New or Improved Electrically-actuated Air Douche Apparatus.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1899-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1900
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Electrically-actuated Air Douche Apparatus.
I, AUGUST EMIL THIERGÄRTNER, of 13, Lichtenthalerstrasse, Baden-Baden in
the Empire of Germany, Machine Maker, 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 a hot or cold air douche apparatus, in which both the
heating of the air and the driving of the mechanism are effected by electricity.
The accompanying drawing shows a general view of the apparatus partly in
section and partly in elevation. In a portable cabinet a or similar receptacle,
an electro-motor is mounted, to which the high pressure fan c, situated in the
same cabinet, is directly connected. The outlet of this fan leads into the collect-
ing chamber n provided with two branch taps or valves e and f. The tap or
valve e leads to the cold air pipe g, to which variously shaped nozzles or mouth-
pieces can be attached as required. The other tap or valve f leads into the
electrical heating chamber h, from which a pipe with interchangeable nozzle
or mouth-piece m serves as a further channel. On the bracket to which the pipe i
is attached, there is a thermometer k, permitting the temperature of the air to
be ascertained.
The action and use of the apparatus is as follows:-
The motor b being switched into the electric circuit the fan c is thereby caused
to rotate, and a compression of air takes place in the collecting chamber n. If
now the tap or valve e be opened, the air flows under greater or less pressure
through the pipe g and nozzle or mouth-piece and can easily be directed to such
parts of the body as may be desired.
In this case the air is of the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere, but
it can be considerably cooled by joining up with the foregoing apparatus a worm
or coil of pipe or similar apparatus lying in a cooling mixture. If a hot air douche
is required the valve or tap e remains closed and the valve or tap f is opened.
The air then passes out of the collecting chamber n into the heating apparatus h;
and the passage of air through this apparatus may be so regulated that when it
reaches the pipe i the desired temperature is indicated on the thermometer k.
The outflowing air can easily be directed on to any desired part of the body
by means of the pipe i and interchangeable nozzle or mouth-piece m.
The apparatus thus offers a convenient mode of readily conducting a copious
air douche of any required temperature and in any desired succession of changes
to the various parts of the body.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A hot and cold air douche apparatus consisting of a fan c situated in the
cabinet a or similar receptacle and driven by an electro-motor b, collecting cham-
ber n, a tap or valve e and pipe g with interchangeable nozzle or mouth-piece
for the cold air douche, and a tap or valve f, heating apparatus h, thermometer k

page_text: and pipe with interchangeable nozzle or mouth-piece m for the hot air douche,
the whole combined, arranged and operating substantially as described with
reference to the drawing and for the purposes specified.
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1900
A. E. THIERGÄRTNER.
Per W. H. Beck,.
Agent, 115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.