Portable Shower Bath Appliance.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Portable Shower Bath Appliance.
I, ARCHIBALD MCFARLANE, of the Firm of J. & A. McFarlane, Albert Works,
Springbank Street, New City Road, in the City of Glasgow, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention (as communicated to me by Messrs. Silver & Co.,
of Brooklyn, New York City, in the United States of America, Manufacturers)
to be as follows:
This invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient portable
shower bath appliance adapted for connection to a water tap or taps and to be
used in substitution for the ordinary shower or spray attachment of a plunge bath.
The shower bath appliance is composed of a tube preferably of rubber or
other flexible material, the ends of which are fitted on a union or coupling piece
so as to form a ring which in use is placed around the neck of the bather.
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To the union or coupling piece is attached a rubber or other flexible tube
which is connected by any suitable coupling to the water tap or is fitted to a
union piece having branches fitted with flexible pipe connections for attachment
to hot and cold water taps.
The circular tube or ring is perforated on its inner side and when the water
is turned on it flows in a shower or spray over the bather who may stand in a
plunge or foot bath, tub or other vessel.
Portable Shower Bath Appliance.
I, ARCHIBALD MCFARLANE, of the Firm of J. & A. McFarlane, Albert Works,
Springbank Street, New City Road, in the City of Glasgow, 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 has for its object to provide a simple and convenient portable
shower bath appliance adapted for connection to a water tap or taps and to be
used in substitution for the ordinary shower or spray attachment of a plunge bath.
The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawing, which is a per-
spective view of the portable shower bath appliance,

page_text: The shower bath appliance is composed of a tube preferably of rubber or
other flexible material the ends of which are fitted on a union or coupling
piece B, so as to form a ring A which in use is placed around the neck of the
bather, so that a shower bath may be obtained without wetting the head.
To the union or coupling piece B is attached a rubber or other flexible tube C
which is connected by any suitable coupling to the water tap or is fitted to a
union piece D having branches fitted with flexible pipe connections E, F, for
attachment to hot and cold water taps.
In order to avoid the trouble attendant on attaching the flexible connections
by means of the usual metallic couplings, I form these at their ends with
bulbs, as shown, so that on being passed over the tap the front wall of the bulb
is pushed inward so that an annular space is formed above the portion gripping
the tap, and this space becoming filled with water under pressure, the con-
nection is caused to grip more tightly on the tap.
The circular tube or ring A is perforated on its inner side and when the water
is turned on it flows in a shower or spray over the bather who may stand in a
plunge or foot path, tub or other vessel.
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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: -
A portable shower bath appliance comprising a flexible ring-shaped tube
adapted to be passed over the head of the bather and having perforations from
which the water streams over the body, the ring-shaped tube being connected
to a tap or taps by means of a branch pipe or pipes with flexible connections
for attachment to hot and cold water taps, substantially as described.
1000
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents, 62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agent for the Applicant.