pipe or passage is arranged for discharging
the water in fine streams on to the patient, the apparatus thus acting as
a shower bath when required.
'
A waterproof sheet is placed under the patient which protects the
mattress from getting wet, and also acts to conduct the water and
condensed vapour by means of channels at the sides away to an a
aperture at. the bottom end of the apparatus through which it is
discharged.

page_text: If required, the patient may be supported within the heated chamber
upon a sheet of webbing or other suitable material, so that the
heated air or vapour may circulate around the body whilst under
treatment.
When the flexible pipe attached to the cover and water chamber is
disconnected the aperture serves as a vent to the heated interior of the
apparatus, the temperature of which is indicated by a thermometer
attached thereto, the temperature being regulated by the supply of gas
to the burner or heat to the bath.
The frame is so arranged as to be placed when required upon a
level with the bed of the patient, in order to move the patient on to or
from the apparatus readily; and the parts are so constructed as to be
readily separated and packed up in a comparatively small compass for
removal from place to place as required.
Electrical, galvanic, or magnetic apparatus or appliances may be
arranged in combination with the apparatus for the purpose of
operating upon the patient therewith whilst under treatment.
If required, the apparatus can be so arranged that a patient or user
can when sufficiently strong employ the apparatus without the aid of
an attendant.
In cases where it is difficult or impossible to remove the patient
from a bed to the apparatus, then similar apparatus is arranged for
subjecting the patient to the action of hot air, vapour, or medicated
vapour, the apparatus being so arranged as to be placed over the
patient and put into operation whilst the patient is lying in bed, hot air
being introduced into the chamber thus formed over the patient, and
vapour generated therein, as previously described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,.
filed by the said David Jones and William Patch Wyatt in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd April 1873.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,.
filed by the said David Jones and William Patch Wyatt in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd April 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, DAVID
JONES and WILLIAM PATCH WYATT, both of Clerkenwell, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said David Jones and William
Patch Wyatt, Her special license that we, the said David Jones and
William Patch Wyatt, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said David Jones and William Patch Wyatt,
our 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,
usc, excrcise, 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
MEDICATED BATH APPARATUS FOR Curative and OTHER PURPOSES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said David Jones and William
Patch Wyatt, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and
scal of one of us or them, 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 Offico within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said David Jones and 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:
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This Invention has for its object improved arrangements of apparatus
for the convenience of invalids and others requiring hot air, vapour,
shower, or medicated baths, for curative and other purposes.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into practice, we will proceed to describe the Drawing hereto
annexed, which shows a side elevation and longitudinal section of
a portable bath and apparatus arranged and constructed in accordance
with our Invention.
a is a spring mattress or other suitable elastic surface, which is
supported upon a frame a' by preference mounted on a carriage b

page_text: running on wheels or castors, the frame and mattress a being shown in
an inclined position for the patient to recline upon whilst subject to tho
bathing process.
The inclination or position of the frame and
mattress a can be varied by means of the rack and pinion a³, as shewn.
A cover c of metal or other suitable material is hinged or attached to
one side of the frame a¹ (or it may be separate therefrom), by which
the patient's body is covered over and thus enclosed in a chamber,
except the head which is left exposed so as to enable the patient to
breathe the atmosphere of the room in which the apparatus is placed.
The upper end of the cover is closed in by waterproof or other fabric c¹
up to the neck of the patient to prevent the escape of heat at the head
of the apparatus from the interior.
The head of the patient is supported upon a hinged flap a³, which
folds up when out of usc. If desired, the head of the patient can be
cnclosed by the waterproof apron so as to inhale the vapour from the
interior. At the foot of the mattress a rigid support is placed, and
between it and the lower end of the apparatus a chamber is formed,
into which hot air is admitted, by preference from a Bunsen" gas
burner e (or other heating apparatus) arranged underneath; below the
gas burner a vessel containing water may be placed, to impart moisture
to the heated air as it enters the apparatus. .
"
In the chamber at the lower end of the apparatus over the gas
burner or other source of heat, a vessel ƒ containing water
for producing vapour; which vessel may contain chemicals, when it
is desired to subject the patient to vapour or medicated vapour
baths.
Over the upper part of the apparatus a vessel g for holding water
(supplied by a force pump combined with the apparatus or otherwise)
is arranged or suspended upon suitable supports g₁ attached to the
cover or to the frame of the apparatus; and at the bottom of the vessel
there is a valve which can be opened by a cord g², so as to allow the
water to flow through a flexible or other pipe which connects the
bottom of the vessel g with the top of the cover c (placed over the
patient), on the inner upper surface of which a perforated pipe or
passage is arranged for discharging the water in fine streams on
to the patient or user of the apparatus, thus acting as a shower bath
when required.

page_text: A waterproof sheet is placed under the patient which protects the
mattress from getting wet, and also acts to conduct the water and
condensed vapour by means of channels at the sides away to an
aperture and outlet pipe 9' at the bottom end of the apparatus through
which it is discharged into a suitable receptacle.
If required, the patient may be supported within the heated cham-
ber upon a sheet of webbing or other suitable material, so that the
heated air or vapour may circulate around the body whilst under
treatment.
When the flexible or other pipe attached to the cover c and water 1
chamber is disconnected, the aperture serves as a vent to the heated
interior of the apparatus, the temperature of which is indicated by a
thermometer h attached thereto, the temperature being regulated by the
supply of gas to the burner, or heat to the bath.
The frame a is so arranged as to be placed when required upon a 1
level with the bed of a patient, in order to move the patient on to or
from the apparatus readily; and the parts are so constructed as to be
readily separated and packed up in a comparatively small compass for
removal from place to place as required.
Electrical, galvanic, or magnetic apparatus, or appliances may be 2
arranged in combination with the apparatus for the purpose of
operating upon the patient therewith whilst under treatment.
If required, the apparatus can be arranged in a fixed or stationary
manner, so that a patient or user can when sufficiently strong employ
the apparatus without the aid of an attendant.
2
In cases where it is difficult or impossible to remove the patient
from a bed to the apparatus, then similar apparatus is arranged for
subjecting the patient to the action of hot air, vapour, or medicated
vapour, the apparatus being so arranged as to be placed over the patient
and put into operation whilst the patient is lying in bed, hot air being 3
introduced into the chamber thus formed over the patient, and vapour
generated therein, as previously described.
By means of our improvements patients may be subjected to treat-
ment similar or equivalent to that known as tho Turkish bath with-
out the injurious effects resulting from the inhalation of highly 3
heated air.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of our improvements, and the
manner of performing or carrying the same into practice, we would
have it understood that we do not confine ourselves to the exact
details herein described, but what we claim is, the improved arrange-
ment of portable and other hot air, vapour, shower, and medicated bath
apparatus, for curative and other purposes, substantially as hercin-
before described and shewn in the Drawing hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, we, tho said David Jones and William Patch
Wyatt, have hereunto set our hands and scals, this Twenty-
third day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
.
J. G. TONGUE,
DAVID JONES.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM PATCH WYATT. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
W.C.